HOUSES COLLAPSE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3, 4 September 1913, Page 5

HOUSES COLLAPSE.

DJSASTER £N DUBLiN. I ' | THIRTFEX FAMILIES . BUIUED. | II By Electuic telegraph—■Copvhigiit [ L mteu Press Association.] ■ London, September 2. Two tenement houses collapsed in Dublin. Thirteen families were buried. hour dead have already been rejcovered, and it is feared the death I roll will be heavy. SAD DETAILS. London, September 3. . ! Fifty-three are still missing in Dubilin. Seven bodies have been recovered, including several pedestrians who i were passing the tenements which jwerc old and dilapidated. l ■ The tenements were in the oldest [part of the city and were inhabited by poor working people. One man was in bed, others sitting on the doorsteps, and children were playing on the pavement when the first house collapsed with a tremendous crash without warning. The second soon followed. The majority of the occupants escaped. The families in adjoining houses fled terror-stricken. A third house is on the verge of collapse. Eight bodies, including a mother clasping a baby, were soon recovered from the wreckage which had fallen into the street. Others were buried under tons of brick and mortar. In one case a woman put,five children to bed in one room, and when she returned found them all buried. A man’s dead body with a living dog and a kitten were found in another

room. SCENES IX THE STREET. THE DANGER OF RESCUE WORK. (Received 8.40 a.m.) ‘London, September 3. Pathetic scenes were witnessed at the collapsed houses. Great crowds remained throughout the night. Parents were seeking their children.Groups knelt on the pavement at intervals and prayed. The rescue work was attended by nuch risk, and there were several u-cidents and narrow escapes. Two of the rescuers-had to be taken to the hospital. Three children on the opposite side of the street were crushed to death by falling masonry.

A youth named Salmon saved two children and returned to gave the. sister, hut the roof collapsed and both were killed. All the missing are now accounted for. TWENTY-SIX UNACCOUNTED FOB THE EFFECT OX THE STRIKERS.

(Received 8.30 a.m,) London, September 3. Twenty-six people are still unaccounted for in one house. Tt is im- - oossiblo to estimate the number of. lives lost. There is little hope that :iny of the buried now remain alive, i'lie fire -brigade is still working and a corps of doctors and nurses are in attendance. 'Flic strikers are silenct, being stunned at the horror of the disaster. THE RUINS OX FIRE. (Received 9 a.m.) The search for victims in the col lapsed houses continued all night. Towards morning a fire broke out in the ruins.