Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-02-02
a KILLED IN.
THEATER CRASH
Roof of Movie House CoIlapses
Under Heavy Snow.
OVER 100 OTHERS INJURED
Building Located in the Heart of the
Capitals Fashionable Northwest
Section at Columbia Road
and Eighteenth Street.

persons were killed and over 100 9th
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 or 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 Attain
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
thet still others remain under the
ruins.
Among those thought MORALLY in-
jured are Col Edward III. 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 c. 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 Moreue.
Hospitals are filled with the wound
ed and residences and places Of bust
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 Ct the dead, and police and
rines searched the clothing for
Identification marks.
Many of the dead were crushed I'M
der the weight Of the balcony of the
theater, with it's supporting steel Cir
ders, which was carried down into the
nit nv the falling ROOF
Mass Falls Seventy-Five Feet.
Six or seven rows of seats directly
under the front of the balcony were
crushed down to the floor. Others OF
the dead were seated further front in
the orchestra circle, and were caught
! under the roofing which there had a
clear fall of about seventy-fivc feet.
In some 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 were rescued alive, some of them
with only minor injuries. Several per
sons still alive were rescued from the
wreck 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 III. Martin, former
commander of the Blackhawk Eighty
sixth division, which trained at Camp
| Grant.
In Sixteenth street, two blocks from
the theater, is a 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 ia
orchestra Archie Bell, T. J. Bourne
Chauncey G. Brainerd, Washington
correspondent of Brooklyn Daily
Eagle: Mrs. G. c.. Brainerd, Burnie
Breslau, Wilfred Brousseau. North
Adams, Mass, student at George Wash.
ington university; Albert Buehler,
, Mrs. B. Fl. Covall, William M. Croker,
w. M. Crawford, Mrs. Marline Dale,
Miss Clara Dorch, Vincent Daubert.
William /. Dickle, Thomas F. Dorsey,
Kirkland Duke, Guy S. Eldridge. A.
G. Eldridge, Mrs. A. G. Eldridge, p.
I. Ernest. L. NJ. Farr Christian Firge,
musician in orchestra; John P. Flem-
ing, Mary Lee Fleming, sister of above ;
Miss Annie Lee Lambert. Miss Esther
Foster, Miss Agnes Carney. Mrs. Clyde
M. Gearhart, Mrs NJ. Gerhart and son,
Mrs. Vera Hall, Douglas Hillyer, Will
liam G. Hughes, John 81. Jeffries, Miss
Elizabeth Jeffreys. Howard G. Knessi,
Paulus Lamby, David Lyman, Wyatt
McKimrnie, Mrs. Gertrude Martindale,
Miss Agnes Mellon, Mrs. Gene Mirsky,