. . DISASTERS : UNITED STATES: STATES: INDIANA: Stage Collapse at Indiana State Fair Leaves 5 Dead, More Than 40 Injured . . Stage Collapse at Indiana State Fair Leaves 5 Dead, More Than 40 Injured 12:07 PM, Aug. 14, 2011 Detroit Free Press http://www.freep.com/article/20110814/NEWS07/110814002/ Stage-collapse-Indiana-State-Fair-leaves-5-dead-more-than- 40-injured?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE%7Cp . A shorter URL for the above link: . http://tinyurl.com/3kbf6g6 . .INDIANAPOLIS -- The crowd was poised in anticipation, including scores of people pressed up against the stage, just seconds before country music sensation Sugarland was to perform at the Indiana State Fair on Saturday night.
.Above the stage, nestled in the rigging, a crew member had taken his position, ready to shine a spotlight on the action.
.But the weather near the Indiana State Fairgrounds was starting to get dicey. Backstage, Indiana State Police special operations commander Brad Weaver was watching an ugly storm moving in on radar via his smartphone. He and fair Executive Director Cindy Hoye decided it was time to evacuate the crowd.
.But a minute later, when the crowd was addressed, the word was that the show would go on, and that the crowd should be prepared to find shelter if things changed. Some of the crowd sensed the danger and left without further word. But the majority remained.
.Seconds later, a fierce wind blew in from the direction of the midway, kicking up what one witness described as "a canopy of dust."
.In a moment that eyewitnesses described as both terrifying and in slow motion, the massive rigging above the stage bearing lights, sound equipment and at least one crew member swayed menacingly and then came crashing down on the crowd.
.Four people were killed, a fifth died this morning in a hospital, and 40 others were injured severely enough that they needed to be taken to local hospitals. More than 150 were treated at a makeshift triage unit at the fairgrounds itself. It was a fairgrounds tragedy eclipsed in scale only by a 1963 propane tank explosion at the Coliseum that killed 74 people.
.The scope of the disaster led to the cancellation of today's events at the fair.
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