Show j PIER COLLAPSES THREE THIRTY DEAD TRAGIC CLIMAX TO EMPIRE DAY CELEBRATION BY BRITISH SUBJECTS SUBJECTS SUBJECTS SUB SUB- AT LOS ANGELES Hundreds of Persons plunged Down Dow on Heads of f Others When Structure Structure Structure ture Collapsed the Victims ms Mostly Mostly Mostly Most Most- ly Women Being Crushed Long Beach Deach Cal Too weak Too weak to up up- amId nold the burden of nearly neary human hu man beings assembled for the festivIties festivities festivities ties of British Empire day the land end nd of the big double-decked double municipal pal ial pier in front of the city auditor auditor- turn him collapsed Saturday Hundreds of persons on the top tol deck were plunged down on the heads of other hundreds crowded on the second deck The lower deck then ga gave e way and all were dropped down a chute of shattered woodwork to the tide tlde- washed sands twenty-five twenty feet below belo three Thirty-three persons person persons mostly mostly women wo wo- wo- wo men were men were killed by the sl timbers or crushed to death by th the falling railing bodies of companions and j friends Fifty more were seriously injured while hysteria and paralyzing fright disabled scores of or others A section of the auditorium also went down in the crash and the debris debris debris de de- de- de bris from it was added to the age that fell tell on top of ot the Injured and antt the dead The victims were subjects or former former lormer for lor- mer subjects of Great Britain ol ot southern California All of ot the seriously injured are residents of Los Angeles and vicinity |