OPPAU DISASTER

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 1, 26 September 1921, Page 5

OPPAU DISASTER

MANY MISSING; THOUSANDS HOMELESS NUMBERS STRICKEN WITH BLINDNESS By Telesranh —Press Association —Copyright 'Berlin, September 22. Rescue work is proceeding feverishly pt Oppau. Numbers are missing and aro believed to be imprisoned alive among the wreckage of' collapsed houses. Thousands aro homeless, and slept in the fields. A dreadful aspect of the disaster is that numbers lire stricken with blindness and fifty such coses have been sent to Heidelberg. Threo-fourths of Oppau is beyond repair and there must bo a clean sweep of the ruins before a fresh start can be made. —“The Times. (Rec. September 24 5.5 p.m.) Berlin, September 23. A large number of people were blinded by the Oppau explosion. Forty are in Heidelberg Eye Hospital alone. Many others were injured by being flung 20 or 30 feet by air currents. Children in bed were killed by falling roofs. [The scone of the explosion presents a gruesome spectable, portions of human bodies hanging from girders and pipes.— Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. f t (Rec. September 24, 5.5 p.m.) Paris, September 23. Bodies are' still being found at Oppau. Some aro buried under 20 feet of earth.—Reuter. NINE WORKERS ALIVE IN THE RUINS. * / (Rec. September 25, 5.5 p>m.) « London, September 24. A rescue party discovered nine workers alive in tho ruins of the chemical works at Oppau.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. 1 r angtheFexplosion AT SALTPETRE WORKS SEVERAL PEOPLE KILLED. (Ret. September 26 , 0.35 a.m.) Berlin, September 24. Saltpetre works at Klein, Lauenburg, exploded. Several were killed andi the damage was heavy.—Reuter.