Show PIER COLLAPSES THIRTY THREE DEAD TRAGIC CLIMAX TO EMPIRE DAY celebration BY BRITISH SUB AT LOS ANGELES hundreds of persons persona plunged down on heads of others when ture collapsed the victims mott most ly women being crushed long beach cal CaI caytoo too weak to uphold tho the burden ot of nearly human beings assembled tor for the festivities of 0 british empire day the land end ot of the tele big double decked municipal pier in front of the city auditor I 1 turn U in c collapsed 0 saturday hundreds 0 t per persons sons on the top deck were plunged down on the heads beads of hundreds crowded on the second deck the lower deck then gave way and all were dropped down a chute of shattered battered woodwork to the tide washed sands twenty live flye feet below thirty three persons mostly women were killed by the shivered timbers or crushed to death by the falling bodies of companions and friends fifty more were seriously injured while hysteria and paralyzing fright disabled scores of others A section of the auditorium also went flown down in the crash and the debris debrie from it was added to the age that tell fell on top of the injured anu anti the dead the victims were subjects or former subjects of great britain ol of southern california all of the seriously injured are residents of los angeles and vicinity |