The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-01-30
Means OF INJURED, PLEAS
SPUR RESCUERS TO HASTE.

! oiiie W slIiHS wires ana set rows OF
lamps in place to aid the work when
darkness fell. On the street the glare
or fires lighted by the soldiers to
warm themselves as they waited to
heave on rope threw additional
night on the mass within the roof1ess
smell where hundreds labored I'M
! ceasingly.
Jets Came Into Play
AS the gas jets came into play,
brilliant spurts of fame lighted the
scene. Showers of sparks rose as the
| live heat bnt through inches of steel
to free another tangIe High on the
walls sailors and soldiers perched on
| hanging beams or in window lodges
to cut loose the end of a girder and
let it be dragged away. Outside the
piles of debris rose steadily on both
streets.
| The final turning over of the wreck
age was well underway soon after dark
last night. When the weight of the
last section of the gallery had been
lifted on jacks and men had crawled
beneath to drog out the last mangled
body, more speed was possible and the
mass that formed the bottom of the
great she'll open to the sky was moving
in steady, orderly course under the
keen eyes of the army engineers. A
few hours more was expected to see
the last of it examined and the toll of
death brought by the great snowfall
completed
Just Going in Door
! w X. Kelly; Washington business
man, and his wife had a narrow es-
cape They were just going into the
front door of the theatre as the roof
collapsed. Kelly heard a crash, he
SAID later, and he and his wife were
thrown backward through the door
lie picked himself up, ran across the
street TO drug store. turned in a fire
alarm and called a hospital by tele-
phone. He and his wife suffered only
slight bruises.
;, Woman's arm protruding from the
debris was what D. Weeden. a gov
eminent employe, saw when he rushed
through the wreckage and found his
way TO the balcony. The woman was
screaming, Weeden said, and he tried
/, TO rescue her, but could not get
, through the debris. After a few
means, Weeden said, she was silent.
, Dr j. X. Canine was sitting with his
wife IN the last row of the balcony.
: he saw the roof start to fall, and he
, and his wife jumped into the aisle.
With Aid of Matches
Canine and his wife. with the aid
, OF matches, made their way through
, the dark and got out of the theatre.
After getting first aid at a drug store
nearby, Canine returned to help in
the work of rescue. Every means pos
slble was resorted to in the rescue.
One boy was seen crawling through 4
= small aperture in the mass of con
> crete, steel and wood to a man, wo.
man and child, who were pinned down
He gave them water.
Chauncey |. Brainerd one of those
killed, had been Washington CORE.
spondent for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle
for the last % years. He was born in
Brooklyn and for 10 years prior to go
! ing to Washington he was city editor
of the Eagle. For brief time he was
city editor of the New York World
In his younger days he was active in
military affairs and was a member OF
the 23rd regiment. He had been pres
: ident of the Gridiron club. and is sur
, VlVed by a widow. They had no chill
; dren
emit had made several trips into Indi
: ana in the last few years to inquire
= into political conditions. He was ir
Indiana at the time of the last nation
: al political campaign.
Statement from Theatre
The board of directors of the Harr1
. NJ Crandall company. owner of the
: knickerbocker, issued the followire
! statement:
, We are stunned by this catas
a trophe.
;, The knickerbocker was the priZt
n of our circuit, constructed at no lini
: of cost, before the war when the bes
, materials and engineering brain.
4 were secured to make this house
q model of theatre architecture an,
? construction. The structure was sub
v lected to and passed every municipal
q and government inspection and test
I'VE can not find words to expires.
c the depths of sympathy we feel TO
e those bereaved by this appalling ca
v tastrophe.
d Eve would infinitely rather hav,
:. abandoned all our enterprises thai
'. that single life should have beef
lost or any individual manned or in
jured."
VI Doctor Tells of Crash.
1T 81 saw the roof coming down an,
IF jumped into the aisle" Dr. Canin
e said THE force of the impact knock
o ed me to the floor, but the roof d.
Is not strike either of us. AS soon 9
n | recovered from the first stun.
s. picked my wife up and with the ali
lie of matches we made our way througI
lie the dark and got out"
s. Scores of men and women hitche
Is themselves 10 the stalled ambulance
Is pulling them through the great snoy
drifts until the engines could b
- started. Residents of the neighbol
lie hood responded quickly to a call 70
e. blankets with which to wrap the vic
ID tins. Hundreds of blankets and owe
Id coats were piled near the rescuer!
ID Witnesses described the horrifyin
e confusion which took place in til
II, darkness just after the collapse.
" huge cloud of dust thrown up by tn
p crumbling plaster led to a report thG
W fire had broken out, but this was foun
to be untrue.
it Musician Fatally Injured.
@. Walter Uhl, age 40, musician, wa
ct dragged from the pit. He was dyins
lie but called on his rescuers to put hil