SERIOUS DISASTER
(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association. FURTHER. PARTICULARS. (Received this day at 11 0 a.m.) NEW YORK, Nov. 15. A message from Pittsburgh says that twenty-four hours after the explosion, the authorities still are unable to estimate the total number killed, because many bodies are believed to be buried beneath the ruins of the gas tank and adjacent clay pot plant. Wreckers are still removing the tangled steel debris from both, and pumping sixteen feet of water from the Hooded basement of the latter. Officials declared it will be impossible to compile a complete list until this work is finished, but rescuers 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 and at least fifty persons still are missing.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 November 1927, Page 3
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144SERIOUS DISASTER Hokitika Guardian, 16 November 1927, Page 3
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