COLLAPSE OF HOUSES IN DUBLIN.

Te Puke Times, Volume II, Issue II, 5 September 1913, Page 3

COLLAPSE OF HOUSES IN DUBLIN.

OVER SIXTY KILLED. '. NO HOPE'FOR THE MISSING, London September 2. # Two tenement houses in Dublin collapsed to-day. Thirteen families were living in the houses, and all were buried in the debris.

It is impossible yet to estimate the loss of life, but the death roll is well over 60. Eight bodies have been got out, and over 50 are still unaccounted for—26 in one house. There is little hope of any of those buried remaining alive. .Pathetic scenes were witnessed " in the streets. Great crowds gathered throughout the night. Parents seeking children knelt in groups on tjie pavement at intervals and prayed. The rescue work is attended by much danger. Three children on the opposite side of the street were crushed by falling masonry. A youth named Salmon rescued two children, and returned to save his sister. The roof collapsed and both were killed.

The houses, which were in the poorest part of the city, were inhabited by poor working people. A man was in bed, others were sitting on the doorsteps, and children were playing 'on the pavement when the first house collapsed, without warning. The second soon followed, the majority of the inhabitants escaping.

The dead include a mother clasping her baby in her arms. Many are buried under, tons oi bricks and mortar.

In one case a woman had put her five children to bed in one room. When she returned she found all buried. A man's dead body, with a living dog and kitten beside him was found in another room.

The strikers are silent, stunned with the horror of the disaster.