Evening star. [volume], February 05, 1922, Image 73

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Interior view of the Knickerbocker
Theater, with soldiers, marines, firemen
and civilians digging into the ruins, taken
late last Sunday. Stage in background,
and exit at right leads to 18th street.
l'iioto by I. I'ridKoou, j?liotoif raphe
Bird's-eye view of the wrecked theater and crowds last Sunday. Photo
graph taken from Woodly Courts, with roofless theater at right.
Photo l?y E. II. (JriH'n.
Soldiers and firemen cutting the heavy steel girders and removing the blocks
of concrete. All the debris of the interior of the theater was hauled with
ropes through two exits leading to the 18th street lobby.
Photo by Prhlgcon.
Many of the workers in the theater ruins kept on the job
for thirty-six hours without relief. This photograph shows
the heavy girders and great slabs of ceiling plaster.
Xlltioiial Photo.
Crowds of anxious relatives and friends of the missing about the wagons of the under- Through snow almost waist deep the soldiers carried their stretchers from the theater to the improvised morgue at
takers near the Christian Science Church. The bodies left the temporary morgue as soon the Christian Science Church. This sad work was continued through Saturday night and all of last Sunday,
as they were identified.
National Photo.