WOMAN’S ORDEAL
-BURIED UNDER WRECKAGE.
[United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
LONDON, May 9
A message from Lyons states that a young woman, Madame Matieu, was telephoning to her husband, when the building collapsed. 'Her husband, who was unable to re-establish the call rushed home and saw the wreckage and despairingly realised I.that his wife was beneath 'the ruins. Be watched all day and all night, and, to-day,' was overIjoyed to hear his wife’s voice crying “Where is my husband, I . am stifling.’’ (She was extricated after .eighteen hours’ burial, but was little Jiurt.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 May 1932, Page 5
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