Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-05-30
TH|RTY-SEVEN KILLED.
GREAT AUDITORIUM ON SHORE
AT LONG BEACH NEAR LOS
ANGELES COLLAPSED.
CELEBRATION OF QUEENS BIRTHDAY
Top Gallery Fell Onto the First When
Whole Bunch Caved Into 25 Feet
of Water-Resce Difficult
Hundreds Injured.

nunoreuS injured.
Long Beach, Calico weak to up
hold the burden of nearly 10000 hui
man beings, assembled for the festivi-
ties of the British Empire day celebra-
ton, the land end of the big double
decked pier in front of the city audi
forum collapsed Saturday. Hundreds
of people on the top deck were dropped
down on the heads of other hundreds
crowded on the deck below The
lower deck then gave way and all
were dropped down a chute of shat
tered woodwork to the tide-washed
sands 20 feet below.
Thirty-three people-mostly women
were killed by the shivered timbers,
or crushed to death by the falling
bodies. Fifty more were seriously in
jured, while hysteris. and paralyzing
fright disabled scores.
A section of the auditorium also
went down in the crash and the debris
from it was added to the wreckage
that fell on top of the injured and the
dead.
The victims were subjects and for
mer subjects of Great Britain, resident
in southern California.
Damage Suits.
Prospective damage suits aggregat-
ing probably $1,000,000 or more and a
grand jury investigation now engage
the attention of city officials as the
most probable outcome OF the disaster
when SO persons lost their lives in the
collapse of portion of the municipal
pier just after the close of the British
Empire day. pageant.
Death List Grows
The list is expected to be further in
creased by the death of Marguerite
Reed, aged IL, of Long Beach, whose
back was broken, and of William Coop
er of Pasadena, one of the two veter
ans of the Crimean war, who were in
the van of the parade.
The grand jury inquiry will be start
ed Immediately.
Rotten 7Imbers.
Several broken timbers, which are
expected to show the general condition
of the pier and thus aid in developing
evidence of negligence, If there be any
were taken out of the pier Sunday anC
locked up under official seal.
The weakness of the pier which wal
built eight years ago and never re
paired In that particular portion, is be
lieved to have been due to- deca.
caused by the action of salt air OIL
wood and its iron fasteners and SUP
ports.
Revised List of Dead.
Following is a revised list of tn
dead:
Mrs. August Bartz, Long Beach.
Virgil Bayless, 4, Long Beach.
Thomas Beck, Long Beach.
David Scott Black, 10, Glendale.
Mrs. Martha j. Burnett, Long Beacf
Mrs. Isabelle Bush, Long Beach.
Mrs. George Chafon, Los Angeles.
Mrs. Sarah Jane Cheshire, Los Al
geles.
Mrs. Richard George Dowle. Past
dena
Mrs. Anne l.. Eales, Los Angeles.
George Ernest Eales, Los Angeles.
Mrs. Mollie Gales, Oak Park, Ill.
Mrs. Arthur C. Helps, Long Beach.
Mrs. A. K Hill. Orange.
Miss Lilly M. Holme. Denver.
Mrs. Ida Ingraham, Pasadena.
Mrs. c. H. Lawrence, wife of I'll
Rev. c. H. Lawrence, Los Angeles.
Mrs. Warren G. Lett, Long Beach.
Dorothy Lett, Long Beach.
Harry Lett, z, Long Beach.
Miss Anna Longfellow, Pasadena.
Mrs. Frank Matthews, Los Angelo
Mrs. M. P. Mcdonald, Compton.
Mrs. Fannie Pace McGehee, Lor
Beach.
Mrs. d. M. McSparron. Long Beac
Miss Frances Harriet Newell, K
nosha, Wis.
Mrs. James Nichol, Long Beach.
Mrs Emma Prigmore, Long Beac
Mrs. w. Richardson, Orange.
Mrs. Frank Shaw, Los Angeles.
Miss Anna Stone, Long Beach
Mrs. d. 8. Thomas, Long Beach.
Mrs. q. G. Valentine. Long Beach.
Mrs. d. e. Wallace, Long Beach.
Mrs. Jams Wyvel, Los Angeles.
Ethel Wyval, Los Angeles.
PRESIDENT WILSON
USES PHoNoeRAF