INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - At least four people were killed and 40 injured when a stage collapsed during a storm Saturday night at the Indiana State Fair, where the group of countries was set to meet Sugarland. The incident at the fair in Indianapolis, came shortly before 21 clock in high winds caused the rigging, lighting and other devices that in turn keeps fans, many of them in the VIP area near the stage. The wounded included at least one child, WTHR reported.
No one was at the time. Sara Bareilles first part was finished and the audience was waiting to take the stage Sugarland.
Hundreds of concerts, the audience rushed to the wounded, the lifting of the steel frame from them and tend to medical treatment. Rescue workers to set up a triage center in a tunnel under the grandstand.
Witnesses reported seeing many people with head and neck injuries and broken bones.
Indiana State Police Sgt. Rich Myers confirmed the deaths and injuries and said the injuries ranged from "mild to very critical." He did not provide additional information.
Wishard Memorial Hospital, spokesman Todd Harper said the hospital had 16 patients, none of which had fatal injuries. Harper told WTHR youngest patient of the hospital was 7 years.
Concert-goers said one presenter warned warned that severe weather was possible, and gave instructions on what to do if an evacuation was necessary. But the presenter said the same concert organizers hoped the show would go, and left many fans.
The winds that toppled the plant said just minutes after the announcement came fans.
"It was like he was in slow motion," said concert-goer Amy Weathers the Indianapolis Star. "You would not believe it really happened."
Darron Cummings, Associated Press photographer was in the audience attended the concert as a fan, just before the collapse. He said he and his friends sought refuge in a nearby barn, after I the weather radar.
"Then we heard screams coming. We were running up people," Cummings said of the AP.
Witnesses told WTHR that some of the injured were in a VIP area in front of the stage known as "Pit sugar." Witnesses said a wall of dirt, dust, rain and wind from the main road from the fairgrounds, just before the collapse.
"Panic in when they saw, came the Dust Bowl of the Midway," concert-goers Darryl Cox said the television station.
Another person at the concert, said Emily Davis, the transmitter, it flashed and the sky was dark, but it did not rain when the wind suddenly reversed the rigging.
"It was terrible, people were running and crazy," she said.
Jessica Alsman told the AP the imposing metal scaffolding stage "kind of wavered at first." Then pandemonium set, as it fell.
"Once we saw wind gusts, the wind in our faces," said Alsman. She said and reached for the other three friends and formed a chain.
"You can not imagine - we thought it was going to rain or something," said Alsman.
Sugarland tweeted about the incident about an hour after it happened.
"We are all correct. We pray for our fans and the people of Indianapolis. We hope you will join us. You need your strength," the group said.