Alan, I had a situation last fall where one of my hives was knocked over creating a real mess as the frames were from cutout, rubber banded, filled frames. A bad mess !! I salvaged what ckukd be. Searches and searched for the queen. No sign of her. I preferred 4 queens from David at Barnyard Bees, I was thinking oh well the damage is done. I might as well make splits with what is left. The queens came in I checked once more to make sure there wasn't a queen. Amazingly there she was, and me with four new queens. So I split them anyway, along with borrowing a few frames from other hives. I am happy to tell you this turned out to be a blessing. Went into fall, instead of one hive, five nucs, and so far 05 or still thriving, along with my other cut out hives. What started as a bad situation, turned out to be a blessing. This was done by voice text. Please excuse any wrong words or misspellings as I do not have time to edit at this time.
Phillip