Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 186, Hammond, Lake County, 30 January 1922 — Page 1
THE WEATHER Trotmttir mow la north ana nSn r mow la south portion tonlrb and Tuesday, colder ij wast portion on f'i1?"! T Carj-ev. in xn0it a w, Hammond SOo par month om r.ts ,m ntBI tnnag. 'If pT top. VOL. XV. NO. 186.
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rppw iLOdllLLl Car Flanges Through Railing and Occupants Escape ' Death T &amrCl men emroate to Est Obicc on wild rids enlivened with what pollc say were frwcraent draughts yf aooa,' narrowly escaped a. tragic 4a& v&ac lb aatomobUs tn -which they -w eareenl-ng north In Kennedy Yna early Saturday e-ranlnaT plunged til roach tie railing; of the Kennody awe. rig rr the IJttle CahBMl and dropped tato tie river twenty feet below. On f the eo. taken to his otc tn the polio patrol. Ho was the meat rlosly injured. The others were bla ta care for themseVta. Tha men: William Kodhe, drtwtn-g his 7athe-r ar Harry Mason, WYBlam Irblo, V. 3. Sfctr. atxi JOck Friak. All are of HaawTlU. There wore m arttoeawa to tha aorident. First to arrive on tha sea-aa, howrer, was John P. Seward, watchman tor tha C. I. & S. railroad. He was in hi shanty about 108 feet south wort f the acena of tha accident. when "Young Shay came In and asked mo 1? I had a rope. I had heard tha crash . as tha car want o-rer tha bridge. I sot a ropa and w went out. Frail, Rodhe, and Frisk were standing-, wet. cold and shivering on tha bank. The automobile Iy on U side about half covered with water. Ifs a sedan and the men had smashed a window and had rotten out that way. But Mason couldn't swim or couldn't ret out for ha olung- to the sides of tha car crying for help. We threw the rope to him. but It always fell short. Then I thought I'd better call tha police. I went back to tha shanty to do eo. "When tha cops arrived from East Chlcj.go we went back to the partly submerged automobile. It had sunk lower Into the wavr. I couldn't sea Mason anywhere. His companions had gone. I waa afraid either Mason had run away cr was drowned. "We looked around a little mora and found him lying on the bank of tha river. He had crawled that tr.r and was all In. He revived in the shanty and went home. The others came oac' later. But Rodhe waa bleeding abor his face and' hands pretty badly, e police took him home. The .-., went out to look at the machine aboot a half hour later and when they came In they said somebody lad stolen a tire from the front whf.l of the car. It was the only wheel above -water snJ tha thieves had stretched pianks over the wheel and had taken off the tire can you beat lt? All of th victims of the hilarious ride ware said to be recovering: this moraMEN SUE GARY LINE CJompTT cation due to tha collecting af tha S4 cent street car fare between j Gary and Hanunond have resulted in tiA filing of two damage suits against tha Gary Street Railway Co.. in the superior court at Hammond. Each asks tor 15.000 damages. The plaintiffs ara Louis B. Throop nd Koara A- Locke of Hammond. Their complaints, filed this morning ty Attorney A. E. Tlnkham, relate their difficulties with a Gary line conductor on Monday of last week. They boarded a car in Gary, bound for Hammond. They each paid the conductor 24 cents, the total fare between tha two cities and were handed mall Blips of paper by the conductor.! They allege the papers bore no mark-r-igs to indicate they were of value and phould b saved. At a certain point on the route, the conductors collect a second fare from persons who have not aiready paid for the entire trip. On this particular day. the conduc- s tor approached Throop and Locke and J asked for their checks. They started ' searching for the slips of paper, but! could not find them. They say that the j conductor, demanded in a "boisterous, rude, insulting, high-handed .loud and oppressive mnnner" that they produce : the checks or pay new fares or he would put them oft the car. He 55 said to have declared that they could not put anything over him or get a free ride on his car. When their search for the checks continued without results the conductor called the motorman and rather than bo thrown oft the two passengers alighted. The say that wanted twenty or twenty-five minutes in an open shed for the r.ext car, suffering from cold the while. The plaintiffs say they Were greatly mortified and humiliated through hav5 n the Incident ocrur in the presence if a car full of passeniers and on this t.hev baso their plea for damages. Joseph Mal.wn, school hoy, 133 Roberts a.venue, wis. slightly injured Saturday when he was struck by an auto driven by a Chicago man at Intltacapolis boulevard and Myrtle avc-tsoe.
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BRINGS DEATH W1U the pitiful death of 2 year old Irene Shurka, fatally burned in a mjttenous explosion and fire In the basement of her home at 1213 Benedict ave j Kobvrtsdale, early Sunday morning, lead to the discovery the bomb makers whose operations have aggravated police of the CaJumet district for months or to the discovery of an extensive illigitimate distillery? This is what police and fire officials ara trying to determine this .morning as they watch anxiously at the hospital bed sid of Tom Doishock, roomer at ! the Shurka home, probably fatally burned, in the fire that took the life i of the little girl and only known oc cupant of the basement at the time of the catastrophe. About 8 a. m. Sunday, roomers in tha residence of John Shurka. were startled by an explosion in tha cellar that shook tha two-story brick house. George Totnka, boarder, preparing for church, rushed outside to summon the Are department, as he met Del6hock who burst from the basement. his clothing a mass of flames. Shurka had Just left the house for Whiting where he was going to buy a morning paper. His wlfa, carrying her four days' old infant son. ran barefooted from the boua as the alarm of fire was sounded. Firemen of Company Two under Captain Bader. were told that a little Irene was In the smoke filled rooms upstairs. Firemen made an ineffectual search of the rooms. Finally Deishock Is said to have revealed the whereabouts or the child. Stanley Iukowski, fireman. with Company Two. entered the flame : filled basement and located the child writhering in pain in a comer of the cellar. Lakowski's hands and face were badly burned In his vain attempt to save the lire of the little girl. The child was taken to St. Margaret's hospital, but died early yesterday evening without regaining consciousness from the coma into which she sanfc after being removed from the building. The basement of the residence was guttel by nam.s. Firemen succeeded in keeping the fire confined to the cellar after a hard fight. Peishoch, removed to the hospital. Is said to be in a critical condition. Chief N1H this morning is making a personal investigation of the fire. Chief Bunde has detailed detectives to question Shurka and other witnesses that include Joe Holoman, Andrew Shurka and John Shissolak. all residents of the hose. Hammond police failed to obtain a statement fro ShurkaWhiUng firemen aided !n fighting the blare . Inaluable service was given by Captain Collins and Firemen Wagner and Pemes, accoramg to Hammond fire officials. E EXCITEMENT Knife throwing featured a before breakfast fight at Burnham early this morning. Incidentally they do say (vo men, neither wearing masks and one carrying gun cracked Ernest Knoll, bartender, over the head, rifled the cash register of $30. backed through the door boarded a taxi they had thoughtfully ordered from Hammond .and were whisked away. At least that's the best story about the affair an unsophisticated cub reporter could wean from the reticent lips or the knowing. Police, domestic and Interstate, were noncommital. Witnesses there were nor.e. Of course not. There never are. About the knives. They were real "res. The kind the Mexicans carry in Bill Hart pictures. The participants In the fight ara' alleged to have been fighting for nothing but the love of fighting. That happens often in Burnham. Strenuous efforts are made by the dilettante to re-ive the old days. Every or.ee in a while they fake a fight ever there. Its the best imitation of the good old "two-gun" days Burnham ever sees any more. DEMENTED WOMAN ATTACKS OFFICERS CROWN POINT. Ind,. Jan. 30. Deputy Sheriff Richard Kilborn had an eyperience with a demented woman who he was taking to the Kankakee hospital for the insane on Thursday, which he will not care to repeat and from the looks of the humps on his head and a sprained wrist Dick's trip wns anything but calm. Hazel Brown, the woman in question, weighing 20O pounds, who had been sent to the above Institution from Cook county, was paroled several weeks aro, and had been aoting pretty lively in Hammond and Gary lately. She was brought Into the city court at Gary recentl and Judge Dunn was the victim of her wrath. She was then sent t-o the county Jail here, and it fell to Kiiborn to escort her bac! to Kankakee, which he did on Thursday. AH went well until t.iey reached Kankakee. When she refused to get off the train and pounced on Dick like an enraged tiger. With the aid of the trainmen he finally subdued her and reached the Institution.
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Aimvintu duiuiut Takes Night Ride in Open Car Wearing Negligee. SPtCIAL TO THE TIMES! CinCAv.u. .i,., j.ui. .a. Grace Walker, 22. formerly a "Frisco" dancer in a Gary catSaret. achieved notoriety early yesterday morning when she rode in an open car to St. Luke's hospital, clad in a silk breakfast coat. The driver of the car -was Charles Bcrger, 331'l Michigan avenue, Indiana Harbor. Berger told the hospt'a! authorities j he found tlie frirl in t'.ie lobby of the I Myland Hotel. The management of the j hotel denied Ihey knew or had ever i seen her . The girl made a ets,tment In which j she said she attempted suicide because j of her failure t" obtain employment aj a cabaret sinner. Sho said she did l not know larger althouyh she was ac quainted with a number of prominent young men of Hammond and Gary. She said that until recently she sang in the Nichol Hotel at South Bend. "Girl cabaret entertainers are getting to be a drag on the market," she declared. "It is got-ing impossible to find employment." When told that the man who brought her to the hospital was from Indiana Harbor the girl said: "There Is a bunch erf fellows from around Hammond who patronize the cabarets and brag about how much money their f.ithor's have got and insult all the Rirls. They never jpend more than the law allows. ."I would rather e'.ns; for the mill ! hands in the pood old war days than j the rich men's sons. The mill had bei haved himself in a cabaret and he j liked a good eonx. lie didn't want Jnj decent songs- Why, I used to get a ! hundred dollars a wek In tips in Gary f from the mill hands and I always play- ! ed the pune square. " LECTURER TALKS TO Evolution as Foreign to Religion as Socialism, He Says. Tarcnts of high school pupils comprised the major portion of an audience at a lecture on evolution at the Odd Fellows hall yesterday. Tha lecturer was C. D. Nicholson, of Chicago, and he bpoke under the auspices of the International Bible Students Association. Nicholson said that evolution is rot a part of any science and should be rew j ,,, kii-h fhrwil and university h . J ,,,,.. lie laid the teach - teachers as a theory. He saia me teacnto jng of the theory was destructive religious training because evolution is essentially agnostlc He quoted former President Woodrow Wilson as declaring that evolution is ene of the disuses of science and the base of attacks upon the Bible and Christian doctrines. "Any attempt by s mln'ster of the gospel to co-relate the Christian religion and the theory of evolution is absurd." said Nicholson, ''it Is not scientific. It Is not reasonable and It is not supported by geology or any other science. It is tn conflict with the Bible and cannot be countenanced in our schools unless we are willing to have the Christian training of our children undermined." Nicholson marshaled evidence from the great writers and many scientists to suprort his contentions. He said it was as easy to co-relate socialism and religion as Darwinism and religion. "The theory of evolution Is accepted
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by the agnostic world and It is a sad j tjme fi. me for n to Kno5. commentary upon our clergy that they arp ,)elng. r!,,rf-ed too much for our do not denounce It." declared Nichol- L.as light, teleph one and street ca son. "It would be as sensible for our. Jfervjce- v wi;i never know unles tear-hers to read Karl Marx and advo- ,ve nr)(j out tor ourselves and it is gocate his theory and say that it accords ! iri1E to co(,t some money to find ut. I with the constitution of the 1'nitetl ; im mora-lly convince! that -we axe payStates. Evolution Is as foreign to the . nff to much but it will take facts to )ible as Karl Marx is to the principles j onvince the public service commission, of American government-" I For the sake of the region every mayor
frog, the ti--h a e-hicken snd a i dog are distinct species and always have been." he declared. "There Is absolute ly no evidence that they were volved j from one original species. There Is no i evidence that the human race has evolved as a distinct species. Specimens of men and women preserved in the j ruins of former conizations show that j they were superior physically to our present race and the art and literature of old Rome and Greece have never been equaled. The theory of evolution has been knocked into a cocked hat." SUES AS RESULT OF AUTO SMASH John Rkejik of Whiting today filed suit for damages in the Hammond Superior court against John Tokarz, a Whiting real estate dealer, the result of an automobile accident which occurred December 14. 1920. Skeiik was then employed by the Union Tank Car Co. and was on his way home from work. He was walking along Indianapolis blvd.. and In crossing Pchrage ave... he was struok by the car of Tokara. It was foggy and he was unable to the ap proaching machine until it was too ia.te. His leg was broken and he received other bruises. Several operations were necessary and now it is said th injured limb is somewhat shorter than tbe other. He asks for $25. (HX) damages. Sen-aid, Cleveland & Cleveland are attorneys for the plaintiff.
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I VlItl TslfP I Hill lul5 Several Months to Complete Data for Utility Rate Decreases The Calumet region r.f Indiaira mobilised Saturday night for the drive on the public utilities. City administrations ,of Hammond. Gary, East Chicago and Whiting joined forces with teh plenipotentiaries at the KIwanIs, Botary and Commercial clubs of the north end 'off the coonty in a campaign to force down price. It is planned to disarm the n-tllity corporations by securing an expert ap. pralsal of their physical properties and compile f&cts as to the cost of operation and production. ino concensus orf the meeting was that success could only be attained by a thorough and expert Investigation covering several months which would cost not lass than J25.000 and possibly nearly twice that amount, the co&t to be pro-rated to th various cities. The plea for reduced rates which will be made before the public service commission must be isseVi on the actual physioal valuation of the u'iKtly companies plus the actual cost of operation. As a result of the joint investigation the cities orf Hammond. Gary, East Chicago and Whiting will have a permanent record which can be used as the basis of future complaints. TO ABl'Sfc JiO OXE. It wasi agreed that abouse,, oratory, political thunder and the make shift weapons heretofore used with sorry ! results would not do. The sneakers declared that the campaign must be entered Into with a firm determination to win regardless of expense andwithout passion or malace. The Industries and business and professional men of -the region hare a common Interest wlth'the public in the campaign, it was said. Msyor Brown of Hammond, Mayor Callahan of East Chicarj and the representatives of the city governments of Gary arid Whiting were of one accord in the matter. Chairmen of the various city councils pledged their support to the movement and said they would each do ail in their power to persuade their councils to appropriate. CEOnr.R GEYESt PRESIDES. George Geyer of the Kiwanis club was chairman of the meeting Saturday night which was held in the banqueroom at Carl Iundgren's oafe at Robertsdale. Those present follow: T. Joseph Sullivan. representing I Mayor S-hrago. Charles S. Perel. O. E. I Meek and Charles P. Kloser of Whit ' t-...: j tng; Mayor Brown. Jesse Wilson, David Kmery, F. J. O Rourke. Roscoe h,. Woods. CouncHmen Kesler and Wolf. John F. Beck man. V. A. Parker and W. J. MeAleer of Hammond; Mayor Callahan, A. G. Slocomb, J, B. Camp, bell. Charles Najau. Council"" Robt. Smith. John Bocihnowskt ard J. W. Brlssey, East Chicago, and C. H. Maj Jr,nty or Gary. Maloney carried lnstnictlons from Mayor R. O. Johnson and the Kiwanis and Rotary clubs of Gary. Mayor Johnson and Mayor Schrage vere. representated by proxies. Mayor Johnson was In Indianapolis. MeAI.EHTl RElOtt'TlOX, Attorney W. P. Me.V.eer, author -f the resolution p:ffsed by the Kiwanif e'ub of Hammond w?-.ic'i started th-ior--r'd a(t:i-k upit! t?-.? titii-.tls. wan ;he fi,t to spent . making a n'ei for he otiuk'-k-t and urging that the ma'., (er be h .iiie.l 1 n business-! :ke way. Mr. M'Alfer Fail": "V. don't want to drive .iry oorp" ration oit of to-.vn or 1 An r., l!1Htie to irVMlK bllt th.and councilman snoum me u upon himself to appropriate all tne money that Is needed to win fa'' a flg-ht." IMJIP lrV QUI MCDQ PAM T ! 11 1 TM 1 I 1 1 II 1 L IWl IjM 1 I IIHIUIIUI U II IIWW Ul II I I L INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE WASHING-TON Jan. Ad. . .ie topreme court of the United States day denied to owners of whiskey held in government bonded warehouses their claimed right to withdraw this whiskey on payment of taxes and remove it to their homes. The dorirrton of the court, was read by Associate Justice McKenna. A dissenting opinion was r-ad by Justice McReynolds. Test cases were brought by Charles Cornell! and George J. G'hlo. of St. I.ouis and William B. Ryan of Baltimore. Decisions of low. er courts refusing to permit these individual owners to gfi control of their whiskey were affirmed by the supreme court of the United States. DYER TO SPEAK TO COLORED CLUBS Attorney Charles Dyer of Hammond, candidate for county clerk, has been Invited to deliver the Lincoln's birthday a dress before the associated colored men's clubs of Gary, Feb. 1?.
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Improvement in the Iron and steel trade has been manifested in more frequent small orders and some larger operations by some of the Kast ChicagoIndiana Harbor Independents. An early revival of operations is officially announced for the General American Tank Car Corporation and tha Inland Steel Company. Number Two plant of the Inland Steel company, which is being converted Into a rail mill, is reported to start up February 15. AVhile this Is eomewhat premature as to the first notice given out, that the rail department would not be completed and ready for operations before March 1, the real fact is that the company has been speeding construction work on the rail mills j Liiiw uvm uueni mignt Le pui jn operation, to take care of the larger orders recently receied. The New York Central order for & number of thousand tons and the announcement Saturday that the Inland had booked an order of 5.000 tons for the Illinois Central, are a few of the rail orders to be -.y riTi
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eft), mm (BULLETIN) PNTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE CHICAGO. Jan. 30. Downtown traffic policemen tolay captured two armed bandits who had held up the Commonwealth Watch and Jewelry Company and slugged the proprietor, Leon H. Litt. The capture was effected after a thrilling chase. The bandits gave their names as James Carr and Clarke Norman. (BULLETIN) MNTSPNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! BLOOMINGTON. III.. Jan. 30. Mrs. Daniel Stewart, widow of a wealthy capitalist, was burned to death early today when flames destroyed her home at Anchor, near here. Two other women escaped in their night clothes. (BULLETIN) riNTERNATlONAl NEWS SERVICE JERSEY Cm'. N. J. Jan. 30. A bandit robbed Max Sternberg, paymaster of the Eagle Swiss Embroidery, here today of $1 1 ,600. The robber escaped. (BULLETIN) f TNTER NATIONAL NEWS SERVICE CHICAGO. Jan. 30. An unidentified man, a bullet wound through his head, was found dead today behind a counter in the R. & N. Prescription Pharmacy, which is located about two blocks from "Dea;h Corner" where more than fifty unsolved slayings have occurred. The man's body was found by a clerk who opened the drug store this morning. How the man gained entrance to the store which was locked and barred is as much a mystery as how he came to be killed. (BULLETIN) f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE J LOS ANGELES, Jan. 30. A wind, rain and snow storm that struck Southern California Sunday cau'.ed considerable damage to street car, telephone, electric light and gas service. While local association had not received defin:te reports today, it is feared that there may be some loss to fruit and vegetable crops. (BULLETIN) CHICAGO. Jan. 30. Investigation was under way today of an attempted wholesale jail delivery at the county jail, in which seventy prisoners attempted to batter their way to freedom. l or five hours the jail was in the grip of a riot. The prisoners included murderers, robbers and other desperadoes. (BULLETIN) CHICAGO. Jan. 30. Search was being made today for three bandits who bound and gagged W. A. Kirkham, wholesale jeweler, in his apartment, then attacked his wife and escaped with "5,000 worth of jewelry. Mrs. Kirkham was beaten over the head with pistols and was reported seriously injured. (BULLETIN) f 1 NT rs NATIONAL NEWS SERVICE ROME, Jan. 30. Weekend conferences of the Roman Catholic cardinals indicated today that the deadlock between the factions led by Cardinal Merry del V'al and Cardinal Gasparri could not be broken and that it may result in the election of some comparatively obscure cardinal to the papacy in the forthcoming conclave.
started on February 16. The Information at hand now is that the forty, thirty-two and twenty-four inch mills-' of the Inland will siart work on splice bars February 15, and on March, 1 the rail orders will be commenced. This resumption of Bteel activities is expected to give work to close to l,0u0 additional men and put the Inland Steel operations back to a normal basis. Predictions that 1922 would be one of great activity for car manufacturers were made yesterdav by Max Epstein, president of the G'-reral American Tank Car corporation. The plant, he said, was operating about To per cent of capacity with an early increase in sight. "Orders t or at least 15,000 freight cars now pending will be placed within the next three or four weeks," he said. "The largest Inquiries are from the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, Great Northern and Northern Pacific. Competition cn current business Is so keen that there may not be particularly large profits this year for even those companies which operate at a high rate."
TTk A tUm tfbab (BULLETIN) trHTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE NEW YORK. Jan. 30. Francis Morgan Barber, 76, retired navy captain, committed suicide today at the University Club by slashing his throat with a razor. Grief over the death' of Baron Rosen, a close fr'cr.d, who died recently, is believed to have prompted the act. (BULLETIN) f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE NEW YORK. Jan. 30. Lucien Muratore, famous tenor of the Chicago Opera company, will be operated on at noon today for acute appendicitis. The operation was decided on after a conference of specialists. (BULLETIN) T'NTERNATIONAL NEWrS SERVICE WASHINGTON. Jan. 30. The gaunt walls of the Knickerbocker theatre, surrounding the scene of Saturday night's shocking tragedy, were ordered razed today by John P. Healy, .inspector of buildnigs. They have been unsteady since the roof crashed. (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) MINNEAPOLIS. Jan. 30. Three bandits bound and gagged the night watchman of the Franklin Co-operative Creamery Company, blew open the safe and escaped with $7,500 in cash. (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! SALINA, Kans., Jan. 30. Trie Masonic Temple building was destroyed by fire of unknown origin tcday with an estimated loss of $150,000. (BULLETIN) f INTEVTIONA. NEWS SERVICE ST. LOUIS. Jan. 30. Two thousand painters, interior decorators and paper hangers will work for $1 an hour beginning Wednesday, a reduction of 20 per cent from the present scale of $1.25 per hour. The men involved so decided by an overwhelming vote. 300 weaponsTaken in strike riots NEBRASKA CITY, NXB.. Jan. Sn More than 500 weapons, ranging from small pistols to sawed off s-hot guns, were labelled and piled in the court house here today. They had been surrendered Sunday to the state troops in charge of martial law zone extending four miles In all directions from the Morton-Gregson Packing plant. The first clash since troops arrived occurred Sunday aternoon when a strike breaker was severely beaten, the assailants escaped. The soldiers immediately ordered all pedestrians to their homes and the streets were kept clear until morning. Arrangements have been made by the guard for a stay of at least thirty days. Patrols, armed with riot guns, were doubled about the packing plant today when an attempt was made to resume operations with about one-third normal force. Take Seven Men t In Gambling Raid Seven men rnjoing a quiet litlle poker game were arrested in a raid at 1 f 5 0 Connecticut street in Gary last night. A deck of cards and J3.75 in change which was found on the table were brought to the station as evidence. George Kimball was booked as the owner of the place, while the other six were charged with gambling.
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Roof Collapses Under Weight of Snow on Capital's Finest Moving Picture Palace jHTJRCH CHAMBER OF HORRORS MWTFRNATIOOiAL NEWS SERVICE" WASHISrOTOW, .lau. CO-L-Vli, fn. tertor f T3-a Tirst f torch of Christ. Sciantlat, Just aronnft the corner from thrt mined theater, pec Ranted a grueaoai sight this morning af tar the last mutilated body h.ad been removed to the city morgli or undertaking establishments. Through., out a gajiOr Saturday nifffct and all of a terrible Sunday, the cAurch was literal!, a chamber of horrors. The dead, row oa row, filiad osa side of tha church.. On tha other aide, shirt aloaved and perspiring physicians worked uncaauiagiy over the grotesque, blanket covered lurays held by blood-stained stretchers. One look usually sufficed as to uether the stretcher wra gantly deposited with, tha otfcers la "dead row." if live, they wera even mora gently borne out of the chuxch to whtre ambulances. clr and army, purred la the snow filled street, tlieir motors running, ready to dash, for hospitals. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON, Jan. .to .Exhausted from the 3S hours of unremitting to;-. and heart sick fnoni tha horrible tragedies uncovered in the wreckage of the Knickerbocker trteatre collapse, begrimed soldiers and marines dropped thei rtools .at 8 oVJock this mnrnin? and declared that sUI the bodies had been recovered Iroirt the rile of twisted Iron and cement, that once was t)-o capital's finest ir.ovio palace. The death list ji the sun came u; over the desolate scere stood at all identified. 1!here arc- more than 150 in -WashinpTton hospitals, -ome of thse so terribly tnutilnted that hospital authorities say they can not su: -vive. They predicted the death ht will grow be.fare nig-htfall from those who will die in hoapitls. Some of those in the hospitals hai legs and arms torn off. others chests crushed or terrible ha5 injuries, from the enormous heights of concrete and steel that came burling down on them from the wefijrbt-weakened roof without an instant's warning. Edward H. Shaughnessy, socond assistant postmfuster general, is one of those so seriorjslTe- Injured It is feared he may di. He has a broken pelvis and" internal injuries and blood transfusion already has beer, resorted to In an effort to save his life. Dr. Clyde M. Gearhart, a widely known capi'al dental s-ptcialist, suffered legs so badly crushed, that It was said at his hospital this mornln-g, thev may have to be amputated. His wife and r.ine year old son were lost in the tragedy. A great steel beam fell acrosa the ffl-mily, killing tho woman and the boy, and pinning the doctor, who sat beside them. For more than twelve hours he was conscious undr r-nth the wreckage, with the know edge that his wife and sen lay alorifr side him dead. Mrs. Howard Kr.eest, wife of the viv president of a large automobile firm ; the district, had one leg torn of in terrible manner. Her husband v.. -killed besido her. Th'se are only a few of the ten-; ' tra?"dis w!h-h fill Washington's b p:tal? toa-, and they ser-'e only r. adequately to give a grsnrral'picttrr. the -orst catas-ropbe the n.T' - capital ever witnessed, ard pi of worst theatre disasters In history The scene tround the '-reeked t . tre this morning st sunrise t"'fm!nothing so muCh as a shell-s'.ia' 'a'hedral in some ti'-n if rorth.ci France. The walls remained but '"- lido them wreckage aril splinters o steel, timber and concrete were t ;;r i high in an intricate mass. It may b that this wreckage contains still ther bodies, but the searchers expressed the belief that all bad been removed. At any rate, the work was haJted. It -vi'! be gone over agaJn, however in a'i probability. Tales of heroism tnl unmitigated personal sacrifice came lc the wake ot the tragedy today. O itstarding sniotig the heroes was Albert G. B-j'liler, who gave his lif that others might live. He was discovered by rescuers pinned don by ;i steel girder, but railed out tha. he was not -ry badly hurt and asked that they concentrate their efforts in gettir.ir at the more seriously injured. The rescuers heeded his plea and when he was removed from the tangled majs of debris an hour later it waa too iate to save him. Ten Georgetown college students, living at the S. A. E. fraternity h ms nearby volunterred their bodies fjr blood transfusion to rave the life of Miss Caroline t'pshaw, niece of Rere. sentativc Upsbaw. of Georgia, who bad one foot cut off and the other so bad'y mangled that it may have to be amputated. Iieut. Col . Taylor, bleeding from leg wounds, found that ha could stand upon them and arose from his stretcher as they were about to carry him away snd insisted upon tearing away with his bare bands the plaster and tan?l--d wire skeins that oovered the body of his daughter, who was rescued a'lv A six year A red-hca.f d boy, hof name w a.s not learned, on being remov. td from the rnins. argued hotly against beinff carried away and insisted that he be permitted to rerain until Tils twin sister had teen rescued also. Th rescuers, rutted by the boy'e dlrec- ( Continued, on Page Five) -.