Evening Star Newspaper, May 16, 1929, Page 4

DOCTORS FEARFUL DEATH TOLL WILL CLIMB TO 150 Many Victims Succumb During Night to Deadly Fumes. EXPECT FEW TO LIVE Rescuers, Stricken in At- tempts to Save Others, Expire. (Continued From First Page) clinfe just as the first blast occurred. She got a Whiff of the gas, returned to her home thankful to have escaped death, and then felt the ominous effects of the fatal fumes. All three under- went blood transfugions. Physicians said that. although all of the victims may not dle, many seemed certain to succumb eventually. The fatal results of inhaling the gas might be delayed for hours, perhaps longer, they said, but slowly the red blood cor- | puscles might combine with carbon | monoxide instead of oxygen, and the | end will be inescapable. Explosion Fires Woodwork. | The gas was identified by Dr. William | E. Lower, one of the chiefs of the clinic, | as nitrous peroxide, realesed by burning | X-ray film. The celluloid preparation was fired in an unknown way in a base- ment storeroom. An explosion of the pent-up gas that | rocked the building followed. It filled | the building with gas and as the| compression increased, a second and larger blast demolished much of the interior and set the woodwork aflame. More than 300 persons were in the bullding when the first explosion came | at 11:25 o'clock in the morning. Some | escaped before the fumes reached them. Others died in frantic flight, their | bodies strewing the stairways and floors. Many died after reaching the open air and still more succumbed in hospitals. Several Yet Unidentified. A constant stream of ambulances hurried between the clinic and nearby hospitals, and other convoys bore the dead to the county morgue. There they lay while long lines of persons passed the bodies, many of them stretched in lines along the floor. The building was taxed to capacity. As the bodies were identified they were removed, but the long queque, silent and sorrowful, passed through the morgue until late last night. Today several of the victims remained uni- dentified. ‘The open door released the flames and sent the spiraling column of mus- tard-colored gas up through the foyer to the roof. The gas reached the foyer on the second floor through the stair- cases. There it rose through the open center of the bullding to the roof, pene- trating to examining rooms in the clinic from the balconies which opened on the foyer below. ‘With the first explosion, firemen con- ¢luded, the gas swept upward and filled the building. Pent in, with compres- sion increasing as the heat intensified, the gas exploded a second time. It leaped in flame from the basement to the foyer skylight, scorching woodwork, blasting masonry and enveloping the ifine:m in an inferno of stench and eat, The skylight was shattered and glass from the windows was hurled across the street. The doors, enforced with steel, buckled under the terrific suction of air as the was released. Hardeneéd plaster was blistered and peeled from the walls. A steel network of the plastering was peeled from the walls and hung along the balconies. ‘Then came the .confusion. The swirling brown clouds, nauseating and made heavier by the sickening smell of burning celluloid, enveloped the build- ing. The fire soon spent itself, but the clouds of gas, smoke and the odor of burning chemicals clung to the build- ing hours after the fire was ex- tinguished. Trace Route of Flames. ‘The toute of the scorching flames from the basement to the roof could be followed up the stairway to the first floor on the hand rails, the char- red woodwork and stained fittings of the hospital. The door leading to the hospital in the rear, where most of the victims were taken, withstood the flames. The tunnel it guarded was wood lined and had the white-hot flames of the burning gas reached it the deaths resulting might have been many times greater. It was the silver bromide and silver fodide acids in the coatings of the films which rapidly expanded into clouds of gas and choked the occupants of the building. The gas found its ‘way between the walls, into the air shafts, and between the ceiling and roof on the top floor. The second and last explosion was general and de- vastating. Only one thing, perhaps, saved the building from collapse, firemen said, and that was the skylight. It happened s0 quickly that few had opportunity to escape. It was past #0 soon that within an hour and a half all the bodies had been removed. Fire- men sald the loss to the building, de- spite the number. of dead, would not be more than $50,000. Pedestrians Knocked Down. Pedestrians caught outside the build- ing toppled to the ground and lay un- conscious until dragged to safety when the gas lifted. One woman smashed a third-floor window and was prepar- ing to leap as firemen spread a life net. She stood polsed, the amber gas swirled about her shoulders, and she collapsed, falling inside the building. Stephen Weizer, elevator operator, was in his car in the basement. He shot the car tc the fifth floor penthouse and escaped with burns about the face and hands. Two workmen in a coal bin below the X-ray film storage room ‘were jarred, but not otherwise injured. Dr. Carl Helwig, an interne at an- other hospital, went to Mt. Sinai Hospi- tal to aid in resusitation and came upon his wife, who had gone to the clinic for examination, She died as he worked to save her. TYPOTHETAE EXHIBIT FIXED FOR TOMORROW Work of Washington Printers, En- gravers and Lithographers Will Be Seen at Meeting. A joint meeting of printers, engrav- ers, lithographers, bankers and the pur- chasing agents of large business firms of the city has been arranged by the ‘Washington Board of Trade, to be held at 12:15 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in the hoard offices, where an exhibit has been set up by the local Typothetae to demonstrate the quality of work of this nature done here, The purpose of the meeting is to urge on Washington business houses the necessity of giving the iocal print- ing, lithographing and engraving estab- lishments an opportunity to bid on the large amount of work now being sent to other cities. 3 More than 50 buyers have signified their intention to be present. Among the speakers will be Robert N. Harper, exdl tive vice president of the District < Natonal- Bank, and-WeWe KihYe .. Door of Clinic X-ray Storeroom Open, Probers Find. |LEFT PATHFOR VAPOR Have Prevented Heavy Loss of Life, Investigators Say. __(Continucd From First Page) | of the X-ray room and was found sit- | | ting on an automobile running board in a dazed condition. | After the blast he was not permitted to see visitors today. At the time of the | explosion & moving van was taking his belongings from his residence to another part of the city, and his family could not_be located. The interior of the storage room was so completely wrecked that the investi- gators expected an examination of minute particles on the floor would be necessary. Walls Flame Scorched. Examination of the basement store room adjoining the X-ray room re- | vealed a conglomeration of accumulate material. The place apparently had been used not only for storage of used and unused X-ray films but for clinic records, plumbers’ supplies, angle iron and other items. | Walls and ceiling of the two rooms | were flame scorched and sticky with | poison gas residue, but nothing was| destroyed except the boxes of films.| Only ashes of them remained. | State officials were told by the gov- | ernor to delve completely into the blast. | Chief P. J. Devine, Medical Director | W. E. Obetz and Safety Director H. G. | Epret of the State Division of Safety and Hyglene, were working with Deputy | State ‘Fire Marshals Joseph Andrews | and Max Gross. Says All Precautions Taken. Drs. Crile and William E. Lower, di- | rectors of the clinic, said they had “no exact knowledge of how the disaster occurred.” Dr. Lower defended the | clinic and sald that every precaution which the clinic could have taken to prevent the tragedy “had been taken.” Police Inspector George J. Matowitz, chief investigator under Safety Direc- tor Edwin D. Barry, and Police Chief Fraul said that “perhaps no one ever will know what caused the explosion.” Coroner A. J. Pearse, starting his offi- clal inquest today, made a preliminary statement that he believed 95 per cent of *the victims died from hydrocyanic acid gas and bromide gas, due to com- bustion of the films, and that others died from shock, fright and injury. City Manager Hopkins called a meet- ing of Health Commissioner H. L. Rockwood, Building Commissioner Wil- liam D. Guion and other officials this morning to formulate plans for the offi- cial city investigation. A study of the film rooms of all local hospitals will be made by this group. BILCHRIST 70 60 TO DISASTER SCENE Chief of Chemical Warfare Service to Make Per- sonal Survey. Maj. Gen. Harry L. Gilchrist, chief of the Chemical Warfare Service will leave this afternoon for Cleveland, to make & personal investigation of the clinic .disaster, which occured yester- day. Gen. Glichrist will make the in- vestigation in the interest of the Chemical Warfare Service of the Army. ‘The deadly brown gas which was responsible for most of the hundred or more deaths probably was nitrogen dioxide released by the burning X-ray films in the basement, chemists of the United States Chemical Warfore Serv- ice deducted today. Blood tests in Cleve- land today showed that the gas was & combination of hydrocaynic acid and bromine. Nitrogen dioxide long has been a factor in industrial accidents. Previous- ly the most sensational nitrogen dioxide accidents have been associated with turret explosions on battleships. Mixed with this and augmenting the deadly effects was the colorless, odorless carbon monoxide gas which escapes from the exhausts of outomobiles and causes frequent deaths in closed garages when drivers leave the motors running. ‘The condition of the patients, it was pointed out, fits the picture of nitrogen dioxide poisoning. It is an extremely‘ suffocating, choking, corrosive gas. It would arise from the burning of the cel- lulose nitrate combination of the X- ray film, which has practically the same chemical composition as a low-grade smokeless powder. The tragedy proba- bly would have been largely averted.if the new safety film with a cellulose acetate base had been substituted, es now has been done in most moving pic- ture theaters. Both burn, but the cel- lulose nitrate composition burns explo- sively. The same materials in different composition produce gun cotton. The action of the nitrogen dioxide fumes' is similar to that of the phos- gene gas of war days. Even small amounts result in acute pulmonary edema, which will result in death in a few hours. This is due to the forma- tion of nitric acid by the combination of the gas with moisture in the respira- tory passages, the nose and the lungs. The phosgene of war days produced hydrochloric. acid under similar eir- cumstances, Nitrogen dioxide, it was pointed out, is especially dangerous in some indus- trial establishments using nitrates be- cause it works so insiduously. It first causes only a slight smarting of the | eyes and a slight cough which the vic- tim is not likely to connect with gas polsoning until too late. Such accidents | must be guarded against in explosive factorles, electro-plating establishments and in the manufacture of coal-tar dyes and some kinds of paints. Since inhalation of the gas in small quantities acts slowly, the deaths are likely to stretch over & considerable time. RITES FOR ATTORNEY. Wil'iam G. Johnson to Be Buried in Rock Creek Cemetery. Funeral services for William G. John- i son. prominent local attorney, who dledl suddenly Tuesday, are to be held to- morrow morning at 9 o'clock from hfs home, 1827 Sixteenth street. Inter- ment will be in Rock Creek Cemetery. Mr. Johnson was stricken at his | home shortly after dinner. Death was attributed to acute indigestion. He was 68 ye: ld and been one o!l the leading attorneys of the District 4107 J00r0, than. 40, JEMA . it TEARFUL THRONGS Anxious-Faced —clubmen, Protestants and Jews. SEARCH NORGLE Men and Women Keep Hopes to Last in Fearful Quest. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, May 16.—Through the long hours of the night, a line of anxious-faced men, women and childen streamed through the county morgue, hoping almost agalnst hope that they would not find the body of some loved one, killed in the Cleveland Clinic dis- aster yesterday. Realization. of stark tragedy came to many as a sheet was raised, revealing the face of a relative, graven with the horror of death. The struggle with the gas, which killed most of the vic- tims, left their faces distorted with terror, and in several cases closest rela- tives could identify the dead only by their clothing and jewejry. Beneath the shéets, doctors lay be- side the patients they had been trea ing; men beside the wives they had accompanied here for treatment. In- cluded among the dead were all classes day labdrers, Catholics, Three priests moved between the rows of sheeted bodies, anointing those be. lieved to be Catholics. A death-like hush which hung over the bare-walled morgue was broken now and then by a woman's shriek as she came to the end of her quest. Two rooms and the morgue garage housed the bodies, those of men lining one side of a wall, those of women the other. As the slow, grim work of iden- tification went on, names were written on number tags which had been placed on each body as it was brought in from the gas-swept clinic. Outside a crowd milled. Some were morbidly curious; others were waiting sadly and fearfully to enter in search of relatives. Police lines were hardly necessary, as it was a throng made or- derly by grief. Quiet in Morgue Uncanny. No words were spoken execpt by those of the attendants handling the crowds. A hoarse word by an officer that “those covered already have been identified” broke harshly into the uncanny quiet of the place. Outside in an alley giving access to the rear of the morgue half a dozen ambulances stood unoccupled, their work of bringing the victims of the blast to the morgue completed. Others, with drawn_curtains, pulled away at 1:}(21’\'&15. Their work was just begin- ning. Across the alleyway In an apartment house curious crowds gathered in the windows. A mother and her family sat down to their evening meal within sight of the back door of the morgue. They :;zlyfi"m‘y had been sated with the Scenes of heart-breaking sorrow were secn on every hand. Some who found loved ones lying dead beneath sheets went into hysterics and had to be led from the building. Others bowed their hends silently, and with tears streaking their faces moved slowly out. First to walk through the lane of bodies was a Capt. Young. He found his daughter Blanche, who was assist- 1 ant to Dr. George W. Crile, owner of the clinic. \ One Hopes as Hunt Futlle, A gray-haired man limped in, looked up and down the rows of dead, shook his head and asked, “Where's the next room?” ~“This is the last room,” he was told. “Then—oh, thank God, she isn't here,” he breathed fervently and went out to continue his search, hopeful of finding alive the one he sought. Two small children tearfully inquired | of a policeman and then of others, | “Where is my mamma?” Apparently no one knew, ‘Telephone booths in a cigar store around a corner from the morgue pre- sented another tragic picture. There a middle-aged woman, 100 nervous to write, asked a man standing by to write down a number she had found in the directory. Her voice could be plainly heard through the booth after she got her connection, ‘saying, “I have identified Mabel.” Sobs drowned out the re- mainder of the conversation. ek e P Some Temperature Records. The record for hot weather was held for several years by Wargla, a town in the Algerian Sahara. Then, in 1913, Death Valley, Calif,, established & new world record, with'a reading of 134 degrees. This held untll 1922, when it was surpassed by two degrees at the village of Azizia, in the Italian Sahara, The low temperature record has been held since 1892 by Verkoy- ansk, Siberia, close to the Arctic Circle, with an official reading of 90 degrees Three victims being carried out, one out of a window, another down a ladder and a third on a stretcher. (All pictures telephoted from Cleveland.) —Associated Press Photo. PREPARATIONS MADE FOR BOOSTERS’ TRIP Quota of 175 of Merchants and Manufacturers Will Soon Be Filled: Applications for the twentieth an- nual booster trip of the Washington Merchants and Manufacturers’ Asso- ciation are coming in so rapidly that the quota of 175 members will soon be filled, it was stated today by officials of the association. Meanwhile prep- ations for the trip are being made by a committee headed by Mark Lans- burgh. The “boosters” are to leave Wash- lnfimn Friday, June 7, and return the following Monday morning. Th the Potomac River and the Chesa- peake Bay to Annapolis, Md., and then up the Patapsco River toward Balti- more. Baltimore will not be touched, however, and the journey will turn down the bay again to Old Point Com- fort and then to Norfolk. Here two alternate excursions have been ar-| ranged. One is to Virginia Beach and the other to Ocean View. Returning, the ' “boosters” will spend Sunday night in Norfolk before leaving for home Monday morning. Willlam E. Russell 1s chairman of the general committee in charge of the trip. REDUCE VISA FEE. The State Department has reached an agreement with France, effective June 1, under which the fee for visas | issued to Americans visiting France or French citizens visiting America is re- e | duced from $10 to $2.° The visas e steamer Southland has been chartered. | be valid for two_years instepd of one as e e will SPEAKS ON CHARACTER. Important Factor in Business and | Social Life, Says Rover. Character and its important relation to the bullding up of good citizenship was the subject of a talk given last night by United States District Attorney Leo Rover at & smoker of the Catholic University alumni, held at the L’Alglon Cafe, Eighteenth street and Columbia Men who fall, Mr. Rover said, are generally those who lack character, and, after all, character is the most impor- tant thing in the man's business and social life. John J. Daly, dramatic critic of the ‘Washington Post; Judge Willlam H. De Lacey and Edward J. Curran also spoke, . The first blood transfusion is said to have been made at a meeting of the Royal Soclety in London November 23, | | Reach Air | By the Associated Press. | CLEVELAND, May 16— Eyewit- | nesses to the explosions at the Cleve- 1and clinic yesterday, which took more | than 100 lives, said the blasts were fol- lowed immediately by billows of amber- | colored smoke—the deadly fumes, which | | settled in the pores of the building and | | whirled from the windows, overcoming | | even those in the streets. . H. ey. Cleveland newspaper cartoonist, was driving past the build-- ing at the instant the first detonatica occurred. “Flames shot from the two lower rear windows on the East Ninety- third street side of the building,” Dona- hey said. “A thick, dense and yellow smoke poured from the building, so heavy that it obliterated the surround- ings and from some of the wlndows‘ there came a deep, brown smoke, 00 heavy for that caused by the burnirg | wood. Victims Inside Cry for Help. “Men and women looking more like | shadows through the dense smoke were | clinging to the windows, shouting and gesticulating for help. “The ladders placed against the build- ing did not reach the top. Some suc- ceeded in reaching the ladders and oth. ers jumped to nets befow. As the fir men and volunteers were working fever- ishly to bring ladders and nets to those on the roof and in the two top stories, another explosion occurred, causing the strong brick walls to totter and tremble. Some were carried out on the shoulders of firemen. Their faces were partly yellow, as from the fumes of deadly gases.” Few inside the building lived to re- member what happened. Dr. Henry J. John, diabetic specialist of the clinic, stood in a hallway when the second the building as the clouds of smoke settled through the foyers and examin- ing rooms. “Soft Boom” Heralds Death. He was in his office at the time of the first explosion. “There was & sort of soft ‘boom,’” Dr. John said. “There was quite a bit of concussion but very little noise. Smoke began to curl up around the radiator pipes almost im- mediately. It was a yellowish brown gas and smelled like bromide. It was a horrible odor. “I got out into the hallway. Even then the flames were such that it was impossible to attempt any rescue work from our side. Then the second blast came. I ran through the rear door. Almost immediately the building seemed to be enveloped in flames.” Joseph Stahl, undergoing an exami- nation at the clinic at the time of the explosion, escaped through the flame and fumes, but his wife, who waited for him in an anteroom, died of the gas after he had sought her in the confusion following the blast. Fights Way to Outside. “I had just had my examination,” said Stahl, “when the explosion came. ‘The bullding rocked and smoke began to pour into the doors. I fought through the flames coming through the door to the hallway as the nurse ran screaming through another door. I don’t know where she went.” “I thought of my wife. but didn't know which way to go. The confusion was terrible. “I managed to fight my way through the smoke to the outside door and into the open air.” Ghastly Smudge Spots Building. A ghastly yellow smudge had settled on the walls, the sheets of cots, on blanks once white which lay on doctors’ desks, the windows. Every- where in the interior of the bullding ‘was the yellowish blot left by the deadly gas which enveloped its victims and left them choking, screaming and fight- ing for air. y persons were sitting in the dental room near the elevator waiting for their appointments when the yei- low clouds of polson came billowing to- ward them. It came, perhaps while they wondered what was wrong, and then before they knew it they were choking from the deadly fumes. They clutched their throats and gasped for air, but there was only the suffocating odor. Fighting, screamin; they reeled and pounded on the elev: tor door. But there was no one to answer their call. Beat and Kicked at Door. ‘Their bodies were found piled against the elevator door. As if mad, they had aten and kicked at the door. The lass of the slide guarding the shaft gnd been partly broken, seemingly in the vain hope that there might be air in the shaft. Firemen who carried their bodies out discovered them pitched toward the elevator door, many of them having died in convulsions, helpless to escape from the yellow gas which shrouded them. Others—16 of them—got as far as the landing on the third floor before they met the wall of fumes which seeped into every corner of the build- ing. Firemen found them, too, sprawled in grotesque positions and carried them out, some of them over the roof. Stairs Littered With Clothing. ‘The stairs were littered with women's hats and shoes. There was a glove, too, and a coat which some one had wrap- ped around his head in an effort to escape, The heel marks of & woman's shoe were on the elevator door. Many of the gassed, who physicians sald experienced similar conditions to | gas attacks in the World War, were carried out alive, only to die when the pure air of outdoors or oxygen arti-| ficially administered at hospitals failed | to rid their lungs of the poison fumes. Turn Green on Reaching Air. “Belleve it or not,” said Frank Kil- rain, one of the scores who worked in- | cessantly carrying victims throughout the afternoon, “as soon as they hit the alr they turned green.” The clock in the main room stopped at 11:31 am, six minutes after the deadly yellow mist sifted through the building. Two hours later every person had been removed and only the sweet, sickening odor of burning celluloid, the yellow-smudged furnishings and fire- xx:::’ making ceaseless rounds remained e. Rushed to Oxygen Supplies. Battalion Fire Chief James P. Flynn, with his driver, Louis Hiltepbraid, were the first to enter the bullding. They reached the roof and chopped s hole leading to a stairway, then.dropped a ladder to the fourth floor landing. 'Be- low they found the 16 bodies. Ambulances and taxicabs were used to take the sufferers to hospitals. Dr. George W. Crile, head of the clinic, gave orders that all victims be taken to the closest source of oxygen, their only hope of life. Some were taken to the Cleveland Clinic Hospital, adjoining the clinic building. The others were taken to Mount Sinal, Huron Read elharity hospitals. Emergency equipment g=s set up out- side the bull as 3 fumes lifted | blast_came, however, and ran through | |WITNESSES DESCRIBE RUSH OF DEATH-DEALING SMOKE ' Swift-Moving, Amber-Colored Gas Struck Down Dozens Vainly Fighting to and Life. ing room, overcome as the first cloud of gas swept up from the basement. Surgical equipment lay ready for use | in the examining rooms. In the X-ray developing room a rell of fim was stretched to dry. A wheel ch~ir with the blanket thrown aside iovked a balcony overlooking the waltirg room. A stencgrapher’s half finished lctter was found in an office. Everything was abandoned as the vic- tims realized too late that the brown fumes curling through door casings and along the halls carried death. No Bed Patients In Clinie. Most of them were able to make an attempt to save themselves. No bed patients were kept in the clinic and many of those there had appeared for medical examinations and were able to attempt to escape. But so sudden was the catastrophe that a scant handful had thme to reach the open air and safety. Louis Sobul, whose appointment was canceled, walked from the structure an instam¢ before the double explosions. Sobul said he turned to see victims with their clothes torn away. fighting at the windows for air. Billows of gas swept about them and he fled to Huron Road Hospital to spread the alarm as the fumes filled the street. As the hospitals became overflowed, & residence near the clinic was made into a temporary first-aid station. The known dead were taken immediately to county morgue, which was taxed as never before. Dead and Injured In Clinic Explosion (Continued From First Page.) 0}:\/[!54 Hope Naddler, Youngstown, io0. Mary E. Markell, Madison, Ohio. Cliffora E. Markell, Madison, Ohio. Miss Sue Matz, Rochester, N. Y, nurse at clinie. Miss Margoret McKenna, East Cleve- nd. Ello Moeller,. Elyria, Ohio. Charles Moors, Cleveland. Miss Edith Morgan, Youngstown. Mrs. W. C. Mulcahy, Cleveland. Mrs. Florence E. Mullan, Cleveland. Miss Helen O'Connell, Elyria, Ohio. Mrs. Mary O’Keefe;, Rome, Ga. Miss Litta Perkins, Lyndhurst, execu- tive secretary of ciinic. Dr. John Phillips, co-founder of clinic and one of its directors. Miss Meta Primo, address unknown. Miss Anne May Pughe, ptivate secre- tary at the clinic. Mrs. Alice Quayle, Mississippl. John Ralston, Wellsville, Ohio, patient. Mrs. Mary Ramask, East Cleveland, patient. James T. Reese, South Buclid, Ohlo. = }filflm. James T. Reese, South Euclid, an'xs. Frances Rich, New Brunswick, Miss Mary Richards, Ashtabula, Ohlo. Dr. F. R. Langston, Indiana. Patrick Rogers, Cleveland, iceman. William T. Regers, Cleveland. Paul Roquemore, Dallas, Tex. Moily Rothschild, Cleveland. C. E. Scherbarth;” Lakewood. Mrs. C. E. Scherbarth, Lakewood. Mrs. Theodore Schill, Pittsburgh, Pa. Luella Schoen, Cleveland. Miss Frances Sertelle, Cleveland. Charles Sewald, Willlamsport, Pa. Mrs. Elizabeth Sexauer, Akron, Ohfo. Miss Mary Schaffer, East Clevelan: Mrs. Alma_Sherman, Cleveland. J. Barker Smith, secretary and hf!n- eral manager of the Cleveland Athletic Club. Spellman, Forest, Ohio. W. L. Mrs. Charles Stage, Cleveland. Mrs. Anna Stahl, Youngstown, Ohlo. Mrs. Mazie Steele, Erie, Pa. Harry Steinberg, Denver, Colo. George Strapp, Cleveland, fireman. Miss Julia Szubra, Cleveland. Fabrico Tangledo, Minnesota. Arthur Tight, Sandusky, Ohio. Dr. Vandusen, address unknown. Charles Wald; Cleveland. Mrs. Nixon Walford, Emlenton, P&, John Ward, Cleveland. N Mrs. May Warden, East Clevelah nurse in X-ray department of clinic. lr‘dols. May Washby, East Liverpool, Ruth Wildey, Boulder, Colo., emplgye. Blanche Young, employe of clinic, Miss Mabel Young, East Clevelaifl Miss Porter, address unknown. Oscar_Bieschell, address unknown. Max Engelman. Cleveland. Agnes Logar, Cleveland. Mary Mullen, Cleveland. Mrs. Margaret Mullan, Washington. Samuel Nuccio, Cleveland. Miss Minnie Pontius, Cleveland. Miss Laura Roberts, Cleveland. Raymond F. Rose, Ashiand. Ohlo, Nixon Walford. Emlenton, Pa. M. R. Shaw. address unknown. Miss Helen Renr. Cleveland. Mrs. Tillie Dunford, Cleveland. John Dunford, Cleveland. INJURED. Dr. George Beicher, staff physiclan at_Cleveland Clinic. Miss Susen Brantweiner, clinic eme ploye. Miss Bonnie Elliott, cashier at the clinic. Fireman George Jusko, Cleveland. JaSreman Andrew Homrocky, Cleve- and. Henry S. Lustig, Cleveland. Mrs. Gertrude Vankirk, Cleveland. Patrolman Ernest Staab, Cleveland. Fire Lieut. John Walsh. Cleveland. Fireman Peter Rogers, Cleveland. Dr. R. S. Dinsmore, clinic ataff | surgeon. Mrs. Ault, clinic employe. Nell Conway, clinic employe. Gertrude Hoffman, clinic nurse. Mariland Johnson, clinic employe. Laura Lambert, clinic employe. Mrs. W. L. Langdon, Sharon, Pa. Unidentified nurse of Mrs. Langdon. Mrs. Mazny, address unknown. Miss Morton, clinic employe. C. H. Porter, Cleveland. Mrs. Stahl, address unknown. Mrs. Art Richards, address unknown. Dr. Jack H. Swafford, clinic staff physician, Mr. Thomas, address unknown. Emily E. Perram, clinic employe. Dr. Wilson J. Peart, clinic staff dentist. Dr. Faust, address unknown. Mrs. Bowen, address unknown. Dr. C. C. Gilkison, Cleveland. STREET TO BE SPEAKER. ‘Will Address District Branch of Needlework Guild. Elwood Street, director of the Com- munity Chest, will address the Spring meeting of the District of Columbia Branch, Needlework Guild of Amerfea, & the Women's City Club, 22 Jacham place, at 3:30 o'clock tomorrow aftew- noon. will be a follow-up of the annua ‘The meeting, it was ex?hhd. and permitf Tescuers to work in safe- ty. lice uinés were thro wn about the :’gnth. when 1,500 held in Philadelphia early dfiu(“ ware district & seroute traffic and hold in | ent. check & erowd of several thousand on- lookers. . Inside the bulls The delegates to the convention gton were Mrs. G. Thomas Washing , firemen found ' lop, Mrs. Isidor Grosner and Mra 95 She ¥all-, son F, Hassa T ——