Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-11-10
CALIFORNIA HOTEL FALLS
Nearly Completed Structure at Long Beach
CollsuIss, Carrying Dswn l50 Men.
NINE ARE NOW KNOWN TO BE DEAD
Contractors Roll shows One Missing
and Nine Arc Badly Injured,
but All Are Expected
to Recover.
NINE ARE NOW KNOWN TO BE DEAD
LONG BEACH. G,

LONG BEACH. Cal, Nov. 9.-With no
a cning save the cries OF worl1men who
~ felt the floors sag beneath their feet
- stories OF the new $75O,OC0 Bixby hotel
collapsed at 9:35 this morning, carrying
nine men TO death in the tons of tangled
wreckage. About $50 artisans and laborers
were scattered through the structure at the
moment it fell and of these nearly 100
were carried down in the ruins
Seven bodies have been recovered from
the mass Of debris in the basement, and one
OF the injured died late this afternoon at
the Long Beach hospital. The last two
victims were found at o'clock this evening
and the rescue crews are still at work in
the hope Of uncovering the body of another
man supposed to be buried there. Nine
Injured workmen are being cared for at
the hospital but it is believed that all will
recover. All of the men on the contractors
rolls are accounted for save one, supposed
to be still in the ruins.
The dead:
FRANK NORTON aged %, carpenter.
Los Angeles.
ALVIN DEsHAKER, aged 30, carpenter,
ALBERT. HARTLE. aged 27, carpenter
Long Beach.
r. NJ. Perkins, aged ., stripper, Long
CARLTON BRAsHEAR, aged so carpen-
ter Signal Hill
AFroN BJANsoN. aged 40. laborer, s54
LEWIS PHILLIPS. aged 80, carpenter,
Los Angeles; died in hospital.
b. A. RUBB1LL, aged 30, carpenter, 6l21s
West First street, Long Beach.
List of Victims.
The injured:
L; p. Watson, severe decorations; arm
F. w. Schultz, severe bruises and laccra-
Alexander Bavay. crushed and ribs
broken.
George Parker, Long Beach, shoulder
+. h Inlay, severely cut about head
H. G. Rinabarger leg broken.
j. j. Walsh, Long Beach leg amputated
Nicholson. Long Beach, fell five stories.
sprained ankle, released from hospital after
Alexander Dozay, badly crushed.
Work of Rescue.
Immediately after the collapse Of the
structure hundreds of bystanders lent will
ling aid in the work of rescue.
The Southern Pacific, the Salt Lake &
Pacific and the electric railroad sent crews
of laborers to the scene and under the di-
rection Of City Marshall Young, Mayor
Downs and Contractor Spalding the task of
removing the wreckage was begun Com
pany II. Seventh regiment National Guard.
was called out and lines were thrown
about the building, all but the rescuers be-
ing excluded.
Conflicting causes are assigned for the
collapse of the~oentral wing and TO investi-
gate the disaster commission of architects
and ergineers was appointed. The commits
sion consitts OF Architects Morgan, Frem-
pie, Albright, Whittlesey. Osborne and
Lewis Parker Of Los Angeles: Contractor
Carl Leonard of Los Angeles, Captain
Fries and Captain Amos, United States en-
gineers; President Daubspeck Of the Los
Angeles Architects association; Thomas
Fellows, assistant building inspector of Los
Angeles. and Austin Brown and c. H. Craig
representing the architects and the con-
tractor Of the hotel
FOOtings Were Insecure
The new hotel is built on the beach and
stands facing the ocean. To this fact Con-
tractor A. f. spaulding attributes the dis
aster, claiming that the footings were in
secure and weakened the structure. John
A. Austin Of tho firm OF Austin & Brown
architects of the building, ascribes the dis
aster to the premature removal of the sup
ports from the concrete work in the floor
ing. alleging that the cement had been
given three instead of six week TO set.
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