The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-28
Cause Of Big
 New Haven Fire
 Not Discovered
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(Continued on Page Stx) were seen dropping down in front of the silver screen upon which the pie ture was to be projected. There was g. shout of fire and panic seized the crowd
 In an instant, there was a rush for the open air, but it appeared the most of the people tried to get out the man gency exits at the sides of the theatre. Many cool headed persons attempted to restrain the crowd, shouting there was no danger, but their work was which continued to play some minutes after the alarm was given. Those who tried to stem the human tide were swept away in the crowd which crush
 Many who had seats in the balcony of the theatre 1eaped over the rails and fell on the heads of the struggling people below.
 There were many children in the crowd that poured toward the exits of the theatre and their parents were in several eases injured while trying to lift them above the press about them.
 The theatre building was a frame structure, which burned like match wood. Yaie students were active in the work of rescue, dashing into the burning structure and assisting people to safety.
 Hyperion Threatened.
 There was some danger for time that the historic Hyperion theatre, near the Ria1to. would also be destroy ed, but the fremen saved this build ing. Flames ate into the Hyperion roof and rear, but with no heavy
 Matthew Kennedy, the protector operator, who got out with slight burns on the face and neck, said the fire swept the place quickly. In an interview he said:
 1T was operating the picture ma chine and the prologue was being run. saw a sheet of flame burst over the top of the theatre coming from the stage. Almost without realizing what I was doing I reached out and pulled the switches and turned on the house lights, according to my orders.
 "I hesitated a moment and then thought of escape. I grabbed my coat and rushed through this sheet of flames that burst across the ceiling and rushed to the balcony below the massed together and surged with the crowd until I reached the street be- low. I could not tell if there was any one left in the theatre there was so much excitement"
 Yale students who were in the thea tre gave aid in trying to quiet the audience and in helping out people. Harold Champion, William H. For Syth, and Walter Petrie, say that there was not much eIbowing or excitement although the crowd moved solidly to- ward the exits. J. M. Decamp and J. E. Coates, Jr., who were in the bal cony said they heard talking on the main floor and in a minute the place seemed half empty. The stage hang ing caught fire and the flame swept into the room. Several of these stu dents mad burns and received treat ment at Yale infirmary.
 Death List At Three.
 With the death list standing at three Coroner Eli Mix this morning reopen n6 h 1iy-x- irotn 4h4 ,soI, night completely burned the interior of the Rialto Theatre, moving pie ture house. Many of the patients who spent the night in the hospitals were being discharged as their burns and bruises can be treated at home. St. RaphaePs hospital sent home seven persons and seven remain; Grace hos pital still had ten burned, three bruised persons and another a broken leg, out of many received and the New Haven hospital had twenty-five patients of whom five are listed as in critical condition. Many Yale students were at the University infirmary but none was regarded in serious condition.
 The Rialto today consists of four high brick walls with a wooden and stncco focade made noticeable by four very tall corinthian pillars of a style common nearly a hundred years ago. The walls may have been put up as long ago as that. Inside there is a heap of charred timbers. Some belief
 
 two under these tinbers but lack of reports of missing persons is accepted as evidence that there are none. It may be some hours before the ruins can be thoroughly searched.
 The five persons who are on the danger list are: Allen Keith, Yale stu dent, of Southport, Conn; Miss Mabel Moran, Derby, Conn.,; Mrs. Margaret Kelley, Prospect Beach, West Haven; Thomas Shanley, New Haven; Victor Corteles, New Haven.
 A check up of students in the Univ ersity was under way during the morning to ascertain if anyone was missing. The body of the young man which is at an undertaker's is believed to be, that of a city man. The frater- nifty houses have checked up all their members and the student body at large is now being canvassed. No student had been reported as missing Evidence brought out thus far in the inquiry tends to prove the asser- ton of spectators that flames from an incense pot ignited something close to the drop curtain which was made of inf1ammable materials. It is said that stage employees tried to ertin- guish the Slight fire but it got Sway from them. The burst of flame which went out into the house may have been caused by draft of air from back stage.
 College Men Assist.
 Yale men who were in the audience made efforts to hold the crowd to an
 
 some extent. When the main exits damned many persons were thrown down and over them scores passed to safety outside, while those who were prone were picked up and carried out by rescuers who worked at the doors Police Captain Cohane who with his daughter was standing at the rear of the crowded theatre, thought the stage light and smoke was a part of the production until the audience surged towards him in a condition close to panic. He said the conditions seem ed to change in an instant and he was borne out by the rush and then wetn back to help in the rescue work. in another minute or two. he said, flame was everywhere.
 The Dead
 An elderly woman, stockfly built, about five feet tall.
 Young man, about 20, six feet tail.
 Timothy J. Hanlon, 70 State street, broken neck, no other injuries or bruises on body at all.
 Coroner believes that someone jumped on his neck. Watchman at Clock company. Fifty-eight years of age.