Cheraw chronicle. (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, February 02, 1922, Image 2
STREAM OF BODIES
TAKEN FROM RUINS
t
LITTLE CHURCH THROWN OPEN
AND USED AS FIRST AID
STATION.
Graphic Description of the Pitiful
Scene of Mangled Dead and Living
Is Given by Eye Witness.
Washington.?Recovered from the
wreck and horror of the ruined Knickerbocker
theater, a pitiful stream of
mangled bodies, dea<t and living, flowed
all Saturday night and Sunday into
the lower rooms of a Christian Science
church a few hundred yards
away. At the first word of the disaster,
the place was thrown open to
these stricken folk and the hundreds
of others who came to search for their
dead or injured.
And as the full weight of the losses
became known, the dead monopolized
the space, crowding the injured in the
all-too-small rooms.
It wa3 merely a first aid station for
those taken crushed, but alive from
the wreckage. They were carried on
stretchers over the slippery pavement
with lines of soldiers keeping the
crowd far back.
Doctors and nurses and women
eager to bring their sympathy and
cheer to the suffering or bereaved
waited in the church. They tenderly
washed away the gray dust of the
crumpled concrete, the grime and
caked blood, blackened sometimes by
hours of waiting pinned Under the debris
until the rescuers cut the victim
loose. Bandages were applied and
the injured were whisked away to
hospital or home.
But the dead lay long in double
rows in which they stretched across
the floor, lay until a tearful relative or
friend, a husband or wife or father or
mother, recognized the crushed form
at last. Up and down these aisles of
the dead walked those whose fears
had drawn them here because of some
one missing in the family circle.
Women already weeping in certainty
of what they.must find sooner
or later beneath the kindly blankets
that shielded the sleepers made the
journey of sorrow many times before
they found what they sought.
Men with working faces leaned to
draw back the coverings and then
gasped with short lived relief as they
moved on to the next huddled form.
Some of these seekers came with
the dirt and griirfe of the wreckage
upon them still. Some had passed
through the crash of roof and balcony
only to leave a dear one dead in the
tangled mass.
They had worked hours with the
rescuers to find that one, only to return
now and then for a hurried trip
to the chamber of death.
Eleven Husbands and Wives.
Eleven times death struck down
husband and wife, side by side. They
died as they had sat to see the swift
picturing of the film.
But many other times it was only
the wife or husband who perished
and the survivor must make the terrible
pilgrimage of recognition in the
grim chamber of the dead.
The times when children were taken
were sparingly few.
Usually the big theater has been in
its earlier hours of a Saturday night
the gathering place of a host of youngsters
who come with their parents for
the week's amusement. But the
storm that wrecked the Knickerbocker
kept most of the little folk at home
that night.
Up the long path, trodden through
heavy snow, that run from the impromptu
morgue to the Knickerbocker,
struggled the stretcher squads, army
and navy men chiefly. Commissioned
officers of the military services held
the doors of the church entrance, and
with exquisite gentleness and sympa?
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lliey Slltfu uui iiiusi: ??iu ouu^ui iu?ii
dead from others drawn by morbid
curiosity.
Above all there was quietness at the
church in spite of the urgent and
never ceasing activity. Of the losers
in the Knickerbocker disaster, neither
the physically hurt nor the bereaved
gave voice to their suffering, and it
was the testimony of the first who
reached the theater that the outcry
there in the ruins was little and soon
stilled.
Died in Ruins.
Some of the victims were alive
when the rescue work begun, but died
before the saving hands could reach
them. One girl child pinned under
a beam died with both hands in
those of an army officer who was
those of an army officer who was directir
her releagse. One man. pinned
beside his dead wife was freed
from pain with hypodermic needles
and survived the long night to a safe
removal.
A moment after the crash. Father
John Floerch, priest of a nearby
church, entered the ruined theater.
Knee deep in the snow that covered
all fcr the benefit of the dying
around hint, he gave general absolution
and the final rites of the
church to the dying. Then he helped
in the rescue work.
Notable was the speed of the Red
Cross organization, whose local chap.
ters forced their way to the theater
site across the city whose transportation
lines had been paralyzed by the
snow, anil set up canteens for the
workers, hospital facilities for the
wounded, ambulances for the dead
and and the injured who had to reach
operating centers.
Ambulances and private machines
gathered up the injured as they were
brought out. Finally a string of army
ambulances arrived from the Walter
Reed hospital with sacks full of bandages.
Doctors came from everywhere.
army and navy and civilian
doctors.
All through the night the work of
rescue went on. It was evident that
nothinc could he done for many of
the victims until the weight of the
wreckage could be lifted. A call to
the navy yard brought blue jackets
and hydraulic jacks and oxy-hydrogen
jets to burn through the beams
DELEGATES PLAN |
NEW CONFERENCE
UNITED STATES, JAPAN. ITALY,
GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE
TO BE REPRESENTED.
0. S. TO NAME TIME-PLAGE
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Preparations Will Begin Immediately
Upon Conclusion of the Washington
Negotiations.
Washington.?The ground work for
another international conference to rewrite
the laws of war for the submarine
and other new agencies of attack
on land agd sea, was completed
by the arms delegation.
Under a resolution adopted by the
armament committee, preparations for
v.~ ?/><? nnnforon will hecin inime
IUC uc n vvu4v? vmvv ?
diately upon conclusion of the Washington
negotiations. The United States,
Great Britan, Japan, France and Italy
will be represented, and the American
government will select the exact time
and place of meeting.
The first step toward revision of
warefare regulations is to be taken
by a "commission," presumably com- 1
posed of international law experts
without plenipotentiary powers, but
the resolution provides that after they
have agreed the five governments shall
"confer as to the acceptance of the
report and the course to be followed
to secure the consideration of its recommendations/
by the other civilized
powers." j
It is taken for granted tfliat
questions of national policy as well
as legal considerations will enter
into the final decisions reached, and
that the whole problem of the submarine,
one of the storm centers of
the Washington conference, will be
reopened when the powers face
each other once more about the
council table. It is possible that
the tentative agreements reached
here both as to submarines and
poison gas will be passed along in
their pi^bsqpt form to provide a basis
for the renewed discussions.
The armament committee adopted
the resolution at a short meeting called
while most of the other activities
of the conference were waiting on a decision
of the Shantung controversy. j
The far eastern committee liKewise i
met and readopted its recent declara- |
tion on the Chinese radio situation, at
the same time entering on the record j
supplemental suggestions of the pow- j
ers and of China on which no unanimous
agreement could be reached.
Robbers Kill Cashier.
Pittsburgh.?Five men walked into :
the First National Bank of Crafton,'
a suburb, and after killing Harold 1
Moss, assistant cashier, forced five i
clerks and a woman customer into a i
vault. They robbed the bank of approximately
$30,000 in cash and ne-1 i
gotiable securities and escaped in an I
automobile toward the open country. (i
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THOMAS GETS 18 YEARS;
OUT ON $20,000 BOND .1
Concord, N. C.?Bond in the sum
of $20,000 was arranged here for
O. G. Thomas, and he was given his
freedom pending the outcome of his
appeal before the supreme court, i ,
The bondsmen are C. W. Swink, ,
Concord; C. E. and J. G. Lotfe, of
Kannapolis.
A sentence of 18 years in the
state prison was imposed upon
Thomas, found guilty of second do;
gree murder for killing Arthur J.
Allen, by Judge J. Bis Ray.
Notice of appeal to the supreme
court was given by Thomas' attorneys,
and Judge Ray fixed the appearance
bond in the sum of $20,000.
j
In sentencing Thomas Judge Ray
declared that his decision had been
influenced by his sympathy for the
wife and mother of the defendant,
"who have sat faithfully by his
side." "At first I intended to give
the prisoner the full limit of the
law." he stated, "but I feel a great
sympathy for the wife and mother, i
and I cut the sentence to 18 years."
I
North Carolina Negro Released.
Hamilton. Ont.?Matthew Bullock,
American negro, wanted at Norlina,
N. C.. by authorities on a charge of
inciting riot, was released by the immigration
authorities. An immigration
board first ordered Bullock deported
but the government on an ap;
peal, reversed this fin ling.
Nelly Bly is Dead.
Now York.?Nellie Bly, newspaper 1
; woman, who achieved fame by a spectacular
trip around the world in rec-|(
ord time, died at St. Mark's hospital, j
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Urges Appointment of Farmer.
Washington.?Apopintment of Dr. I
Alva Agee. secretary of the New Jersey
state board of agriculture, as a
member of the Federal Reserve Board,
was urged upon President Harding by!
Senator Frelinghuysen of New Jersey'
and Dr. E. W. Kemmer, professor of
economics at Princeton university,
the appointment to be contingent upon
the passage of pending legislation increasing
the membership of thp board
to eight. Senator Frelinghuysen at
the White House declared his belief |
that the legislation would be passed. .
Cotton Picking Machine Invented.
Washington. ? The cotton picker, '
whose stooped figure has been almost
- ? . * i
symbolic since tue staves or ancieni
Egypt parnered the white harvest
along the Nile, has at last found relief.
jj
J. C. Stugonburg. in Memphis, Tenn.. I
the heart of the cotton section, has invented
an electric cotton picker which i
it is claimed will not only lighten i
albor for the field worker, but will also
greatly increase his individual efficiency.
acording to his announcement
here, in applying for a patent.
/
List of the Identii
Washington The
Washington, Jan. 29. ? The
identified dead in the Knickerbocker
theater catastrophe are:
Former Representative A J.
Barcbfield, formerly of PittsDurg.
P*
Miss Helen Barchficld, daughter
of thr forme*- senator.
Archie Bell, formerly of Vineland,
N. J.
Chauncey C. Brainerd, Washington
correspondent of the Brooklyn
Daily Eagle.
Mrs. Chauncey B. Brainerd.
\Vilfred iiroBseau, Norm Adams,
Mass., student of Georgetown.
(juy S. Eidndge, Salt Lake City,
burother-in-law of Senator Smoot,
of Utah.
Oscar G. Kanston, Chicago, his
wife and two daughters, Helen and
Anlyn.
Cutler LaFlin, Jr., aged 16, Chicago.
Miss Nannie Lee Lambert, formerly
of Asheboro, N. C.
John W. Murray, The Plains, Va.
W. B. Sammon, of Wyoming,
student of George Washington uni
TClOll/i
W. L. Schoolfield, Danville, Va.
Laverne Sproul, aged 17, Chicago,
nephew pi Representative
Elliott W. Sproul, of Illinois.
Lewis Strayer, Washington correspondent
of the Pittsburgh Dispatch.
,
H. Conroy Vane, Fredericksburg,
Va.
William - Walters, Brooklyn, N.
Y. student at Georgetown univversity.
Mary Ethel Atkinson.
Joseph W. Beal.
William G. Bikle.
Thomas R. Berne.
Mrs. Daisy Garvey Bowden.
Albert Buehler.
William M. Candy.
Mrs. D. H. Covell.
Mrs. C. M. Crocker.
Vinson W. Dauber.
Thomas M. Dorsey.
Mrs. Helen Dorsch.
A. G. Eldridge.
F. H. Ernest.
McC. Farr.
Christian Feige.
John P. Fleming.
Miss-Mary Lee Fleming.
Thomas Fleming.
G. S. Freeman.
Mrs. Clyde M. Gearhart.
URGE CHINESE TO ACCEPT
Far Eastern Committee Debates Without
Final Action the Wireless
Facilities of China.
Wastfhigton.?1The aid of President
Harding has been enlisted by the
xrms delegates to bring Japan and
China into agreement on Shantung.
Taking a direct hand in the Washington
negotiations for the first time,
the President urged the Chinese to
accept the latest compromise offer and
thus remove irom me nem 01 coutroversy
a subject which has become
\ serious barrier to the progress of
the whole conference.
Whether the move is to succeed appears
to rest largely with Peking.
The Japanese already have indicated
informally their willingness to make !
the principal concessions proposed,
and the President approached the
Chinese only after the Japanese ambassador
had informed the state department
that his government was
ready to accept a tender of good offices.
The settlement plan sponsored by
Mr. Harding deals only with the return
of the Tsingtao-Tsinanfu railroad,
substantially all other questions having
been agreed upon in the separate j
exchanges between Japanese and Chinese.
Under the proposal Japan
would abandon her proposition for
a loan to China, and the latter would
purchase the road with treasury notes
paydble at option 5 to 15 years hence.
Considers Doctor Work.
Washington. ? Dr. Hubert Work,
first assistant postmaster general, as
a matter of formality, has submitted
his resignation along with that of his
chief. Postmaster General Hays.
Housing Projects Will Be Sold.
Washington. ? Shipping Board wartime
projects at Wilmington. Del.,
Chester, Pa., Bath, Me.. Groton, Conn.,
and Essington, Pa., whose total orig- j
inal cost approximated $11,650,000, i
will be eoid by auction within the next
few months, it was stated by Sidney
Henry, commercial manager of the
Emergency Fleet corporation.
Union Park Gardens, at Wilmington.
Del., comprising 503 dwellings,
one apartment house and two stores
of brick or brick and stucco construe-!
tion, will be sold at auction.
Superphone Gives Absolute Secrecy.
Washington.?The "superphone." an
apparently simple attachment for tel?
i?io cot/1 fn acunro ;ilmn.
t?pilUUr>9 niiu n ao p?iu vw wuwm.v m
lute secrecy of communication and security
from interruptions and make
possible multiplex telephony, was demonstrated
in the office of the chief
signal officer of the army. It was
shown that one telephone line to i
which "superphones" were attached
could he used for a number of conversations
simultaneously and that no
pair of speakers could hear or interrupt
another pair.
Much Illicit Liquor.
New York?At prevailing prices of
illicit liquor, seized beverages today
before the United States courts here
in 5IS actions for disposal are worth
tknn *1 roe 000 fw-r-nrdlnsr to the '
muitr man < *
assistant IT. S. district attorney.
The seized goods consist of 15,273
gallons of wine. 220 gallons of gin. 7.- J
U3R gallons of high proof alcohol. 14.- !
039 gallons of whiskey, 401 gallons of
champagne. 190 gallons of brandy. 107
gallons of low-proof alcohol and a
Iscellaneous collection of confiscated
salt cases, trunks and automobiles.
"ied Dead In
;ater Catastrophe
F. H. Hall.
Douglas Hlllyer.
William G. Hughes.
Saniel K. Jackson,
iss Elizabeth Jeffries.
John M. Jeffries.
Howard W. Kneesi. .
L. L. Lehler.
LeRoy Lehmer.
Mrs. LeRoy Lehmer.
Wyatt McKimmie.
Julian McKinney.
Ernest E. Matellio.
Mrs. Norman E. Martindale.
Miss Agnes Mellon.
Mrs. Jean Miysky.
Miss Veronica Murphy.
Miss Vivian Ogden.
D. F. O'Donnell.
Miss Lois Price.
Miss Marie Russell.
Mrs. Cora C. Sigourney.
Mica \TaHp H. Smith.
Victor M. Sturgin.
Mrs.vGertrude Taylor.
William Tracy.
Miss Glayds Thomas.
Charles Cowles Tucker.
Mrs. Charles Cowles Tucker.
Jacob Urdong.
Mrs. Jacob Urdong.
Louis F. Vellyntine.
Mrs. Louis F. Vallyntine.
Miss Mildred Walford.
John L. Walker.
Capt. Wm. E. R. Warner, quartermaster
corps, U. S. A.
Mrs. William E. R. Warner.
Mrs. Charles M. Wesson, wife of
Col. C. M. Wesson, ordnance department,
TJ. S. A.
Ivan J. White.
Miss Margaret Dutch, Luding*
ton, Mich.
Aliss M. C. Bikle.
Mrs. Virginia Ferraud, sister of
Julio Bianchi, Guatamalan minister
to the United States.
Scott Montgomery.
William A. Walters.
D. N. Walsh.
Jack McKimlie (brother Wyatt
McKimlie).
Christine Thompson.
Thomas Lamby.
Miss E M. Walsh.
Kirkland Duke.
Esther Foster.
Russell Maine.
Mrs. Carrie Parson.
Albert Baker./
Miss Frances Bikle.
Dr. James F.' Shea.
W. N. Crawford.
ncuni mcctiwh DncTDiMfi
ULIlUrt HILL 11IVU I UU11 UI1LU
PROLONGATION OF WASHINGTON
CONFERENCE GIVEN AS
REASON BY ITALIANS.
Would Be Impossible to Assemble So
Lar^e a Gathering as Contemplated
for Genoa in Six Weeks
Washington.?Postponement of the
assembling of the Genoa conference,
set for March 8. will be necessary, it
was said, in Italian official circles because
of the prolongation of the
Washington armament meeting.
Even if all other factors were favorable,
it was said, it would be practically*
impossible to assemble so
large a gathering as fhat contemplated
for Genoa in the six weeks remaining
before the tentative date.
The difficulty has not been lessened,
Italian spokesmen said, by the delay
on the part of the United States to
formally announce their attitude toward
the projected gathering.
Members of the Italian delegation
do not hesitate to express the opinion
that the proposed conference could
be expected to accomplish almost
nothing without the participation of
the great credit nation of the world,
Close connection between the Washington
conference and that in Genoa
was seen by some delegates, who de
elared there could be no effective
pruning and rearrangement of Eurolean
budgets, considered a necessary
preliminary 10 any succesnui n-i.ujustment
of European economic conditions,
until positive steps have been
taken toward reduction of naval armaments
at least. Unless such reduction
is assured by the Washington
conference, it was declared it would
be useless to hold a conference in
Genoa for economic reconstruction.
Ford Offer Reported.
Washington .? Legal officers of the
war department completed the final
draft of the contract which Secretary
Weeks will send to congress^ with
"comments" attached covering the
proposal of Henry Ford for the purchase
and lease of the government
properties at Muscle Shoals, Ala.
Final touches were given the docu
ment after it had been carefully
studied by Mr. Ford's representatives
here and said by them to be a very
satisfactory presentation of the offer.
Training of Men is Planned.
Washington. ? Training of 3.000
officers and 20,000 men in each of
the nine army corps areas during the
coming summer is planned by the war
department, Brigadier General Wil
liam Lassiter informed the house
military committee.
Outlinging the plans of the War
Department. General I^aasiter said
ihe troops would be assigned not only
to the one main camp which the War
Department desires to retain in each
corps area, but to a number of other
camps.
New Treaty Proposal.
Washington.?A new treaty between
the United States and Germany to
create a commission for arbitration of
private damage claims growing out of
the world war probably will he negotiated
under a decision reported to
have been reached at a dinner conference
at the White House between
President Harding. Secretary Hughes
and republican lenders in the senate
and house.
Another new administration policy
said to have been agreed upon was for
a loan of $5,000,000 to Liberia.
EARLY ACTION ON
I BONUSJORECAST
RESOLUTION PASSED INSTRUCTING
WAYS AND MEANS COM- #
' MITTEE TO FRAME BILL.
NO OPPOSITION TO MOTION
Declares that Once Reported the
Measure Will Be Given Right of
Way in the House.
?
Washington.?Early action in the
house on a soldiers' bonus bill was
forecast when republican members at
a caucus adopted a resolution instructing
the ways and means committee to
frame a bonus bill and declaring that
once reported the measure should be
the continuing order of business until
passed. No opposition to the resolution
developed, it was said.
j While ways of raising necessary
: revenue for a bonus were discussed,
I it was said no instructions were given
the ways and means committee as to
! what revenue raising provisions
should be placed in the bill. Members
j were generally of the opinion that
it would be advisable for the committee
first to thresh out this point,
and have the republican membership
of the house privileged, after the bill
is reported, to caucus again, particularly
on that feature of the measure.
Sentiment was expressed, it was
said, in favor of making the cash provisions
of the bill less attractive and
those providing for insurance and
home and farm aid a more desirtble
option. Several members were said
to have urged that cash payments be
somewhat reduced so that more veterans
will be inclined to take advantage
of other benefits.
This, it was said, would require less
! initial revenue.
Incidentally several ways of providing
necessary revenue were suggested,
among them a sales tax, issuance of
bonds secured by the foreign- debt
and use of interest paid in by nations
indebted to the United States.
: .Chairman Fordney, of the ways and
means committee, assured his colj
leagues that his committee would act
, with the prospect that they would be
brief and that the bill would be reported
very soon.
Harvey to Talk With Polncare.
Paris.?It was reliably stated that
George Harvey, American ambassador
, to Great Britain, will tell Premier
Poipcarte during his brief sojourn in
Paris on his way from Cannes to London,
that the United States may yet
consider being represented at the
i forthcoming economic conference at
; Genoa, provided France will consent
to full participation in that gathering.
Small Number of Bachelors.
Washington.?The proportion of
married men to the total male popu,
lation of the country 15 years of age
aud over increased from 55.8 per cent
i to 59.2 per cent in the ten years preceding
the 1920 census, according to
a compilation of martial statistics
made public by the census bureau,
i, The bureau believed, however, that
this was probably more indicative of a
change in the age composition of the
, j population^?an increase in the percentage
of males between 15 and 25
? C ??? inorooen^ Immt.
Vtfitrs Ul tt^C UUC IU lUkictlovu ........
igration?jthan a growing propensity
'of matrimony.
Of the total male population of
53,000.4:11 above the 13-year classification.
the census figures showed 21,*
! 849.266 married, 1.758.308 widowed,
and 235,284 divorced, the l.itter figure,
' however, including non-divorcedvand
remarpifd. The divorce total showed
an increase of 20 per cent in its ratio
to the total population during the
10-vear period, constituting six-tenths
! of one per cent of the latter against
five-tenths in 1910.
Thousand Injured.
London.?A cable dispatch to the
Evening Star from Rome says it is
reported there that fresh disorders
have broken out in C'>iro. Egypt, resulting
in !90 persons being killed and
more than 1.000 others injured. British
troops, the message adds, quelled the
insurrection.
Government Loans.
Washington. ? The Boston and
Maine railroad applied to the interstate
commerce commission for a loan
from the government of $5,000,000 to
run for 13 years. The money will be
used to pay off a note of like amount
The Atlanta. Birmingham & Atlantic
railroad also asked for a government
loan of $615,000. offering the
government receivers' certificates as
security. The application said the
money would he used to pay off existing
short term iidebtedness held by
banks.
Preserved Greens Caure Five Deaths.
Boise. Idaho.?The death toll stood
at five in the family of Charles W.
Tuttle. Cambridge, Idaho, as a result
of botulinus poisoning from eating
|preserved greens at a birthday dinner
; for Harriet Tuttle. youngest member
of the family. Two daughters and
three sons are dead and the father is
not expected to live. Miss Bessie
1 c TJlWfloll TllttlfV
V ICTHT, 111, ? hl.cov,
another son. who also partook of the
poisonous vegetables, have not yet
I shown symptoms of the poisoning.
Woman Enters Race Against Hubby,
Richmond, Mass. ? Mrs. Herbert
Dorr, of this town, has announced her
| candidacy to the offices of town clerk
and town treasurer in opposition to
her husband, who was nominated at
i the democratic cauc us early in the
week. Mrs. Dorr declared that one of
| the most prominent politicians in
Richmond said that the idea of a woman
being elected to a public office
was only a fad and would soon pass
over. So she has decided to show him
a thine or two, she says, and might as
well begin right at home.
101 lives' lost
in washington
134 OTHERS ARE INJURED WHEN
MOVIE THEATER ROOF
COLLAPSE8.
SOME SECI00SLY INJURED
Volunteers Work in Snow and Cold
for 24 Hours Taking Dead From
Heap of Debris.
Washington.?Official police records
placed the known dead in the Knickerbocker
theater disaster at 107. Elimination
of duplicated names brought
the final total down from the unofficial
peak at 112 at which the toll of
the catastrophe was placed.
The list of injured stood at 134 with
14 listed as "seriously injured."
The official list, according to the
authorities, contained the names ol
all those whose bodies had been recovered
up to midnight from the ruins.
The volunteer workers, including
police, firemen, marines and cavalry
from Fort Myer, had practically concluded
their search of the wreckage
at ipidnight.
The exact number in the theatei
when the steel and concrete span of
the roof buckled and fell under Its
three-foot load of snow probably will
never be known. The stories of perhaps
a hundred who got out uninjured
have been reported. These account
for a few more than 300 in the audience
that was roaring in laughter at a
filmed comedy when the roof fell on
them like a blanket carrying down
the front of the wide balcony in its
crash.
Normally, the theater has had every
seat filled at that hour, and nearly
2,000 persons was its capacity. The
same unprecedented snowfall which
brought death to the venturesome few,
kept the many at home. Street car
traffic had been abandoned and
streets and sidewalks were all but
impassable with drifts.
There has been no time as yet fo.
official inquiry as to the cause of the
disaster. The ruins themselves disclose.
however, that the entire mass
of steel-held concrete that formed the
roof had come down. The crash swept
the supports out from under the balcony,
apparently, and this hinged
down at an angle of 45 degrees, adding
to the tangled mass of wreckage
on the floor below.
The building stands in an acute angled
corner at the 18th street and Columbia
Roads, northwest, the heart
of the most favored residence section
of tme city. The narrow niche
of the stage on which the screen
was hung was backed into the corner
angle while to the left from the
stage the line of the auditorium runs
in a straight fine for some 200 feet
down 18th street.
This whole space stood roofless to
the sky a moment after the first hissing
sound of the breaking roof gave
warning above the music of the orchestra.
There is only one survivor
thus far who has told of having heard
that warning and seen the first powdery
handful of snow sift down over
the head of the orchestra leader in
time to make his escape. From his
seat well forward on the main floor, he
raced for the doors at the back. A
great blast of air, expelled as the roof
came down, hurled him out through
the doorway to safety.
Washington. ? The only known
North Carolinian killed in the Knickerbocker
theater disaster was Miss
Nannie Lee Lambert, a native of Asheboro,
who was a government employe
working in the war department.
Virginia Citizens Victims.
Richmond, Va. ? William Lovick
Schoolileld. of Danville. Va . who was
killed in the collapse of the roof of
the Knickerbocker theater in Washington.
was the son of Mrs. James E.
Shoolfield. of Danville. Samuel Schoolfield,
a brother, wired to relatives in
Danville informing them of the positive
identification of the body. The
mother, brother and two sisters of
young Schoolfield at present are in
Washington, according to teleghaphic
advices from Danville.
Fully a dozen citizens of this state
are dead with many injured. It is
known that a Norfolk girl had her
arms torn from her body when the
roof caved in. One Richmond man
was killed. His body has been recovered.
Miss Elizabeth Jeffries, formerly of
this city, who was injured internally,
was taken to a hospital where she later
died. Her brother, J. M. Jeffries,
also was killed. Their father was L.
E. Jeffries, vice president of the
Southern railway.
Explorer Dies on Ship.
Montevideo. Uruguay. ? Sir Erriest
Shaokleton, the British explorer, died
January 5 on board the steamship
Quest, on which he was making another
expedition into the Antartic regions.
Death was due to angina pectoris
and occurred when the Quest
was off the Uritvicken station. The
body was brought to Montevideo on
board a Norwegian steamer and will
be taken by another steamer to Eu
rope. Capt. L. L. Ilussey, of the Quest
will accompany the body home.
Postmaster, Wife and Daughter Hurt.
Washington. ? Edward H. Shaughnessy
of Chicago, second assistant
postmaster general, Mrs. Shaughnessy
and their two daughters, Myrtle and
Ruth, were injured. Mr. Shaughnessy
seriously, in the Knickerbocker theater
disaster. At the Walter Reid hospital.
where Mr. Shaughnessy was ta
ken after his rescue from the debris
several hours after the roof of the
building fell in. it was said that the
assistant postmaster general was suffering
from a broken pelvis and internal
injuries.
STATE FAIR TO BE '
HELD WEEK LATER '
OCTOBER 23 TO 27 IS SET AS
DATES FOR BIG EXHIBIT
THIS YEAR.
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I COMMITTEE TO MEET LATER ,
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Spring Gathering of Fair Society to ' Meet
in Columbia February
Fifteenth.
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1 Columbia.?Dates for the next South
' Carolina stale fair have been dehnite?
ly set for October 23-27, according to
D. F. Eflrd, secretary. Mr. Elird said
that an effort was made to change the
time this year so that the fair would
be held one week later than usual, t
but as it is on a circuit and Atlanta
and Birmingham were not willing to
unaii^e tueir uaius, 11 wua iiecesaai jr
to keep the same week. ?
The annual spring meeting of the
fair society wllh be held February 15
in Columbia, probably at night as is
the custom. At this time the new president,
Robert M. Cooper, of Wisacky,
1 who was elected last fall, will take
charge, and the vice-president, John D.
W. Watts, and the new executive committee
will go into office. The secretary
and treasurer will be elected at
a meeting of the executive committee
immediately after the society's session.
Members of the executive committee
elected last fall are: W. M.
Frampton, Charleston, First district;
R. B. Cunningham, Ulmers, Second district;
J. G. Gambrell, Ware Shoals, t
Tnird district; 0. P. Mills, Greenville,
Fourth district, t. I. Guion, Lugoff,
Fifth district; J. L. Mcintosh, Dovesville,
Sixth district; D. G. Ellison, Columbia,
Seventh district. Mr. Frampton,
Mr. Guion and Mr. Mcintosh were
on the committee last year.
The executive committee of the fair
will meet in Columbia for probably
three days at which time departmental
heads will be heard and conferences
will be held with the representatives *
of various civic organizations of Columbia.
The society last fall adopted the
report of the special committee that ;
was appointed in 1920 to look into
the advisability of forming a stock
company to take over the fair, this
committee recommending at October
meeting that a campaign to raise ^
$100,000 be begun to put the fair association
on its feet This committee
also recommended that Section 2 of
the constitution be changed so as to m
rotate the members of the executive
committee. Under this plan two
members would serve for one year,
two for two years, two for three years
and one for four years. It was also
recommended that the commissioner
of agriculture be added as an executive
committee member. The report, *
made by J. L. Mcintosh of Dovesville,
was adopted, but other than
that no action was taken, leaving the
recommendations to be decided upon r
later. Members of this committee
were: R. M. Cooper, Jr.. of Wisacky,
W. M. Frampton of Charleston. J. L.
Mcintosh of Dovesville and W. A.
Clark of Columbia.
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Will Reopen Bank.
Anderson.?The plan of Jamee
Craig, state bank examiner, to reopen ^
k the People's bank was that all depositors
sign and return a card "stating
that they will allow their deposits to
remain in the bank for ona year, the
bank to pay 5 per cent. Cards to this
effect were sent to all depositos. and
a.% as? Tho firqfr f!nV m
liiey art? icium^u. ...v. ...... ?
there were amounts to $477,uOO, and
today Mr. Craig says the cards have
been returned in excess of $700,000.
The bank has a deposit of $1,000,000 *
but it is believed that almost to a man
the cards will be returned with the
full promise, and Mr. Craig says that
he hopes to reopen the bank in less
than 15 days after it closed.
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Physicians Meet at Edgefield.
Edgefield.?The convention .of the
Second district of the South Carolina
Medical association was held in the
court house here. There were about
30 physicians in attendance from Saluda.
Richland. T.cxinrton, Aiken and
Edgefield counties.
Negries Rob Merchant.
York.?J. B. McCart^r, merchant
and farmer, was held up and robbed of _
$35 by two unidentified negroes at. bis
store about six miles west of York. |
Mr. McCarter went to his store at the A
.request of the negroes, who claimed 4
thev wanted to make some purchases.
While he had his head turned one of
them covered him with a rev >!\er
and fie c'her went hrioieh his pockets
and secured the tnoncv Mr McCarter
did not know either of the rob- *.
hers and there are no lues as to their
identify.
Accidental Shot Fatal In Oconee. *
Seneca ?Otis Grant. 19 years old,
was accidentally shot a few days ago
while on a hunting trip and died the
following day from the wounds.
Young Grant and Grady Ellis, a
brother-in-law, were in an automobile
planning for a hunt. While attempting
to get out of the car, Grant let
the gun come in contact with the
running hoard of the machine, causing
the gun to be discharged. The load #
passed through the muscle of the right
arm and entered Grant's side, causing
a fearful wound.
Federal Officers Make Raid.
Greenwood.?Armed with sawed off
shotguns, federal prohibition officers
and officers from Greenwood and McCormick
counties made raids in the
vicinity of Clarks HliJ in MeCormiek
county, resulting in the arrest of Ave
negroes, alleged to have been captured ?
operating stills, the destruction of a
large copper outfit and innumerable
parts of liquor making equipment including
hundreds of fruit jars, according
to ofTicers. The five negroes wer?
brought to the Greenwood county Jail. ^
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