THE OPPAU EXPLOSION.
MANY BLINDED. CHILDREN KILLED IN BED. By Telefraph.—Preas Assn—Copyright. Received Sept. 25, 5.5 p.m. Berlin, Sept. 23. A large number of people were blinded by the Oppau explosion and forty are in the Heidelberg eye hospital alone. Many others were injured, being flung twenty or thirty feet by the air currents. Children in bed were killed by falling roofs. The scene of the explosion presents a gruesome spectacle, portions of human bodies hanging from the girders and pipes.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Berlin, Sept. 22. Rescue work is proceeding feveriahlj at Oppau. Numbers of the missing ar< believed to be imprisoned alive amonj the wreckage of collapsed houees. Thou sands are homeleee, and slept in th/ fields. A dreadful aspect of the is the number stricken with blindnesi Fifty oisefi have been sent to Heidel berg. Three-fourths of Oppau is beyon< repair. A clean sweep must be mad. of the rujns and a fresh start made.— Aus.-N/Z. Cable Aesn. BODIES STILL BEING FOUND. London, Sept. 23. Oppau telegrams report that bodies aj) still being found. Some were burie twenty feet in earth. Two thousantl one hundred new workers were on the day of the disaster.—Aus.-N.Z< Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 September 1921, Page 5
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198THE OPPAU EXPLOSION. Taranaki Daily News, 26 September 1921, Page 5
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