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Show oo MOVING PICTURE HOUSE COLLAPSES PITTSBURG, Pa., Dec. 20. More than 300 persons, many of them children chil-dren had a narrow escape from death or injury when the ceiling and one wall of the Gem thoator, a moving picture house in the east end of Pittsburg, collapsed col-lapsed tonight. Eleven of the auditors were injured by the falling debris. Panic broke out as the fear-stricken prowd rushed for the exits in the dark-7JZZB. dark-7JZZB. Two were trampled under foot and several irUired. The shrieks of children mingbeft with tho crashing sounds of the taJJkjg brick, timber and plaster as the building suddenly collapsed col-lapsed at 9 o'clock tonight. There were no cracky sounds of warning. |