The Washington times., 1925-07-06
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bodies were locked together around
a splintered table, at which they
had been seated with Mrs. Jordon.
Fighter Found In Pose.
A prize fighter with his hands
and arms in pugilistic pose beside
his cauliflower ear, four men and
women seated at table with a
gallon can Of alcohol at their side
and man who held $500 as the
stakes OF game of chance with his
hand clutching the pocket in which
the money rested, were among the
TRAGIC figures brought to light as
the 200 salvagers toiled like ants
in a pile under the penetrating rays
Of the searchlights during the night
and early today.
At night, the noodlights from q
dozen stands have created picture
bearing striking resemblance 10
the stage of a hippodrome. Pieces
of furniture, flowers and draperies,
still left in that section of the
Night Club which chung to the
building to the west, furnished the
stage settings to the grim picture
of 200 men digging for bodies in
lIlc HSdp Oh QGDTlS DSIOWs
50 Bodies Identified.
Thirty-three of the bodies have
been identified. OF these only two
were from outside Greater Boston
Mrs. Doris Stern, twenty-four, Of
No SO Sumner avenue, Brooklyn.
N. Y, and a Miss Nixon, Of New
York city. Three other bodies have
been partially identified ami the
remainder are at the Boston City
hospital morgue unknown.
Two police officers lost their
lives in the collapse and a petition
was filed with the city. council tc-
day for a pension for the widows
of the officers.
The collapse OF the Pickwick
Club building has opened a battle
over night clubs in the city. The.
other night clubs-the Black and
White and the Lambs Club, were
closed the day after the Pickwick
Club disaster. However, the man
ayers of the clubs defied the au-
thorities and opened for business
as usual last evening.
City authorities and police held
that they would have closed up the
Pickwick Club months ago hadl
they the authority. 1t was given
out that the club had State char
ter and that as long as city and
police regulations were obeyed
nothing could be done.
Investigation, however, disclosed
today that the Pickwick club held
a charter issued to the commercial
Mems Club, long out of existence.
Police said they had never been
requested to investigate the charter
of the club.
Police Report o. X.
Secretary Of State Frederick w.
Cook, who issued the charter, de-
clared he had no discretion in the
matter, that he acted after the
Boston police commission had sent
him a written report that the pros
pective incorporators of the club
had neither been found guilty of
maintaining a gambling nuisance
or Of illegally selling liquor.
81 am interested to know if d
crime was committed" declared
District Attorney O'Brien as the
grand jury and twenty witnesses
gathered at Suffolk county court
house" Warrants for the imme.
date arrest of those persons whose
resulted In the frightful
loss OF life will be sought. declared
the district attorney, who was in
a fighting mood. THE moment
find evidence to warrant it, 1 shall
ask for indictments, he said.
Besides the grand jury investiga-
ton today, other Investigations
were in progress.
Governor Alvan T. Fuller took
charge Of sweeping State investi-
cation. Mayor James M. Curley
called together conference of the
heads of all city departments. The
mayor personally directed the work
of searching for bodies until, ex-
hausted, he was forced to return
to his home Sunday morning.