PITTSBURG TRAGEDY.
FIFTY STILL MISSING. (BY CABLg—PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND H.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) NEW YORK, November 15. Twenty-four hours after the gasometer explosion at Pittsburg the authorities are still unable to estimate the total number killed, because many bodies are believed to be buried beneath the ruins of the gas tank and an adjacent clay pot plant. Wreckers are still removing tangled steel debris from both and pumping 16 feet of water from the flooded basement of the clay pot plant. Officials declare t l- at it will be impossible to compile a complete list until this work is finished, but the reseuers have already reported seeing the bodies of 23 men in the water under the ruins of the clay pot plant. Ninety-five men, women and children remain in the hospitals, mostly in a serious condition.
At least 50 persons are still missing.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19160, 17 November 1927, Page 9
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145PITTSBURG TRAGEDY. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19160, 17 November 1927, Page 9
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