The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-30
1O7 KILLED, 1873
HURT WHEN ROOF
OF MOVIE FALLS


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hurled down without warning on
the pleasure seeking hundreds be
low.
Rescue Work Slow.
II was believed, however. that the
section now being explored would
yield few additions TO the list OF
dead and injured, it being near the
rear and under the part of the bal
cony which held up when the front
Of il crashed down to the theatre
pit under the impact of the falling
roof. A party of the rescuers early
today had been struggling for hours
to release from the part OF the
wreckage now being overturned one
man believed to be yet alive, al
though imprisoned under the mass
for nearly 36 hours. The great
weight of the steel beams and con-
crete which crashed with the roof.
have, in many instances, made the
rescue of victims harrowingly slow
and tedious.
Harding Expresses Grief.
The whole city was bowed in
grief today to learn the full extent
of the tragedy with the recovery OF
victims yesterday and last night.
This was the more intensely shared
by the rest of the country becaus
of the considerable number of Wis
itors who suffered in the catas-
trophe. President Harding said in
a statement last night that the
tragedy had left him with the same
inexpressible sorrow which has
come to all of Washington, and
which will be alphabetically felt
throughout the country.
Three-fold investigation of the
accident and collapse of the theatre
roof was in prospect today. In an
nouncing an exhaustive inquiry or
dered by the board of commission
ers the District and another to be
started Immediately by the grand
jury Senator Capper, of Kansas, a
member of the senate District OF
Columbia committee, announced
that as soon as the senate convened
he would Introduce resolution
calling for an investigation of the
tragedy. The senator said he had
received reports that the building
code of the district had been vio-
lated in more than a few instances
during the rush of construction re-
sulting from the rapid increase of
population here after the war decla-
ration.
ShaughnesSy Injured.
Edward Ii. Shaughnessy, second
assistant postmaster general, who
iously injured, was still making a
Reed hospital. His wife and two
daughters also were injured, but
not seriously. Among those promi-
nent on the list of dead as it stood
today, was former Representative
a. ]. BarchfieId, formerly of Pitts
burgh, and Mrs. Virginia Farraud,
sister of Minister Bianchi, of Guate-
mala.
Most of the dead still lay, early
today, in the basement of the near
by Christian Science church, to
which they were taken for identifi-
cation. Many of the fatally injured
also were taken there, later to
swell the total of victims.
Chicago, Jan. 30.-In Washington
the average snow weighs about
seven or eight pounds per cubic
foot, Professor Henry j. Cox of the
Chicago weather bureau, said in
commenting on the caving in of the
roof OF the Kricke-bocker motion
picture theatre.
IF the snow was three feet deep
on the theatre building, | doubt if
M
pounds to each square foot" he
said. Some Chicago architects ex-
pressed doubt that such pressure
would have crushed in the roof, and
said they believed investigation
would develop some structural
strain. They pointed out that the
Chicago building ordinances re-
Iuire a roof which will support
strain of 80 pounds TO the square |
DOT.
Washington Digs Out.
Washington, Jan. 30.-The center !!
If a storm which flung a deep !
blanket of snow over the entire /
middle Atlantic section of the
country Friday and Saturday, /
was still digging itself |
tut of more than two feet of it to-
lay with the process of returning /
o normal ways Of living exceed /
ngly slow. But, in connection with !
he rest OF the section which suf-
cred most, the capital city had the
of the weather bureau
hat the storm was moving seward
oday, with its center slightly north
nd east OF Cape Cod.
With Sunday passed, Washington
edoubled its efforts today to clear
way the storm impediments, re-
tore an almost totally lost contact
With suburbs, add to the street car
outs which were feebly resumed in
ome instances yesterday and in
ure some dependability in the de-
very of milk, bread and other ne
eSsities. Train services north and
outh had been restored practically
} normal today.