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2 A. 1 I lot tn I jt in 1 I "r- i Two sections of the new Second Narrows bridge toppled at 3:40 p.m. Tuesday. photo from Pacific Western More pictures, stories of tragedy on pages 2, 3, 5 and 32 50 men plunge 210 feet to water as new 2nd Narrows Bridge falls Afo tax cuts, small aids in budget BUDGET IN BRIEF OTTAWA (CP) HiRh-lights of Finance Minister Fleming's budget speech: No change in personal or corporation income tax rates. Minor tax cuts total for remainder of current DEAD By CHARLES LYNCH Southam Newi Service yA moment of horror1 as span broke up Here are eyewitnesn accounts of the Second Narrows Bridge disaster, obtained by Province reporters on the scene only a few minutes after the crash.

BEN HALLMAN, 3712 Dollarton Highway, North Vancouver, who was driving across the Walter Henry Carter, 9285 156th Street, North Surrey. Percy Douglas Moffalt, Vancouver. Kevin Duggan, 3015 West Fourth. Roderick Lemert Smith, OTTAWA Finance Minister Fleming told the na- lyear, $26,000,000 in fun year. Tax-deductible medical ex tion Tuesday night he was budgeting for a deficit, and then broke the bad news in one sentence of the longest budget message ever delivered in the Commons "Tt is not in mv iudgment necessary for economic penses to include prescription medicines, spectacles, diagnosis, effective immediately.

No changes in tax on auto Royal commission will probe tragedy Sixteen workmen are known dead, two are missing and 20 are injured after the collapse of two sections of the new $16,000,000 Second Narrows Bridge Tuesday afternoon. An estimated 50 men were hurled 210 feet into Burrard Inlet or crushed in debris as steel and concrete thundered down without warning at 3:40 p.m. Some were saved in a large-scale rescue operation launched immediately by pleasure boat owners, police, RCAF, operators of tugs and other vessels in the harbor. It was the worst single disaster in Vancouver's history. 13676 Trans-Canada Highway, Surrey.

mobiles, tobacco products, liquor, old bridge, described the collapse as a "moment reasons to propose any further major tax reductions." radio and TV sets. In 20,500 words, he then Canadians traveling over seas more man 14 days may bring back after July 1 duty INSIDE Leo Joyal, Crof ton, Vancouver Island. Gordon McLean, 6089 Carson, Burnaby. J. Wright, 473 East Tenth New Westminster.

Murray McDonald, 2121 West Forty-eighth. Joe Chrusch of 308 Lake-wood Drive. proceeded to detail the state of the nation's economy and what he proposed to do about it in minor adjustments to tax and tariff schedules. IT ADDED VP to very little for the mass of the Canadian of horror. "At first it looked as if our bridge was falling." "Then we snw the two sections crash into the inlet.

"The air was filled with shouts and cries for help. "Fifty men must have gone down with the bridge. "They didn't have a chance. It all happened within a moment a moment of horror. Sports Mounties lose 6-5 at Portland.

PAGE 11. Koyals return to WHL free purchases up to $300, lumping for one trip present allowance of $100 every four months. Budget deficit for 1958-59 peacetime record of compared with $39,400,000 last year. Peacetime record expenditures of $5,300,000 and revenues falling to $4,652,000,000 forecast. Government to borrow an estimated $1,400,000,000 in new SEVERAL WORKMEN escaped by running to the Alexander MacPherson, people.

For all its length, the new full-scale budget had less direct meaning for the citizenry at large than Mr. Fleming's "baby budget" of last 2802 Kitchener. "When they hit the water I could see some trrasD solid section of the bridge as they heard first rumblings of the quake-like roar which accompanied the collapse. Frank Hickloton, 3711 for pieces of drift wood. Nanaimo.

"THEY WERE SWEPT through the narrows bv This one may be known as the the fast running current. "posy budget" for Mr. Flem money this year to cover budget deficit and federal loans. Tax deductibility of charitable gifts by a i ons doubled to maximum 10 per cent o' income effective Jan, 1, 1958. Once-ln-a-lifetime gift tax ing eliminated the sales tax on cut flowers.

He also eliminated fold. PAGE 11. Russia beats England. PAGE 11. Form chart, handicap.

PAGE 13. All star soccer team named. PAGE 10. Business Montreal firm buys Yancouver company. PAGE 15.

P. T. Warswick, 1150 Barclay. Jack Thompson, 209 Dor-ham, New Westminster. John MacKibbon, Apt.

310, 3455 West Fourth. Two not identified. it on rat poison As they reached safety they could hear the cries of dying, and injured men, clinging or pinned to wreckage or struggling helplessly in the rushing water. But they were unable to help them. The men catapulted into the, water were swept eastward in the harbor by the strong tidal current of the Second Narrows.

Many were fastened to the girders by safety belts. DEAD AND INJURED were picked up by boat3 guided by helicopters. A few men were saved by wit (Other budget stories on Pages "It appeared as if about half of the workmen were pinned under water by the bridge sections. "THE CENTRE SECTION went first and the one to the north a moment later. They just nosedived down.

"I watched a man operating a crane. It appeared to totter. He hung on tightly. It didn't fall. "Seven or eight others were able to scramble to an adjoining section which didn't fall.

Missing and Injured listed on 28 and 33.) FLEMING'S DEFICIT would have been $813,000,000 but for his liquidation of the national defence equipment account, a "nest-egg" built up by previous governments exemption on real estate transfers of up to $10,000 between husband and wife, or father and child in the case of farms, effective this year. Tariffs on imports of wool cloth from Britain boosted from present 50 cents a pound to 55 and 60, effective page 32. nesses to the collapse. Teams of skindivers plunged repeatedly into 40 to cover the value of Canadian military material provided to other NATO countries. feet of water to look for bodies.

"THERE WERE TWO tugs and a small boat nearby. We yelled to them and directed them to the survivors. They had a hard time against the current Tuesday hottest day of year immediately. Late Tuesday night, bodies of two unidentified men were still trapped in debris, with rescue workers but we saw tnem pick up several survivors. "There were three or four other cars on the unable to pull them out There was $165,000,000 In this account, and the government has incorporated this into its inflow of money for 1958 in effect, it is "found money." Fleming said Bridge 31 Business 14, 15 Classified Want Ads 21-27 Comics, features 30, 31 Crossword 22 Editorial 4 Garden with Hanlcy 31 Health for Today 30 Horoscope 31 Jumble 24 Pattern 31 Sport Section 11-13 Television 31 Theatres 28, 29 omen'i News 18-20 sizzling 80 Tuesday was Vancouver's hottest day of the year, a sizzling 80.

It will probably be hotter today. The weatherman sees no break in the good weather but says it will cool off a little towards the end of the week. It was 92 at Nanaimo, SO at Hope and 89 at Abbolsford. bridge at the time. We all shouted directions.

"It looked as if the temporary supports went out. The main cement pillar was leaning ever," EDWIN LEITCH, whose home overlooks the bridge, said he "heard a tremendous roar like thunder like a continuous roar of thunder." "I could see a portion toppling with a crane on (Conl. Tage 32, see "Moment of THE TRAGEDY will be investigated by Chief Justice Sherwood Lett of the B.C. Supreme Court as a one-man royal commission appointed by the provincial government. Twenty-seven of the men who went down wiih the bridge were painters, employed by J.

Boshard (Continued Page 32, see 'Fear 18 dead') the fund was being "liquidated in the interests of good accounting practice." Almost every highlight In the (Continued on Pas ft) (See MEDICAL RELIEF) (Inglis on Page 34).