The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1922-02-03
a. KILLED IN
TH[ATER CRASH
Roof of Movie House C0llapses
Under Heavy Snow.
OVER 100 OTHERS INJURED
Building Located in the Heart of the
OVER 100 OTHERS INJURED
Building Located in the Heart of the
oapItal's Fashionable Northwest
Section at Columbia Road
and Eighteenth Street

y
ers injured In the collapse under the
weight of three feet of snow-of the
roof Of the Knickerbocker theater, a
motion picture house. The Knicker-
booker is located in the heart of Wash
inton's fashionable Northwest Sec
ton, on the crest OF a hill at Columbia
road and Eighteenth street, N. w.
The snow, which had been falling
steadily for 80 hours since the great
est blizzard of years swept the Allan
tic coast from New York to North
Carolina, reached an official depth OF
three feet.
Hydraulic Jacks Used.
Hydraulic jacks brought to the
scene of the disaster from the local
navy yard raised huge steel Orders
and blocks of cement beneath the
wreckage of the balcony, and workers
found additional bodies and evidence
that still others remain under the
ruins.
Among those thought mortally In
jured are COL Edward Ell. Shaughnessy
Of Chicago, second assistant postmas-
| ter general and wearer of the army
distinguished service cross. won in the
! World war, and his wife and child.
Among the dead was George Ed
ridge who was identified by United
States Senator Reed Smoot OF Utah,
his brother-in-law. Others killed
were Chauncey G. >Brainerd Washing
| ton correspondent of the Brooklyn
| Daily Eagle and member of the Grid.
| iron club, and Col Charles Coles
Tucker, Well-known attorney.
Church Is Morgue.
| Hospitals are filed with the wound-
ed and residences end places of BUSH
ness in the exclusive Northwest sec
] ton are serving as hospitals. The
/ First Church of Christ Scientist, one
| block distant, has been turned into a
/ temporary morgue and bodies of more
/ than fifty of the victims lie awaiting
/ Identification or removal by relatives.
The church was the scene of many
hurried and crude frst-aid operations
by surgeons. while a Catholic priest
! knelt with the dying or prayed over
bodies of the dead, and police and
zines searched the clothing for
1 Identification marks
Many of the dead We're crushed un-
der the weight of the balcony of the
theater, with its supporting steel Cir
.ders, which was carried down into the
pit by the failing rooe
Mass Falls Seventy-Five Feet.
Six or seven rows of seats directly
under the front of the balcony We're
crushed down to the floor, Others of
the dead were seated further front in
the orchestra circle, and We're caught
under the roofing which there had a
clear fall of about seventy-fiv feet.
In-some4 cases, husbands were killed
beside their wives, and fathers beside
their children, who escaped with more
or less serious hurts
Scores of those caught in the wreck
age We're rescued alive, some of them
with only minor injuries. Several per-
sons still alive We're rescued from the
wrscS early in the day, but their con
dition was serious
The theater is two blocks from the
Washington residences of Gen. Charles
G. Dawes of Chicago and Gen. John
J, Pershing Three blocks from the
scene of the catastrophe is the home
of Gen. Charles H. Martin, former
commander of the Blackhawk Eighty
sixth division, which trained at Camp
Grant
In Sixteenth street, two blocks from
the theater. is row of foreign EN-
bassies and legations, including those
of France, Russia, Poland and Cuba
Almost opposite the theater is the
Armenian legation.
Names of Identified Dead.
Following are names of identified
dead in the Knickerbocker theater dis
aster.
Residents of Washington: Mary N.
Atkinson, Albert Baker, A. j. Barch-
field, former congressman from Pitts
burgh, Pa; Miss Barchfield, his daugh
ter; Joseph w. Beal, musician in
orchestra Archie Bell, T. J. Bourne.
Chauncey G.. Brainerd, Washington
correspondent of Brooklyn Daily
Eagle; Mrs. G. G. Brainerd Burnie
Breslau, Wilfred Brousseau. North
Adams, Mass, student at George Wash
ington university; Albert Buehler
: Mrs. B. H. Covall. William NJ. Croker,
w. NJ Crawford, Mrs. Marine Dale,
Miss Clara Dorch, Vincent Daubert.
William L Dickle, Thomas f. Dorsey,
Kirkland Duke, Guy S. Eldridge A.
G. ElGridge, Mrs. A. G. Eldridge, P.
I. Ernest, e. NJ. Farr Christian Firge,
musician in orchestra; John P. Elem
ing, Mary Lee Fleming, sister of above !;
Miss Annie Lee Lambert, Miss Esther
] Foster, Miss Agnes Garvey, Mrs. Clyde
NJ Gearhart, Mrs. NJ Gerhart and son,
Mrs. Vera Hall. Douglas Hillyer, Will
liam G. Hughes. John FL. Jeffries, Miss
Elizabeth Jeffreys. Howard g. Knessi,
Paulus Lamby, David Lyman, Wyatt
McKimmie. Mrs. Gertrude Martindale,
Miss Agnes Mellon. Mrs Gene Mirsky.