The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-11-28
,r0RES TRAMPLED
|1PON AS EXCITED
|PECTATORS FLEE
.,.., Than Four Scores We're
''S Received at the Hospitals
for Treatment.
uMBER OF YALE MEN
AMONG THE INJURED
ri,s Supposed to Have Been
IS Started Behind the Stage
of Movie House.
lsu rhs Ass0eIated Pressl

f9V The BsbH|taNVA ' - ~N~k
..,,r HAVEN. Conn, Nov. 27.-The
p,,ro . theatre, a moving picture house,
a, ~, mned tonight and at least three
,.,,or, lost their lives and more than
~. ,,o,as received hospital treatment.
s,m. Il The patients may die. Fire
,,,.,s,l Perkins late tonight said other
n,Ja, might be found in the ruins by
},rsbt although a search with Ian
..-, by hremen and police revealed
m two bodies. Another body was at
b hospital
75e dead according to Medical Ex-
miner Scarborough, were Timothy y.
b1on. 5s, broken neck He died be-
M reaching the hospital and was
sulght to have died from heart dis
a,. An elderly woman, vet unidentt-
@d and a young man, also unidenti-
ei Both bodies were found on the
be escape.
For two hours, while the flames rose
agher al tho Hotel Taft, opposite, in
CIIssc street, Il was feared the death
y would be heavy Ambulances had
sricd scores OF persons to the hos
aas many were in the hotel hum
4tds ad mai5 their way honlt. cRt
ma bruised and 5corched, and specta-
,qs tod Of a stampede at the cry of
Fire and Of bodies being in heaps
4 uPor lie main floor But when fire.
neH were able 10 enter the structure
DE worst fears were found to be un-
founded
AroHg the seriously injured was
Alien Keith a Yale student. Of South
NJ Conn, Five other Yale students
q The hospital are listed as less Sc
diRy hirt. They are: Louis A..
Lasoln, Mansfield, Mass, Gordon Rem
nt Cincinnati Ohio Norman f. Hook,
7a'sylle, Pa, Hale Il. Cullom. Nash
WIG Tenn, and Walter Crafts, Mon
.nI Quebec.
The fire destroyed the interior of
A' Ralto and broke into large ad-
2h.ng building occupied by several
,'e,ns The property loss was about
ENO0
1ae Halto was remodelled from Coll
r street hall, which itself was
'1Paa Tor public lectures after Ply
al'n Congregational church gave it
y md moved elsewhere. Yale uni
.ea'g used the han for years for lee
ls courses, and the medical school
~ 'S graduation exercises in it.
,'e Theatre was iammed at the time
Y persons who had been in the au-
-s'e declared that there was astam-
\, 10 the exits, with probably a
IVY oss Of life. At 9 o'clock the
NV M maven hospital had taken in so
H.. .-'1 and at st. Raphael's hospital
~ were p hurt and one man dead.
4. wy wy was visible on a fire escape OF
.-sa'Fe but the building was still
-.ne' and the police were unable
- ~ an estimate of the loss of life.
"A ,' '. VINO escaped from the theatre
" seeing persons knocked down
~. '''apede for the exits and occu-
a, ~ y. Inc balcony jumping TO the
N. Doo' IeIl upon people in the seats.
s,,,.,.,S .,S' actual description of what
y, ,,-.u ~ within the theatre was given
I. rs -'o who escaped from the thea
,,,..s WOO said that the FIRE. which
r,,s,.. re behind the stage, spread Sd
y, 45 ~, that he believed scores Il per-
ss.s ..,a IN their seats. Hs said aisles
I, ,a IA. and spectators Jumped from
y. sSoay to the main floor. He
a,.,., S. exits We're jammed instantly.
d 49,, ~, a, me Taft said that the thea
.ar.,ss t.aea a mass Of flames almost
Esy, "a, , INST alarm was given.
p7.S reports We're that the FIRE
sass rom m the burning Of incenses on
tn. :. Ell. IN connection with 4 motion Ct q,