Show fALLING WALL BURIES BODIES BOmES IN Nine Known Dead in Boston Crash CHINESE RESORT j Two Killed 3 8 Hu Hurt t by Fireworks BOSTON July 4 AP AP Nine Nina persons were known to have been killed and probably a great many more lost their lives when a wall of the Pickwick club well known night all-night Chinatown resort collapsed col- col the lapsed during a night before Fourth dancing party early today today- Eighteen persons were taken to hospitals after they had been re removed re- re moved from the wreckage Some of them hem were not expected to live Police Po ro- lice Uce and ana firemen believed many more bodies would be found In the e debris although hope was waS' held out that some of the victims victimS' would be alive 5 CALLS FADE OUT Voices mostly women's were heard calling from beneath th the wreckage during the early hours but became silent later fater More than persons were In the club at toe tee time and nail many other persons had been turned away Just before the crash Many however were be beI believed be- be I to have escaped unharmed through windows In the walls walts t tuat at did not fall Estimates of the number buried burled beneath the wreckage varied from trum I thirty to to more more Inore than thana a a hundred Not all of the dead bodies had been removed from the debris early this afternoon and after three had been taken out It was decided 1 to td a abandon andol this work until hazards that made the work precarious had been removed Plans were made malle to tear down part of or the remaining walls so they would not topple on the rescue workers RESCUED ALIVE After lying pinned beneath pieces of metal roofing and nd heavy joist joists joists' for tor nearly nine hours Mrs Ed Edith th Jordan of Somerville a- a suburb was rescued ed by the firemen abo about t noon She ha had talked to them theta and aDd had been given water through a rubber tube She h had d scarcely reached the hospital however and asked to see her husband who had escaped escape from the building when the crash oc occurred ocl lc when she died She was the ninth person known to have been killed The other two bodies boates s recovered were those of an unidentified titled girl and an unidentified m manS man n. n Firemen had concentrated ir efforts on saving Mrs Jordan She was the only person known t to have been alive In ip the wreckage Work of rescue proceeded slowly Only one wall which stood to toa a lot where vas excavation in progress progress prOK- prOK ress fell but others Gene were er expected ct d to totter Heavy beams and rafters ratters of th roof dangled over the work work- Continued on pa page e 5 B. FALLING WALL BURIES BODIES IN WRECKAGE Continued from page 1 mens men's heads as they dug through the debris SURGEONS OPERATE Screams of those thole caught co could ld be oe heard by bv firemen and doctors hIS tS they pried Into the wreckage Fr From Froma m ma a hole about twenty feet tee tit d' i ithe the basement could be heard the cries of ot women One man was taken taPen out alive allvA only after physicians had ad amputated two of his finger to free him He laughed and smoked a while they operated The wall of the building crashed I suddenly as an orchestra was playing a dance selection More than guests were In the club for fora a night before the Fourth of July celebration Many of them are be believed believed believed be- be to have made their way way out safely The st lowest estimates of the number burled buried was between thirty and fifty while many beld held that at least seventy-five seventy w were re RESEMBLED QUAKE QUAE E. E S Survivors Survivors- said the crash came with a rumble that resembled an earthquake Merrymakers had been setting ot off firecrackers and nd for a moment the dancers thought a giant cracker had been exploded They were on the second floor and andin andin andin in an instant the wall and three floors above them came crashing down Crews of wreckers and riggers arrived arrived ar ar- ar- ar rived mired soon after daybreak to aid the firemen Little hope was held out however of reaching all the victims victims vic vie tims before nightfall A telephone operator was listening listening lis Its toning to the dance music over over the telephone and described what she said was vas a sudden crash DUE TO FIRE A fire swept the three top floors some months ago and the weakenIng weakening weaken weaken- Ing of the partitions there was believed believed believed be be- to have helped bring on the collapse Rubbish that covered the basement basement basement base base- ment was packed in so tight that it was impossible for the rescue workers to use se picks or or- other tools A tunnel from the excavation in inthe inthe inthe the lot adjoining was started tow toward rd the basement and firemen worked with their hands to clear away away the dirt and wreckage The bottom of the basement was was found to be ba of sticky clay and one man who was brought out was was was' found lying on h MB back almost half halt buried burled in the mud Two Killed By Fireworks CHICAGO July 4 AP Two AP-Two Two were dead and and a boy and two men suffered surte from Injuries in pre Fourth celebrations as fireworks despite police ban figured in Independence Independence In- In dependence day observance |