Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1922-02-08
81 KILLED IN
THEATER CRASH
Rooi Of Moyie House COllapses
Under Heavy STOW.
OVER 100 OTHERS INJURED
BUILDING Located in the Heart Of the
ca-ftaFs Fashionabls Northwest
s1ction az Columbia Read
and Eighteenth Street

Washington. Jan. Sl.-Mure tllnn -
persons were Killed and over 100 9TH
ers injured Ca tie coiiapse-under the
weight IL three feet 81 suoN-of the
ruaf AZ the KuickeTboel,er thclicr
uafIun picture house. The kuicEer-
Inesrf is located Gee the heart - Wash
Iut0u's fashionable Northwesi SO
dion. uu the crest ot a hill at Columbia
rad and Eighteenth street. y. W.
The snow. which had been falling
steadily for 80 hours since the great
st blizzard u years swept the Allan
tic culst from New York 60 North
Carolina. reached un official depth II
three feet.
Hydraulic Jacks Used.
Hydraulic Jacks brought 20 the
scene IL the disaster from the local
navy yard raised huge steel girders
AMI blocks ur cement beneath the
wrecka-e ~ the balcony. and workers
found additional bodies aud evidence
that stIu others remain under the
ruins.
Among those thought mortnliy In
Jurpd are Col. Edward II. Shaughnessy
a. Clicneo. second assistant posimas-
ter general and wcarer u the army
distinguished service cross. won In the
World war. and hts wife and child.
Among the dead was George Ed
ridge. who was Identified by United
States senator Reed SmOot o. Utah,
his hrother-in-law. Others killed
were Chauncey G. Brainerd. Washing
ton CORE pondent ~ the brooklyn
Daily Eagle and member II tne Grid
iron club. and Col. Charles Coles
Tucker. weIl-known attorney.
Church Is MorsUe.
Hospitals are filled with the wound
al aud residences r1d places 81 busi-
ness Tn the exclusive Northwest sec
ton are serving as hospitals. The
First Church u Christ. Scientist, one
block distant. has been turned into a
temporary morgue and bodies II more
than fifty ~ the victims lie awaiting
Identification or removal by relatives.
The church was the scene q many
hurried and crude drst-aid operations
by surgeons. while n Catholic priest
knclt with the dying or prayed over
bodies q the dead. and police and
rines searched the clothing for
Identification marks.
Many u the dead were crushed I'M
der tie weight % the balcony 81 the
theater. with SIS supporting steel cir
dcrs. which was carried down into the
pit By the falling roo
Mass Falls seventy-Five Feet.
Six or seven rows 81 seats directly
under the front Of the balcony were
crushed down TO the floor. Others OF
the dead were seatee further front In
the orchestra circle, and were caught
under the rooiinr which there had a
clear faIl q about seventy-hvc feet.
In some cases. husbands were killed
beside their wives. and fathers beside
their children. who escaped with more
or less serious hurts.
Scores ~ those caught In the wreck
nEe were rescued alive. some Of them
with only minor injuries. Several per
sons stu 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
q. Dawes Of Chicago and Gen. John
J. PershIng. Three blocks from the
scene u the catastrophe is the home
% Gen. Charles III. Martin. former
commander q the Blnckhnwk Eighty
sixth division. which trained M Camp
Grant.
In SIxteenth street. two blocks from
the fhenter. Is n row 81 foreign EN-
a.
- France. Russia. Poland and Cuba.
Almost opposite the theater Is the
Armeni1n legation.
Names of Identified Dead.
Following are names % identified
lead In the Knickcrb0cker theater dis
a>ter.
Residents % Washington: Mary y.
Atkinson. Albert Baker. a. ]. Rarch-
fcld. former congressman from Pitts
tursh. IA: Miss Barchneid. his daugh.
ter: Joseph ". Beal. musician In
orchcstra: Archie Bell. I. J. Bourne.
Chaunccy &. BTaineri. Washington
correspondent 20 Brooklyn Daily
Faelc: Mrs. e. {. Brnlnerd. Burnie
Rreslau. Wiifrcd Brousseau. North
Adams. Mass. student NJ George Wash
tu-fnn university: Albert Buehler.
Mr.. n. n. Covail. William u. CrOcker.
". ~ Crawford. Mrs Marine Dale.
Ms Clara Dorch. Vincent Dauhert
William !. Dickie. Thomas T.. Dorsey.
Kirkland Duke. Guy :. Eidridge. A.
a. f1dFidse. Mrs. A. q. Eldridge. T..
I. Ernest. l. NJ Farr Christian Firge.
musician ln orchestra: John r. Flem-
tn-. Mary lee FlcminE. sister 10 above:
Ms Annie Lee lambert. Miss Esther
s-o>fer. Miss Agnes Garvey. Airs. Clyde
~. Gcarhart. Mrs. ". Gcrhart and son.
Mr. Vera Hail. Douglas Hiuyer. VII
Ham ii. Hughes. In'ta m. IeHrfes AfiSx