TRAGEDY IN DUBLIN.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 5 September 1913, Page 5

TRAGEDY IN DUBLIN.

COLLAPSE OF HOUSES.

SEARCH FOR THE VICTIMS

(Received September 4, 8.35 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 3.

Search for the victims of the two collapsed tenement houses in Dublin continued all night. Towards morning a fire broke out in, the ruins. Seven bodies, including those of several pedestrians who were passing the tenements at the time of the oollapse, have been recovered. The buildings were old and dilapidated. The tenements were situated in the oldest part of the city and inhabited by poor working people. One man was in bed. Others were sitting oil the door-steps, and the children were playing on the pavement. TEe first house collapsed with a tremendous crash, without any warning, and the second soon followed. The majority of the occupants escaped, while the families in the adjoining" houses fled terror-stricken. The third house is on the verge of oollapse. Eight bodies, including that of a mother clasping "her baby, weje soon recovered from the wreckage that had ; fallen on the streets. The others were buried uiider toils of brick and motar. '

In one case a woman who had put her five children to bed in one room returned to find them all buried.

A man's dead body, with a living dog and kitten, were found in- another room.

MANY VICTIMS NOT YET ACCOUNTED FOR.

DOCTORS AND NURSES IN ATTENDANCE.

(Received September 4, 8.30 a.m.> LONDON, Sept. 3.

Twenty-eix of the victims in one of the tenement houses in Dublin are still unaccounted for. It is impossible to estimate th© number of lives that have been lost. There is little hope that any of those buried remain alive.

The Fire Brigade is still working. A corps of doctors and nurses is in attendance. The strikers are being stunned with the horror of the . disaster. GREAT CROWDSIN THE STREET RESCUE WORK~ DIFFICULT. (Received September 4, 9 a.m.) DUBLIN, Sept. 3. There were great crowds at the scene of the disaster throughout the night, including parents seeking children. Groups knelt on the pavement at intervale and prayedi.

The rescue work was attended by much risk and there were several narrow. escapes. Two rescuers had. tobe sent to hospital. Three children on the opposite side of the street to the houses were crushed to death by falling nmsonry. A youth named Salmon saved two children and returned to save their sister, when the roof collapsed, and he and the girl were killed. All the missing have now been accounted! for.