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EYE WITNESSES TELL OF CRASH AND ESCAPES .Representative Smithwick Describes Horror of Scene After Roof Collapses—Former Mine Manager Blown Through Door to Safety. Battercd while miraculously cata- pulted froni his seat in the gallery to safety through a deluge of plaster rocks and half suffocated in a guyser of dust, Representative John H. Smithwick of Florida, lying swathed in bandages today, gave as graphic| eye witness story of the awfull calamity as will-ever be told. | “The orchestra was playing beauti- | ful music and a comic film was run-| ning,” sald Mr. Smithwick, lying in| his bed, bandaged and with his face | and hands covered with cuts. “Sud- denly there was a sharp crack. I looked up and saw a great fissure | running across the ceiling. 1t was right over my head. 1 instantly| realized_what was happening. The | plaster began to fall, dropping down | in large and small chunks ail over| the theater, it seemed to me. While 1 was looking up & great piece right | started to fall. 1| crouching, involuntarily, 1 down between the seats. The ruck the seat right where 1| been sitting. The force was| broken by the seat, but it pinned| me down where 1 was crouching. The ful. It was a great, S 2 1t was simply inde- I never can forget 1. Can Never Forget. “In the midst of the roar now were women and over my head ducked, houts of men. | for heln, zroan and, w , the wouns of those o terytble pain. It was awful. T| can't ribe it. I see it all the time, poor_children and men | and women ecrying and groaning | there. “There were only a few of us in| the balcony. Luckily, there weren't | more. . The balcony gave way and | shed, soon after the ceiling began on the lower_floor. They were caught the worse. We in the balcony were more fortunate. there was a lapso of maybe | L v more, before | the balcony fell. it spun | aronnd, kind of twisted, as its sup- | ports gave way, and it Swung down | 1 those below It didn’t go Str donw. just kind of slid sideways inz, T suppe from the w th bris that had fallen on us of ups Pinned Down by Great Chunk. | “I don’t know how I got out from | where 1 was ing under that chunk of plaster that had fallen on me. I really believe it weighed all of | 500 pounds And I think I moved plaster with my shoulde | 1 wled out be where I saw or above. I forced myseif up that hole, wiggling and 1 crawled out over! | that shovinz. Then the snow and plaster, over he tangled deb to the doors on the 1Sth| street side. | ‘Across the aisle from me when| the crash car s a little fellow—I | never saw him again and I wonder if | he. i d—who laughed and roared | at every especially funny part of the film. 1 don't know what became of him or the others in the balcony after we were saowered with plaster. “As the ceiling broke the plaster | fell first, in chunks. It was just like an ice pond breaking up. The root didn't give way on ono crash. TIt| seomed to break up everywhere. That| Jot in the snow, which came in through the broken places where the ceiling had siven wa & | “It's queer, but I was conscious all the time when I was pinned.down | under there by that great piece of celling. My mind, when I saw the] cetling fall, and afterward, was just | a9 clear and collected as it is now. I knew I was hurt some, but I didn’t | Xknow how badly. It seemed that my time had come. I lived a vear, I tell| you, pinned down between the seats. Face Dripped With Blood. “It wasn't until I got outside that I noticed blood falling from my face and hands. I got out myself. No one helped me. I crawled over the broken seats and plaster and snow to the| door, On the way I saw a young fel- | Jow lying half curled up, moaning and orying for help. I leaned over to lift him and ther evervthing went black. The next I remember 1 was at the door, wiping the blood from my eyes and mouth. I don’t know how I got out. 1 didn’t see any_other injured ones as I crawled out. I can’t remem- ber about that part of it. My enly| thought then was to get home bofore | ] should die. My chest pained me, | my back seemed broken, my face was | dripping with blood. All I wanted to | do was to get home and tell my wife and little girl what had happened SPECIAL NOTICES. | | | | move “an iron fell on me,” and how T was hurt. I thought I was going to die.” Representative Smithwick, who lives about a block from the theater, said he staggered home without overcoat or hat through the snow- drifts. Ph; ans were summoned immediately, who found him suffer- ing from shock. bruises and possibly internal injuries. “I think it was a miracle that I came out alive,” said the Florida representative. “But think of those poor children and men and women who were not so fortunate! I don’t see how any who were under that escaped. If those below ave seen the ceiling break- would have had time to through the door, but I couldn’t see like the balcony. Those underneath us had no chance, I guess. 1 Kkeep thinking ot it all the time—that awful roaring and the crashing of the baleony on its way down to those people below. It was all over i f a minute, 1 guess, but it emed hours.” Climb Through Hole. Thrilling experiences were told by three boys, Harold H. Levy, James H. on and Joseph Shrebnick, stu- at Georgetown University, who de at_the Phi Alpha Fraternity House, 1872 California Street. g in the center of rows behind the hox When the ceiling fell they were all three buried beneath a large ab of plaster. Levy fell out in the balcon, could ing they rush out guess they ergency Hospital, where G en after being extricated from the wreckage., Levy said: “I lay stunned for a few seconds and then the awful moans of people pinned under the debris brought me back. I looked up the aisle stairs and saw ahead of me a hole of light d crawled up to it, and then crawl- ed back to tell the boys. We tore open the plaster and found we were outside on the edge of the roof, so then we went back and rescued a family of three and extricated several men pinned under the chairs and plaster. Jone man begging me to extricate him, I can never forget” continued “He was pinned down by an girde move hin. nd it was impossible to Hit Buried Man, After the firemen arrived they still continued the work of rescue on the shaking part of the balcony remain- ing. “The firemen stood in the alley below.” declared Levy, “and threw up lanterns and hatchets for us to use in the rescue. I was trying to get a by chopping a chair, and 1 stop- man buried under the d 1 had been hitting him dful screaming began. a ped and wreckage on the head. I could not use the hatchet after that.” with Davidson. who suffered a fractured shoulder and severe cuts about the head, and Shrebnick, who escaped with only a nervous shock, worked until e in_the morning, rescuing the vi before they were taken to the hospi They all agreed that the most har- owing moments to look back upon was an awful silence that followed the crash, and then the screaming and moaning of the victims. Henry Pearson, who came to Washington from Philadelphia Satur- day for a holiday, was in the theater with two friendd He, too. is at Emergency Hospital, suffering with a possible fracture of the pelvic bones, partial paralysis and nervous shock. “I heard the cracking and saw the ceiling separate, but before I could said Mr. Pearson, as he nervously rubbed his hands over his eves, as if to blot out the memory of it «“Show Felled In” on Her. Little Elizabeth Hayden, who was taken to Emergency Hospital from the disaster, was discharged yester- day with her sli ht cuts bandaged. When her father called for her, he asked if she remembered what had happened and she lisped, “The show felled in on me.” Her mother and brother are among the injured at Gar- field Hospital. long experience in coal mines enabled W. H. Morris, a_sixty-three- vear-old. retired coal mine manager ot Buckhannon, W. Va, to escape from the death trap. “1 was in the eighth row from the front,” Mr. Morris said, “when I heard a crack, a sort of ripping sound, exactly like that which the siate roof of a coal measure makes when it is going to let go. It was more instinct than anything else that brought me OWING TO THE INCLEMENCY OF TH weatler, Orient Commaudery, No. 5, K. T. called off the special conclave scheduled this. evening; Janvare 50, R, Recorder. EASTER? $115. 0. PEN 10 day , $48. 500 Bond bldg. {WASTED_T0O BRING A VANLOAD OF FUR. nitare from New York ‘and Philadelphia. SMITHS FER STORAGE CO. Asbestos Roofing Cement Cements leaks, preserves and keeps any kind of roof, I will apply same and guaranteé your Foof for 3 vears and will repair all leaks arising from natural causes free of charge. Also sold in bulk. 5-gal. buckets, $1 gal., delivered. Lincoln 4219, Madison Clark, 1314 Pa. ave. s. Roofs Old Roofs 014 slag and other roofs repaired. Prompt gervice: best material guaranteed. 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Then I ran up the aisle, with the roof cracking and falling above me. As I got to the floor the stuff began to hit me in a wave of wind from behind which literally flung me through the door and across the lobby onto the sidewalk. Mr. Morris sail he was warned by a sound “like that of a ripping sheet, only much louder. ~ Saw No One Moving. “I saw no one else moving as I went up the aisle,” he continued. “The house around me was practically | empty, and 1 noticed ~when I sat down that I was the only one in the rew. The stuff in falling, my im- pression is, must have goné into the orchestra pit first. I can't forwet | that oréhestra leader with that cloud forming just above his head.” Sleeping peacefully beneath the debris in the wrecked Knickerbocker theater, two little girls, aged about | four and six, were found by rescuers yesterday, ten hours after the play- house roof had fallen in. Apparentls | neither_of the children was badly: hurt. They were taken to a hospital. Four hours earlier a five-year-old girl was found unhurt seated be- tween the bodies of two women. Her life evidently had been saved by her falling between the Seats and the protection given her by the bodies of the two women who were Killed beside her. Saw Roof Fall In. H. G. Thyson of 1915 Calvert street, wife and Mr. and Mrs. Daniel F. Hall of the Gotham apartments, evewit- nesses of the tragedy from the out- side, were walking down the east side of 1sth strect Saturday night about £:30 o'clock. Passing by lFeople's drug store, Mrs, Thyson exclaimed, “Part of the roof of the Knickerbocker Theater is falling.” Following her outcry, all of the party turned to look in the direction of the theater, and at the same time a muffled sound like the ex-! plosion_of a muffled bomb rent the air. The concussion of the falling roof blew open all the doors on the 18th street side, and six people rushed madly out. On the street at that time were four other people and a policeman stand- ing near the corner. Neither of them appeared to have noticed 'anything unusual before the sound of the crash. Mr. Thyson rushed over to] the policeman and said For God's| sake, notify the hospitals,” DOUGLAS HILLYER WELL KNOWN AS ATHLETE Was Amateur Golfer and Tennis Player of Ability, Having Taken Part in Many Tournaments. Douglas Hillyer of 2021 Hillyer place, whose body was one of the first to be taken from the wrecked Knickerbockér Theater late Satur- day night, was prominent in athletic circles in the District of Columbia and was well known as an amateur golfer and a tennis player of ability. Mr. Hillyer was the son of Mrs. A. D. Hillyer. He was secretary of the District Tennis Association and of the Dumbarton Club, with both of which organizations he had been identified for several years. He was well known in amateur golf circles in the District, having bcel’&l mem- ber of the Washington Golf and Country Club for several years. About three years ago Mr. Hillyer married Miss Imogene McGraw of Washington. They have one child. Mrs. Hillyer was also caught in the accident, and was removed with a fractured ankle after having been un- der the ruins of the roof for several hours. She is at Emergency Hos- pital in a highly nervous condition. Her injurles are not serious, Mr. Hillyer was also well known in amateur base ball circles about the District, where he played amateur base ball for many years. He was perhaps best known as a tennis play- er, having taken part in practically all the tennis tournaments about the District for the last fifteen years. b His body 1s being cared for by rela- tives. TWO HOUSE PAGES KILLE| Among Victims of Enickerbocker Tragedy. Two House of Repressntatives 8 were among those Kilied' fn . the Knickerbocker Theater acoident. They were Laverne Sfroul, a nephew of Representative Sproul of Illinols, and Cutler Laflin, jr, both of Chicago. Laflin worked at night as a Knicker- bocker usher, High Schoo Books Pearlman’s Book Shop G. D. Peariman, Prop. - 933 G St. Only baleony of the Knickerbocker Theater once atood. The f: knife ‘It looked RESCUERS AT THEATER WRECK GIVEN MUCH-NEEDED HELP Noteworthy EAid Extended Throughout Saturday Night Residents and Shopkeepers. Without exception residents and| shopkeepers of the immediate neigh- | borhood are deserving of special | commendation for aid extended those | in the work of rescuc through the | long hours of Saturday night and| Sunday morning, and in more than | one instance their “coolness under | fire” facilitated matters great and doubtless was the means of saving lives. The work of J. H. Evans, colored proprietor of a barber shop at 1794 Columbia road, was of a high order. | Evens, one of the first to reach the buiiding after, the roof had caved in, rushed into the debris and brought out the voung daughter of his next- door neighbor, Breaslau, the keeper of a delicate: i Depositing to other | hands he returned repeatedly to | sist in bringing out others. Re ing that sufficient aid had arrived, he then turned his thoughts in other directions and long before the large | establishments of the ity had, com- | menced to deliver coffes and' food, | his buckets of steaming hot coffee | warmed the workers in and outside of the building. | Quickly Responds to Request. After several vain attempts on_the | part of a reprsentative of The Star to secure an open telephone wire in the vicinity he entered Evans' shop nd explained his want. The barber | was quick to appreciate the impor- tance of the request and, much| against threats and clamorings of | others, agreed to allow the newspaper | man the privilege. announcing at the | same time to the disappointed persons present that “it was the quickest way | to supply the needs of the manv.”| Throughout yesterday The Star had the exclusive use of the Evans phone. | Throughout Saturday night this shop was the rendezvous of firemen, | soldiers, policemen aAd helpers, who | would rush in to warm themselves at the fire and geturn to their gruesome work. One marine officer, who refusgd | to give his name, had a bad cut| dressed in the shop. He had been | hurt just after warning was given for ali to leave the building. Once the crowd in the Evans shop realized that it would be impossible to use the phone privately, it immedi- ately reconciled Itself to the fact, and, through the best of co-operation, many personal calls were relayed through The Star representative to The Star office and thence to their destination, replies being telephoned back and delivered to anxious ones in the shop. To the efficlent service and co-opera- tion of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company and to the courtesy and interest of Evans, as well as to the industry of the mnewspaper's staff, every reader of The Star indebted. Vietims’ Relatives Co-Operate. This condition was made possible in no small way by the actions of relatives —man and_woman—of Albert G. Bueh- ler of the Portner apartment, who was lost in the wreck. Haying accounted for Mrs. Buehler, who ‘'had been taken to the Emergency Hospital, these people were most anx- ious to know if Mr. Buehler had returned to the Portner, but appreclating the necessity of the paper receiving the news first, suggested the relay system. This was done at once, and from that time much Information was transmitted to anxious ones at the.scene of the disaster. The help rendered-by the Misses I 1i and S. Harrison, proprietors of a mil- linery shop at 2471 18th street, also was notable. They threw open their place of business to aid the injured, and their phone, too, was placed at the disposal of newspaper men. Unaware that Mrs. J. H. Michaelis of the Woodley apartment was rest- ing on a cot in _the rear of this shom, Low first cost is not at the expense of a low re-sale price, for the Hupmobile re-sale price is notably high. STERRETT & FLEMING Incorporated Champlain St. at Kalorama Road (Below 18th st.) Phone North 5050 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1922. th of hi m, an jto {in re: pi cleanly cut the balcony from Its supporting sides. Ir. and Sirs Henr and 7 s elin. Wilson of apa enit - o business here, was the son of K.|355. Tith strést, arorer L world quite so nourish- Kneesl, the well known hrad of K| Mrs Powell was removed from the i helptul neesi’ Sons, 425 7th street, a life- i wreckage & two hours' 3 ng or long merchant of Washington. He | firemen. Her hushand. saff o Pas was vice president and treasurer of atched head, 3 Wii- - the Semmes Motor Company and head_and le, ¢ y numbered his friends in the city by H. Michae Woodley apart- co s m" the hundreds. ments, one of the first th tims removed from th For Hours Under Twisted Iron. day, and will be closed until further notice, made by Harry Crandall. closes five theaters. H feels toward taking any money earned | by amusements at this time of c Theater have been a sad blow to Mr. Crandall, completely crushing out of thoughts for the suffering and for the dead in the ¢ ordered the ¢ tion who io; not performance in an, himself from the debris and re hours, suffe but his wife's le resting_comfort, Cortlara, ed between 1 was any member of he = 1 CRANDALL CLOSES HIS THEATERS AFTER KNICKERBOCKER DISASTER All of the Crandall theaters y roughout the city were closed to- | sterday. The order was at once.communi- cated to the house managers of the siX Crandail theaters, in some of which audiences already had assem- bled. Tiose already admitted to the Metropolitan, Avenue Grand, Apoilo according to announcement This action ] jand York theaters we f The action is taken solely onaccount | from the. _4.(;“:): that nompr:rro:r‘:::‘;i: the reluctance which Mr. Crandall | would be given in any Crandall and at the Savoy and 9th and s houses attaches were posted ntrance to convey the same at th wide sorrow, and not on account of | infory to prospective purchas- any reported weakn€ss in the struc- | €T of tickets. ires: || “The Crandall theaters were all 5 i ted by the polic The deaths at the Knickerbocker s oiee ang I inspectors ye ntion to oper of his t ndall rday und without ex- I immediate permis- It was purely by rea- artielt sorrow that Mr refused 10 permit any of Juses to give a performance. Ir. Crandall. A. Beitzel and rry Bulkley, president, vice presi- etary of the Knicker- r Company, respectively; Joseph at’ this time anyt roph | nees. as a te Jnder the eircums ouial of his gricf, Mr. Cran sing of a1l the the nd was not able to say today whes they might be reopencd. . Morgan, general manage { The foilowing statement was is-| Crandall ente vz Nelaos B‘,’rB:}l‘l': |sued today by the Crandall theaters John J. Pay George A. Crouch management: ind all of the other Crandall execu- perdverwhelmed by the a - that! tives have worked without respite efell the Knickerbocker Theater since Saturday night, bending every ;;Ifi"u,rd:;v and bowed decp in o resource of the grist by l::n”i\,m}’{» Ceand on 1o the work of to nis executive out of re- spect to tiose of h reaniza- their lives as well public, there s curstay Crand: + of collapse from the shock 4 the inevitable reaction after ty-six hours of unremitting ef- the general under any »uld th r fort” -—_—_—_— bulance, and it put me to sleep on Plain strect was one of the victims of my to the hospital the Knickerbocker Theater disaster. John W. Franc 1840 -Biltmore | A ! resident of Washington, | strect. whose left e e Mr. Hu the time of his death Jured by a falling beam, extri \wld a responsible position with the burcau of construction and repair of home unuided. [ vering th the Department brother-in-law, Clarence W My was the brother-in 401 16th sire s the th - lof Col © W. Herron. advertisi rancis retur: nd aided in his mana The who identified e Long the 1 iden He buricd for 1y four 1 1o serious injury Other Victims Improving. frer v been partially 4" by a friend. rty-seven years of, age husband of Mrs. Mary 5 Hughces, who. with two chi Dunbar and Mary Rutherford Hughes, survive him. ral serviees for Mr. Hughes will 1d We lay afternocon at the e of Harmony Lodge. In will ‘be at the s escaped with a few tal. Mr. <10 of the cdrand wedg- of concrete for an W. M sy brui hour and a hulf. is improving. S, Ny - h ) £ Mr o A. W. Barkley. another resident of t Cort) ong those, e = = ng roof carried thix part of the movie theater | jured. was not ar t = B3 There is nothing in thn a rib broken and wa i i 3 o Guta, tenty sears oy, amathes | BT MHKED an s wei. § for thin, anemic girls student at Georgetown University,!is syfre A WAL &, ” B 4 had a miraculous escape from death Eibetrom Drilets and " ahock: of “teen-age.” It is b { The young man had lain for hours un- st In Broken. 2 unday by der four feet of twisted iron and con-{ Raymond Bland, fourteen, of 2305 well-worth trying. crete, with a plaster pillar resting |Ontario road, who was in the balcony, == an his jaw, and was finally extricated attompted t0 gt out when he S Scott & Bowne, Bloomfield,N.J. with only slight injuries. Speakin he rool caving in, but was vinned = of his experience at the Emerzency | under chairs. He was cut ANt [} ALSC MAKERS OF— [} Hospital last night, Mr. Gold said: head and had a wrist broken. The “I was sitting in the s-cond row of | boy was rescued before the fire de. The Star representative was reporting supposed dead in the ruins to his paper when a cry pierced the room. T 1 had just | orchestra exactly at 9:20 o'clock. remember the time beca. Sudden president of the % Company. ‘auto- on the e 1ook- . brother and Robert M. Sterrett & n.obile de a splitting crash that T wiil never for- get. The whole world seemed to fall on me and I don't remember anything | for some time, perhaps wn hour. H | Will Never Forget Screams. “ B Ar. Fleming bore up brav “I was almest sorry when 1 did \\‘l}‘ n it scemed certain ther come to, for the screams of the in- little ;“g"f‘ ;'.‘ their recovery. Accom-|jured seemed to ring to heaven. T nane e Live 9f The {oould hear and feel horribly suffering {people trying to wriggle out of th P First Chureh hn the debris like mangled r 81 ss Chug s worms, Were hroughe in ine reng s bodies |after a long wait, 1 heard footsteps Tnspect: them. and then - ghre: deaauid | of rescuers above my head. 1 shout- ed and shouted. Some one heard, for they dislodged erfough of the con- || crete covering to put down a long | class tube full of brandy. I took a tions to Mr. Fleming. He finally iden- tified all of h 1ati 8 Dr. J. B. Bianchi, ¢ temalan min- ister to the United States, was an- i < . other who Seldom’ left the phone used | LmE drink. The pillar resting on the v IThe STAr, Tetroteimion face hurt like hell, but 1 conseious. The rescuers anchi, while certain h Virginia hded the theater, | above kent workins to get me. 1 hoped that maybe it |tried to help by sticking out my free arm. Suddenly 1 felt some one’s fin- gers touch mine. “‘I am going to give you a shot of morphine.’ said a voice. “Immediately after I felt a sharp prick on the top of my hand. The arug didn’'t seem to take effect until they finally got me out in the am- might not be true, _ As.each description was telephoned in 10 the paper he would stand silently by and mereiy shake his head. He, too, accompanied the reporter on many trips to the morgue in searci of his relative. W i Physician’s Office in U Scores of injured taken from the wreckage were first taken to the home of Dr. J. B. Gregz Custis at 1815 Columbia road. Dr. Custis there has a complete operating room. and | each case of injured from the Colum- | | bia road side of the building was taken there, where the pain was re- lieved by hypodermic. cuts stitched, or other wounds dressed. Every ef- fort was made to relicve the suffer- ng. As soon as the first aid treatment was applied the case was transferred to a hospital to, make room for an- other. " Many times there were a line of litters waiting on the floor from the front door to the operating Toom in the rear. While Dr. Custis, assisted by Dr. Stiles of the public health service and Commander Warner, surgeon. U. S. Navy, worked there, other surgeons went along the line of litters to ascertaim whether it was necessary to put them on the A , table before sending them to the | hospital, or whether treatment could given without the necessity . of 9 d I's made that way ¥ :ttenlion. rained nurses had been mobil to a: in the first aid wor')?.o A\Isiz:g of the cases were dispatched to their homes after treatment in the first aid station at Dr. Custis’ house. Manager Collins of the Shoreham Hotel was among those who sent trucks with coffee and sandwiches for Heinz Tomato Ketchup $ ) on everything doesn’t make everything taste the same. It makes everything taste better. - baby was rescued later. Mrs. Kneesi TOMATO KETCHUP ‘was not seriously injured. Howard Kneesi, as he was known - to all identified with the automobile - P e o sl ——— s the relief workers. The hotel also was thrown o N ara pen to l\he injured and E. C. Mills of 1754 Lanier 2 place was highly complimented by those in fihnrge of the rescue work for the aid e contributed. Mr. Mills, on learn- ing of the news, quickly gathered up all' the auto jacks procurable, rushed TRt worked’ Liaerat gan o o ndefatigabl useful tools SRESaO = Gave Life for His Wife. 'hat Howard Kneesl, one of the best known automobile men in the city, gave his life for his wife was attested by her last night. Mr. Kneesi, with his wife and young son, was sitting near an aisle when the' crash came. He shoved Mrs. Kneesi to safety, but was caught himself in a great pile of debris. His A L L Ll Look Out for Roof Troubie! This is the weather that plays havoc with roofs. 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