HOSPITAL ENGULFED.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 987, 5 March 1910, Page 4

HOSPITAL ENGULFED.

Kaibl, a small place in (Jarinthia, has been the scene of an extraordinary subsidence, involving the total disappearance of a two-htorey building which was used as a hospital for miners, writes the Vienna correspondent of the London "Standard." Ita seven occupants, comprising a patient and the resident surgeon, with his family, went down with the dwelling. It is believed that a disused gallery existed in one portion of the mine* dkectly under the hospital, and that this caused the subsidence. Eye witnesses say that the building disappeared in a few seconds, "with a loud roar,"and every trace of the hospital was so completely obliterated that the people who saw it disappear believed that tbey had lost their senses and were the victims of hallucinations. Dr Wessely, the surgeon, was dressing the injuries of a miner who had been injured while at work when the collapse occurred. When rescue parties arrived they found a deep depression in the earth where the hospital had stood, but no sign of the building itself. No hope, stated the correspondent, was entertained that any of the occupants of the house would be alive.