Show RESCUERS mG DIG fOR BODIES IN BUILDING Death Toll May Mayto Goto Go Goto to 15 TotalS Total S 0 d 0 E R E INJURE Dancers Plunge Into Into- Fatal Abyss BOSTON July 4 AP The AP-The Tho bodies recovered from the ruins of tho th Hotel Dreyfus are aU as follows Miss Loretta Keegan 36 of bridge John J. J Scales 21 a singer in th the dance danca club Mrs Edith Jordan of Som Somerville Somer- Somer r- r ville yUle a bride of ofa a few months who died from shock W. W H. H Marr 30 30 machinist of the U. U S S. S coast guard cutter Paulino Pauline H. H Luca The body of an unidentified man was taken from the ruins at 1 30 a. a m. m and was sent to a morgue for attempts at identification By FOSTER EATON United Press Staff Correspondent BOSTON July 4 The The orchestra leader at the Pickwick clubs club's all aU night dance raised his baton to signal for an an encore of f the Twelfth Street Rag today but never brought it An unseen uninvited guest the spectre of death stood at his elbow Instead of or the crash of brass and stringed Instruments there followed followed followed fol fol- fol- fol lowed the sudden cataclysmic collapse collapse collapse col col- col- col lapse of ot the old story five Dreyfus hotel in which the clubs club's dance Bance was was' being held Club members representing tho the ultra Bohem n set city who were waiting on or the dance floor for forthe forthe the music men with their arms I around around- their partners partner's waists never neer took the first step of the next dance CEILING FALLS FIRST With only a preliminary warning the ceiling fell feU In upon upon the revelers the floor gave way beneath their feet Vt Men den and anil w women r n crushed crashed by the tho taB fall of ot beams arid and plaster of dragged Into the terrible vortex ot of human flesh and debris w were were re ca car ned to death or injury In an In In- In stant x Buried Burled beneath tons of ot masonry and timber Umber three were killed six more mor bodies have Been lieen sighted by byi i rescue workers who tolled toiled throughout through through- out the day to reach them and a a. score score badly hurt are In Boston BostonI I hospitals I I TOLL PLACED AT 15 Conservative estimates were made tonight that the death ton tOll may reach fifteen At 10 p. p m. m m. eighteen eighteen hours after the building collapsed five collapsed five bodies had been recovered and two others were in sight of the rescue workers making a total of seven definitely known dead A report by the ret cue workers workers' earlier in the day had indicated two other bodies had been seen The night before the Fourth dance Is an annual affair The dance danco was at its Us height about 2 a. a m m. ENCORE SOUGHT I l had just finished playing said Joseph Downey of Jamaica Plains relief saxophone player said We Ve had torn off the Twelfth Street Rag flag and the tho dancers were ing lag the floor applauding There came a few rumbles rumbles' as though an earthquake was the building The w wp ills shook and rattled and then the whole ceiling seemed to crash In Ia upon us writhe at the same Instant the floor slipped away beneath jeneath our feet Those inthe In Inthe the center of the floor got it worst I saw one couple torn apart The Theman Theman Theman man was struggling to pull his partner part part- n ner r back to safety but she was carried carried car car- ried tied down by the debris He lie was one of the few lew who escaped without injury |