AN EMPIRE DAY CALAMITY.
JURY'S FINDING. By TelfleraDli—Press Association—OopjrUht (Rec. May 30, 11.20 p.m.) New York, May 30. A weak girder was declared to be the cause of the Empire Day disaster at Longbeach, California, when the end of a double-decked pier, on which thousands of celebrating Britishers had assembled, collapsed. Thirty wero killed, and fifty wcro injured; The verdict returned by the coroner's jury, was tlmt the structure had never been properly tested.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1764, 31 May 1913, Page 5
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74AN EMPIRE DAY CALAMITY. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1764, 31 May 1913, Page 5
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