New-York tribune., 1921-11-28
800 Packed in Century.
Old Structure of Wood
Rush Doors as Flames
Burst From the Screen
Bodies of Trampled
Victims Clog Exits
Yale Students HurtTrying
to Check Panic; Disaster
Laid to Burning Incense
Special Dispatch to The Triouss


NEW HAVEN, Conn, Nov. 27.-
Four persons are known to have
been killed early tonight in fire
which swept through the Rialto
notion picture theater, across Col
lsge Street from the Hotel Taft. and
it is believed that the bodies of five
or ten more may be found in the
ruins of the building tomorrow
when daylight makes thorough
search possible.
About ninety victims are in the
hospitals of this city, some of them
SO seriously injured that they may
die, and it is estimated that at least
400 of the more than 500 persons in
the theater We're injured more or
less severely. One of the known
dead died in hospital, but his
name has not been ascertained. The
identified dead are:
Timothy J. Hanlon, tifty-eight
years old; New Haven.
Miss Mabel Moran, Derby, Conn.
Hanlon died from heart disease
IN an ambulance that was taking
him to New Haven General Hos
pital. Miss Moran's body was re-
covered from the ruins. Two other
bodies were found in the ruins, one
thai of woman and the other that
Of man.
Incense Blamed for Fire
Lawrence J. Carroll, manager of the
theater. was arrested late tonight hy
order Of Coroner Eli Mix, and probably
Will be charged with manslaughter
Coroner Mix started an inquiry as soon
as body had been recovered from the
building. 1t is the belief of MANY who
were IN the theater that the fire started
from incense which was being burned
on the stage.
One fireman, Frank Gildea, of Hose
Company No. 2, was so seriously in
lured that he is expected to die.
Forty victims were taken to New
Haven General Hospital and between
twenty and twenty-five each to st.
Raphael's Hospital and Grace Hospital.
aany of those at the three hospitals
are Yale students, and other students
are being treated at the Yale infirmary
Yale Students Among Injured
1t was impossible several hours after
the fire to obtain complete list even
Of the injured who were taken to the
hospitals, to say nothing of the hun
dreds who were taken to their homes.
The first lists made public by the hos
pitals follow:
New Haven General ospital-Allen
Keith, Yale student, living in South
port, Conn, injured seriously; Louis A.
lincoln. Yale student, Mansfield, Conn.,;
Gordon Renner, Yale student, Cincin-
natl; Norman F. Hook, Yale student,
'sssNHie, d., maze T.. CullOLl, Idle
student, Nashville, Tenn; Walter
TRAITS, Yale student, Montreal, P @.
Grace Hospital: C. F. Doolittle,
". Nicklas, Everett Case, Harry Floyd,
Charles Hanson, c. ]. Moran, Mrs. John
Dunn, John Dunn Condition criticaD J,
barry ary T. Asher, Miss Reigan, Mr..
Kiellly, Mr.. Ryer, Mr.. Everit (serious)
Margaret Deter. Lewis Deter, Mrs.
Halls and Miss Halls.
D. Raphael's Hospital: A. B. Nc
Donald, James Tierney. Margaret
UCNeill Lillian Hull, Lillian jerks,
Illes G. Healey, Anna Wray, James
SSuiei. Charles keenan,, N. ]. Kinsella,
Lmallne Norton, Mr.. and Mrs. keenan,
ana Bernard F. Dorgon.
at the Yale Infrmary twelve stu
aents were listed as suffering from in
}ures received in the fire They are
= = a: Cooke, Honolulu, T. H.; Stanley
y. ~ Cooper, New Britain, Conn; J. NJ.
cDecamp, Cincinnati; A. A. Doolittle,
spokane, Wash; William H. Forsythe,
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