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Show Captain Works To Rescue His Wife and Child WASHINGTON, Jan. In tho west end of the pit of the theatre the most frantic rescue work appeared to bo under way This was because tho cries of he crushed could bo heard plainly from under the steel girders. Squads of marines were feverishly I working In this sector of the pit. tearing tear-ing up the wreckage with hugo stool levers. When hole was cleared soldiers toM, ended Into it end worked gentlv with hand axes und small shovels around those parts of the bodies thai could be seen. A doctor went Into the I pit whenever a body was discovered. Captain J ,H Hlllls. an officer of the marine corps, directed the rescue of his own wife and child, who were pinned beneath the wreckage. He worked frantically, tearing away steel and timbers with Ills bare nKndfl Ris FOR "W VI ESt, WAT! K Jn one section of ihe wreckage a woman and a little boy. evidently her son, could be seen far down In ti." mass. They moaned, water, water" it was impossible to extricate them I at once because of Ihe heavy Steel beams that covered them. Finally a ten-year-old boy was lowered through la small hole and managed to hand u cup of water to the woman. At 12:20 an unidentified man with practically nil the clothing torn away from abovo his waist, was carried out. His chest had apparently been crushed flat by tho weight of a huge girder, and a physician pronounced him d ad. In front of the theatre were drawn up Red I'ro.ss and private ambualnces, 'each of which required a small corps of marines to get started because of the banked snow. Some bodies were rushed around I the cornel to the pnpal location, W. L. Peters, a Georgetown student, was In the theatre with two voung women. wom-en. They escaped. ' There was no warning of the crash.' Peters said at Garfield hospital. hospi-tal. ROOF I M i s IN. ' We were seatol well toward the ' front of the theatre. Suddenly half of the picture on the screen was cut off. I I glanced up and saw a mass, the I roof, although l did not realise It at the moment within a few feet of our I heads, Without knowing what the danger was, I realized something was ' wrong, and called to my companions I to drop to tho floor. They did and the two girls und I were able to crawl ' out before the backs of the seats were ! crushed In by the weight of tho roof Although we were not more than ! 26 feet from an exit, that crawling escape between tho seats seemed to last un eternity. Of course, it was ink black and as wo felt our way along, not knowing where the next movo might take us. our blood was chilled I by the groans of the dying and tho I piercing cries of the injured who were ! crushed In their seats. All around us, too, came the terrifying sound of I crumbling benches, a sound the' made I uh think each second would bo our ; last. SCREAMS Pi l i 1 1 1 SLY. One of the badly injured men lying ly-ing on his stretcher on the sidewalk before B confectionery stun- In the vl-jclnlty vl-jclnlty of the theatre screamed plle-ously plle-ously In his pain. His cries could be heard ringing through the corridors I of tho building and by the thousands i gathered on the streets outside. Ropes were tied to a temporary i crane on tho rear of the building In in etiort to remove sortie of the larger I steel girders from the pit of the thea- tre. Tho appearance of this machine was the signal for another effort to j clear the lobbies of the theatre as those In charge of the work of rescue , thought the strain of the crane against I the walla might cause them to cave I in. |