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THE 3IORXIXG OKEGOXIAX. MONDAY. JANUARY 30. 1922 (1 ft t f' P ft M ; it V c 4 1D7 BODIES TAKEN MH (10 OTER RUlnl Search ' of Wreckage Made All Night Long. 92 NOW ARE IDENTIFIED Audience Kocked With Laughter When . Snow-Laden Roof Fell Into Building. frontlmi'-d From Kirnt Paice.) an agle of 45 degrees, adding to the wreckage on the floor below. Spectator Races Oat. There is only one survivor thus far who told of havlnp heard that warninjr and seen the first powdery " handful of snow sift down over the head of the orchestra leader in tim to escape. From his seat well forward on the main floor he raced for the doors at the back. A blast of air, expelled afl the roof came down, hurled him out throutth the doorway to safety. Most of the bodies were recovered from the floor' of the'pit beneath the wreckage of the halcony or from the front of the balcony. I'crsons on the main, floor had grouped them selves Just below the front of the balcony. They were back far enough to see well and most of the front and bax-k rows were empty. C rowd AVhrre I'rrll Is Great. At the point they, had chosen the danRer proved to be double. Few of thoxo seated there could have escaped Kvnn If the falling concrete slabs and Hteel work of the roof missed them. the balcony front came down on the first wreckage with crushing weight. The gleaming brass rail of the balcony front lay spread over the wreckage of the roif 15 feet below when rescuers reached the scene. All those farther back .on. the main floor probably escaped. The beams that supported the back end of the haliony did not let go their. clutch on the wall. The wide sweep of seats they supported tilted down until the wreckage below took the weight off the front anTl then stood covering the back rows of the main floor like a tent. . Meet Brian Badly Tnlxtrd. The front rows of the balcony were ground to a twisted mans. There was no wood In the structure. It was all steel and concrete, but the enormous weight of the baleony was sufficient to wind the tortured beams into fan tastic shapes. Here again chance played a part In reducing the number of victimsi The front rows of the balcony, four or five tiers deep, were known as "re served" seats. They were priced above the succeeding rows. ' With the small attendance of Jast night, prob ably only a few had paid the extra prices for these seats, preferring to 8U further back In the balcony.. And many of those behind scrambled up the steep slope of the fallen balcony to safety, although many were struck down when the roof caved in. Some were hurled down into the wreckage of the pit when the bal cony front fell, and even some of them escaped with bruises. There was no record, however, of any sur vivor among those In the foremost balcony seats. ' Krantle (alls for Aid Made. Frantic calls for aid went out as soon as those in the double-walled structures which form the- Kight-eenth-street and back wall of the - auditorium realized what had hap pened. These two three-floor wings form the offices, a store along the Eight-eenth-streat front, and house rhe stairways and the approaches and exits both on that side and along the back wall and they were not involved in the disaster, which was confined to the auditorium. Later the store and corridors became the first-aid stations as the mangled victims were dragged out. V7 Fought Through Drifts. Firemen fought their way through the heaping snow drifts in answer to a general alarm. Police patrols filled with men churned and skidded through the white muck and, in answer to summons, marines came at double time. At Fort Myer, across the river, the cavalry was tuyied out arid started in truck loads to tne tescue only to find the roads block-; J. The men shoveled their way , fran tically but finally four-mule teams from the fT-t were called. At the scene of the disaster there was wild confusion for a time. Those who first made their way to the audi torium doors saw a dim, mysterious heap of wreckage faintly lighted by colored electrics on the stage that still stood Intact, and oy the reflected glow from the leaden skies. The crash had drawn many persons, some who had relatives In the ruins. The clang of fire apparatus brought other hundreds and until the marines came panting up police were powerless against the crowds. ' ' Firemen Flange Into Debris. Firemen plunged Into the wreckage with lanterns. Men with electric torches came from all sides. And It was a daunting task they faced. On the Columbia-road side the single wall towered menacingly above their heads, stripped almost bare except for the high exit signs marking the way out of the balcony, now a crumpled mass Wlow. Not a window was broken. With care the rescuers began their work. Every beam they touched might let another mass of concrete down if - It was moved too swiftly. There were some groans in the dark ness below and no one knew how many persons, had been crushed or trapped there. The huge slabs of the con crete from the roof stood in crazy at titudes. A touch might send them top pling. Reacners Toll Desperately. But against every difficulty the res cuers toiled desperately and a alow stream of dead and Injured began to trickle out. Nearly every "nearby house became a rescue station. Housewives heated coffee for rescuers and rescued. On the UJghteenth-street front a row of automobiles stood, awaiting owners killed or hurt. They were hub-deep in snow and hindered the rescuers. They were picked up bodily by men and lifted out of the way. Ambulances and private machinee gathered up the injured. Finally a string of army ambulances, arrived with bandages. Doctors came from everywhere. All through the night the work went on. It was evident that nothing could be done for many of the victims until the weight of the wreckage could be lifted. A call to the navy-yard brought blankets and hydraulic 'jacks and oxy-hydrogen Jets to bum through the steel beams. The jacks were lined up under the edge of the fallen halcony and its weight finally lifted. Rescuers took their lives in their hands to creep under and release people there. . They traced each twisted beam and. J saw where it would be safe to cut I and where a steel' girder might be dragged out of the pile with safety to those below. Meanwhile ail Wash ! ington, it seemed, was heading for the scene, strings of people stumbling over the banked snow. Soldiers and police held rigid lines about the the ater. Hour by hour through the day thq death toll rose. Less than half of the total had been recovered when day light came, Systematic Search Hade. After the center of the main floor had been cleared of victims dug out of the wreckage a more systematic search began and it was still going on tonight. The "workers, sure that the center space held no body or in jured person, began turning over the tons of debris, piling it in that space, or dragging beams and slabs outside. When the last section of the gallery had been lifted on jacks and men had crawled beneath to drag out the last manfeled body, more speed was pos sible and the mass that formed the bottom of the great shell was mov ing in a steady, orderly course under the eyes of the army englrreers. Day light should see the last of it exam ined and the totl of death completed. Mr. tthaaghneasy Injured. Kdwasd H. Shaughnessy of Chicago, second assistant postmaster-general, Mrs. Shaughnessy and their daugh ters. Myrtle and Ruth, were injured. Mr. Shaughnessy seriously. At the Walter lfeed hospital, where Mr. Shaughnessy was taken after his res cue from the debris several hours after the roof fell In. it .was said that ho was suffering from a broken pel vis and internal injuries. Mrs. Shaughnessy sustained a. frac tured rib. Ruth, aged 10. had both arms broken, while the other daugh ter was bruised. All are at the emer gency hospital. President Sends Ilia Doctor. Fresldent Harding sent Brigadier General Sawyer, his personal physi cian, to the Walter Reed to make direct inquiries about the condition of Mr. ShaugineHsy and to Inquire about government employes caught in the theater who are under treat ment there. The orchestra leader. Oresto Ma tell io, and several members of tho orchestra were among those killed. Others, seated near the stage, es caped, with injuries more or less serious. The stage broke the full force of the fall. SENATE TO BE ASKED TO PROBE COLLAPSE Capper to Introduce Resolu tion for Investigation. ALL THEATERS CLOSED Sun Diego Man's Brother Killed. SAN DIKCJO. Cal., Jan. 29. J. 2. Tucker, well-known attorney of thia city, received a telegram from relative-! today saying? that ht brother, Charles Cow lea Tucker, attorney of Washington, and the latter's wife had perished in the Knickerbocker thea7 ter disaster in Washington. The .Washing ton attorney served in the office of the advocate-general dur ing" the recent war. retiring with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. TOWNLEY TO BE FREED Hoofs Must Be Cleared of Snow 'and Inspectors Must Examine Structures,' Say Orders. "WASHINGTON. D. C. Jan. 29. (By the Associated Press.) Senator Cap per of Kansas, a member of the sen ate District of Columbia committee, announced tonight that when the senate reconvened he would Introduce a resolution calling for an investiga tion of the Knickerbocker, theater disaster, and also- of all large build ings constructed here since the be ginning of the war. An investigation was ordered today by the District of Columbia board of commissioners. Orders also went out to close all theaters until the snow had been cleared from the roofs and inspectors had examined the struc tures. Officials said that until air in quiry had been made, the direct cause of the collapse could not be deter mined. ' through the time of her first trial two years ago, during the two years that she was a fugitive from justice, aiul the ordeal of her second trial, Mrs. Exner declared she had "washed her hands of the girl and would have nothing more to do with her." Her niece had preferred to stay in Knoxville to visit friends after her trial was over. And so when Mrs. Maude Moore Stubbs passed tWough Louisville in the gray light of the morning Mrs. Kxner did not go to meet her. She would not "be Snored. KNOXVILLE, Tehn. A moving pic ture. "The Story of My Life," in which Maude Moore, stenographer, acquitted of the murder of Leroy Tx Harth, wealthy automobile dealer, will ap pear, will be filmed in Knoxville. It was announced by her attorneys, Ex perts, equipment and actors, includ ing Maude Moore as the principal, will come to this city in a few months to jmake the picture. Before she and her mother left for Tacoma, Wash., she signed a movie contract, her attorney, Hal H. Clements, said. N'on-Purtlsun Chief to Be Kcleaseil on Own liecognizance. JACKSON. Minn., Jan. 29. A. C. Townley, president of the National Non-Partisan league, will conclude his 90-day Bentence, for violating the state espionage act, at the Jackson county jail here tomorrow. Townlev. for wAiom a warrant Is out in Fargo. N. D.' in connection with the embezzlement c'.arge againBt J. J. Hastings, formerly an officer of the Scandinavian-American bank there, will be released on his own recognizance to appear in Fargo Feb ruary 6 to answer the charges. RED WING. Minn, Jan. 29. Joseph M. Gilbert, formerly state manager of the Non-Partisan league, who has been serving a one-year sentence at the Goodhue county jail here, follow ing conviction of violating the state war-time laws, will be eligible for release February 4, Sheriff Anderron said tonight. PROMINENT MEN IN LIST fContlnuftd From Flint Page.") GERMANS MADE BANKRUPT Thousands Lose Ail in Speculation in Stock Market. , BERLIN. Thousands of Germans have been bankrupted by the recent craze for speculating In the stock market. The losses were not limited to wage earners and professional men with inadequate incomes, but included many comparatively wealthy men. Tne workmen and professional men claim that speculation is not a vice buj 'a necessity for men whose in ccmes are 3000 marks a month or less. They say they "plunged-' in the mar ket in the hope of being able to win enough to pay their bills and to buy clothing for themselves and a dreds for their wives. Some of those who lost their earn-' !ugs in this way have disappeared from their positions. Others are making the xound of their acquaint ances in an effort to borrow, and the remainder are stolidly facing debts which they cannot hope to pay. Gro cers and" butchers generally have closed all credit accounts. One of the speculators who lost his n.onthly salary of 2000 marks in stock market speculation said: "We have to gamble. We cannot buy anything but the barest necessi ties on what we earn, and when prices go up and money for even the neces saries is lacking, we take a chance rather hopelessly thinking that our condition cannot be much worse and that we might have luck." T Lacey, II. M. Lee, Clarence Long. John A. Margot. Oreste Matlllo. Lil lian Masse, John T. McEverley. Mrs. Julius McKinney, Mertie. Mr. and Mrs. Jonas Michaeleas, V. T. Monahan, Wakefield. R. I.: Scott Montgomery, John A. Morgan, H. B. Moses, Herbert and Mildred Nash, John and Katherlne Nesbit, Clarence Newkirk, Mrs. E. Pasquale. Alice Pasquale, Henry Peason, Miss Vir ginia Poole. Miss Ruth . E. Postley, Mrs. Henry S. Powell, Henry Wilson and Miss Edelln Wilson. John Prezi oso. Marie Rhea. Belle Rembo. Ed ward A. Sacks. New York city; Harry F. Saey, Walter Lird Saey, Mrs. Mattie Schwab, E. H. Staughnessy, second assistant postmaster-general; Mrs. IS. H. Shaughnessy. Myrtle Shaugh nessy, Ruth Shaughnessy, Represent ative John A. Smithwick of Florida. Albert R-" Sward, Martha Strayer, Mrs. Gertrude Taylor, Lleutenant- Colonef Taylor, U. S. A.; Leonard and Elizabeth ' Theunissen, Christiana Thompson. Etta Underwood, Caroline I Vpshaw. Nathan I. Urdong. Alphonso I Van Poucke. Colonel C. M. Wesson, I U. S. A.; Nancy Wesson, Miss Mac- j lean White. Edward A. Williams, Mrs. Juliette Webb, Miss Inez Woodruff,! Miss Marie Young. Mrs. Joseph i Younger, Lieutenant-Commander Za laski, medical officer of Marine bar racks, and wife. SPANIARDS BUY AIRPLANE Wealthy Residents of Manila Unite to Aid Home Government. MANILA. P. X. Spaniards residing in the Philippines have cabled Enrique Zobel of Manila, who is now in Mad rid, Spain, authorizing him to pur chase an airplane and deliver it to the Spanish army operating in Africa. The airplane is to be named ' Manila." Wealthy Spaniards here have launched a campaign to raise the sum necessary to cover the cost of the fighting machine. If the amount raised is more than enough to cover the cost of the airplane, it was- an nounced that the balance will be sent to Queen Mary of Spain, wfio is presi dent of the Spanish Red Cross. BRONX fl DISASTROUS RAILWAY STATION AXD MAIX OFFICES ARE DESTROYED. MAUDE MOORE LOSES LOVE Louisville Woman Who Stood by Niece Slighted. LOUISVILLE, Ky. Mrs. May Einer, 631 East Jefferson street, can stand murder trials, but she will not be ig nored. She showed that when she "disin herited" her niece, Maude Moore, for declining to visit her in Louisville after being acquitted in Knoxville of the murder of Leroy D. Harth. Although she stood by her niece Small Homes Being Built. SPOKANE, Wash. Although nearly 1000 more building permits were taken out here in 1921 than in ' the previous year, -the total building cost for 1921 is almost $1,000,000 under the previous year. Construction of feweT large buildings and expensive homes, with greater activity in building of small homes, garages and small build ings is given as the cause. The figures for 1920 were: 1625 permits, J3.03ii.334; for 1921, 2363 permits, total J2.0U0.682. Feast to Be Commemorated. Arrangements were completed yes terday for commemorating the feast of St. Brigld by the Ancient Order of Hibernians and auxiliary. The event will occur next Wednesday night in Hlbernla hall, Russell street and Rod ney avenue. The programme will in clude vocal solos by Kev. E. P. Burke of Columbia universitiy. There will also be violin solos. Rev. W. A. Daly, chaplain of the societies, will speak No admission will be charged." Youth Master of Fire boat. KELSO. Wash.. Jan. 29. (Speclat) E. E. Robertson, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Robertson of this city, has been Appointed master of the fire boat David Campbell at Portland, on which he has been stationed for sev eral years. Until the past few years he lived in Kelso. 'He has had long experience on the Columbia river. Wanted A First-Class Salesman With experience in printing busi ness and large acquaintanceship in Portland. Good position with splendid pay to one who can de liver the goods. This offers a connection with one of the most substantial concerns in Portland. Answers strictly con fidential. Address H 396, OREGOXIAN Vermin to Be Exterminated. LONDON. A society has Just been founded for the scientific extermina tion of vermin. It was christened the Institute of Applied Pestology. Alfred E. 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A fire, spectacular to the eye. disas trous in its consequences, last night destroyed the station and executive offices of the New York, New Haven & Hartford, and the New York, JVeet chester & Boston railroad companies at Willis avenue and Southern boule vard, the Bronx. High wlncts and difficulties of ac cess gave the flames a wide berth and made the work of fighting them almost impossible. N'o estimate ot the loss involved had been made fit a late hour, when the fire was still raging. A girl telephone operator. Alice White, 23 years old. of Brooklyn, the only woman In the building, distin guished herself for coolness and con sideration for others ,when notified of the fire by an excited workman. She stuck to her board, flashed an alarm to each department and to each signal man and station along the lo cal branch of the railroad so that trains would be stopped. All of the men In the building had reached the outside when they thought of Mvss White and one of them, Edward Blakesly, 25. went for her. She said she would do all of her work first. Blakesly fell and severely injured hi leg escaping. The girl made her way out through the smoke. Vatlicr Refards Ie Ell Paving. CENTRALTA, Wash.. Jan. 29. 'Spe cial.) Weather "conditions have greatly retarded paving in the busi ness section of Pe Ell. The city coun cil there at its last meeting granted the- contractors an extension to April 1 to complete their contract. FRENCH TOO MUTINOUS DISCIPLINARY on- ACTIOX DEKED BY MARINE OFFICER. Edict Follows Rebellion of Crew of Aniazone When Walter Re sents Passenger's Remark. (Copyright by the New York World, Pub lished by Arrangement. PARIS, Jan. 29. (Special Cable.) The tendency or French crews to get but of hand and try to introduce soviet principles on their ships has gone so far that Alphonse Rio, Under-Secretary for the merchant marine, has in structed the Marseilles maritime au thorities to take disciplinary action against the mutinous crew of the liner Amaxone. The trouble on the Amaxone arose while the vessel was on its way from Yokohama. During a dispute between a passenger and a steward, another passenger commented: "One does not converse with a waiter." The steward considered this sn in sult and the rest of the crew took his part They determined to serve no food to this passenger until he should apologise. At Colombo they declared they would not work unlt-w.H the passenger were put ashore, and the entire Bhtp's company was lodged on shore until a telegram from the seamen's union at Marseilles ended the strike. The maritime authorities are unanimous in asserting that the crew must be punished. 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