The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-01-31
FAMILIES DIVIDED
AS DEATH STRIKES

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among the heroes was Albert q.
Buehlcr, who gave his life that
others might live. lie was dlscov-
cred by resCuers pinned down by a
steel grder but called out that he
was not very badly hurt and asked
that they concentrate their efforts
In getting at the more seriously in
jurcd. The rcsCucrs needed his plea
and when ho was removed from the
tangled mass of debris an hour
later, IL was too late to save him.
lie died in the arms OF those who
lifted him from the wrcckage and
his body was conveyed TO tho tenn
porary morguc across the street.
Ten Georgetown college students
liying at the 5. A. y fraternity
house nearby, volunteered their
bodies for blood TRANSMISSION TO save
tho life of Miss Caroline Upshaw,
niece Of Representative Upshaw, Of
Georgia, who had one foot cut off
and the other so bady mauglcd that
IL may have TO be amputdtcd.
Lieutenant Colonel Taylor, bleed
ing from leg wounds found that he
could stand up on them and rose
from his strctChcr az they were
about to carry him and insisted upon
tearing away With his bare hands
the plaster and taugelcd wire skeins
that covered the body OF his dauEh-
ter, who was rescued alive.
A siX-year- red headed boy
whose name was not learned, on
being removed from the ruins,
argued hotly against being carried
away and insisted that he be per-
mitted to remain until his twin sister
had been rescued also. The rescue
ers, guided by the boys direction,
found the sister who was ofhy
slightly hurt.
Three priests penetrated the
ruins needless OF warnings and re-
mained on duty to administer the
last rites of the church to the dying.
Church Served as Morguc.
The interior of the First Church
of Christ (SCientist). Just around
the corner from the ruined theatcr,
presented Erowsomc sight this
morning after the last mutilated
body had been removed TO the city
morgue or undertaking establish
ments. Throughout ghastly Satur-
day night and all OF "A terrible sun
day, the church was literally a
chamber OF horrors. The dead row
on row. filled one side of the church
on the other side shirt sleeNed and
perspiring physicians worked un-
ceasingly over the grotesque, blanket
covered Jumps held by bloodstained
stretchers. one look usually suf-
feed as to whether the stretchers
held dead or living things. II
dead, the stretchers were gently de-
posted with the Others in dead
row" II alive. they were even
more gently borne out of the church
to where ambulances city and army,
purred in the snow-fillod street.
their motors running, ready TO dash
for hospitals.
To-day. with all the bodies gone,
the church resembled nothing so
much as an abandoned dressing sta
tlon behind the lines in some French
sector. Blood was spatIered over
the seats and walls and the rug was
sticky mass OF dirt and snow and
bits of clothing and wreckage.
Local hospitals were besieged to-
day with scoreF of friends and rela-
tives of the injured. Many Wash
ingtonians who live in the outlying
suburbs of Maryland and Virginia.
were forced TO spend the weekend
in washington hotels because they
could not get home through the
snow.
Traffic was suspended IN all direc-
tions, telephone service was uncer-
tain, and these facts added TO the
general confusion of missing per
sons. Families having member.
staying over in town besleged hos
pitfalls to learn II their missing ones
had been in the theater.
Funerals of some OF the victims
were held today, although the ma
tority of them viii be tomorrow.