Show BUILDING FALLS WORKMEN Bixby Hotel Goes Down Killing Killing Kill Kill- Ki- Ki ing and Injuring Many CONSTRUCTION W WAS AS FAULTY Many Inn Bodies and lul Injured Ben Being lIe Rc- mo ed monc From Fol Beneath Tons of Mortar and atul all Iron Long Bearch Cal Cal Nov No 0 9 lan Many workmen are arc dead an and a score core of others othel others oth oth- el ers are seriously Injured as tho re resul result re- re sul suit sult of oC thu lie collapse of ot the hotel here un under er cour course e of construction which was to cost cOt rhe The building fell fel without warning warning- anti and ant the workmen were vere burled buried In the tho debris ani Only two bodies bodle have ha been t taken len out out- Tho The others are arc burled under tons OtiS of or mortal mortar and an Iron The building was vas of rf reinforced concrete The he fall fal was as due to faulty Cauly construction Over O 20 o injured have been taken to the Long Beach ho hospital and it Is la stated that 15 ic workmen n are still sUI b burled buried under tinder the ruins The dead lead so far recovered are arc Richard Perkins concrete ete worker A. A Harple No 26 Main street Los Angeles leaves lea a wife anti and two tso chill chill- Iren Injured at Long Bearch hospital are tre J. J J. J Walsh very ery seriously seriously- Injured Injure ma nay may die L. L M. M seriously serl may die tIe G. G II IT I seriously may die lie George Porker Perker badly cut injured Internally ii to ly S E 13 Nicholson seriously crushed may die le Alexander cr badly ba 1 crushed F. F W. W Schulte seriously ma may die IX I. R C. C aIH l badly ma may die S R. R C. C Cunningham plumber plumb r believed be be- ye Ie-ye to be burled buried George Parker I S. S II I Imley badly hurt R. R R W. W Phillips Ph I I p I R. R E E. Cunningham Is the only one of oC the plumbing gang missing He Ito l In bt believed J ci jo to be burled In the lie tho- tho ruins Building Co Cost Co t 7 The Hotel i Bixby which has been under course of construction for tor sev several sev- sev e eral oral months was to have havo been one of the best appointed hotels on the tho southern hern coast coast The rho hl total cost of or the at t 7 Gt guest G guc t chain chain- ani h d Vred q rf f r 1 g et r. r I h I reinforced COI tied hul t Cn i- i It I wait being built buit on the boach b ach facing the ocean aut feet feet distance from lum the tw shore C Austin Austn j Brown o of if Los Lo Angeles were WO the tho architects and R n C C. Spaulding Spaulding of or Low laOS An Angeles le was the tho contractor Thu Tho building was of fireproof construction construction con con- with entrances on the tho sides two observation towers and ant a foot 20 promenade around the entire entre build build- ing big The rhe hospital was vas not sufficiently large to accommodate all al the lie taken there ther and a a large lorge number were removed to private dwellings in tho the vicinity At least 20 or 2 have havo been taken from fi rom the ruins many of whom will die It I Is estimated that there wi are about 16 1 G or 01 17 under the tho mass massof massof mas of wreckage Caring for fm the Injured The injured are being taken from the ruins as fast as the they can be ex ex- ex Hund Hundreds o of people leople flocked to tho the scone scene as soon as th the news of tho ho disaster spread and dozens were pressed Into service ser to aid In the work vork of ot rescue Police surrounded the ruined structure and n forced the crow crowds s back It was feared that the remainIng remainIng remaining remain remain- ing wall wal I which was badly shaken byth by bythe th the mIh fall tal and cause g greater casualties a al s Nearly early a dozen Injured man many of oC them believed to be lying dying have havo been taken from under the tho wreckage e. e The cries of others Imprisoned beneath the crumbled concrete concrete concrete con con- crete and steel stool girders can be heard appealing for Cor help As many as a dozen dead ad arc are underneath The number number num num- ber of casualties is estimated now at 25 and It I la may reach more than this Relatives and friends s of workmen employed on the tho structure quickly quick flocked to the scene an and rushing frantically frantically fran fran- over the ruins In search of or the tho o er loved ones onos added to the hopeless contusion con con- fusion Many Mail women wives of the tho workmen we wept pt hysterically when they ero ero unable to find trace of their they faint husbands Others s fell fel as saw sw men dragged out from under tinder the I debris and hurried hurrle fo 0 the hospital 1 I |