PATHETIC SCENES

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 456, 14 February 1933, Page 5

PATHETIC SCENES

(Press. Assn.-

FURTHER RESCUES HOPELESS

-B3 Telegraph — Ooprrlght) .

Rec. Feb. 13. London, February 12. 1 The bodies of 20 men, 25 women and 12 children lie in the mortuaries of the four Neunkirchen hospitals awaiting Tuesday's obsequies in the presence of Herr von Papen, the Chancellor. The death roll will be swelled when Saarbrucken and Strasse. are cleared. Tearful groups cluster the barriers which prevent unauthorised entry to the devastated areas, where investigations have been temporarily suspended since further rescues are hopeless though grieving women are searching in a nightmare fashion the ruins of the former homes of 800 people whence protrude fragments of furniture and broken toys. Several families are repairing the less damaged dwellings with the. object of resuming domicile. Some of those who rushed from their houses after the first explosion were killed or mutilated by the second. One woman's leg was blown off. A motor-car was hurled through the air many yards, the occupants being killed. Ten of a reduced staff of 22 working a by-product plant lost their lives The wreckage is still burning. The f urnaces of the steel works are little damaged, and will not be closed but the reconstruction of the entire plant will occupy fully a year, rendering many workless. The removal of the debris alone will take weeks. A priest who was endeavouring to deliver a sermon in a crowded church broke down and was unable to preach.