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Show PLATFORM COLLAPSED. Five Hundred People Precipitated Fifteen Fif-teen Feet Into Cellar. Pittsburg. More than 600 men, women wo-men and children were precipitated fifteen feet Into a cellar by tho collapse col-lapse ot n platform Sunday during the exercises Incident to tho laying of tho corner stono ot tho Beth David Russian Rus-sian orthodox church on Miller street near Washington. Nearly all of them were cut and bruised, but It Is believed be-lieved no ono was fatally hurt. Three rabbis wero among thoso who went down, and although Injured they concluded con-cluded the ceremony after tho panic hod subsided. Tho platform which was fifty feet square, had been constructed over tho foundation walls for tho accommodation accommoda-tion of the rabbis, officers of tho church and Invited guests. |