Evening star., 1922-01-30

and how ] was hurt. I thought I was
going to die
Representative SmithWick, who
lives about a block from the theater,
said he staggered home without
overcoat or hat through the snow
drifts. Physicians were summoned
Immediately, who found him suffer-
ing from shock. bruises and possibly
internal injuries.
Il think it was a miracle that /
came out alive" said the Florida
representative. But think of those
poor children and men and women
who were not 50 fortunate! l don't
see how any who were under that
oaleSny s, esesped the th1se hpeaH
ing they would have had time to
rush out through the door. but I
guess they couldn't see like we in
the balcony. Those underneath us
had s;,i no chsnfe' s u, guess ,na keep
awful roaring and the crashing of
the balcony on it's way down to
those people below. 1t was all over
in half minute, l. guess. but 1t
seemed hours
Climb Through Hole.
Thrilling experiences were told by
three boys. Harold H. Levy, James H.
Davidson and Joseph Shrebnick, stu
dents at Georgetown University, who
House. 1872 California Street.
They We're sitting in the center of
the balcony, four rows behind the
boxes. When the ceiling fell they
We're all three buried beneath a large
slab of plaster Levy fell out in the
aisle.
At the Emergency Hospital. where
he was taken after being extricated
from the Wreckage, Levy said:
L lay stunned for a few seconds
and then the awful means of people
pinned under the debris brought me
back. l looked up the aisle stairs
and saw ahead of me hole of light
and crawled up to it. and then crawl
ed back to tell the boys. We tore
open the plaster and found we were
outside on the edge of the roof, so
then we went back and rescued a
family of three and eXtricated several
men pinned under the chairs and
plaster.
"Oone man begging me to extricate
him, l can never forget" continued
Levy. He was pinned down by an
iron girder and it was impossible to
move him."
Hit Buried Man.
After the firemen arrived they still
continued the work of rescue on the
shaking part of the balcony remain
ing. "The firemen stood in the alley
below" declared Levy, "and threw up
lanterns and hatchets for us to use in
the rescue. l was trying to get a
woman out by chopping a chair, and
dreadful screaming began. l stop
ped and Il man buried under the
wreckage said l had been hitting him
on the head. l could not use the
hatchet after that"
Levy with Davidson. who suffered
fractured shoulder and severe cuts
about the head. and Shrebnick, who
escaped with only a nervous shock.
worked until early in the morning,
rescuing the victims, before they were
taken to the hospital.
They all agreed that the most har-
rowing moments to look back upon
was an awful silence that followed
the crash. and then the screaming
and moaning of the victims.
Henry E. Pearson. who came to
Washington from Philadelphia Satur-
day for holiday, was in the theater
with two friendA He. too. Is at
Emergency Hospital, suffering with
a possible fracture of the pelvic
bones. partial paralysis and nervous
shock.
'I heard the cracking and saw the
ceiling separate. but before l could
move an iron fell on me-" said Mr.
Pearson. as he nervously rubbed his
handy over his eyes, as if to blot out
the memory of it,"
"ShOw FelIed In'' ON Her.
Little Elizabeth Hayden, who was
taken to Emergency Hospital from
the disaster, was discharged yester-
day with her sill hit cuts bandaged.
When her father called for her, he
asked If she remembered what had
happened and she lisped, "The show
felled in on me-" Her mother and
brother are among the injured at Gar
field Hospital.
Long experience in coal mines
enabled w. H. Morris, sixty-three-
year-old. retired coal mine manager
Of Buckhannon, w. Va, to escape
from the death trap.
Il was in the eighth row from the
'front.'" Mr.. Morris said, when I heard
crack, a sort of ripping sound.
exactly like that which the slate roof
of a coal measure makes when it is
going to let go. 1t was more instinct
than anything else that brought me
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