Evening journal., 1922-01-31
government
BEGINS PROBE
OF PH0TOPLAY
HOUSE HORROR
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construction engineers will investi-
gate the construction OF the theatre
for the Department OF Justice.
Reports are current that concrete
In the roof and walls was in a crum-
bly, state and that relnforcements
were lacking.
This report OF the army-navy ex-
perts will be placed before Fed
erai grand jury here which already
has started an Investigation OF the
case
Already a coroner's jury has been
empanelled and will start its in
quiry within few days. Local
building inspectors have made pre-
iiminary tests. The prevailing opin-
ion Of engineers such as Col. Charles
Keller. district commissioner. is
that the weight OF the snow on the
roof would not have caused the roof
to cave In with deadly effect II there
had not been some fundamental de-
feet In construction.
Meanwhile the Senate today was
expected TO adopt a resolution Of
Senator Capper. Kansas which calls
FOR an inquiry by the Senate dis
trict committee particularly into re-
ports that cheap and dangerous
buildings have been put up here
The demand for a complete inves-
tigation IL most insistent over the
! summed and saddened city which Is
today burying ten OF the dead.
Meanwhile the work OF razlng the
rAnaining wallis OF the theatre has
started
T The work is progressing slowly,
because OF the danger OF a collapse
r which would bury workmen.
The hospitals had no new death
. cases over night Their last was
z Miss Mary Forsythe who died IN
- Garfield Hospital late yesterday Of
- her injuries.
Walter Reed Hospital reported
that second Assistant Postmaster
p General shaughnessy, while still in
critical condition, was holding his
, own and with a slight Improvement
over night" DR.. Clyde Gearhart
81 dangerously wounded, was showins
slight Improvement Miss Caroline
e Upshaw, niece OF Representative
, rpshaw. her leg smashed off when
z the theatre roof came laundering
down. was stiil ciinging TO life, as
was I'd. williams. another badly In
n iured victim. Several blood trans
fusions have been made during the
last "a hours in the hope Of saving
the more dangerously wounded.
:, The police crossed of the dead
the name OF Howard kneessi Csou
\. Of Howard G.. Kneessi, vice-presi'
"a dent of the semmes Motor Com
h., pany. a victim). Miss Gertrude Iay
=. ior and Jack McKimmie. They SAT-
y the following listed as dead, with ad
- dresses unknown. should be checker
H. on;
"a ID. n. walsh, Miss NJ. e. walsh
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Maine. Paulu
,o I.amby Albert Baker. f. II. Hall
-e william Crawford. l.. II. Lehler
Oisted enormously for Leroy II. Leh'
y mer a victim) and Ernest Martelld
\, Oisted enormously for the dead or
!, chestra leader. Erncsto Natilleo).
Inc city Mak NttN AA haAA Nt'"N =
= token of a mourning which touched
= all. Scarcely anyone but knew one
10 or more OF the victims.
Churches prepared for memorial
- services. Georgetown University, sad
dened by deaths among its number.
(, was planning too, for such ceremon-
10 les
4. south American diplomats attend
= ed services for Nine Virginia Fe-
raud. sister OF the Guatamalean Min
ister Banchi. held this afternoon
, from the Guatamalean legation and
~ St Paurs Catholic Church. alter
n which the body was sent TO Ventura
California.
!. Hearses careened through greai
~, snow drifts in various parts OF the
!, city for the capital was still bound
- down by the great storm which wa
in a measure responsible for th'
tragedy.
Stories OF how the concrete roo'
came smashing down, tearing th'
= thin veil that separates life from
death were stnl coming forth today
- Joseph Younger. an architect injur'
cd with his wife. declares the traged'
was far worse than the scenes he ha'
witnessed in the Argonne.