Evening Star Newspaper, May 16, 1929, Page 3

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DAVIDSON TRANSFER & bmmmnc,ws AND PAINTING Lowrs-r 1929, T WILL | NOT | amazing co-ordination, performed he- fa <hm‘ time a((fl lhv b]ast left its trail | with volunteers, grim-faced men, wait- |ed arms and legs, screaming men and | Graham two men of this company, | gathered enough momentum to drop | packed four deep in the space between CLEVELAND, Ohio, army of volunteers, taking orders from police officlals and exccuting hem with May 16.—An } roic rescue work in the Cleveland Clinic | stood at the | Iped in taking the mvurm 2nd dead from the building while ‘it still was filled with death- dealing g: 5 | All Vehicles Commandeered. Inspector George J. Matowitz, rushed from central police station with fiying squads, found huge billows of smoke and gas enveloping the structure, and with oiher police officials he com- | mandeered all vehicles in sight as am- bulances and then pressed every avail- able man in the vicinity into duty as fast as they volunteered. While delivery trucks, drays, transfer wagons and private automobiles stood ready to take away the dead and in- jured, butchers, grocers, dentists, sail- ors, brokers, taxi drivers and clerks, working in small groups under uniform- ed men, waded through water left by the fire hose and tore away obstructions as (‘)c\ey helped carry on the first rescue work. Back of the clinic the fence was lined who ing their call. At a word from a fire- man or policeman they plunged in and performed the duty assigned them. Many Made Silent by Horror. Many of these volunteers, white of face, with the horror they met inside the walls of the clinic tomb, could talk but little while they rested from their labors. “It was terrible,” was about all they could say. One volunteer sald, “I never hope to have a look at anything so horrify- ing again. As far as you could see were bodies, bodies, bodies, down those stairways. It was trrible, those twist- women—bodies and screams.” Firemen, too, made heroic rescues. Hook and Ladder Company No. 8, bat- tling flames and fumes, went to the top of the building on an 85-foot lad- der, which, by chance, went into serv- ice only last week. Under Batallion Chief Michael Howard McAllister and Peter Rogers, chopped their way tnrough the sky- light, put ropes under their arms and were lowered into the building. Then they swung themselves until they inside the mezzanine rail which circles the fourth floor. Bodies Packed Four Deep. Both firemen said they found bodies the stairway and the elevator. Other firemen knocked open a trap door in the roof, and McAllister and Rogers lifted 15 persons out into the open air. ‘Though several were dead, others were saved by lung motors used there on the roof. Companies of firemen, some with gas masks, some without, worked their way through the fume-choked build- ing, many of them with volunteers as assistants as they searched for in- Jjured and dead. Will Rogers PHILADELPHIA.—The old farmer is getting his relief. - THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1929.- MAJOR DISASTERS IN U. S. Explosions and Fires in Theaters, Public Buildings and Factories Have Claimed Heavy Toll in Last 75 Years. By the Associated Press. The explosion and fire at the Cleve- land Clinic Hospital yesterday ranks high in the list of disasters in institu- | tions, public bulldings and factories that | have taken a heavy toll of life in the | United States in the last 75 years. Among these disasters were: Iroquois Theater fire, Chicago, De- cemher 30, 1903, 575 dead. Conway’s Theater fire, Brooklyn, N. Y,. December 5, 1876, 295 dead. Rhode’s Opera House fire, Boyerton, Pa., January 13, 1908, 170 dead. ‘Triangle Factory fire, New York, May 25, 1911, 148 dead. Chemical plant explosion, near Pitts- | burgh, May 8, 1918, 100 dead. Factory explosion, Morgan, | October 5, 1918, almost 100 dead. N. J, HOSPITAL FOUNDED AS UNSELFISH STEP Organizers Endowed Clinic With $100,000 With Pur- pose to Help All By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, May 16—The Cleve- land Clinic, which last night was but a ghastly shell in which more than 100 persons a few hours earlier helplessly had Jost their lives, was founded on the unselfish desire of four physicians to help their fellow men. Established in 1921, the clinic was endowed with a $100,000 gift from its founders, along with the pledge that each would give one-fourth of his an- nual income to the foundation. Dr. George W. Crile, Dr. William E. Lower and the late Dr. Frank E. Bunts —three Cleveland physicians, who had practiced medicine together for 35 years —conceived the idea of the clinic's es- tablishment as an institution “not for profit, but to aid all men.” Plans Laid in Wartime, The three physicians invited Dr. John | Phillips to join them in founding the clinic and he accepted. The four men organized the Association Building Co., to own and operate the clinic’s real| estate. While they were at work in France during the World War, many phases of the clinic development were discussed and the foundation for the institutina, which was to open its doors Februars 26, 1921, laid. One of the founders in a historical | sketch told how “the conception cf transforming ‘the office’ into a perma- nent institution was given more definite form as we walked together in the beau- tiful pine forest of Rouen in France.” The institution was dedicated in 1921 with 500 physicians and surgeons from all parts of the country, including Dr. Willlam J. Mayo of Rochester, Minn.,, in attendance. It was dedicated by Dr. Crile “to give assistance in solving the problems of the patient of today, and through its investigations, its statistical records, and laboratories, to seek new light on the problemx of aiding the pa- fent of Wmo TRAFFIC TIED IN KNOTS. Streets for 20 Blocks Around Clinic | Filled With Cars. CLEVELAND, May 16 (#).—Traffic on* Euclid avenue, the city's main thoroughfare, nna parallel and eross streets 20 blocks in each direction was almost at a standstill l.nt n!(hc hours after the explosion Cleveland Clinic, located at Nmety-thl.rd street and Euclid avenue. Thousands of automobiles were parked six deep in the streets. fore, every time a farmer raised a good crop of “shingles” why he had to compete with Argentine-grown “shingles,” but with these two new tariffs, why the old agrarian is sit- ting pretty. They have taken .the “shingles” off his roof so he can see the Republican viewpoint. He puts a flaxseed poultice on his head and prays that he will never be so un- fortunate as to be relleved again. The Presidential —a select apartment house 16th & L Sts. N.W. De Luxe apartment avail- able June 1; “unfurnished”; 2 large bedrooms, each with private bath. Large living room, dining room, kitchen, entry hall. Knickerbocker Theater collapse Washington, January 28, 1022, 97 dead Exeter Theater fire, l‘:‘ew York, Sep- | tember 5, 1887, 75 de: Theater panic, Calumet, Mich, De- cember 24, 1913, 72 dead. Theater disaster, Richmond, Va., De- cember 26, 1911, 65 dead. Frayer's Opera House fire, Seattle, 1889. 30 dead. Front Street Treater fire, Baltimore, December 27, 1895, 27 dead. Naval arsenal explosion, Lake Den- mark, N. J., July 10, 1926, 23 dead. ‘Theater fire, Detroit, November 5, 1898, 15 dead. Grand Central Theater fire, Phila- delphia, April 1892, 14 dead eder | facto ¢plosion, Pompton | 3., Decembe 918, 12 dead Recalls in Tr: l"‘(‘(]V Fire Disaster Which 174 Killed| 172 Pupils and 2 Teach- ers Ferished at School in 1908 Blaze. By the Assoclated Press. CLEVELAND, May 16.—Yesterday's tragedy at the Cleveland Clinic recalled the city’'s worst tragedy—the Collin- wood fire on March 4, 1908, in which 172 pupils and two teachers perished. The two tragedies are parallel in one respect. First reports from each said that the victims probably would num- ber one or two—whereas hour by hour the toll grew. The school fire, which occurred when Colinwood still was a separate suburb, broke out soon after classes convened in the morning. The first small wisps of smoke were seen, and then flames. At the ringing of the fire alarm, the pupils, trained in fire drill, began to file orderly out, but soon the licking flames at their feet sent them pell mell into panic. A child stumbled on a rear stairway and soon other pupils were piled up in a heap six feet high. Frantic parents arrived on the scene, but _their efforts were of no avail. The doors opened inward, the | children were so tightly wedged they Icould not be extricated through the broken glass of the doors. A few es- caped this way and others jumped, only fo"be killed or mjured. ber made their way out safely by way of a smgle fire escape on the third floor. YOUTH IS BEATEN IN RACE TO REACH DYING FATHER Dr. Phillips’ Son Took Plane at Bridgeport a Few Minutes Before Parent Expired. By the Associated Press. BRIDGEPORT, Conn, May 16— Ignorant of the death of his father, Dr. John Phillips, noted Cleveland physician, from the effects of gas in- haled at the Cleveland Clinic blast yesterday, John E. Phillips, 21, a soph- omore_at Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University, took off from Bridge- port Airport at 11:15 last night in an effort to race with death to his father’s bedside. The first news of Dr. Phillips’death reached this city over the Associated Press wires at 11:31 p.m., but young | . Phillips was already on his way to Cleveland in a monoplane pflnmd by Randolph Enslow of this city. WA Charging that Prof. A. A. Jack wrong- !ully excluded him from a class at Aber- deen University in Scotland, Lewis Couts, a former studem has sued the instructor for $25,000 damages. A small num- | TWO BLAST VICTIMS 10 BE BURIED HERE Mrs. Margaret Mullan and; Daughter Perished in Cleveland Disaster. | The bodies of Mrs. Margaret Mullan, 60 years old, of Washington and her daughter, Mrs. William G. Read Mullan, aged 30. formerly of Washington, killed in the Cleveland Clinic Hospital explos- | fon in Cleveland yesterday, will bo | brought here tonight for burial, it was declared today by Miss Alice E. Mullan, | a cousin of the dead woman. living at he Cavalier Apartments, 3500 Fourteenth | street, Miss May E. Mullan. another | cousin, | street address The elder Mrs. Mullan was visiting | her marrizd_daughter, whose husband, William G. Read Mulian. recently had accepted the position of manager of the Ford Finance Corporation in Cleve- |1and. ‘The daughter had gone to the dental clinic at the Cleveland Clinic Hospital with her mother yesterday, where the latter was to have had X-ray pictures taken of her teeth. Relatives here sald today that the elder Mrs. Mullan had been in ill health for some years, and u.nee the death of her husband, Henry A known Washington dru ist, had given up the family resldencl, at 1631 Irving street, and had spent most of her time fvhh,lnl her daughter in Cleveland and another daughter, Mrs. Alexunder Mat- tock, in Asbury Park, N, “It certainly is a turlble thing.” Miss Alice Mullan said today. “To think that this had to happen just when Mrs. Mullan, who has been in such poor health for such a long time, wrote me last week that she felt like she was getting a mew lease on life and expected to come to Washington to visit before going to her daughter's home in Asbury Park for the Sum- mer.” Miss Mullan had before her a life- sized photograph of the little 11- month-old baby of Mrs. William G. Read Mullan, who is left motherless by_the tragedy. Henry A. Mullan was for many years a - druggist on Pennsylvania avenue between Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets. He was graduated from the school of pharmacy at a Washington | university and was prominent in drug circles in this city and a member of the Washington Retail Druggists’ As- | sociation. | M Ann and Matilda Phil- lips, living in apartment 45, the Men- | dota ~ Apartments, 2226 ' Twentieth | street, “are sisters of Mrs. Margaret | Mullan, but could not be reached in their apartment .today. Mrs. Mullan was an aunt of Floyd Gibbons, well known war-time corre- spondent. GIRL DECLARED SUICIDE. Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt gave a cer- ticate of suicide last night in the case of 19-year-old Evelyn Bates of 615 Sixth street, who died at George Wash- ington University Hospital Tuesday night from the effects of poison she swallowed May 9. A last-minute effort to unite the girl in marriage with her sweetheart, Bernard R. Murphy, 23 years old, 1729 Riggs place, was frus- *rated when the patient suffered a sud- den relapse. The funeral will be held from the home of Murphy, friends of the family said today, at an undetermined hour to- morrow morning. CLAFLIN Optician—Optometrist 922 14th St. N.W. also lives at the Fourlcenlhi Mullan, a well | killed. X DOCTORS KILLED N BLAST AT CLINIC | | Brain Specialist Led 15 to Roof, to Be Stricken Fatally | , Himself by Gas. | | o | | By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, May 16.—The toll of lives in the Clévelana Giinic explosion | was felt deeply today in the loss of six staff physicians at the institution, {211 of them leaders in their flelds. Dr. C. E. Locke, brain specialist, |edi 14 patients and a nurse to the top | floor of the building and fought off the noxious fumes. Firemen rescued him through a hole in the roof and he | was revived, but the deadly gas later | had its_way. | Dr. John Phillips. co-founder with | | Dr. ‘George. W. Crile of the clinic, | worked feverishly among the patients and finally was forced to leap from a | third-floor window. He walked some | distance to his home afterward, but soon collapsed. ~Administration of oxygen failed and Dr. Crile performed a blood transfusion. This, too, was unable, to stop the course of the poison lood and he died. rry. Anison was another who lost his lilz Dr. John Borrello, Dr. Roy A. Brintnall and Dr. C. S. Hunter were cau'hz with their patients and were Other doctors there had narrow escapes. To attract the tourist trade, which kept away last year, Italy has abolished vise requirements and reduced railway and hotel rates. Ladies! Let us clean your rugs and carpets, and send them back so your friends will think they are— NEW RUGS We make them bright, we do them right. SANITARY CARPET & RUG CLEANING CO. Acme Renovators ROBT. LEE PYLE 106 Indiana Ave. N.W. { s"n sizes $15.00 coils. 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