GASOMETER EXPLOSION
APPALLING HAVOC
SPECTACLE OF RUIN HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, February 11. NeUllkirchen, a centre in the Saar Valley, in Germany, which yesterday was a town of 35,000 inhabitants, all peaceful and happy, is today filled with crazy, grief-stricken people, wandering amidst a spectacle of ruin only paralleled,by a shell-torn city in war time. •
It is estimated that 221 people are dead.and over 1000 injured, some of them seriously, as the result of the explosion of the largest gasometer in the Saar Valley. - °
The whole of Germany-ia .in mourning and flags are flying at half-mast. Broadcasts of light music have been cancelled. ■ A public funeral is being arranged for the victims, who will be buried in a common grave. '
President Hindeuburg has headed a relief fund, which now totals £5000. The Saar Commission has given £6000;
M. Lebrun, President of France, telegraphed France's sympathy with an. intimation that the French Government is contributing 100,000 francs, and recalling that France was allotted the Saar mines under the Versailles Treaty.
The catastrophe is the worst in Europe since the explosion of an amnionia tank at Oppau in 1921, which~ caused 350 deaths. ' • ' ■ '
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 36, 13 February 1933, Page 7
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