DELUGE IN MADRID
COLLAPSE OH A’ NEWj RESH&iVOIR,. HUNDREDS DE PEOPLE PERISH, A MOURNFUL PROCESSION, Bjo Electric TelegrapE—Pec Press, Association,—Copyright. MADRID* April 9. ; ■A new water reservoir ini * course of construction in Madrid, forming a quacirilateral area measuring 30U by 150 metres, collapsed. There haa been, great loss of life.
One hundred bodies have been recovered, and two hundred are still buried.
The King personally siuperintenidod the rescue. Seventy persons were- injuredThere is intense excitement amongst the masses of Madrid. A procession of women, marching with black flags, forced shopkeepers rto close their establishments,, asi a sign of mourning..
24-7 MEN KILLED AND 70 STILL MISSING. TEN OF THOSE RESCUED GO - ' MAD. [ By Telegraph—Press Association—j Copyright. I Received 9,50 p.m., April 10. MADRID, April 10., I There were four hundred and fiftythree working at the resenvjoir at the time of the collapse. Two hundred and forty-five, who. were employed in the ’ lower workings, were killed.
Ten of those rescued went madSeventy ara still missing.:
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1427, 11 April 1905, Page 2
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