Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1913-05-25
Too Weak 10 Bear Burden Of
Nearly Ten Thousand PeO-
pie, Structure Gives Way
With Appalling Results,
FIFTY ARE REPORTED
SERIOUSLY INJURED
Throng Composed Largely Of
Subjects or Former Subjects
of Great Britain, Who Were
Celebrating Empire Day.


Long Beach, Cal.. May 2i.-Too
weak to uphold the burden OF nearly
10000 human beings assembled ior
the festivities Of British empire day.
the land end ~ the big double-decked
pier in front of the city auditorium
collapsed today. Hundreds Of persons
on the top deck were plunged down
on the heads Of other hundreuf,
crowded on the second GEEK. The
lower deck then gave way. and an
were dropped down chute Of shat
tered woodwork 10 the tidc-washed
sands twenty-five feet below.
Thirty-threc persons mostly wom-
en-. we're killed by the shiYered TIM
bars. or crushed 70 death by the fall
INK bodies Of companions and friends
Fifty more were seriously injured,
while hystcria and paralyzing frisht
disabled scores OF others
4 section OF the auditorium, which
went down In the crush and the d'
Iris from II WIS added 10 the wreck.
age that foil on top Of the injured
and the dead.
The victims were subjects or former
subjects Of Great Britain, resident IN
southern California.
Following Is a revised list Of the
dead:
MRS. FRANK MATTHEW'S. Los
DAsiD SLACK aged . Long
Mrs. DAN THOMAS. Long Beach.
MRS. JAMES NICHOLS, Ions
MRS. AUGUST BARTz, Long
MRS. RICHARD GEO DowLE,
Pasadena
MRS. CHEssPIRE. Los Angeles
MRS. ARTHUR c. PHELPHs'
Long Beach.
FANNIE q. MCGEE. Long Beach.
HAROLD LET'S, 10 years. Glen
dale
MRS. d. S. HOLMES. Long Beach
MARTHA J. BENNETT, Lons
Beach.
D. McSHEARs. Long Beach.
MRS. A. X. HILL, Orange.
MRS D. J. LOMAS. Los Angeles.
MRS. D. L. WALLACE, Long
MRS. c. II. LAWRENCE, Los An
MRS. JANE wYvEL, Casa verdu-
so. Cal.
MRS. WARREN c. LET'S and
daughter. DOROTHY, Long Beach.
MRS. Il. c. VALENTINE, Lona
Beach
MRS. FRANK SHAW. Los Angeles
MRS. EMMA PRIGMORE. Lopt
Beach.
MRS. ELIZABETH HANNA RICH
ARDSON, Orange
MRS. PAULINE McGEHE. Long
Beach.
THOMAS BECK. Long Beach.
MRS. LILY NJ. HOLMES, Denver
Colo.
YOUNG SON of II. T. Baylis, Loi
Angeles.
MRS. ADA Il. INGRAHAM, Pasa.
dena.
MRS. ANNA LoNGFELLow, Pas.
adena
MRS. WILLIAMSON, Los Angeles.
MRS. D. McPHARREN, Ions
Beach.
MISS ANNA STONE, Long Beach.
The dead We're first placed in tn,
national guard afmory, while the in
jured were hurried to various hospit
ais in this city and Los Angeles.
All the doctors in the citv are work
ing tonight, and their efforts are re
inforced by surgeons and nurses wh'
came from Los Angeles when appeall
for aid were sent to that city shortly
after noon today.
The accident occurred a few min
utes before 2 o'clock. The Empir'
day parade, the principal feature o
the celebration In honor Of the lat
Queen Vlctoria's birth anniversary
had just ended, and the participant
with thousands of other vlsitorsswer'
crowding up the steps of the pier ans
surging toward the auditorium whel
the pier floor sagged. An instant late
the supports gave way, and the Greer
and groan of breaking timbers min
gled with the shrieks and cries of tn
victims as all went down into mas
Of broken wood and writhing humaI
forms on the sand.
Virtually the entire landing of tn
pier was wrecked, and a portion o
the auditorium front fell.
The cause of the crash was the over
burdening of the pier This accordinl
to official statements tonight, was du
to the fact that the auditorium door
had been locked after a number 0
the members of the Seoth, Irish
Welsh and English societies entered
This caused the crowd to surge am
start milling, while additional thou
sands crowded up the steps.
When the auditorium front fell out
those near the doors tried to get on
of the pier and went down on top o
the scores who already lay hurt o
dying on the sand.
Mayor Hatch, of Long Beach, wh
was to have been one of the principa
speakers at the celebration, was in tn
midst Of the throng on the pier ant
at first was reported to be among tn