Washington, DC

Knickerbocker Theatre Disaster

January 29, 1922

LIST OF DEAD AND INJURED

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. – Following are names of identified dead in Knickerbocker Theatre disaster:

Out of Town Victims.
ALDRICH, GUY S., Salt Lake City, brother-in-law of Senator Reed Smoot.
ERNEST, S. H., engineer, Brooklyn, N. Y.
FREEMAN, G. S., South Bend, Indiana, violinist in orchestra.
KANSTON, OSKAR, his wife and two daughters, HELEN DOROTHY, aged fifteen, and ANLYN, aged seven, 3847 North Winchester St., Chicago.
LEHMER, LEROY and wife, Mt Vernon, New York.
MURRAY, JAMES W., The Plains, Virginia.
SAMMON, W. B. Kammerai, Wyoming, student at George Washington University.
SCOFIELD, W. S., Danville, Virginia
STEPHENSON, CLARENCE B., 49 Franklin St., Boston
VANCE, CAPTAIN R. H. C., Fredericksburg, Va., former officer in British Army, and his wife.
WALTERS, WILLIAM, Brooklyn, student at Georgetown Medical School.
DUTCH, MISS MARGARET, Ludington, Michigan.

Residents of Washington.
ATKINSON, MARY E.
BAKER, ALBERT.
BARCHFIELD, A. J., former Congressman from Pittsburg, Pa.
BARCHFIELD, MISS, his daughter.
BEAL, JOSEPH W., Musician in Orchestra.
BELL, ARCHIE
BOURNE, T. A.
BRAINERD, CHAUNCEY, C., Washington Correspondent of Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
BRESLAU, BURNIE
BROUSSEAU, WILFRED, North Adams, Mass., student at George Washington University.
BUEHLER ALBERT
COVALL, MRS. B. H.
CROCKER, WILLIAM M.
CRAWFORD, W. M.
DALE, MRS. MARLINE
DORCH, MISS CLARA
DAUBER, VINCENT
DICKLE, WILLIAM I
DORSEY, THOMAS F.
DUKE, KIRKLAND.
ELDRIDGE, GUY S.
ELDRIDGE, A. G.
ELDRIDGE, MRS. A. G.
ERNEST, P. X.
FARR, L. M.
FIEGE, CHRISTIAN, Musician in Orchestra.
FLEMING, JOHN P.
FLEMING, MARY LEE, sister of above.
LAMBERT, MISS ANNIE LEE.
FOSTER, MISS ESTHER
GARVEY, MISS AGNES
GEARHART, MRS. CLYDE M.
GERHART, MRS. M and SON
HALL, MRS. VERA
HILLYER, DOUGLAS
HUGHES, WILLIAM G
JEFFRIES, JOHN M.
JEFFREYS, MISS ELIZABETH
KNESSI, HOWARD G
LAMBY, PAULUS
LYMAN, DAVID
McKIMMIE, WYATT
MELARTINDALE, MRS. GERTRUDE
MIRSKION, MISS AGNES
MONTGOME, MRS. GENE
MURPHY, M. SCOTT.
LAFLEN CUTLER, Page in House of Representatives
SPROUL, LEVERNE, son of Congressman Elliot Sproul, of Chicago, also a page in the House.
MURPHY, MISS VERONICA
O’DONNEL, D. F.
OGDEN, MISS VIVIAN
PESSON, MISS CARRIE
PRICE, MISS HAZEL
RUSSELL, MRS. MARIE
SEGOURNEY, MRS. CORA C.
SMITH, MRS. MARIE H.
STRAWYER, LOUIS W., Washington Correspondent of Pittsburg Dispatch.
STUGIS, VICTOR M.
TAYLOR, MISS GERTRUDE
THOMPSON, MISS CHRISTINE
THOMAS, MISS GLADYS
TRACEY, WILLIAM
TUCKER, COL. CHARLES C.
TUCKER, MRS. CHARLES C.
URDONG, JACOB
VALENTINE, LOUIS I
WALFORD, MILDRED
WALSH, MISS M. E.
WATELL, H. W. D.
WALSH, D. N.
WARNER, CAPTAIN G. R.
WALKER, JOHN L.
WALKER, MRS. JOHN L.
WESSON, MRS. ANN D.
WHITE, IVAN J.
BICKEL, WILLIAM J.
BICKEL, MISS M. C., his daughter.
BICKEL, L.
BOWDEN, MRS.
CANBY, W. M.
EHRHARDT, MRS.
FLEMING, THOMAS
GRANT, O. D.
GRANT, MRS. O. D.
JACKSON, D. K.
NEWSON, N. CARRIE
SCOTT, WILLIAM
WARREN, E. R.

Missing,
[illegible] Atkinson
Preston Bradley
Joseph Croke, Georgetown student University [illegible] 67 Sagamore St. Dorchester, Mass.
Margeret M. Dutch
Mrs. Virginia Farraud, sister of Guatemalan Minister Julio Bianchi.
David Garvey Bodden
Louis Pitcher
Mrs. Louise Valentine
Mrs. Rose Urdong

The Injured.
Close to 200 persons were reported by the police to have been injured, many of them seriously, in the Knickerbocker Theatre tragedy. Most of them were local people. The more prominent included the following:

Thomas Artillo, Attache at the Italian Embassy, crushed shoulder, cuts to head.
Mrs. Guy Eldridge, bruises (Her husband was killed).
Dr. Clyde Gearhart, leg amputated (His wife was killed).
Captain J. H. Hills, United States Army, leg crushed
Mrs. Howard G. Knessi, bruised (Her husband was killed).
Lieutenant Colonel Mosell, Marine Corps.
Miss Mosell, bruises
Major Moses, United States Army
Mrs. James W. Murray, bruises (Her husband was killed).
Ernesto Natiello, leader of the Orchestra, leg broken, arm amputated.
Miss Bessie Russell, bruises (Her mother was killed).
Edward H. Shaughnessy, Second Assistant Postmaster General, extent of injuries unknown
Mrs. Edward H. Shaughnessy, two ribs broken.
Ruth Shaughnessy, ten years old, arm broken.
Miss Martha Strayer, daughter of Louis W. Strayer, Washington Correspondent of the Pittsburg Dispatch, who was killed, bruises.
Nathan Urdong and M. I. Urdong, bruises (Their father was killed).
Colonel C. W. Wesson, bruises (His wife was killed).

The out-of-town injured include the following:
J. L. McCarthey, University of Maryland, back wrenched, condition serious
B. T. Monohan, Wakefield, Rhode Island.
W. L. Peters, White Plains, New York, student at Georgetown University, cuts and bruises
Caroline Upshaw, niece of Representative Upshaw, of Atlanta, Ga., leg amputated.

The Bridgeport Telegram, Bridgeport, CT 30 Jan 1922

Transcribed by Jenni Lanham.  Thank you, Jenni!

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