The Devils Lake world., 1922-02-01

Casualty list as cneckeo up carry
today showed 1O7 known dead and 134
injured, of whom 18 are in a serious
condition.
Dead include many persons of note,
Including A. ]. Barchfeld, former rep
resentative in Congress, and his
daughter; Mrs. Virginia Farraud, SIS
ter of the Guatemalan minister to
Washington; and Guy E. Eldridge,
brother-in-law of Senator Smoot.
Investigation Of the catastrophe is
ordered by Congress commission.
Virtually all Of ruins moved by
police, soldiers and marines after
working day and night since disaster.
Many acts of heroism on part Of
victims and rescuers recounted. and
many miraculous escapes from death
and injury come to light.
Washington, Jan. 80 (Monday).-
Official police record early today
placed the known dead in the Knick-
.erbocker theater disaster at 1O7. Eli
mination of duplicated names brought
the final total down from the unoffi-
cial peak of 112 at which the toll of
the catastrophe was placed late last
night.
The official list, according to the
authorities, contained the names of
all those whose bodies had been re-
covered UP to midnight from the
ruins left when the roof of the thea
ter, overweighed with snow, collaps-
ed on the audience Saturday night.
The volunteer workers including
police, firemen, marines and cavalry
from Fort Myer virtually had con-
cluded their search Of the wreckage
at midnight, the only portion Of what
had been the orchestra pit remaining
to be searched being q far corner in
which it was not expected additional
bodies would be found. {.
List of Injured Reaches 134.
The list Of injured totaled 1874 to-
night and IA of these were recorded
as having sustained; serious hurts
Caught beneath the falling beams
which had been designed to act as
transverse supports for the roof
scores were taken to hospitals suffer.
ing with broken limbs or severe in
ternal injuries. Many were given i'm
mediate medical attention at improv-
ised stations hastily erected near the
scene Of the disaster.
The Knickerbocker, one of the new
est and largest of the Capitals mo.
ton picture houses, was rated as one
Of the most exclusive, drawing its
patronage from the northwest resi-
Dental section in the vicinity of up.
per Connecticut avenue.
Family groups predominated in the
audience Saturday night and it was
on these that the roof, backed by
tons 70 wet snow, descended with
barely a whispered warning. In the
entire audience only one person was
found who had become aware of i'm.
pending doom in time to reach an
exit. Others worked their way te
safety through scant openings in the
wreckage.
Crash Interrupts Comedy.
The exact number in the theatel
when the steel and concrete span o1
the roof buckled and fell under its
three-foot load Of snow probably ne.
yer will be known. The stories Of
perhaps hundred who got out un.
injured have been reported. These
account for few more than 300 in
the audience that was roaring in
laughter at filmed comedy when the
roof fell on them like blanket, car.
rying down the front of the wide
balcony in its crash.
Normally, the theater has had every
seat filled at that hour and it's ca
pacity was nearly 1000 persons. The
same unprecedented snow fall which
brought death to the venturesomt
few, kept the many at home. Street
"a car traffic had been abandoned ant
streets and sidewalks were all but
impossible with drifts.
Entire Roof Collapsed,
There has been no time for oficia
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