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Show Ghastly Scene Disclosed Under Light of Torches (International News Service) WASHINGTON. Jan. 28. At 12 3r soldiers and marines began bringing In sandwiches and coffee to the rescuers rescu-ers who paused In their work of digging dig-ging to devour the food and gulp down . the steaming coffee. At 12.37 another body was brought out. The dress of the doctors varied a'-most a'-most as much as that of the soldiers .nnd sailors There were army medical captains and majors, spick and span, hn khaki and Sam Browne belts; thoro were civilian hospital internes In white duck suits which soon became besmirched; be-smirched; nnd there were tho regular regu-lar civilian practloner.-i in civilian suits derby hats and carrying the little black satchel. The work of removing the debris had not progressed far until one of the I most ghastly sights of the catastrophe was revealed. A huge girder of steel had crushed a row of seats, and In the outer edge of the row was se-m the body of a man almost cut In two by the girder. Bcforo the body could be removed. It was necessary to cut the girder with an acetolyne torch and during this process, which lasted several minutes, the full light of the flame was thrown dlrectlv upon the victim's face. PERSHING APPEARS Shortly after one o clock General John J. Pershing appeared on the scene and assumed general supervision supervi-sion of the rescue work. The scene of the disaster was one Of utter confusion for hours after the catastrophe. Tho regular forces of policemen and firemen were utterly unable to cope with the situation, and soldiers, sailors and marines were traftcd Into service from nearby sta- 1 Inna Major General John A Lejeune, commander of the I'. B Marine corps, and many other high ranking army and navy officers asslster In the work of rescue which was carried on under dlfflcultb r The work of rescue was carried on under the fitful glare of cloctrb torches torch-es and automobile noarc blights. Evan matches were used Dotted hero and thore over the tangled Jumble of steel and Concrete were tho steady blue flames of torches whii h were brought Into play to cut through tho steel girders and beams that Inipi Isonsd the sufferers below. At 1.15 this morning police said It would not bo possible to get an accurate ac-curate check on the number of killed and Injured for hours, perhaps not until late tomorrok, so dlffh ult Is the work of rescue from the Ki'.it mountainous moun-tainous Jumble of debris that docs mi yield to picks and axes, but tak acetylene torches to clear away, FORM EXDIJXS CHAIN A high naval station officer at 1 oclock appeared In the lobby of the demolished theatre and for the tlmo being took command of the situation. He called together all officers of tho na und marine corps whom he could get around him and delivered ordora Me organized an endless chain of 'lis men from tho depths of the ruined theatre to the street outside. The men fell to with a will and the work of removing re-moving debris began. Great pieces of steel were passed rapidly along by the soldiers, sailors and marines and hugo I chunks of concrete Or plaster were Juggled by thorn llko a medicine ball. The men in Uno wore nearly every permissible per-missible kind of a uniform from the blue dress of the marines to the uniform uni-form of the sailor. Two unidentified young girls wen. carried out dead from the ruins. Tho girls were evidently twins and were dressed Identically alike Th Ir bodies wore taken to the morgue. Father (i'Callaghan, one of the assistant as-sistant prksts of st Matthews' church, went through the crowds of injured as thev were being brought out, administering adminis-tering extreme unction. Next rescue from the row of crushed seats after eight doad had been removed, re-moved, was a viung woman who was still alive, though apparently badh injured. in-jured. A 7-year-old girl, whose scream filled the alr for hours, was rescued at 1:20 o'clock. The girl had been mated mat-ed In the last -ow of the theatre with her mother, sister and brother The workmen guided only by tho cries, manage,! tr. place a heavy plnnk againsl n big wall of plaster and having hav-ing raised it, proceeded to drag the steel beam and other wreckage from under it and beneath it all wedged in by a huge girder that pierced h- r left arm. smashed her hand and broken her shoulder, the little girl whs found |