皮克威克俱乐部灾难

哦，天哪。

Oh, no.

当一名警员与醉汉扭打时，另一名警员跑下街去最近的警局求援，过了一会儿现场就恢复了秩序。

As one of the officers grappled with the drunk men, the other ran down the street to the nearest precinct for reinforcements, and the scene was brought into order a short time later.

该死。

Damn.

但一年内发生了这么多事。

But with so many incidents in less than a year.

是啊。

Yeah.

这些事全发生在不到一年的时间里。

This is all less than a year.

最疯狂的就是这个。

That's the craziest thing.

皮克威克俱乐部开始在公众中出了名。

The Pickwick had started to gain a reputation with the public.

我觉得是这样。

I think so.

可能有点儿乌烟瘴气。

Maybe a little seedy.

对。

Yeah.

也许是个棘手的地方。

Maybe a little Tough spot.

名声不太好。

Ill repute.

说不准吧。

You know, maybe.

我不确定。

I don't know.

随便吧。

Whatever.

你有什么呢？

What have you.

有位记者写道，很多人把它看作是一个地下社交中心。

One reporter wrote, many people have regarded it as sort of an underworld social center.

着迷。

Obsessed.

一个盗匪和他们的伴侣在晚上干活结束后可能会聚在一起的地方。

A place where bandits and their girlfriends might gather after the evening's work was over.

算我一个。

Sign me the fuck up.

我说，你是想把人赶走吗？

I said, you trying to keep people away?

算我一个。

Sign me up.

盗匪和

Bandits and

他们的女朋友。

their girlfriends.

是这样的。

Here's the thing.

我大概十二岁的时候，

When I was like 12 years old,

我真想当一个

I literally wanted to be a

黑帮太太。

mob wife.

我以前总看《黑帮太太》这部剧，心想将来长大了也要被人这样宠着。

I used to watch Mob Wives and I said someday I will grow up and be treated to Anzo.

对啊。

Yeah.

那时候确实如此。

So back then yeah.

那时候我的前额叶还没发育呢。

Before my frontal lobe was developed.

在你前额叶还没发育成熟、还不明白那意味着什么的时候。

Before your frontal lobe is developed and you realize what that entails.

但那时候啊，我可太想这样了。

But back then, oh, I would have loved this.

但当时的我，早把女朋友甩了。

But my would have abandoned its girlfriend.

不过，这家俱乐部名声不好，确实跟报纸上频繁报道有关，没错。

Now some of this reputation definitely came from the numerous times that the club's name had appeared in the papers Yeah.

都是因为逮捕和犯罪活动。

With arrests and criminal activity.

但至少有一部分原因，也可能是蒂莫西和丹尼尔·贝里跟黑帮有牵连的传闻。

But at least a small portion of it was likely the result of the rumors of Timothy and Daniel Berry's connections to organized crime figures as well.

不管怎样，这名声和警察频繁上门，渐渐影响了皮克威克俱乐部的生意。

Whatever the case, though, the reputation and the frequent visits from the BPD started to take a toll on The Pickwick's profits.

三月的时候，巴里宣布这家俱乐部将永久关门。

And in March, Barry announced the club was going to be shutting its doors for good.

或者也不是。

Or nor.

实际上，Pickwick俱乐部确实在三月停业了，但整个关门过程看起来更像是在演戏。

Now The Pickwick Club did in fact shut down in March, but the entire closure kind of looks like it was like a little bit of theater.

这是个计策吗？

Was it a ruse?

看起来确实像在演戏。

It looks like it was a little bit of theater.

还有剧院区那边也是。

The The Theatre District as well.

在剧院区，可能是想重塑俱乐部的形象，顺便摆脱警方的关注。

In the Theatre District, maybe to rehab the club's image and kind of like rebuff the attention of local law enforcement.

明白了。

Okay.

俱乐部 supposedly永久关闭后才过了几周。

Just a few weeks after the club supposedly closed for good.

一家新场所——格林威治村俱乐部就在原地开张了。

A new establishment, the Greenwich Village Club opened in its place.

明白了。

Okay.

大量邀请函发给了社区里的知名人士。

With a large number of invitations going out to prominent members of the community.

实际上，这不过是幌子，为了掩盖皮克威克俱乐部其实搬到了二楼的事实。

In reality, this was just a facade to hide the fact that The Pickwick Club had simply moved to the 2nd Floor.

那些看起来是去格林威治村俱乐部的人，其实都是去皮克威克俱乐部的。

And guests who appeared to be visiting the Greenwich Village Club were in fact going to The Pickwick Club.

我简直太着迷了。

I'm so obsessed with that.

这操作也太阴了。

Like it's it's so shady.

我特别喜欢楼顶。

I love a roof.

可惜的是，新Pickwick俱乐部的客人发现，二楼根本没有洗手间。

Now unfortunately for the patrons of the new Pickwick Club, the 2nd Floor of the building had no restrooms.

所以客人得跑到一楼或三楼去上厕所。

So club goers had to either go to the 1st Or 3rd Floor to go to the bathroom.

明白了。

Okay.

到了三月下旬，三楼的一家裁缝铺突然着火了。

And at some point in late March, a fire broke out at the tailor shop that was on the 3rd Floor.

天哪。

Oh, no.

火势烧得很厉害，上层楼面损毁严重，消防队用了将近三千加仑水才把火扑灭。

The fire caused a lot of damage to the upper floors and required about 3,000 gallons of water to put out.

我的天。

Holy shit.

幸运的是，大楼的一楼和二楼受损不大。

Fortunately, the 1st And 2nd Floors of the building were relatively unharmed.

所以皮克威克俱乐部还能继续营业。

So The Pickwick Club was able to remain open.

明白了。

Okay.

不过消防员不得不砸出几个大洞。

That said, the firefighters had to chop large holes.

说到波士顿，我差点就说成‘大洞’了。

I almost because we're talking about Boston, feel like my soul I almost just said large holes.

大洞。

Large holes.

但我在这档播客里已经管住自己了。

But I've I've curbed it for this podcast.

我真想说点什么。

Like, I feel like talking.

我知道。

I know.

我已经训练自己别那样说满口的词。

I've trained myself not to be like full.

但你可以。

But you can.

这一句听起来就像我在说‘砍出大洞’。

That this one feels like I'm like chop large holes.

你必须这么说。

You have to.

这是氛围的问题。

It's the ambiance.

感觉就是对味儿。

It just feels right.

消防员不得不砍出大洞——他们就这么做了。

The firefighters had to chop large holes They just did.

地板上开了几个洞，好让水能顺利排到地下室里。

In various parts of the floor just to allow the water to drain properly into the basement.

明白了。

Okay.

几周后，蒂莫西·贝里请了木匠把那些洞补上，好让俱乐部重新开门营业。

A few weeks later, Timothy Berry hired a carpenter to just patch over the holes so the club could reopen.

我觉得我们本可以做得更好。

I feel like we could have done better than that.

格林威治村俱乐部在那场火灾后就再也没有 reopen。

Now the Greenwich Village Club never reopened after the fire.

而引发火灾的裁缝铺早就搬走了，夏天里，皮克威克俱乐部成了整栋楼里唯一还在营业的店，这情况，唉，也就这样了。

And the tailor whose shop had started the fire had moved elsewhere, leaving the Pickwick Club the only business in the building in the summer, which is like, alright, let's go.

是啊。

Yeah.

下次俱乐部再出现在新闻里，原因就远不止是场小火灾或者所谓的小骚乱了。

The next time the club appeared in the press, it was to be for far more shocking reasons than a small fire or a quote unquote small riot.

天哪。

Oh, no.

7月4日晚上，确切说是7月3日进入7月4日那天，皮克威克俱乐部开门举办了‘迎四之夜舞会’。

Now in the evening of July 4, it was like July 3 into 07/04/1925, The Pickwick Club opened its doors for the Before the Fourth Dance Okay.

那天晚上是为了庆祝——你猜对了——独立日。

Being held that evening in celebration of, you guessed it, Independence Day.

还有阿尔玛里卡的生日。

Almarika's birthday.

是的。

Yeah.

阿尔玛里卡。

Almarika.

他请了五人乐队，还特意重新布置了场地。

Having hired a five piece orchestra and freshly decorated for the occasion.

这听起来可一点都不像黑店。

That doesn't sound seedy at all.

不是。

No.

巴里原本以为那天晚上会有很多人来。

Barry expected a large crowd that evening.

晚会一开场，人流量就超出了他的预期。

And once the evening got going, his expectations were exceeded.

好的。

Okay.

人满为患。

Was just to the gills.

热闹非凡。

Bustling.

那天晚上，29岁的梅·劳森正和约翰·欧文约会，进展得很顺利。

Now that evening, 29 year old May Lawson was out on a date with John Owen and things were going well.

简直太棒了。

Hell yeah.

约翰后来告诉记者的是，劳森太太

What John told reporters later was Mrs.

最近刚和丈夫分居。

Lawson had recently separated from her husband.

他们结婚时间不长，她当时心都碎了。

They hadn't been married very long, and she was brokenhearted.

我知道她喜欢跳舞，就劝她跟我一起去俱乐部。

And I knew she liked to dance, and I urged her to accompany me to the club.

哦，没有。

Oh, no.

约翰自己其实不太会跳舞。

Now John wasn't much of a dancer himself.

所以另一个男人走到桌前邀请我跳舞时，他完全没意见。

So he had no objections when another man came over to the table and asked me to dance.

他说，当然可以，去跳吧。

He said, sure, you can dance.

哦。

Oh.

那就是个男人。

That's a that's a man right there.

真不错。

That's nice.

那时已经过了午夜，乐队刚开始演奏《第十二街拉格》，这首歌特别适合跳查尔斯顿舞——那是当时最流行的舞蹈。

It was after midnight and the band had just begun playing twelfth Street Rag, a song perfectly suited for the Charleston, which was the most popular dance of the time.

超爱查尔斯顿舞。

Love the Charleston.

大家都赶紧跳起来。

Everybody do the real quick.

着了迷。

Obsessed.

随着乐队推向高潮，房间里每个角落的情侣都纷纷下场跳舞。

Now, as the band wound up, couples from every corner of the room were going to the floor.

整个房间都在震动，因为那么多人一起跳、一起动、一起跳舞，做着同样的动作。

The room was shaking with the enthusiasm of so many people jumping, moving, dancing, doing the same moves.

所有的跳跃、所有的跺脚，全都同步进行。

So the same jumps, the same stomps all at the same time.

不是的。

No.

约翰·E。

John E.

他后来回忆说，当时号角声、响器声和爆竹声都特别热闹。

And recalled later, was pretty wild in their horns and rattles and firecrackers too.

人们整晚都在点爆竹、扔爆竹。

Firecrackers People are lighting and throwing them all night.

在里面？

Inside?

对。

Yeah.

你们说得对吗？

You guys are right?

不对。

No.

不，那天皮克威克俱乐部那种轻松的气氛，在这个地方其实挺少见的。

No, the lighthearted mood in The Pickwick that night was kind of uncommon for this place.

是的。

Yeah.

我相信你也能感觉到。

As I'm sure you can tell.

因为通常来说

Because usually

人们都在打架。

people are just like fighting.

热情洋溢，特别欢快。

Like gregarious, just like Jaunty.

那种热情洋溢、兴高采烈的气氛。

Enthusiastic, jaunty kind of mood.

自从一月份第一次突袭之后，警察或者别的市政部门随时可能闯进来把派对搅黄，这事儿一直悬着。

Since the first raid in January, there was always the potential for the police or some other city authority to come by anytime and break up a party.

所以之前大家一般都挺低调的。

So things were generally fairly chill before this.

但那天晚上，每个人都特别开心。

But that night, everyone was in good spirits.

警察连个影子都没见着。

There was no sign of the police anywhere.

根本没人会想到会被突袭。

And a raid was kind of like the furthest thing from anyone's mind.

大家都忙着玩呢，你知道的。

Were busy, you know?

他们玩得正高兴。

They were having fun.

听起来那晚真是特别棒。

It sounds like it was a great time.

当时派对定在凌晨四点结束。

Now the party was scheduled to shut down at 4AM.

真够劲的。

Damn.

这才叫派对啊。

That's a party.

我正想说，波士顿现在可不这样了。

I was gonna say Boston doesn't do that anymore.

对。

No.

早就没了。

They do not.

到一点钟就得散场。

You get out of there at one.

是的。

Yep.

不是。

No.

大约凌晨三点三十分，乐队指挥比利·格伦农——当然，就是比利·格伦农——

So around 03:30AM, the orchestra leader, Billy Glennon, of course, Billy Glennon.

我当时就想，嗯，我应该认识比利·格伦农。

So I was like, yeah, we all I was know gonna say, I think I knew Billy Glennon.

谁不认识他呢？

Who doesn't?

他开始翻乐谱，想找最后一首曲子送大家走。

He started looking through sheet music for one last song to send everybody on their way.

真不错。

Nice.

后来他说，我正要挑最后一首曲子，罗科突然喊我，说灯光变暗了。

He later said, I was just about to pick out the last piece we were going to play when Rocco yelled at me that the lights looked dim.

我说：‘哎呀，还真是。’

I said, gee, yeah, they do.

然后搬运工跟我说：‘你瞧，天花板上往下掉沙子。’

Then the porter said to me, look at the sand coming down from the ceiling.

什么？

What?

Glennon的弟弟吉米是这家俱乐部的经理。

Glennon's brother Jimmy was the manager of the club.

当然了，吉米·Glennon就是经理。

Of course, Jimmy Glennon was the manager.

对。

Yeah.

这还用说。

Duh.

所以Billy知道着火的事，也知道消防员为了排水，在地板上凿了洞。

So Billy knew about the fire and how the firefighters had hacked holes into the floors to allow for drainage.

从那以后，那些洞就被一些廉价的活动门盖住了，好让大雨时能排水。

And that since then, the holes had been covered over with cheap trap doors to allow for drainage of heavy rain.

明白了。

Okay.

最近几天下过很大的雨。

It had rained heavily in recent days.

所以比利以为，从天花板掉下来的灰尘和石膏粉，肯定是最近下雨造成的，房子只是在自然沉降，你知道的。

So Billy figured the dust and plaster drifting down from the ceiling must have been caused by the recent rains, and the building was just resettling, you know?

是的。

Yeah.

比利·格伦农又回去翻看乐谱了。

How Billy Glennon went back to sifting through sheet music.

就在几秒钟后，他听到房间里突然传来一阵令人惊恐的响声。

Then just a few seconds later, he heard an alarming sound shoot through the room.

他后来说，短短几秒内，就听见一阵撕裂般的巨响，然后眼睁睁看着天花板塌了下来。

He later said, in a couple of seconds, there was a ripping tearing noise, and I saw the ceiling start to fall in.

房间前方左侧的墙好像动了一下。

And the wall on the left of at the front of the room seemed to move.

接着灯全灭了，传来一声巨大的轰响。

What Then does the lights went out, and there was a terrible crash.

天哪。

Oh my god.

当时剑桥的出租车司机汤姆·加维刚到，正站在房间另一头，等一位去取外套的乘客。

Now Cambridge cab driver Tom Garvey had arrived just before the collapse, and was standing at the far side of the room waiting on a fare who had gone to get their coat from the coat check.

他说，我往角落一看，发现所有人都跳了起来。

He said, I looked over at the corner and I saw everyone jump up.

我一开始还以为是有人打架，突然就听见一声巨响，灯全灭了。

I thought it was a fight at first and all of a sudden there was a big noise and the lights went out.

下一秒我就发现自己躺在地上，身上和两侧都被东西压着。

The next thing I knew, was lying down with things pressing onto my back and sides.

天啊。

Oh, god.

他想站起来，却被什么东西压住动弹不得，脸贴在地上，满嘴都是灰尘和碎屑，差点窒息。

He tried to get up, but he was pinned to the floor by something heavy, and his face was pressed into the floor, and he's like choking on dust and debris.

这到底是怎么回事？

What the fuck?

他说，当时脑子里闪过好多念头。

He said a lot of things went through my head.

我能听见周围的人拼命挣扎，突然有人一把抓住了我。

I could hear people fighting to get out when someone grabbed hold of me.

汤姆·加维离门近，所以抓住他的人很容易就把他拖到了安全地方，真是万幸。

Tom Garvey was close to the door, so it was easy for whoever grabbed him to pull him to safety, which like Thank goodness they did.

但那些被埋在里面的人，处境要糟糕得多。

But those stuck inside were in a much more dire situation.

我们之前提到过的约翰·欧文说，坍塌后不到一秒，整个房间就充满了尖叫声。

John Owen, who we talked about before said, a second after the collapse, the room was filled with shrieks.

一侧的地板突然塌陷，正在跳舞的那几对人直接掉进了地板上巨大的窟窿里。

And the floor on one side started to give way, and the dancing couples were thrown into a gaping wound in the floor.

这到底是怎么回事？

What the hell?

我刚一回头，就看见劳森太太和她的伴侣直接掉进了地板里。

I turned around just in time to see missus Lawson and her partner disappear through the floor.

天哪。

Oh my god.

他爬到自己刚才和约会对象待的地方。

He made his way to where his date was or had just been.

可当他朝地板上的洞里看去，只看到一片漆黑。

But when he looked into the hole in the floor, he said all he saw was blackness.

就是一个黑洞。

Just a black hole.

他说他转身想爬回刚才的位置，可脚下的地板已经开始崩塌，根本抓不住任何东西。

He said he turned to crawl back to where he had just been and he found there was nothing for him to hold on to as the floor beneath him started to crumble.

几秒钟后，他也被那个巨大的深洞吞了进去。

Seconds later, he too was swallowed up by the cavernous hole.

这到底怎么回事？

What the hell is going on?

比利·格伦恩以前来过Pickwick俱乐部好多次，对里面的布局很熟，所以他带着自己和几个人从后头的办公室逃了出去。

Having been in The Pickwick countless times before this, Billy Glennon knew the layout and was able to get himself and several others to the office near the back of the club.

他说，我记不清具体是怎么从办公室的窗户逃出去的，也不记得谁先走的。

He said, I don't remember just how I got out through the office window or who went before me.

约翰·E.

John E.

我们的鼓手唐诺万顺利逃出来了，钢琴手弗兰克也逃出来了。

Donovan, our drummer, got out alright, and so did Frank the piano player.

逃到外面后，他四处找他弟弟吉米和乐队其他成员，但一个人都没看见。

Outside, he looked around for his brother Jimmy and the rest of the band, but he couldn't see any of them anywhere.

接着，他惊恐地回头一看，刚逃出来的那栋楼已经整个塌陷了。

Then to his absolute horror, he said he looked back at the disaster where he just escaped from and the entire building collapsed on itself.

天哪。

Oh my god.

他说，事情发生后，四周一片死寂。

He said after the thing went down, was absolute silence.

这事儿最让人毛骨悚然的地方就在这儿。

That was one of the darndest things about it.

等建筑塌稳了，连一句喊叫都没听见。

No yelling or anything after the place settled.

我们知道里头肯定有不少人，可一个都没出声。

We knew there must be a lot of people in there, but none of them let out a yip.

安静得就像那地方根本没人一样。

It was just as still as if the place was shut up.

这简直是个噩梦。

That's a nightmare.

这不让人脊背发凉吗？

Isn't that bone chilling?

这简直是个噩梦。

That's a nightmare.

到了某个阶段，幸存者们的叙述听起来都差不多。

At a certain point, the stories of the survivors all kind of sound similar.

比如，有人眼睁睁看着自己的约会对象、朋友，或者刚坐在旁边的人失去平衡，掉进地板下那片漆黑的深洞里。

Like one part person watches in horror as their date, their friend, or a stranger who had just been sitting next to them loses their balance and disappears into the dark cavernous hole in the floor.

埃迪·惠伦眼睁睁看着他的朋友约翰·麦克劳克林滑进了地板上的那个洞。

Eddie Whelan watched helplessly as his friend John McLaughlin slid into the hole in the floor.

弗兰克和弗吉尼亚·维拉的经历也是一样。

The same was true for Frank and Virginia Vera.

这对夫妇刚刚还在大厅里，地板就突然塌陷了。

The couple had just been in the hall when this floor started to give way.

弗吉尼亚成功逃到了前门，毫发无伤，但当她回头想拉住丈夫时，弗兰克已经不见了。

Virginia managed to make it to the front door unharmed, but when she turned back to grab her husband, Frank was gone.

弗吉尼亚·维拉很可能是大楼倒塌前，最后一个从正门逃出来的人。

Virginia Vera was very likely the last person to make it out through the front door when the building came down.

天哪。

Wow.

在一层废墟的黑暗中，过了好一会儿才缓过神来。

Now in the darkness of the wreckage on the 1st Floor, it took some time.

但最终，约翰·欧文恢复了意识，从那场灾难后的日子里挣扎着挺了过来。

But eventually, John Owen regained his senses and came out of the days that followed the fall.

他说，那五分钟感觉像过了好几个小时，直到警察赶来救了我，把我带到安全的地方，四周都是伤者的呻吟和求救的尖叫声。

He said five minutes went by, which seemed like hours to me, when finally the police rescued me and I was taken to safety with the cries of injured and screams for help coming from all corners.

由于事发地点就在市中心，救援人员很快就赶到了现场。

Now being in the heart of the city, it didn't take long for emergency responders to arrive at the scene.

是啊。

That's

好。

good.

坍塌刚一发生，门卫罗科·斯卡帕托就冲到街上大喊求助，然后又跑回楼里去救其他人。

Seconds after the collapse began, the doorman Rocco Scarparto ran out into the street and started shouting for help before running back inside to help get others out.

罗科当时在楼里，地板塌陷时膝盖受了点轻伤。

Rocco was in the building when the floor gave way and suffered a minor injury to his knee.

对。

Mhmm.

但他站在街上大喊，引得附近的一名巡警触发了马森街的警报箱，这才把消防队的人召了过来。

But his yelling in the street prompted a local beat officer to trigger the alarm box on Mason Street, which drew the men from the local firehouse to come.

这很好。

That was good.

大楼坍塌时，皮克威克里大约有一百人左右。

When the building came down, there was roughly a 100 or so people in the Pickwick.

天哪。

Oh my god.

等到救援人员赶到时，里面大约有一半的人已经逃出来了。

By the time rescue crews came, about half of those inside had made it out.

但还有更多人被困在废墟下，头顶上压着四层楼的建筑。

But many many more remain trapped in the rubble with four stories of building on top of them now.

这简直难以想象。

That is unthinkable.

人们很快根据废墟下传来的尖叫声，找到了受伤者并迅速展开救援。

The men were quickly to reach the injured who they located now from the screams that were finally happening beneath the debris.

据所有事后谈起这件事的人说，废墟下被困者的呼救声是最令人心碎的场景之一。

The sound of those trapped beneath the rubbles was among the most troubling aspects of of the scene according to everybody who talked about it later.

我明白。

I'm sure.

幸存者埃塞尔·康隆说，那画面在我脑子里挥之不去，好几天都忘不掉。

Survival Ethel Conlon said, I couldn't get them out of my mind for days.

那情景实在太惨了。

They were just awful.

经历过这种事之后所承受的创伤后应激障碍，

The PTSD that you would suffer after

我倒是很喜欢

something I like

根本无法想象。

can't even imagine.

不行。

No.

他们花了将近一百个人小时，在几乎全黑的环境下挖掘。

It took nearly one hundred men hours of digging in near pitch dark conditions.

但最终，第一批遗体——四名男子和两名女子——在大楼角落的一个夹缝中被发现。

But finally, the first bodies, four men and two women, were found in a pocket in the corner of the building.

不久后，波士顿市长詹姆斯·柯里赶到现场，看到这番惨状，立即请求增派一百名消防员。

A short time later, Boston mayor James Curley arrived at the scene and seeing the catastrophe, sent a request for 100 more firefighters.

坍塌发生时，救援人员能用的设备非常有限，根本帮不上大忙。

Now at the time of the collapse, rescue workers were limited in terms of the equipment available to really help recover survivors.

虽然当时已经有机动车辆，但几乎没有一辆能承受四层楼废墟的巨重，以及底下五十个人的重量。

Although motorized vehicles did exist, few, if any, were strong enough to handle the incredible weight of four stories of trapped debris and 50 people underneath it.

没错。

Right.

所以救援人员只能缓慢而谨慎地在废墟中搜寻幸存者。

Instead, workers had to move slowly and methodically through the wreckage looking for survivors.

一旦发现幸存者，他们就得徒手搬开周围的瓦砾，尽力把人拉出来。

And when they found one, they had to remove whatever debris they could by hand and try to pull the individual out.

八号云梯队的拉里·多尔在工作了大约半小时后，发现了一个叫奇巴的人。

Larry Doyle of Ladder Eight had been working for about half an hour when he came upon a resty Chiba.

他还活着，但被两根巨大的横梁压住，多尔根本没法靠近他。

He was alive, but pinned beneath two giant timbers that left no room for Doyle to get ahold of him.

于是多尔把一根绳子系在他腰上，试着把他拖出来。

Instead, Doyle tied a rope around his waist and attempted to pull him out.

但刚一拉，奇巴就大喊：停下！

But immediately after he started pulling, Chiba cried out, stop.

你快把我撕裂了。

You're tearing me apart.

你会害死我的。

You're going to kill me.

天哪。

Oh my god.

他停了下来，试着轻轻晃了晃他。

He stopped and he tried to kinda like, zhoosh him a little bit.

既然没有别的办法把他救出来，他等了几秒，然后又猛地一拉绳子。

And with no other ways of getting him out of here, he waited a few seconds and then he gave the rope one more yank.

最后，他终于把他拉了出来。

And ultimately, he did free him.

明白了。

Okay.

很好。

Good.

但那些木头正好卡住他，让他被挤了出来。

But the and the timbers did allow for him to like, squeeze him out kind of thing.

就是那种特别狼狈的方式。

Like, just like shitty.

好在他没被扯成两半。

And he didn't get torn in half.

他那时候可能已经

Now He probably had so

断了这么多根骨头。

many broken bones.

难怪他感觉那样。

That's probably why he felt like that.

没错。

Exactly.

那时候简直就是在把他往两边扯。

And it was probably like actually pulling him apart at that point.

救出千叶之后，多尔爬回废墟里，用手摸索着寻找幸存者。

So after he had saved Chiba, he Doyle climbed back into the debris and began feeling his way through looking survivors.

过了几分钟，他的手碰到了一条像是女人的腿。

And after a few minutes, his hand fell upon what felt like a woman's leg.

他喊了她几声，但没有得到任何回应。

And he called out to her, but he got no response.

哦。

Oh.

几分钟后，他清开了足够的废墟，爬到她身边，这才发现那名女子已经死了。

A few minutes later, he'd removed enough debris to get up beside her, which is when he realized the woman was dead.

他说，这名女子的脊椎向后折断了近九十度。

And he said this woman's spine was snapped backwards at a 90 degree angle.

天哪。

Oh my God.

是啊。

Yeah.

我简直无法想象。

Which I can't imagine.

我根本没法想象那种场景。

I can't even picture that.

他又挖了一个多小时，一直在废墟里寻找幸存者。

After more than an hour digging around, an hour digging around looking like through the rubble for survivors.

是的

Yeah.

拉里·多尔吸入了大量灰尘和碎屑，呼吸非常困难。

Larry Doyle had breathed in an incredible amount of dust and debris, and he was having trouble breathing.

但他坚持认为里面还有人被困，他准备再回去救。

But he insisted there were more people trapped inside and he was ready to go back in.

直到他因体力透支和呼吸问题晕倒，才终于同意去附近医院接受治疗。

It was only after he collapsed from exhaustion and respiratory trouble that he finally agreed to be seen by a doctor at the nearest hospital.

即便如此，等他们把他救出来后，还得靠另外四个消防员按住他，不让他再冲回去。

And even then, it took four other firefighters to keep him from going back into the wreck after they let

出来。

him out.

真是个英雄。

What a hero.

对。

Yeah.

拉里·多尔。

Larry Doyle.

真的假的。

For real.

考虑到灾难的规模，救援行动很快变成了媒体所说的‘全民志愿者行动’。

Now given the size and scope of the disaster, the rescue operation quickly turned into what the press called a quote, all helpers volunteer event.

意思是任何有专业技能的人都被鼓励前来帮忙。

Meaning anyone with expertise was encouraged to come out and lend a hand.

虽然大多数帮忙的是应急人员、市政员工和建筑队，但也有大量医生、护士和急救人员赶到现场参与救援。

While most who pitched in were emergency responders, city workers, construction crews, there was also a lot of doctors, nurses and paramedics that came to the site as first responders.

有个例子，一位医生。

In one case, Doctor.

波士顿市医院的迈克尔·加里蒂爬到一名被困男子身边，那人的手指被两块混凝土死死夹住，动弹不得。

Michael Garrity of Boston City Hospital crawled down to a man who was trapped under the rubble as a result of his finger being hopelessly stuck between two pieces of concrete.

天哪。

Oh my god.

这太疯狂了。

This is insane.

在注射了局部麻醉后，加里蒂医生...

After applying a local anesthetic, Doctor.

成功截除了他的手指，那人被救了出来，送往医院。

Garrity was able to amputate his finger and the man was pulled to safely and taken to the hospital.

你别逗我了。

You gotta be kidding me.

加里蒂医生...

Doctor.

爬进废墟里，顺利完成了截肢手术。

Garrity crawled into the rubble and safely performed an amputation.

这已经超出常理了。

That's next level.

1925年。

In 1925.

一片漆黑之中。

In total darkness.

一片漆黑之中。

In total darkness.

这简直太牛了。

That's next fucking That's incredible.

这才是真医生。

That's a fucking doctor.

来自市立医院的其他医生也赶到现场，在几乎全黑的环境下展开救援，周围成百上千磅的废墟不断发出令人不安的开裂和呻吟声。

Other doctors from the city hospital were at the scene performing similar rescues in near darkness, all while several 100 or even thousands of pounds of precarious rubble ominously cracked and groaned around them.

他们正在做截肢手术，只为救人性命。

And they're performing amputations to save people.

这太了不起了。

That's incredible.

后来，伤者的呼救声渐渐弱了下去。

Now eventually the cries and pleas from the injured started to quiet.

直到最后，再也听不到任何声音了。

Until finally, they couldn't be heard at all.

天亮时，仍有至少五十人报告失踪。

By the time the sun came up, there were still at least 50 people reported missing.

但大家普遍认为，如果他们还被埋在废墟下，大概已经活不成了。

But the consensus belief was that if they were still in the rubble, they probably wouldn't be found alive.

那天早上，《波士顿每日环球报》头版首次报道了坍塌事故，确认有十二人死亡。

That morning, the first report of the collapse went out on the front page of the Boston Daily Globe, announcing 12 confirmed dead.

但等到救援结束时，死亡人数上升到了四十四人，真是令人震惊。

But by the time the rescue operation was complete, the death toll rose to forty four Wow.

还有无数人受伤。

With countless others injured.

当事故消息在城里传开后，有些人赶来帮忙或提供支持，比如圣詹姆斯教堂的劳伦斯·莫里斯牧师。

Now when news of the accident started spreading around the city, some people showed up to volunteer or offer support, like Reverend Lawrence Morris from St.

他赶到现场，为遇难者做临终祷告。

James Church arrived at the site to provide last rites to the victims.

是的。

Mhmm.

还有其他人带来了食物和其他必需品，帮助志愿者们。

While others brought food and other essentials to help volunteers.

不过，也有很多人只是跑来看热闹。

There were many others, however, who simply showed up to the scene to take a look.

这太让人难受了。

That's so gross.

清理废墟的工作持续了好几天。

The work of digging out the ruins went on for several days.

到了第二天，已经有成千上万人赶来现场。

And by the second day, thousands have had come to see the scene.

有些人是想找到失踪的亲人，当然。

Some in hopes of finding a missing relative, of course.

但大多数人只是为了看看这堆废墟。

But most just to see the wreckage.

真是倒霉。

Lucky lose.

是的。

Yeah.

根据媒体报道，现场没有混乱，没有人群试图冲破警戒线，也没有喧哗。

Now according to the press, there was no disorder, no wild attempts to break the police line, no noise.

这挺好。

That's good.

人群甚至都没有推搡挤撞，只为抢个更好的观看位置。

Somehow the crowds even forbore to push and elbow each other to get a better point advantage.

所以他们至少还挺冷静的。

So they were at least like chill.

是的。

Yeah.

他们只是在那里，默默感受这场难以想象的悲剧。

Now they were just there to take in the tragedy of an unimaginable thing that had happened.

我不明白你为什么还想看

I don't know why you would want to

那种场面。

see that.

有位负责守卫现场的警官在被问及人群情况时说，如果这活儿是拿工资干的，他真希望自己能在别的地方。

When asked for comment about the crowds, one officer tasked with guarding the site said, if they had to do this for pay, they'd wish they were somewhere else.

他们啥也看不见，离得太远了，根本听不清现场发生了什么。

They can't see anything and they are far too far away to even hear what's going on.

对啊。

Mhmm.

所以他才说，赶紧滚吧。

So he's like, get the fuck out.

他问，这有什么意义呢？

He's like, what's

呢？

the point?

还没到第一天结束，就有一些有权力的人开始提出问责的问题。

Now before the first day was even over, serious questions of accountability were being raised by those in positions of power.

没错。

Yeah.

建筑局局长约翰·马奥尼一直对波士顿那些年久失修的建筑感到担忧，怀疑这可能就是原因。

Building commissioner John Mahoney had long lamented the crumbling buildings in Boston and suspected that might be the cause.

我觉得这至少是原因之一。

I would think that would be at least part of it.

另一方面，市长詹姆斯·库里把事故归咎于过度拥挤。

Mayor James Curley, on the other hand, blamed the collapse on overcrowding.

他在公开声明中说，考虑到当时没有一位有权制止拥挤的官员在场，俱乐部管理层极有可能趁着前一晚人多的机会，为了追求无拘无束的享乐，对所有在波士顿合法娱乐场所关门后仍前来的人来者不拒。

In a public in a statement to the public, he said, considering the fact that no official with authority to prevent overcrowding was present in the building, it is most probable that the club management taking advantage of the night before crowds, seeking unrestrained freedom in their pursuit of pleasure, readily accepted all who came to the club after the closing of the property licensed amusement places in Boston.

是的。

Mhmm.

当时，市长或任何人根本不可能对事故原因做出如此肯定的判断，因为调查根本还没开始。

Now at the time, it would have been impossible for the mayor or anyone else to make such a definitive statement on the cause of the accident since an investigation into the cause had not even begun.

是的。

Yeah.

所以大家都只是在瞎猜。

So everybody was just kind of guessing.

但詹姆斯·卡利的言论反映了波士顿普遍存在的保守观点，认为夜总会、舞厅这类场所助长了道德败坏。

But his statements, James Curley's statements reflect the widespread, very conservative perspective in Boston that viewed nightclubs, dance halls, and other similar spaces as contributing to immorality.

第二天，《环球报》提出了另一种看法和可能的坍塌原因。

Now the following day, the Globe offered a different perspective and potential cause of the collapse.

这次是一个当时在大楼里的人提供的说法。

This time from someone who was inside the building when it came down.

据当晚在俱乐部表演的歌手弗兰克·迪克尔说，正是舞者们持续摇摆、跺脚跳查尔斯顿舞的力道，可能导致了坍塌。

According to Frank Decker, one of the singers performing in the club that night, it was quote, the steady swaying of the dancers and their stamping of feet as they all performed the Charleston that could have caused the collapse.

他说，想象一下五十对舞者同时上下跳跃的力量。

He said, imagine the force of 50 couples leaping up and down in unison.

沉重的踩踏让地板开始晃动，然后就裂开了。

The heavy trampling set the floor swaying, then it cracked.

当时我根本没在意那道裂缝，还以为是谁放了个鞭炮，但过了一会儿我才反应过来那意味着什么。

I paid no attention to this shark crack at the moment as I thought someone had set off a firecracker, But the real meaning of it came to me a moment later.

现在回头看，弗兰克·德克说跳舞导致了坍塌，这听起来可能有点荒谬，因为大多数建筑的设计都能承受比几十个人跳舞大得多的冲击力。

Now in retrospect, Frank Decker's theory that dancing had caused the collapse might seem like kind of silly since most buildings are designed to withstand a far greater shock than a few dozen people dancing.

但我们现在知道，当时

But what we know now that there

那里有活板门之类的东西。

was like trap doors and that kind of thing.

问题就在这儿。

That's the thing.

当时，波士顿市民跟着媒体报道，觉得这很合乎直觉，而且即使后来真相大白，这个说法依然作为都市传说流传了很久，大家都认为是跳查尔斯顿舞导致了这场坍塌。

At the time, it seemed intuitive to Bostonians following the story in the press and remained a popular urban legend long after the real cause had been revealed that it was dancing the Charleston that caused this collapse.

哦，不是的。

Oh, no.

看来查尔斯顿舞这下成不祥之舞了。

So now the Charleston was cursed.

是的。

Yeah.

它被诅咒了。

It was cursed.

在事件发生后的其中一场庭审中，负责评估建筑的结构工程师作证说，随着脚步持续踩踏，地板下层的木梁开始震动。

Now during one of the trials that followed the incident, one of the structural engineers tasked with evaluating the building testified and said, as the steady pounding of feet continued, the wooden jousts under the linoleum floor began to vibrate.

结构工程师用‘机械共振’这个词来描述当时发生的情况。

Structural engineers used the term mechanical resonance to describe what was happening.

在某些条件下，当悬臂梁或横梁受到持续有节奏的振动时，会剧烈颤动。

Under certain conditions, a suspended beam or cross member will vibrate violently when subjected to steady rhythmic oscillations.

这种振动曾导致桥梁、建筑，甚至飞机发生灾难性破坏。

Those vibrations have been known to cause catastrophic failures in bridges, buildings, and even airplanes.

皮克威克俱乐部的舞者们对下面的情况一无所知。

The Pickwick Club dancers knew nothing about residents.

他们完全不知道脚下正在发生什么。

They had no idea what was going on under their feet.

当然，在人们弄清楚大楼倒塌的原因之前，市政工人得先清理废墟，结果这比预想的要难得多。

Of course, before anyone could arrive at an accurate explanation for why the building collapsed, city workers needed to clear away the rubble, which proved more challenging than expected.

除了搬动好几吨废墟的常规困难外，周围聚集的大量人群也成了个大麻烦。

In addition to the expected difficulties of moving, you know, several tons of debris, the large crowd surrounding the area was like a big challenge.

是的。

Yeah.

虽然大多数人还算守序，听从警察指挥，但也有人不太守规矩。

And while most of them were orderly and complied with police directions, others were less respectful.

人总是会凑热闹。

People are always going to people.

这事儿准能让你气炸。

This is gonna enrage you.

7月6日，也就是倒塌后的几天，警察逮捕了一名工人安杰洛·库克，因为他被发现从废墟中幸存的几具遗体口袋里偷钱。

On July 6, just days after the collapse Mhmm.

警察逮捕了一名工人安杰洛·库克，因为他被发现从废墟中幸存的几具遗体口袋里偷钱。

Police arrested one of the workers, Angelo Cook, after he was seen stealing cash from the pockets of the few remaining dead bodies in the ruins.

你简直太过分了

You gotta be fucking

他居然敢去翻死人的口袋偷钱，真是疯了。

He's kidding going to peep dead people's pants pockets and stealing their money.

这人真是渣到极点。

That's a piece of shit.

这世上最低劣的人，就该被钉在耻辱柱上。

There's a You gotta special be place the in lowest type of low.

是啊。

Yeah.

这种人迟早要遭报应。

That's the karmic retribution on that.

他的家族后代都会因此蒙羞。

That it will it will reverberate through generations of his family.

天哪。

Wow.

确实如此。

Truly.

去他的吧。

Like, fuck that.

哇。

Wow.

7月7日，大部分废墟已经被清理干净，最后一批遗体也被送往法医中心进行身份辨认。

On July 7, the majority of the ruins had been cleared from the scene, and the last of the bodies had been removed to go to the morgue for identification.

与此同时，全市范围内正在召集大陪审团，听取证词并评估证据。

Meanwhile, across the city, a grand jury was being convened to hear testimony and evaluate the evidence.

对。

Mhmm.

当天下午，在听取了一些幸存者的证词后，地区检察官托马斯·奥布莱恩带领了本应由奥布莱恩负责的调查小组。

That afternoon, after hearing some survivor testimony, District Attorney Thomas O'Brien led the guard that was going to be in O'Brien.

肯定有。

There's gotta be.

他带着陪审团亲自去了现场，让他们亲眼看看那个地方，看看建筑的地基。

He led the grand jury to the site so they could see the space for themselves and view the foundation of the building.

那时候，结构工程师已经开始评估大楼状况，怀疑倒塌原因并非舞者导致，而是派对墙的结构问题。

By that time, structural engineers had begun evaluating the building and suspected the collapse had not been caused by dancers, but by a structural issue with the party wall.

我来跟你们说说什么是派对墙。

And I'll tell you what a party wall is.

明白了。

Okay.

其实就是皮克威克俱乐部所在大楼和旁边那栋楼之间共用的那面墙。

It's basically the shared wall between the building that housed the Pickwick and the building next to it.

哦。

Oh.

在德赖福斯大楼建造的那个年代，建筑物常常彼此紧贴，靠互相支撑来增加稳定性。

Now in the era when the Dreyfus was built, buildings were often built to lean against one another as a source of stability.

它们之间的距离非常近。

They were very close to each other.

而那面共享的墙，就是它们之间的承重墙。

And that shared wall was the party wall between them.

所以这有点像公寓，或者说是

So it's almost like a condo or like

其实就是类似公寓那样，只不过它们并不是同一个建筑。

It a was just like, they were just almost like a condo, except it's not all the same building.

有些楼靠得特别近，互相靠着才能站稳。

There's buildings that are so close to each other, they lean on each other for support.

这真让人惊讶。

That's wild.

是啊。

Yeah.

而这一次，紧挨着派克威克大厦的那栋楼最近被拆除了。

Now in this case, the building next to The Pickwick had recently been torn down.

哦。

Oh.

这就移除了隔墙可能的重要支撑。

Thus removing a potentially significant source of support in the party wall.

停一下。

Stop.

根据最初的观察，工程师们怀疑这可能是导致坍塌的原因。

Based on their initial observations, the engineers suspected that that could have been the reason for the collapse.

是的。

Yeah.

在大陪审团作证时，负责皮克威克大楼旁建设项目的一名工程师哈里·哈文表示，他们曾对皮克威克大楼本身的结构安全表示担忧，并已将这些担忧告知过业主，但没人采取任何措施。

Testifying before the grand jury, Harry Haven, one of the engineers in charge of the project to be built next to the Pickwick, said there were concerns about the structural integrity of the Pickwick building itself and that those concerns had been shared with the property owners, but nothing had been done about it.

对。

Mhmm.

经过数日的证词和证据呈现后，大陪审团对皮克威克案中的六人提出了指控。

Now after several days of testimony and evidence, the grand jury indicted six individuals in the Pickwick case.

以下六人被控过失致人死亡。

The following were indicted on charges of manslaughter.

俱乐部老板蒂莫西·贝里，负责火灾后修复工程的建筑师乔治·方克，以及大楼业主海曼·布卢姆伯格。

Timothy Berry, the owner of the club, George Funk, the architect in charge of the building's repair project following the fire, and Hyman Bloomberg, the owner of the building.

另外三人因与皮克威克俱乐部有关，被控较轻的罪名。

Three others associated with The Pickwick Club were indicted on, like, lesser charges.

我觉得这挺合理。

Fair enough to me.

几天后，大陪审团再次召开，又对六名参与修复和施工工程的建筑师提出过失杀人指控，包括弗里茨·纳森、约翰·帕尔茨、约翰·托宾、爱德华·罗默、詹姆斯·亨德里克和劳伦斯·珀金斯。

Now a few days later, the grand jury reconvened and returned six more indictments for manslaughter against the architects involved in the restoration and construction projects, including Fritz Nathan, John Paltz, John Tobin, Edward Romer, James Hendrick, and Lawrence Perkins.

这九个人都否认有罪，审判安排在接下来的几个月里进行。

All nine men pleaded not guilty and their trials were scheduled for the following, following months.

好的。

Okay.

由于皮克威克案备受关注，从地区检察官到市长，所有人都敦促尽快审理这些被控过失杀人的嫌疑人。

Now given the high profile nature of the Pickwick case, everyone from the district attorney to the mayor urged a speedy trial for those accused of manslaughter.

至少也要向公众表明，这座城市对建筑结构安全问题极为重视。

If for no other reason than to demonstrate that the city took the matter of unstable infrastructure very seriously.

就在大陪审团对被告提起指控一周后，针对这12名被告的审判在萨福克县高等法院正式开庭。

Now just one week after the grand jury returned indictments for the accused, the trial against all 12 of the men, began at Suffolk County Superior Court.

第一位出庭作证的是警察局长丹尼尔·辛德，他和其他几位证人一起，描述了数月前发生在三楼那场大火造成的破坏程度。

The first to testify was chief of police Daniel Senate, who among several other individuals who testified, they were testifying to the level of destruction caused by the fire that had occurred on the 3rd Floor several months earlier.

明白了。

Okay.

所有作证的人普遍认为，虽然三楼被烧得相当严重，但整栋建筑的结构依然稳固。

The consensus among those who spoke on the effect of the fire was that while the 3rd Floor had been, quote, very badly burned, the building itself remained structurally sound.

明白了。

Okay.

根据资料显示。

Now, according to It is.

就像我也不太确定。

Like to I don't know.

要让人觉得安心才行。

To feel comfortable with that.

是的。

Yeah.

对，就是这样。

Yeah, exactly.

谢谢。

Thank you.

根据检方专家盖伊·埃默森的说法，皮克威克俱乐部的坍塌是由于东侧缺乏横向支撑，导致地基下的混凝土桩失效造成的。

Now, according to Guy Emerson, the expert for the prosecution, he said the collapse of the Pickwick Club was due to the failure of the concrete piers under the foundation due to a lack of lateral bracing on the easterly side.

紧邻皮克威克俱乐部的那栋楼已经被拆除，使得共用墙体失去了作用，因此彭博公司雇佣了一家建筑公司，在混凝土桩上加建结构以提供支撑。

Now, the building beside the Pickwick was torn down, effectively making the party wall useless, Bloomberg hired a construction firm to add to the concrete piers to provide structural support.

好的。

Okay.

因为他知道共用墙体会变得不牢固。

Because he knew the party wall was going be weak.

但可能更早之前，就在情况恶化的时候，就应该把俱乐部关闭了。

But also, probably should have closed down the club before, like, while that was going to happen.

另外，那些桩基建造得非常差，根本承受不了它们本该支撑的十万磅重量。

Well, also, the piers were very poorly built and weren't capable of supporting the 100,000 pounds that they were required to support.

所以这完全是没用的。

So that was, useless.

有一位评估工程师说，其中一个桩基是他见过的最烂的混凝土块。

According to one of the evaluating engineers, one of the piers was, quote, the rottenest piece of concrete I ever saw.

混凝土混合物里还有不少碎石空洞。

There were pockets of gravel in the mixture.

水泥质量很差，而且用量也不够。

The cement was of poor quality, and there wasn't enough of it.

桩基的粗劣工艺，正好创造了那种‘多米诺骨牌式’倒塌的完美条件。

The shoddy craftsmanship of the piers creating the perfect conditions for a kind of, quote, domino like collapse under the right circumstances.

现在最让人觉得荒谬的是，事情的结果是，没有哪一种单一理论是对的。

Now, that's what's crazy about this is it's like this somewhat strange twist where it turned out that it wasn't one single theory that was correct.

是很多种问题叠加在一起。

A lot of them.

好几个因素其实是相互作用的。

Several were kind of working in combination with each other.

混凝土桥墩建造得非常粗糙，安装也不专业。

The concrete piers had been poorly made and unprofessionally installed.

当音乐和舞蹈达到高潮时，桥墩所嵌入的区域开始崩解，桥墩随之倒塌。

So when the music and the dancing reached its peak, it caused the pockets into which the piers had been placed to crumble and the piers to fall.

没了混凝土桥墩的支撑，整栋大楼就直接塌陷了，根本承受不住自身的重量。

Without the support from the concrete piers, the building simply collapsed into itself, unable to withstand the weight.

光是想象那个画面就已经够吓人的了。

Just picturing that is like so

最可怕的就是，

The scariest thing, just like

大楼像是把自己吞了进去。

a building swallowing itself.

真的。

Truly.

就像

It's like

你看到那种地面塌陷的视频时。

when you see videos of like sinkholes.

是啊。

Yeah.

对我来说，最吓人的就是那种塌陷坑。

Oh, Scariest sinkholes for me out.

太吓人了。

So scary.

我受不了这个。

I hate it.

由于导致皮克威克俱乐部倒塌的因素实在太多，陪审团无法认定任何一名被告对此负有直接责任，最终所有人被判无罪。

Now given the number of things that had to go wrong in order for The Pickwick Club to collapse, the jury was unable to agree that any of the men on trial were directly responsible for the tragedy, and all were found not guilty.

因为有太多因素共同造成了这场灾难。

It's because there was so many things that contributed to this.