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Show Soldiers Call for Hacksaws to Liberate Pinned WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (By International In-ternational News Service i Cries of "gangway for Gods sake" rang through tho lobby of the theatre as the rescue work proceeded. News-pap., News-pap., men v. ere thrown out or the lobby and many physicians and surgeons sur-geons were also thrown out by poli e and soldiers and sailors Doctors had trouble In Identifying themselves One of the doctors produced from his bag a hypodermic needle and waving it before an officer, broke through 'the 9 ranks ot guards and led several fellow fel-low physli i.iiim into the building At 11:30 bodies of two men were taken out of the west entrance. 1 hey I were badh battered and bloody. Col Charles Coles Tucker, prominent promi-nent Washington lawyer, and his wife, are missing from home and relatives rela-tives fiar that they were burled In the theatre crash. PHOTOGR VPHERS BI 81 Great se.m blights were thrown on the ruins to aid the workmen In their task of rescue. Prom limo to tune explosions ex-plosions accompanied by flashes of light outside the theatre indicated that tie photographers were making photographs pho-tographs of the ruins from every position po-sition they wore allowed to reach A Catholic priest arrived on tho scene and went Into the ruins with a physician prepared to give the last s o ram nt i . i I., ,1., i A few minutes arter midnight a cry for stretchers rang through the building and about S ddzen were rushed In by soldiers from tho front ami rear end building. Two camo out a few minutes later With victims of the accident. A marine mar-ine with a hack saw went into the ruins to cut his way through the mass of steel which holds down the roof RIE8 l R BAM 8, Of all the cries which came from the workers in the ruins, that for hack saws was most frequent. L "Will no one give us a hack saw"'' tho soldiers yelled. Helen Hopkins, 22. of 1920 Bllt-more Bllt-more street, was among the Injured taken out. "1 was sitting in the balcony when I the roof collapse, i it came without warning. The crush was terrible and I cries WSre still more terilblo." She was not badly Injured. C. P. Alexander of 1230 Rlltmoro , street was also among those only I slightly hurt. "Those of us who were In the balcony bal-cony got off comparatively light," said Alexander M HUMS ARK HEARD. "When the crash came tho screams were enough to drive one mad. Part of the roof pinned me In my seat and curiously enough a little boy was thrown on top of me, helping to pin me down." Mrs Mary ll Smith. 60. of 1913 Columbia Road, was caught in such a fashion under the fallen roof In tho I rear that although the workers could see her, they have not yot been nblo to reach her. At 11:45 p. m. the walls gave signs of weakening and a great cry went up among policemen and firemen for the j crowd to beware Marine officers Immediately Im-mediately stationed guards In such a position as to prevent the public com-I com-I Ing within range of any wall which might fall. At midnight, the body of F. H. Ernst, of Brooklyn. N V.. district manager of the Dictagraph Products company was brought Into tho Gar-tieh! Gar-tieh! hospital. He was badly crushed I and dead The Kirsi Church of Christ Scientist, on Colombia Road, near the theatre, was thrown open as jan emergency hospital at midnight ! and scores of Injured were treated I there by doctors who set up working ; quarters in tho church. |