Evening star., 1922-01-29
HUNDRED
PERSONS S
IN J u R ED
Grief Stricken Friends Watch
Service Men, Firemen, Police,
Volunteers in Rescue

Eighty-fve persons known to be dead and more
than one hundred are injured and missing from the
crash that carried the snowladen roof of the Kncker
booker Theater, 18th Street and Columbia Road down
upon hundreds last night about o'clock.
Dead being taken out at frequent intervals and
as the work of removing the of steel and concrete
is not nearly completed it is than probable that
the list of killed will go the hundred mark Many
of the injured are badly manned that is feared they
will die.
That there are ten to twenty bodies still in the wreck
was the opinion of those the about the middle
of the afternoon 1t is thought any of those still in
the wreckage could be alive.
FORCES REORGANIZED
After a night and morning of ceaseless toll by SOL
diers fremen policemen and volunteer workers, the
task of removing the debris progressing rapidly
1t will be late this afternoon at the earliest before the
,vreckaee will be cleared In order to speed the
work the entire force reorganized this morning
at o'clock under Maj. c. P. George, commanding the
3rd Field Artillery Fort Myer When the work got
lin full swing again, Maj. Patton relieved Maj George
USE WRECKING CRANES
In the reorganization of the force, civilians took
part with soldiers, marines, seamen gunners men from
Boiling Field and other service points in Washington
and the workers efforts augmented by the use OF
wreckng and other devices to hasten the task
While the work was DenS uoIe do Aooe % AAAA1'0AA
hands and machinery could be brought into effective
pav eefsricken relatives and friends of those that
still are missing were standing silently by, awaiting
with hope that their dear might yet be brought
out alive from the massive pile of debris .
DROPS AS IF ON HINGE
Work in removing debris has developed the fact that the
oo caved in like hinge crashing down the balcony carry
ing that with it.
Most of the wecage in front of the balcony has been
cleared away part remaining is of more solid nature
md the workers finding their task more difficult as they pro-
iced It is feared dead the remaining
of ecage the chance of those who
n have been in part of the theater made almost I'M
possible. -. IL.
and That this have been the appears to be
kelv as only persons whose do not in the
list injured have been reported missing lhere Is little
chance of any of those remaining in debris being alive
Acetylee torches being used through the steel
erer. and concrete being impossible in to
axe. and picks advantage All of the that it has been
possible to work. without interfering with another have
tong the ask began shorty
after the fatal collapse
WALLS CONTINUE FIRM
While it was feared for time walls of the
oht collapse thew apparently standing firm and that
the has died down. the danger OF their cavng In be-
eved past is impossible however, to safeguard the
workers while the task Of rescuing going on The
walls probably will be propped up later.
Doctors and from the Naval Hospital went to the
scene this morning about o'clock to aid giving medical
attention injured Numerous anbulances and police
patrols used in carrying the injured to hospitals
strecer bearers fast the bodies taken out
with blankets and carried them to the rstaid
station which established during the night at the