The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-25
THIRTY LIVES
ARE CRUSHED OUT
(Continued from page l.l


and then q moment later there was a
splinterint, crash OF thinkers as the
humanity-laden mass of timbers went
down.
Cloud OF Dust
"At first, owing to the dense cloud
of dust which arose. 1t was impossi le
to see anything. But all around me
resounded the shrieks and groans of
the injured and dying. was only
slightly bruised, but my foot was
caught between two planks and it was
some little time before could release
myself.
When the dust cleared away,
1 there were bodies lying all about me.
4 1t was impossible to tell how many OF
4 them were dead, but the cries of doz-
lens gave evidence OF the magnitude of
the calamity
! George Dowle, OF Pasadena, whose
4 wife lies dead in a local morgue, was
painfully injured. his left collar bone
being broken, and he sustained other
injuries.
When seen by United Press rep
resentative, he said he and his wife
we're in the rear of the crowd just as
lit entered the auditorium when the
entire floor gave way He pulled his
wife out from beneath timber, but
she was dead.
Councilman John Topham, of Los
Angeles. was standing in the doorway
of the auditorium when the floor
collapsed He said:
THE scene was awful. Many were
killed by striking the timbers which
support the auditorium. Others were
crushed to death under the mass of
human bodies above them. Three
Long Beach police officers went in
with the crowd and one was seriously
i injured, the other two escaping. We
worked for an hour removing the
bodies. feel that a mistake was
made by somebody in keeping the
auditorium door locked until after the
Il parade, resulting in mass Of peo-
pie rushing into the building at one
time,
4 List OF Dead.
The dead accounted for are:
HARRY P. MCGEE. Long Beach.
MRS. FANNIE NJ. MCGEE. Long
Beach
MRS. D. S. TOMAS. Long Beach.
MRS. ARTHUR HELPS, Long
Beach
MRS. D. M. SPARROW, Long Beach.
So. J.S9ggsss se.s--..ss.s
/ SCOTT BLACK. ten years old,
Glendale, Cal.
MRS. D. S. HOLMES. address n
known
MRS. MARTHA j. BURNETT. Long
Beach.
! MRS. GEORGE DowLE, forty-nine,
/ Pasadena.
4 MRS. SARAH ]. CHESHIRE, Los
Angeles.
MRS. FRANK MATTHEWS, Los
Angeles
MRS. DAN THOMAS, Long Beach.
MRS. AUGUST BARTZ, Long Beach.
D. McSPEERS. Long Beach.
MRS. D. E. WALLACE, Long
Beach
MRS. LYON, address unknown.
MRS. WILSON. address unknown
MRS. C. H. LAWRENCE, wife of a
minister, Los Angeles.
MRS. ANNA LONGFELLoW, Pasa.
, dena.
, UNIDENTIFIED MAN, initials IF.
P" on ring.
) UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN, So years
> old.
! UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN with
name Jane Wyren'' in watch
: UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN, initials
; t"E. H. r." in ring.
i THREE UNIDENTIFIED MEI
V UNIDENTIFIED middle-aged man
with two return tickets to Los An
gees on his person.
Among the injured are:
L. l.. Kennedy. Boston, Mass, in
jufies unknown.
Mrs. Fisher, Winnipeg, injuries IN
!. known.
w. |. Rosenbaugh, Loveland, Colo.
. head cut.
May Reach 100.
Thirty dead was the terrible tol
taken by the grim reaper today wher
the floor of the Beach auditorium col
. lapsed according to estimates compil
ed by the police department late to
: night. The number of seriously injured
was placed at eighty-fve. The tota
: number of seriously injured was placed
at eighty-five. The total number o
those who sacrificed thei- lives vii
probably never be known as man,
] were taken to suburban towns b.
s friends without iny note being takeI
d of their departure. The full exten
z of the terrible calamity was born upoi
J the people OF Long Beach tonight am
n the agony Of the people was intense
Scarcely home escaped by the los
e,;n !, .