page_title: Harry Crandall
section_title: Death
hierarchical_section_title: Harry Crandall / Death
caption_attribution_description: English: The Knickerbocker theater of Washington, D.C. in 1917.
context_page_description: Harry Milton Crandall was an American businessman who owned a theater empire.
context_section_description: On January 28, 1922 the Knickerbocker theater owned by Crandall collapsed under the weight of snow from a two-day blizzard that was later dubbed the Knickerbocker Storm. 98 patrons were killed and 133 more injured. The disaster ranks as one of the worst in Washington. D.C. history. Former Congressman Andrew Jackson Barchfeld and a number of prominent political and business leaders were among those killed in the theater. The disaster was said to be the reason for the later suicide of Crandall in 1937. The architect Reginald Geare had taken his own life on August 20, 1927.
caption: The Knickerbocker Theater 1917
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