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Show BIG 8 HIDING CRASHES DOWN WITHOUT WARNING Nine Men Are Killed by the Collapse of New Hotel Being Constructed at Los Angeles. Long llench, Oil. With no warning save the cries of tho workmen who first felt the floors sag beneath their feet, live stories or tho central wing or the new JTfiO.OOO Illxby hotel collapsed col-lapsed Friday morning, carrying nlno men to death in the tons of tangled wreckage. About 150 artisans and laborers la-borers were scattered through tho structure at tho moment It tell, and of these nearly a hundred were carried car-ried down In the ruins, Seven bodies have been recovered from the mnss of debris in the basement base-ment and ono of the Injured died nt the Long llench hospital. The last two victims wero found nt 8 o'clock Friday evening. Nino Injured workmen nre being cared for at tho hospital, but It is believed that all will recover. All ot the men on tho contractor's rolls nre accounted for snvo one, supposed to bo still In the ruins. Conflicting causes are assigned for the collnpso of the central wing, and to investigate the disaster a commission commis-sion of architects nnd engineers tins been appointed. |