CINEMA COLLAPSES.

Northern Advocate, 30 January 1922, Page 5

CINEMA COLLAPSES.

UNDER WEIGHT OF SNOW,

NUMEROUS CASUALTIES.

(Received 9.f!0 a.m.)

NEW YORK, Jan. 28

The New York "Times' " Washington correspondent reports that a heavy load of snow caused the collapse of the roof and walls of a cine-ma theatre, c-atohing 500 persons under the debris. Five dead have been removed and 75 seriously injured taken: to hospitals.

It is believed many mo-re injured and dead will be found. The entire Eire Department and the (marines who guard the Disarmament Conference arc clearing the tldbris. —A. and N.Z.

PITEOUS MOANING.

FRANTIC RELATIVES.

(Received 11.45 a.m) WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. The cinema theatre which collapsed was . situated in one of the finest residential districts in the city and often was attended by Government officials and diplomats. Among the dead are two noted correspondents of American newspapers and a former member of the House of Representatives. •Hundreds of men, women and children, relatives of those entombed, struggled to break within the cordon which was stretched around the scene of the disaster. Moaning could be heard froan the debris, which consisted of a mixture of concrete and steel. The snow blizzard continued all night, hampering the rescue work. The collapse of the roof is attributed to hasty, wartime construction. —A. and N.Z.

MOST SERIOUS DISASTER,

MORE THAN 100 DEAD.

NUMBERS SERIOUSLY INJURED,

(Received 12.15 p-m.)

WASHINGTON, Jan 29

It is certain that there will be more than a hundred dead in the cinema crash, which is the most serious disaster in Washington's history Thousands of firemen, marines, soldiers, policemen and volunteers worked all night in the debris and are still digging and .bringing out the crushed dead and injured. The hospital is full of dangerously hurt persons who are not expected to live. Shops throughout the district are being used as temporary hospital quarters. Many of the injured are suffering from exposure to the night's cold. The theatre, which was one of the most beautiful in the city," seated 2200, and every night was filled to capacity. The storm has fortunately decreased in violence, and so .saved many more hundreds from death. The dead already recovered uumlber 90 and the injured 250. —A. -and N.Z.