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S-TIirc HARTFORD HAILYJOIMIANT: A TIT A Y.jjJI A' S.JOn., Circus Folk Stunned By Scorched Ruins Of Circus Bandstand Charred Wagons Are Grim Reminder Of Tragedy Great Fire Red Cross Specialists Sent Here Disaster Service Field Representatives New York, Boston Arrive For Relief Recall Acts of Heroism During; Disaster, Speculate On Future of Show I1V TtC. ROBKRT KNSWOUTll. Red Cross specialists in disaster relief work began arriving in Hartford early Friday morning from New York and Boston to assist in meeting emergency needs of relatives and victims of the Ringlinr Brothers and Barnum and Baile; circus fire which claimed almost 150 lives and resulted in injuries U. 250 more. Thrv're standing around tneir red and yellow railroad cars, stranded.

They're show folks without, a show so the nerformcrs of Ring-ling Brothers and Barnum Si Bailey sit on train car steps and quietly telling for the first time the real story of what happened behind the scnes during Thursday's Hartford circus fire. "What am I going to do?" asks grim-faced Felix Adler. the King of the Clowns. "I'm going to stick with them. My performing pig is safe, but they won't need him for a while.

My dad is a builder, and nobody knows it, but I'm a pretty fair carpenter myself. They need men, and here's one ex-clown whos going to help rebuild." Felix was comforting his teary. eyed daughter, Muriel. This teenager had joined her father in Providence just two days before the blaze to tour and become a per former. Before it started ner car eer was through, like those of 600 center ring stars.

Yet as I walked up from the trains through emer- gency police cordons to dressing tent on the show grounds, most per-j formers were quite optimistic, On this stand the band played until the heat became unbearable and the canvas threatened to collapse. Only the charred ruins of the kettle drums and organ remain, for as the musicians jumped to safety they carried their instruments with them and formed immediately outside the tent playing to divert the lost Circus wagons are a grim charred reminder of the tragic fire that paint of all circus equipment on tlr lot. tCourant Photo.) swept the "Big Top" blistering the Photo.i Animals Survive Disaster Fire Few Minutes Earlier Or Later Might Have Caused Bigger Disaster BV EVERETT I). IiOW. Hartford may at the same time i i i.

fili.il tlir lire nail niitrtlt llCiru, be grateful that the propoitions of rMcue squads lound tne dyillg the circus fire calamity were not and injured heaped against the run-manv times greater, as they well ways stamped to the ground by the might have been had the contI.gr.-ISa tion broke out a few minutes before itew moments later, in the normal or a few minutes later. course of the circus program these children and frantic adults. iCourant Known Dead Following is a list of circus dead identified at the State Armory 'morgue on Friday bringing the total iauu a 10,. Abatti, Mary. 41 Ashford Street, Adams.

Mrs. Gertrude, 63. 47 May iiM gt Hall, N. identified iby father Rpi-opn Mary, 45. 75 Lincoln Bergen, Mrs.

Mary. 75 75 Lincoln en urn. though still stunned. I Baker, Fred 62, Bolton; identl- "Thev we're all going back tojfied by son-in-law. iney.ayyreu Pleasant Valley; Sarasota to re-form a new snow.

trt tjfi, hv r.np we'll finLsh the season, but ne Aamr-. here in Hartford for the investiga lion. S0" Pwt Had the fire started less than five minutes earlier. theUwo metal am- mal cages in mid-arena would have been filled each with more tnnn a score of performing lions, tigers, leopards, pumas and bears. As the tragedy developed virtually all of the wild animals had left the big cages in the arena when the fire began climbing the roof of the big top.

Some had already been prodded back bv circus attendants to their places in the cage wagons outside ithe north wall of the Dig top 'through the two collapsible runway caes caces across me niuuoarome mien, had an arm smeared i1 Birch, Marguerite, 36. 232 Orange burn ointment. Patty who works I Meriden; identified by hus-the bulls as a girl elephant tram- ban(J r. was a level-headed heroine in dlev Frank 38 Fairview, Sims-the eyes of all big show personnel burv; identified by a neighbor, as they recounted fire incidents Badrick, Edlth i0, 551 Hills Street. calmly5 anc accurately for the first ast Hartford; died at Municipal time Friday.

Hosnital. hands eot the animals off the lot i within a few minutes of the start of 1 i a lu aiunmw ictucu iU in n.v tne tent wall to the lotcumstance which may have cut the l-j T.ni nosn -Vnen me oaxia s.iulji. uH disaster march. Patty kept her, v. follnoi trrampr reDOrted.

Tflhtwd two buckets of water tasi naruuru, lui-iiuiitu uv unmsi. uvaiu jams ana lieius. UntciHo Th ht.nct still frpp in thp Burns, Annie. 50, Unionville; diedi The next morning the animals were once more on the lot indifferent, as those shown above, to bvi at MuniHnal Hnsnita 'rlpqtriiptinn nil urniinH tbpm Pnnrnnt Phntn I D1K Cages Were qulCMy QIlen Much of the death and injury toll Street, East Hartford, identified by. was exacted by these runway cages, Frank Callato friend which blocked escape particularly Hp Minn'iP j'? nf i7n nnv at the runway at the end of the showKirls use to wash in and raced field Avenue.

to performers' entrance. There she ciark, Mrs. Emily. 68. 116 Webster Morcowicz.

Stephanie, 31. 24 Mor-tossed them on flaming trunks of identified bv Dr. Madden. Street; identified by relative, clown props, raced back for more cook, Edward, 6, 4 Marshall Murphy. Mrs.

Walter. Plainville. buckets The slight girl made a street; died at Municipal Hospital. North, Irene, 7, 3 Linden Street, dozen such trips in the bedlam. Cosgrove, Mary 52, 24 Linbrook Rockville; idenUfied by father, bringing buckets still filled with Street, West Hartford; identified by O'Bryan, Daniel, 7, 441 Highland laundry to Tang on the inferno." cousin.

Street, Manchester; identified by Threi small blazes threatened Derby. Carolyn, 6. 19 Boswell uncle, dressing tent as buring cinders from Street, West Hartford; identified by O'Connor, Mary 48 Tremont the bis top fell on the canvas roofs. William Derby, father. Street; identified by son.

feaitrrc hv riilluc Anna 37 Tncirpll 1 nm r. 1 nnz xtttt DuHaskas, 541 Hudson Street, Hartford. Berube. Anne 5, of 23 Church Street, Plainville, Identified by father. Carrier, Jacqueline, 4.

77 Orange Street. Hartford, identified by mother, Mrs. Rolande A. Carrier, same address. Connolly, Edward 11.

51 Parkway Brooklvn identified tent near 'he rear entrance. To by Hvrnan Karuk gether, they provided obstacles that Keilin Shirlev 17 of VIS Asylum hemmed in all the hundreds ol spec- Avpnup wt "Hartford" identified -la trs who sought escape in the bv Sam Kellin "auI0a, a in front of the entire re- Kiihniv Mr Tinrnthv whitp'served seat section along the north SMSotatiM bv'slie of the biS lP- Inri1 nrt i Standing about four feet high and iin Prn I nearly as broad, their metal bars str'Jf tnem almost unscalable to mpSh LSL fis vpr Children and women as any obtainable was most nrecarious. At la wtl Siloo? bv Richard Casev. 68 White Street. wan Quick action on the Dart of circus iPark Avenue.

West Hartford; Pistopio, Mrs. Carmelio, 39, 63 Elmer Street; identified by son. Prost, Eva, 25, 44 Capen Street; identified by husband. Prost, Rochelle 44 Capen Stid fa her! Putnam. Mary.

10, Storrs; identt- delist. Rester, Elizabeth. 24. South Cov- entry; identified by father, Rester Terry. 27, South Coventry; identified by father.

Roberts. Mrs. Theodore, Winsted; died at Municipal Hospital. Surdam. Katherine.

62, New Hartford; identified by brother-in-law. Testa, Vincent, 10, 320 Garden i 1 noil Avenue, rtoenvi'ie, laenuueu -uii, n-ont nn purhrrenssri thp Hiffirnltv nf unpr-tatnrs circus attendants into the runways, runway was straddled by a single wooden stairway, perhaps six feet Snelgrove, Ralph. 48. of Usher Avenue, Plainville. identfied by Dr.

F. G. Boardman. Snelgrove. Mrs.

Ralph. 42. same address, identfied by Dr. Board-man. Smith, Joan, 6.

Park Avenue, Bloomiield. missing. Hager. Audrey. 22, Marlborough, identfied by husband.

Burdick. Edith, 10, 551 Hill Street, East Hartford. Merman, Lillian of 243 Franklin Avenue, a child. Kavalier, Cynthia, of 65 Griswold Drive, West Hartford, a child, identified bv father. Samuel L.

Kavalier. Mattson. Theresa, 45. of 256 Spring Street, Meriden. Mather, Sarah Elizabeth.

26 Ash ley Street, a child. Norris, Agnes, of Road. Middletown. a child. Bovejean.

Freddie, of 379 Hillside Avenue, a child. Hiznes. Peter, of Lakeville. a child Mason, Jarvis of 48 Hick ory Lane. Boveiean.

Stephen, about 8. 379 Hillside Avenue. Boyejean, Alice, age undeter mined, snme address. Wabreck, Lorraine 13, New Hartford; identified by father. West Simsbury Family Feared Missing, Safe Simsbury, July 7.

(Special.) Fears spread in West Simsbury Friday that the family of Vernon R. Tuller. a mother, father, and two children, had lost their lives in the circus fire in Hartford. Neighbors became alarmed when they found the family had not come home overnight. A dog tied outside the house Street; identified by uncle.

Sergeant and Mrs. William J. Di- Toth, Regina, 11, 14 Woodbine 1 nePn Street; died at Municipal Hospital. Duhamel. Alice 25.

77 Orange Vienng, Mrs. Mildred 27, 297(RtrPPt Hartfnrd IrW.ifipri hv Mrs Meanwhile, Red Cross workers 1 the Hartford Chapter continued their night and day assistance in hospitals, in the homes of the victims and at headnuarters whpre telephones and teletype mach'nes were busy receiving and answerii inquiries from cities in all parts of the United States. Dr. Harry Kleinschmidt. director of health and welfare of the North Atlantic area, and Miss Gertrude Landmesser, RN, Red Cross nursing representative of Massachusetts, collaborated Friday with local medi ical authorities torprepare a wav for the future rehabilitation of patients.

Miss Landmesser, who worked extensively in the rehabilitation of Cocoanut Grove fire victhns in Boston last year, will work in cooperation with Miss Hazel Dudley of the State Health Department Advice on Skin Grafting. She will assist in making the necessary arrangements for the Red Cross to provide patients with such essential treatments as skin grafting and plastic surgery. Dr. Kleinschmidt has been conferring with Dr. Alfred L.

Burgdorf, city health officer, on similar arrangements. Red Cross Disaster service field represenatives from New York reached Hartford early Friday to assist the local chapter in an advisory capacity. They are Mrs. Mar-jorie W. Cruse and Miss Marian McVeigh.

A registration and information sub-committee of the Disaster Relief committee, made up of 15 social workers from local agencies, made calls on 59 relatives and families of victims of the fire to survey their needs and make available to them the many Red Cross services. The social workers will continue to make calls until all families of the injured or dead have been contacted. The Red Cross is prepared to make temporary loans to bereaved families. Inquiries from about 50 Hartford soldiers stationed as far away as New Mexico and Colorado regarding their families here poured into Red Cross headquarters Friday. For the most part, the Red Cross was able to reply that all was well and that their families had either escaped safely or had not attended the circus.

It was also the duty of the Red Cross to inform about 10 overseas servicemen that their relatives here perished in the conflagration, or were injured. Captain Goldstein Informed. Captain Leonard Goldstein, stationed in the Pacific area was notified that his wife. Mrs. Sylvia Goldstein, and 3-years-old daughter, of 25 Andover Street, are among the identified dead.

Mere than 100 cables were sent to out-of-town relatives of the circus fire victims Thursday night and Friday, Vincent W. Jones, director of the Red Crass Home Service department reported. One of the teletype operators stated that her machine was in such constant use that an asbestos board had to be placed under it. Mrs. Mitchell S.

Little, chairman of the Volunteer Red Cross Nurses's Aide Corps, stated that the three hospitals called for 332 nurses aides to assist Friday and were supplied. She added that more nurse's aides are needed at Municipal Hospital this afternoon and evening and requested those who wish to report to call 2-0954 first for assignment. About 50 Red Cross Staff assistants have been working on three shifts at the Armory, the three hospitals and at Red Cross Headquarters, handling clerical work and maintaining the master file of dead and injured. The Canteen Corns has supplied volunteer workers with coffee, sandwiches and punch wherever it was needed since the casualties first started coming in. The Motor Corps and other Red Cross workers have been active in relief work since Thursday afternoon.

East Haddam Girl, 22, Niece Die of Burns East Haddam, (Speclail.) East Haddam suffered two casualties in the Hartford circus catastrophe. Both deaths occurred Friday morning at the Municipal Hospital in Hartford. Miss Edith Walters, 22, daughter of Harry and Ida Walters of Town Street and her niece. Monica Miles, six, died during the morning from burns and injuries received at the fire. Miss Walters took her two nieces and nephews to the circus as a birthday gift to Monica who was to be six years old Friday.

Audrey Miles, 10, and Willard Miles, seven, escaped under the side of the tent, running ahead of their aunt who was trying to protect Monica. Miss Walters suffered two broken ankles in addition to second degree burns and numerous bruises. A graduate of Nathan Hale High School in 1941, she was well known in town as an ardent baseball fan and and excellent bowler. She was a member of the Moodus Ladies Bowling Team last winter. Miss Walters leaves, besides her father and mother, a sister, Mrs.

Dorothy Nelkin of Colchester, and a brother, Harry Walters of East Haddam. Monica leaves her mother, Mrs. Audrey Miles. Her father, estranged from her mother, lives in New York state. She alao leaves her sister, Audrey and brother.

Willard; and her grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. Walters of Town Street. Double funeral services will be held Sunday at 2 p.

m. at the First Congregational Church. East Haddam, with Rev. Allen H. Gates, pastor, officiating.

Burial will be in Little Haddam Cemetery. Baldwin Requests Flags Be Flown At Half-Staff Governor Baldwin Friday morning requested that flags on all public and private buildings of the state be displayed at half-staff until Saturday as a public expression of sorrow for those who lost their lives in the Ringling Brothers. Barnum and Bailey Circus fire Thursday afternoon. Mayor Mortensen made a similar request of Hartford citizens Thursday night, and flaEJ throughout the city were at half-mast Friday. Connolly, Rita Ann.

13, of 51 East- view Street. Conlon, Evelyn 27, 78 Mayflower Street, Elmwood, identified by Louis Conlon, relation unknown. De Le Vergne, Elizabeth, 34, of Meriden, identified by husband. Demartino, Anna, 37, of 64 Barbour Street, identified by husband. DeNezzo, Joseph 3'j.

104 Edwa'rds street. Hartford, identt-! fied by Joseph DeNezzo. father DeNezzo, Mrs. Katherine 35. 104 Edwards Street, Hartford, identified by Joseph DeNezzo, husband.

Dineen, William, 8, 73 Martin otrpf HsrtfnrH 'nf nptPPtivp Rolande A. Carrier, same address Elliott, Jane M. 42, of Center street, Wethersfield, identified by H. C. Christianson, brother-in-law.

Elliott, Richard, 6, of Center Street, Wethersfield, identified by H. C. Christianson. uncle. Gallucci.

Mary, 6, 106 Edwards Street. Hartford, identified by Jo seph A. DeNezzo, 104 Edwards Street, Hartford. Gallucci, Mrs. Rose, 55 mother of above, identified by Joseph A.

De Nezzo. Goff, Muriel, 4. of 62 Bellevue Square, identified by Robert Wells a friend. Goff. Maurice.

24, of 62 Bellevue Square, identified oy Arnold Goff. Goldstein, Mrs. Sylvia, 25, Andover Street, Hartford, identified by Sergeant (first name unknown) Wein-stein, uncle. Goldstein, female, first name uni known, age 3, Ando'er Street, Hartford, identified by Sergeant Wein-stein. Grant, Mrs.

Hilda, 28, 143 Cannon Disaster Victim, 5, his teeth in a high act. and Paul brizaded these flame bursts. Wen- zel used his wash bucket. ne wouldn't need it. Sweat and real tears had washed his funny-face practically clean.

I wandered back to "cookhouse mhere massed performers were mobbing a Western Union runner with telegrams to be sent to their relatives the country over. Starlet Rose Behee had good news to spread. Prettv Miss Behee had just placed her two young children who were visiting the lot in seats under the "top" when the fire broke out. Fellow performers tried in vain to hold her back, but she went dashing into the flaming main tent to find her voungsters. Her search was hopeless in the panic, and she finally led a coimle of strangers and zinUaat, titmori nr nnin.

ured in "backvard JUOn as and hands of tent work- nrf rraistanniiU were vards of bandages for minor burns Friday, but the performers attribituted their low casualty rate of few injuries and no deaths to the time of the disaster. Nearly 95 per cent of the cast vas dressing for the grand specacle, and the haif-dozen stars in the big top knew what patrons unfortunately didn't sense, don't push along the jammed track for exits, but go under the tent side-walls. "I led several out the sides, clown Cliff Chapman soberly told buddies Victim Sympathizes. "One man whom I shouldered was burned horribly from the waist up. his lips puffed twice their normal size.

Yet he talked and, imagine, he sympathized with us. Though practically delirious he told how he was so glad to see a circus employee and how terrible we must feel about the fire. "As I reached outdoors one youngster was laughing and saying: Mommy, look at the funny I was tear-blinded by that child's remark, swallowed hard and went back for more." One of the first things to burn Trotto 11 0 Bwo'o Street: identified by dentist toson, tiien bourn wan- Chester; died at Municipal Hospital Ford, Louise, BU, iuu rarK Koaa West Hartford. Coventry; "STm? Ts.th mvpntrv irtpntifip'rt hv hiKhinii 593 i Garrison, Margaret ty. Burnside East Hartfard; identified bv Mrs.

Hillis. Gorsky, Kenneth, 5's, 2674 Main Street. Goulko, Elizabeth, 22, Great Hills, Statin Island, N. identified by J. C.

Burrows, father-in-law. Goulko, Nancy 6, 103 Maple-wood Avenue, West Hartford; identified by father. Goulko, Ann, 103 Maplewood Avenue. West Hartford; identified by nusuana. Johnson- Mrs- Helen Boulanger West 54, 21 Hartford; loenunea py son-m-mw, avauer.

Mrs oamuei doi onswum urivc, vatb, xiaiuuiu, uifu Kelley, Dorothy, 40, 2 Boswell o.i iui vrortfrH- iHontifioH Urr; Koab, Helen, 42, 544 Park Road, West Hartford; identified by B. H. Koab. Koab, Herbert, 7. 544 Park Road, West Hartford; identified by father.

Kurneta, Mary, 19, 101 Hotchkiss Street, Middletown; identified by Lasseur Marion, Bristol; iden brother-in-law. tified by husband Locke, Viola, 40, 579 Hills Street, East Hartford; identified by friend. Locke, Elaine, 6, 579 Hills Street, East Hartford; identified by uncle. Logan. Sandra 4, 136 Williams Street, Middletown.

Marcus, Max, 44, 102 Baltimore Street; identified by brother-in-law. Mathews. Dorothy 34, 38 Walnut Street, Rocky Hill; identified by friend. Mathews, Roslyn, 5, 38 Walnut Street, Rocky Hill; identified by friend. Miles, Monica, 6.

East Haddam; died at Municipal Hospital. dentist. i Morcowicz, Francis, 5, 24 Morris Street; identified by relative. I wide inadequate as an exit to the VnialUy l3cnnr? cage runways and the huge arena cages would have been removed, 'clearing the north side of the hippo- drome track ot obstacles. But a lew moments later, too, the arena might have been set for an even more hor- jrible possibility, A bit later the circus's feature spectacle, a huge procession of large and glittering parade floats, many scores of horses, the heard of 40 elephants.

camels and other four- foots as well as hundreds of clowns and pertormers, would nave oeen arrayed completely around the hip- ira.c nit-it; wa icasi one omci in- rtcath tnll nf thP rifrii! hnlnrmut There was no menacerfe tent over ineie was no uii the caged and tethered beasts in the circus zoo. A lew minutes oetore tne fire struck a menagerie man told me that lack of manpower and a will- ingness to gamble on the certainty of clear weather, rather than custom, had resulted in the zoo being un- tented. Even though a menagerie tent adjacent to the big top would have been favored by the direction of the wind in relation to the point Where file br0ke 0Ut' lf itS CanV8S were as inflammable as that on the big top it is doubtful if it would have escaped destruction. In such an event fear-stricken wild animals might have greatly In- rusnmg to escape and added to tne cost in death and injury. Claims Get Priority Of Social Security All claims for old age and survivors insurance as a result of the circus disaster will be given precedence over previously filed claims and will be handled with special attention throughout the entire adjudication proceedings, it was announced Friday by Francis J.

C. Donohue, manager of the Hartford field office of the Social Security Board. While he is awaiting an official list of casualties from Mayor Mortensen's office. Mr. Donohue said Friday night it is estimated that approximately 75 claims will be received in connection with circus deaths.

The local field office of the Social Security Board is located at 650 Main Street, telephone Hartford 2-2860. fire missing. Late in, the day, however, relatives thought it possible that the family might have gone to visit friends in New York. A call to New York located the family, ail of them safe. Bristol Girl Believed Fire Victim Is Alive Dorothy Coty.

16, of 116 Prospect Street, Bristol, identified by her brother Kenneth as being among the dead at the State Armory morgue Thursday night following the circus tire, us alive ana wen, it iieved to have been Miss Coty's was returned to the armory from the funeral home to which it had been sent Friday morning. Talk Things Over after many hours of work cleaning chairod waitons to talk things over. tinro 'Thursday before circus time.iwas learned Friday. The body be brother. Dr.

Metcalfe. Murphy, Charles, 4, of 4 Crown Street, Plainville, identified by grandfather. Murphy, Walter 11 Crown Street, Plainville. identified by father-in-law, Charles Coughlin. Noeas.

Valerie Jane. 9. 7 Lexing ton Street, Wethersfield. identified by Joseph S. Nogas, father North.

Irene. 50, of Rockville, identified by Henry North, O'Connell. Doris Jean. 5. 63 Main Street.

Unionville. identified by Dr. E. J. O'Connell, father.

O'Connell, Mrs. Evelyn, 32. 63 Main Street, Unionville. identfied by Dr. O'Connell, husband.

Putnam. Elizabeth, 40. or Storrs, identfied bv S. J. Putnam of Wol- cott Hill Road.

Wethersfield. Smith, Mrs. Thyra 49, Canton, identified by Ernest W. Smith, son. Steinburg.

Louise. 74. of 394 Sig-ourney Street, identified by Samuel Steinberg, son. Toth, Joan. 9, 14 Woodbine Street, identified by father.

Viering, Paul 4, of 297 Victoria Road, identified by Joseph A. Viering, father. Clark, E. 20, 116 Webster Street, identified by Dr. Madden and Dr.

Snow. Curlee, William, 29, 63 Sherbrooke Avenue, identfied by Ernest Perrv. Poglitsch, Lillian, 36, 311 Shuttle Meadow, New Britain, identified by Frank Poglitsch, her husband. Mather, Lola, 40. 26 Ashley Street, identfied bv her father.

Booth, Sarah, 67. 28 Ashley Street, idsntfied by her husband. Roberts, Mrs. Theodore. Riverton Road, Winsted.

Vensas. Mrs. Katherine, 24 Law rence Street, Hartford, grandmother of Valerie Nogas listed above, iden tified by Joseph S. Nogas, son-in law. Greeted By Mayor occupying "a bed next to an nifwial nf thp ITnfflp Insulation rwimiH MarRu i nf 904 Sarppnnt was the "brick house" made ofi Milliken.

Stephen, 21 Hilltop 'ange Street, Meriden, sister of the paper, the house which the clowns jDrive, West Hartford; identified by; above, identified by Lawrence Children View Animal Cage Ruins 1LIU1 lit nuiiu. Venberg, Anna 50, 154 Mar- jket Street, New Britain; identified yensas. Katherine 60. 24 Law rence Street; identified by daugh- Verret Mr A Vi 42 Matn errei, Mrs. i.

jd, is Main Street: identified by husband. Verret, Mrs. Myrtle, 23, Pittsburgh, identified by uncle. Wakeman, Virginia, 33, 23 Gren-nan Road, West Hartford; identified by husband. Wakeman, Bruce, 6, 23 Grennan Road, West Hartford; identified by father.

Walters. Edith, 22. East Haddam; died at Municipal Hospital. Warchen, Anna, 6. 19 Galway Street, Manchester; identified by relative.

Woodward, E. Storrs. Previously Identified. The following list of dead were identified Thursday. Barry uaii, 6, or 36 Curtis street, identified by aunt.

Berman, Mrs. Rose. 39, of 24 Still-man Road, Wethersfield. Berman, Judith, 8, same address. Birch, Arland, 12, of 232 Orange Street, Meriden, identified by Lawrence Birch, father.

Birch. Shirley Ann, 9, of 232 Or- Birch, father. Bradley. Helen. 30.

Fairview Street, Simsbury, identified by Mary ,4 rj- Tnnr 11 i ioti-o4 ti, their voting friends for a thrilling lucky and escaped. Several of their si fife A idt '0 had drawn attention of Names of the family were reported to authorities in Hartford and all four were listed among the circus! Circus Teen-Agers Teen-age employees of the circus inn thp aTprkaee. Ktonned npar some if it Jrt burned down twice daily in their comic firemen's number. Sprawled in the v.reckage was the "hot dog machine'' and tons of peanuts. There was quiet on the Barbour Street circus grounds.

Most all the performers had been around the charred arena since 9 a. m. expecting an official announcement about their contracts and jobs. By dusk no word had come. So, repeating stories of the afternoon backyard, they went back to the train cars, still show folks without a show.

Alcorn Family Leaps To Safety At Disaster Hugh M. Alcorn, of Suffield, former State's Attorney for Hartford County, his son, Superior Court Judge Howard W. Alcorn, and the Utters wife and two children were among those who leaped to safety from the top tier of reserved seats when fire swept the Rir.gling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus tent Thursday afternoon. The 72-years-old former prosecutor and his son Jumped to the ground and Mrs. Alcorn passed the (a'A j- i 1 AH'n thorn TVi VllUUtl Wit 111.

A41l.Lt, she leaped and was caught by her husband and father-in-law. The! Alrorna then assisted a woman and her two children to reach the ground nd continued their rescue efforts until the heat of the fire drove them aiy. The senior Alcorn, a circus fan! his life, made sure his former! crtur.ty detective. State Police Com-! mixsioner Edward J. Hukey.

who f.rated in the same reserved! vUan, was safe before leaving thrj cii. us grounds for his home. Mr i I.Ukey, mrto t.nk charse of relief! vrV and the invest ica; ion into the r.uv of fur a iirfrtM mth inne ri his ntex-es nd nephews, al! of 1hh he ivivsed to n-fety over Mavor Mortensen is shown greeting Robert Hopkins. Jr 5. of Avon, who was burned on the arms and leg.

in the circus fire, during a tour of hnsnitals and private homes Fridav. The child, whose father and mother v. i 1,1 had gone to the ri-ns, wrh -ome of aftenut'ii at the ciuus Tlifv were also were in lured, is at St. Francis's v.o hie Vio. Prvlvrt coi xf-inio Avnnnp Street, who escaped without injury at the fire, is shown with the mayor and the Hopkins child.

Young MacRae visited several fire victims at 'The burned wood of the carts bears mute testimony to tne Ditsteung 'heat of the fire that seared everything in the vicinity ot tne Dig tent. uir lent siarwftil. icomradej. cre trapjted and" perished in the blazing tent. 'Courant Photo.) 1 the hospital.

tCourant Photo.) UCourant Fnoto.).