Evening Star Newspaper, January 29, 1922, Page 1

¢ e - e 'EAT s WEATHER, Member of the Associated Press Clearing today; tomorrow probably The Associated Press is exclusively eatitled fair; little change in temperature, the use for republication of all mews dispatceh credited to it or net otherwise credited In ti paper and also the local news published herein. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 10 p.m. last night, mgr,e-u 29; lowest, 2L.. Full report on Page 12, £y At The S | Al rights of publicatic dispatches hereln are alse reserved. of wpecial Entered a3 Wecond-class matter post office Washington, D. C. 9.—No. 28,399. WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY .29, 1922, ) OR MORE KILLED AND SCORES INJURED WHEN KNICKERBCCKER THEATER CAVES IN ROOF GOLLAPSES UNDER SNOW AND BALCONY FALLS Rescue Wark Spexded - th Hundreds Lying n Tons of Ruins. Forty persons are known to have been killed| and between 60 and 100 injured when the snow-| laden roof of the Knickerbocker Theater, at 18th street and Columbia road northwest, collapsed last night, ‘burying hundreds beneath & twisted mass of steel, stone and concrete. giiiss At 3:30 o’clock this morning the ruins were still being . searched by more than 200 soldiers, marines, police and firemen. More dead ars believed to rest beneath the pile of debris. All injured have not be‘e“ reported. The. list may reach 100. The roof crushed in at about 9 o’clock. After eight hours search in a blinding snowstorm the rescue work | is incomplete. As this is written, reports from the scene tell of the | _eries of the injured still heard from beneath the wreck- age. At 5 o’clock this morning wreckmg cranes were be-| ing brought to the scene to iift the heavy girders of ntefll which still kept many captive and prevented recovery of i the dead. CRASH CCMES AFTER INTERMISSION. The orchestra was playing during the intermission for a change of reels. The show was about to begin. People were filing in nnd{ out of the theater. | Came a hiss—a terr:ffic crash—the rattle and clatter of falling | ; timber, stcne, steel and plaster. A woman screamed. Parting m. the middle under the weight of many inches of snow, the roof | had given way. It struck the balcony, which extends about hllfl way over the pit. Down crashed the balcony. 1 A stillness, an unearthly pause, followed the din. Then a| scream, an agonized cry, a moan. Beneath tons of steel nnd masonry ‘sceres of men women and children were buried. ! The catastrophe will rénk among the most terrible on record. | While there have been about forty bodies removed from the ruins, | the workers, who are continuing this morning their labors among ! i the mass of wreckage, report more bodies pinned beneath umler heavy girders. It will be late today before the final tnlth is known. ) ~ CHURCH HOLDS MANY DEAD. ' Every hospital within practical reach of the scene was full Io% “to overflowing this morning. In the Christian Science Churdz,| which stands at the corner of Columbia road and Euclid ltree!;w lay the bodies of a score of dead. Some of them had not been lden- ! tified. Every house, every sicre, served as a first-aid shhon through the night and carly today, where the injured were treated and dispatched in ambuiances {o hospitals or to their.homes. ... i Hotels in the city threw open their doors to he injured and lol the rescuers. Residents in ihe vicinity of 18th street and Columbia road served hot ccffee and food through the night., a2 Toward, dawn this morning a crowd of several ‘bundred anxious relatives beseiged the l:oapltals, the newspapers, and took i ! i i ! | ' | i part in the search of the ruins—all awaiting word of some one| - who was in the theater. More than once during the night tl;e{ tnmcnzwawubroken,everthetelopbme.toahth‘r or a mother, of the death of a loved one. S & member of the Gridiron Club. e AT L o 3 | The crash came at 9 o'clock. It Among ‘those killed were F. H.|y o0 iy ioua hiss followed by Frnest, district manager for Wash-!_ acafening roar. The middle of the ington of the Dictograph Products|roor gave way first. It was followed Company; Douglas Hillyer, a local|py the entire roof and the bllcony. athlete and well known in Washing- | The fallen balcony covered the®pit ton society; Miss Mildred Walford, ,of thetheater. On top of that was the 1727 Riggs place; former Representa- roof. tive A. J. Barchfeld of Pennsylvania,| Before the noise’ from the crash | Jrs.Charles M. Wesson, wife ot Col. |of falling timbers, éoncrete and steel | .. M. Wesson, U. S. A.: Thomas R.| was ‘silenced, the agonized shr(ek Itourne, 1430 K street northwest, ‘and’|and cries for help from ‘those Infllfl ¢ G .Brainard, Washinglon corre- beneath the.mass began. The screams epondent of the Brooklyn E-:lq nd (Continued ‘on Page 2, Column-1.) s ‘ RESCUING INJURED FROM KNICKERBOCKER THEATER The Known Dead. Former Representative A. J. Barchfeld of Pegnsylvania, 1945 Calvert street. Miss Helena Barchfeld, onnghter of former Representatlve' | Barchfeld. C. C. Brainard, correspondent nf Brocklyn Daily Eagle. Douglas Hiliyer, 2021 Hillyer place. Mrs. Charles M. Wesson, wife of Col. C. M. Wesson, ordnance | dep-rlment, U. S. A, 1821 Belmont road. Col. Charles Ccles Tucker, of Donaldson & Tucker, nttorneyu. McC. Farr, Hendorson Furniture Co. Jacob Urdong, 2312 20th street. Mrs. Mary Ethel Atkinson, 2233 18th straet. L. L. Lehler, 204 B street ncrthwest. W. B. Sammon, alien property custodian office. William Tracy, 501 Rhode Island avenue, a trombone player iin the orchestra. 3 Mrs. B. H. Covell, 2409 18th street. F. H. Ernest, District manager of the Washington office, Dmtog-raph Products Company,, offices. 402" Evans building. Mis. Marie Russell, 2475 18th street northwest W. L. Scofield, Danville, Va. 3 ¢ G. S. Freeman, musician.’ D. F. O’'Donnell, 1731 Columbia road. Mrs. D. F. O’'Donnell, 1731 Columbia road. Mildred Walford, 1727 Riggs place. Louis F. Valentine, Almas Temple, 727 13th street northwest. | Mrs. Louis Valentine. W. M. Crocker, Congress Hall Hotel. Mrs. Norman E. Martindale, 2633 Adams Mill road. Joseph W. Beal, 1488 Chapin street. R. H. Conroy Vance, Fredericksburg, Va. _Thomas R. Bourne, 1430 K street. " “Doc” Brosseau, North Adnm, Mass., student at Georgetown Foreign Service School. F.H Hall. . . Orseto E. Matellio, 1800° Belmont street, orchestra leader. | Unidentified worhan with light hair, brown luther ‘coat, light { brown sweater, wearing. khaki knickerbockers, brown utoclnnp " and brown sport shoges. Umdmhfiedmm,undybflr-v.l..mbmubeltbuckk. Upidentified ‘man in full dress, believed to be player i m chestra An umdenufiedwmllukbmnhm, about forty years old;: pongee waist, black and“white plaid skirt. Anunldumfiedwmn,\aaahbrmbnr,lbwtfortyynfln old; white shirtwaist, moleskin collar and velvet skirt. Anuuhnhfi«lwmmfl:mfllduckbmshrtnd silk waist; brown hair; about forty years old. = - Anmdmhfiedwomm,shfl,huvy,wmuukonem dress with large pearl buttons. ; Heavy-set woman, black velvet dms, stnn; of Inlda neck.. An unidentified man mth (hmo-d ring; huvy' blld( 8 List of the Injured. Mrx. 1949 Biltmore | street northwest. Walter Urd Say, | northwest. R. J. Brown, 2312 20th street M. E. Cantney, address unknown. { Mre. Henry S. Powell. 2400 16th | strect. bruised and ent. wan taken to | Emergency Hoxpltal. Henry Wilson {and Misx Edelin Wilxon, her son and daughter. who' were In the balcony. | were removed to their home. Hamil- toh Wilson, another xom, wan nt home | when the fire engines pamsed. He went to the scene of the aceident nnd fonnd hix mother as whe wax helng taken from the building. Henry T. Lacey. forty years old. an cmploye of The Star, 1117 K street, | tractured ribs. ' { 3. L. Durland, 2109 18th gtreet; cuts | and bruises. Mrx. J. L. Duriand, 2109 1Sth street, { uhoek, cuts and broixex. Nobile Tomnxxo Asxereto, third sec- | Californta’ street. | R. J. Bowen, 1949 Biltmore street, | badty tnjured. | Mrx. Mildred (R. J.) Bowen, 1949 | Blltmore street, leg broken. Marie Rhea, 1301 Rhode Island ave- nue. . | » John §lenner, | street northeast. | Belle Rembo, 1920 Calvert treet. F.'W. Dodson, 1339 Montague street. | f J. B. Dodson, father of above, 1339 | Montague street. | John _ Presioso, musleian, 435 M | street, naly ent head, possible frac- | ture. Alphonse Vantoucke, musiclan, 508 | East Capitol street, cuts, fractures of right arm and shoulder. i —— Mertie, 2409 1Sth street, arm | crushed off at shoulder. | G. Caplan, 1715 18th street. i Moe Gold. 1713 18th street, fractured | sab. 5 Hugh Glenu, 1855 Calvert street. Edward ' A. Williams, trombone player, 701 C street, broken leg. Mr. and Mrs. Jomas Michaleas, Woodley Apartment, injuries sl Dr. Custis Lee Hall, 1769 Columbin rond, fractured arm, and his wife, dinloented. shoulder, fractured arm ! and‘cnts about head. | Miax Margaret Cole. 107 East Florence “cburts, Incerated” ankles. “Clarchee - Long, thirty-two, 1810 | Biltmore atreet. | James A. Curtsin, twenty-one, 2463 musieian, 1538 A .| :ontario road, of Florence, Mass. 3521 N:mlk street, rasion lb“lfl head and body. " Albert . R. Sward, 1430 U orthwest, fractured akaull, Miss MacLcan White, 1828 (‘ol-nth | rond, broken lex. street | snchunetis avenue, serious internal |Tetary of the Italiam embaxsy, 1803 | ™IV | road morthwest, Etta Underwood, 2308 K street|. Warrén Mrx. Mary Chalmers, 22 Grafton street, Chevy Chaxe. Clarence Newkirk. 1733 Columbin road, removed to home. Mrx. Bernard Bresslan, 1792 Colum- bia road. hoth shoulders brok Miss Sadle Bresslam, 1792 Columbia rond. Mrs. Jullette Webb, 3438 California ntreet, wlightly injured. Reprexentative John A. Smithwick of Florida,’ 1568 Columbia road. fell from halcomy and wax slightly Injured | about arms and neck. Lewis Strayer, 1837 Calvert street, removed from theater unconscious; and daughter Martha taken ont with fractured collarbone. . Douglas Hillyer, 2021 Hillyer e. pinned under debriv, but mot | | adly: Injured. Minn Elizabeth Jefirien, 1767 Mas-! Eilliott Brumbaugh, _195¢ Biltmore | street, shock and bruises. N. L Urdong, 2312 20th street, -in-. Jured about face and arms and buried for three hours under the dehris. . Mrs. Gertrude Taylor, 1605 Hobart | street, probable internal injuries. Vincent Dannber, ten years 1800 Belmont road, very seriously injured. John Newbit and his sixter, Kather- ine Nexbit, of 1748 P street morthwest, slightly injured. Col. C. M. Wexsnon of 1521 Belmont ! ightly injured. E. H. Shaughanessy, necond assist- {ant postmaster gemeral. Mrs. E. H. Shaughmewss, wife of seecond nssistant Postmaster Gemeral, 1673 Columbia read, broken ribs. Ruth Shnughnessy, daughter, tem | yeurs old, both armw broken. June Bergman, twenty-one, of 1831 Biltmore street, injured arm. Joneph C. Bruce, 1619 Hobart street, arm is badly gashed. Mrs. J. H. Hills, wife of Capt. Hills, V. S A Crengher, U. §. A., badly hurt, Capt. Hills, who is still imprisoned, direct- jed the rescue of his wife. Mrs, street,. hours. Misn treet shoek, John T. MeEveriey, 2477 18th street northwest, suffering from shoek. John ‘Martert, living with Dr. Pal- zett, at 1122 5th street. | Dr. E. E. Hayden, 1832 Biltmore, his wife and two children, a boy and girl. Giibert * Caplan, ‘1715 18tk street northwest. -Adice Pasquale, lfl. E.elll street. Miss Virginin Poole, 1364 Oak street. Mrx, Joseph' Younger, 1463 c.ln.- bia road. Guy Eliridge, 1524 Biltmore planed under debris for five Mary Forsythe, 1802 Belmont northwest, . suftering from Helphen, nno tuun d daughter of Col. | 'STORM GOE Trolley Service S SEAWARD: 'LEAVES TRAFFIC TIE-UP 'AND 26 INCHES OF Sus;euded at 9 . O’Clock Last Night—Cars Stalled Along Streets. NOW ININE SOUTEERN TRAINS STUCK Washington with of snow and almest < of all orm since 1899, pa sed complteely kinds. the hea i the blizzard . trailed by intense gal ong Atlantic coast. Fair weather. {with normal Junuary temverature will follow the storm. according to the! weather bureau forecast. With the exception of telegraph s telephone communication. the Distrie Street var. tramic about 9 o'clock | he_oulgids s suspended et on all lines, while relief gangs made strenuous efforis to get food to crews of cars snowbound in Many the suburbs. e Capital Traction d in the snow along were ordered aban- doned by the officials and their crews sent home. Passenger service | leading into and out of Washington. i was crippled and only a few trains, 1unning on belated schedules. arrived in or left the Union Station. Nine trains on the southern lines, operat- ing _out of Washington, on the tracks between here and Alex- a. Va enty-six Inches at 8 O'Clock. At S o'clock last night the official . weather bureau measurement of the ! twenty inches. the fali for o1y of the bureau. Twen-; i(,\mlup inches, however, were meas- !ured by the officials of the weather bureau al Washington Circle. but] { this measurement is not regarded as: official. During the great blizzard of 1899, the bureav stated, but 20.5 inches of snow fell during the two-; | day storm. a fall of 13.7 Inches being | ! already on tiie ground when the storm cars of started Unabated for almost twenty-nine { bours storm begun . to dissipate ' about 9 o'clock last night.. As. the { storm disappeared. the wind increased but the weather bureau 1 in velocity. | ID. C. MERCHANTS REAP HARVEST IN RAPID SALE -OF STORM FOOTW ‘i Merchants selling rubbers, put- tees, boots and similar articles did -a “land office” business yes- ! (erday. supplying the needs of persons.who were forced, to be out in the storm. By late in the afternoon more than one store was “sold out,”:the | 'demand seeming especially heavy for puttees and other leg cover- ings. Boots of all varieties, including sea-going hip-boots. made their appearznce, while Army and Navy uniforn’s of the several varieties |, adorned the manly forms of scores of pedestrians. Anvthing that would serve in the storm was put on. The man with the heaviest boots was en- vied, while the less-well-protected persons contented themselves with storm rubbers and galoshes of sev- eral varieties. . {EARLY MORNING FIRE BURNS, THREE HOUSES| 'l'hree—Alum Blaze on H Street Be- tween 17th and lBtl), Adds to “Night of Terror.” A three-alarm fire at 1714-16 and 18 H street northwest added to the “night of terror.” The_ blaze broke out at 3 o'clock this morning and at 5 while still burning fiercely, was un- der control of the worn-out firemen, sonte of whom had.just returned from a night of labor at the Knickerbocker Theater disaster. The origin could not be ‘ascertained. The damage is expected to run into many thousands of dollars, inasmuéh as the entire thrée houses were prac- | I, ¥ was virtually isolated last night from | on the railroads| were stalled the length of time| BETWEEN D. C. AND ALEXANDRIA iFew Arrivals or Departures From Union ! Station—Some Cars Leave for Nearby ' Virginia—Fair Weather Promised. d that it would not go nd twenty-five miles a¥ hour fn Washington. although zales were re- ported all alonz the Atlantic coast. Street car companies. which had made vialant efforts to give some sort of service throughout the day. gave up all hope as the number of stalled jcars increased early in the night. { The Capital Traction Company aban- ned its service entirely. and re- sed the tired car crewe. The Washington Railway and Elec- tric Company also virtually suspended {its service about 9 o'clock after run- ining a few cars over three of itg lines— ! Mt Pleasant, Georgetown and Lincoln Park. The stbsidiary suburban lines | were completely tied up. and a number .of cars stalled near Glen Echo and [(-me-. Glen. Crews of these stalled cars were taken food Some Cars to Falls Church. { Blectric lines running into Maryland {and Virginia had difficulty in main- | taining any schedule. Several cars left jon the Washington and Old Dominion |line about 6 o'clock for Great Falls. On the Falls Church division of the | Washington-Virginia Flectric railway jonly a few cars left and came into | Washington. The Alesandria division of this line was completely crippled since early vesterday morning. i The Washington, Baltimore und Annapolis electric line ran few {trains in and out of Washingtom. {Late last night one of the outbownd {trains was reported stalled some- iwhere between this city and Balti- j more. I Besides halting sireet car traffic. the storm made it virtually impossi- i ble for automobiles and other vehicles ito cope with the snow. and last [night the downtown streets were lined with abandoned cars, some of {which the owners had not been able jto move since Friday night. Taxi- Ix:nb! did hrnm‘ business, but as (Continued on Page 12, Column 1. % GOOD MILK SUPPLY " LOOKED FOR TODAY Local daleies expressed ‘the belief 'last night that there would be plenty of milk for the District today, des- pite the somewhat lessened arrival of milk trains yestgrday. One of the largest dairymen de- clared that his supply from farms in Maryland and Virginia had not been diminished by the storm, and that {ne had a full’ supply for delivery to | patrons today. Deliveries perhaps would be late. this dairyman gtated, but declared that the storm had not hit his farms with the violence it showed here, and that as far ‘as he was advised the milk supply to this city was normal. Plan to Use Trucks. > Several - other managers of locil {dairies.sald much the same thing. VIlfllollKh it was admitted that con- |tlnuance 9f the heavy smowfall to- would ‘give 2 severe setback to ,u-e Tocul milk supply. Kvemy effort is being made by !dairies to keep the sources of sup- ply open. and in some cases plans were made .to use trucks fo bring in . should the rail delivery totally mi! fail. K is the hope that, despite any con- tingencies, enough .miik may be brought here to_supply all the. children of city. ~Yesterday many persons were unable to get milk at some of the chain groceries, and late in the afternoon and in the evening several stores wefe re- ported to be wholly without milk. One chain store in the northwest sec- tion declared ‘that it had enough milk on hand to last well through the after- noon, refuting stories - that the milk supply “was “entirely exhausted. Two deliveries of milk were made to this particular store in the chain, its man- ager said, late in the afternoon. * The general food situatiop. in the Iis- trict was said to be good. and no alarni was to be felt, it was declargi by those c':nvernm lWllh ::e l:l(ull ‘I. unless 't nowatorm _should _continue fl;lf:d ,tor qu: ‘unpregedented