Injured In Hospitals Tell of Their Escape From Death All Express Gratitude for Rescue Waiting Six Hours Pinned Under Girder Seemed Like Eternity, Says Architect Younger Final reels of the nation's greatest movie tragedy and Washington's worst disaster are being run off in the hospitals of the Capital. And the actors--surviving men, women and children-are playing roles of mingled gratitude, curiosity and intense suffering. To visit with many of these and to talk with the physicians and nurses of others, is to comprehend the everyday American in his posite make- of courage, hope, patience, stoicism and humor. injured are grateful for their deliverance from a "horror far worse than any soldier ever eX• perienced in the forest of the Argonne as Joseph Younger, sur• vivor, and veteran of the war described It. Carious to Sée Ruins. They are curious to know what the ruins of the Knickerbocker Theater look like, because they are affected with an awed attachment to the scene of the catastrophe that almost marked their death. Both young and old join in ex• young are glad to talk of the cavepressions of a gratitude, but the in because they haven't yet realized the horror of it. "Sure, I'm glad to talk about it. I'm glad I got out all right, but I can remember lots," said 12-yearold Hubert Nash, as he lay smiling on his cot in a hospital ward. "I got a sister, Mildred upstairs, she was with me, and she's coming out all right, too. "I was sitting in the first row balcony, and when the roof fell in It just threw me on my knees, and my head butted into my sister's back, and that's the way we stuck for five hours. We were both pretty much frozen, and my legs feel pretty cold. Outside of that I'm all right. What's the place look like?" Trapped for Six Hours. With a, reluctance bred of maturity, Joseph Younger, an architect, who was pinned six hours beneather a shell of concrete and wire lathing, expressed his gratitude: "My wife is upstairs in another ward with injuries just like mine, a broken collar bone and strained back. The accident caught us both the same, and we are safe. I don't think any man who survived can say how grateful he is." When asked it he. as an architect. could help shed light on the cause of the disaster, Younger replied: "I'd glad to help all I can. As an architect, I don't think anyone is blame. It was simply the weight of the snow. My ex• perience with building inspectors | prompts me to say that they would never pass a public building unless it was absolutely safe. "Two things saved Mrs. Tounger and myself. First, we were sitting in orchestra near the aisle and when the crash came I shoved my wife into the aisle and fell next to her. Second. the largest girder. supporting the balcony, as remember it. fell just in front of us and shielded us from the mass of concrete and plaster which fell like a giant pancake. Many people must have been killed by that girder which saved us. "It was five hours before my wife was, rescued, and six before they got me out. It was like eternity. It was maddening. Every now and then in answer to my shouts I'd hear the sound of a pick breaking the plaster shell that covered us. Then 3 woman would scream and the pick would strike above where she was thought to be lying. And for ages I'd hear no sound. Afraid of Being Missed. "That was the worst part of it. Mrs. Younger and I were afraid they'd miss us. We were afraid because we could tell fairly accurately that the woman nearby was dead. She screamed, then moaned and then grown still. Others around us in that black mass who were still alive screamed louder than I could shout because I was pinned flat on my back and my wife was. too. "Yes. it was far worse than the Argonne forest. I was wounded there and I saw some pretty terrible trench scenes, but nothing like this." All that remains of the Knickerbocker are the four wells, one of which is curved to conform with Continued on Page Fire. Two Juries May Act in Tragedy Martin McQuade Foreman of Panel That May Consider Charges. Criminal charges, if any result from the Knickerbocker Theater crash, will rest in the hands of the following men who compose the grand jury: Martin McQuade, foreman, and | Herbert Herchberger, W. E. McReynolds, Edward W.