The Monroe journal., 1922-02-03
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WRITES VIVIDLY
THEATRE WRECK
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come eayed in, killing the ones Try
ing TO crawl thru the same way
one of the women died Immediately,
Doc died al three o'clock Sunday
morning and Peters Is raSlhs
maniac kept locked in a room!
II was late Sunday morning before
the rescue work was gotten under
wav. One boy that we knew had been
living pinned down under steel ana
concrete all night with only his hand
out. into which an injection OF NOR
phine was put as soon as the WORKERS
saw it. others whom we knew had
their escorts killed instantly and they
Law all night conscious ana crusheu
under the double layer of debris.
You can't conceive Of a roof oil
steel and concrete falling from the
weight of three feet OF snow. These
wide steel beams were twisted ana
bent as If they had been so much
wax. And the whole thing Tell az
once as clean from the sides as II
scraped away by some giants knlfe.
There wasn't a half inch OF roof lett
in a single spot anywhere on tne
sides, and at every minute the side
walls were expected TO cave In thus
increasing the danger to those IN
side and those working TO save them.
Husbands and Wives Died Together
The horrors of II are unspeakable
and there isn't a home in Washing
ton that isn't touched in some way
The whole family. the kanstons Ia
ther, mother and two girls) whieh
was completely wiped out with the
exception of a little nine year OLD
boy. was probably the largest num-
ber taken from one household. The
father worked at the same office with
me. In nearly all instances, nus
bands and wives were killed togeth-
er. One man that | know connected
with the Red Cross worked until late
Sunday night. and when he left, there
were still people under the deepest
parts of the wreckage. He helpec
dig out two old men. hands folded
in their laps, their heads bowed as
if in sleap, stone dead. Another one,
was a nineteen-year-ol girl. who had
been in all night and until Sunday
morning at ten o'clock, unhurt save
for shock. Another was an army OF
ficer identified as such by his legs,
the rest OF him being only a pulp
| in khaki. II you could have seen the
slabs of concrete being brought out,
so large that il took dozen men
to carry each of them, you could
see how there was nothing left TO
identify the people on which they
fell. Arms and legs were cut OIL as
neatly as a surgeons knife could
have cut them and two young girls
were beheaded. There are still two
little girls and some other children
unidentified.
Several of our friends and one boy
lost his father. two sisters and BROTH
ers. Among the dead were so many
noted and we'll known people and the
least OF the injured, those suffering
only bruises and shocks will be IN
the hospitals for weeks. | was Just
talking over the telephone about a
Miss Hooker who was injured. Her
escort and the person sitting on the
side of her were instantly killed and
though she was only bruised and
scratched. her condition from the
shock is such that her father was
told by the hospital people that she
would be there probably five weeks
or longer. Miss Upshaw, neiee OF
Congressman Upshaw. had leg and
foot completely cut off and the other
so mashed that it had to be amputat-
ed at the hospital little later.