TERRIBLE DISASTER
SUFFERED BY RUMANIA GRIM RECORD OF EARTHQUAKE HAVOC. ESTIMATE OF TEN THOUSAND VICTIMS. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, November 11. Fire is adding to the havoc ed by Rumania’s two earthquakes, of;which the second today caused further panic among the population.
It is authoritatively believed that the entire collapse of Bucharest is possible if there is a further shock, which the buildings are incapable of withstanding as a result of shaken and strained frameworks. Victims throughout Rumania arc now estimated at more than 10,000. Fire is turning the ruins of the Carlton Flats into an inferno, with 200 persons still buried underneath. The fire was still raging tonight. First reliable reports from the oilfields indicate far greater damage than was at first thought. Cracks in the ground appeared in many places, with hot liquid pouring qut. More than 40 fires have broken out. Traffic has completely broken down and many more railway bridges are reported to have collapsed. Half the houses in Ploesti have been destroyed and tens of thousands of peasants elsewhere rendered homeless. Hundreds of villages have been razed. The Government has mobilised all engineers, architects, doctors, sanitary engineers and other technicians to help. Other detachments are engaged in repair work.
ESTIMATE OF CASUALTIES FOUR HUNDRED KILLED. 800 SERIOUSLY INJURED. (Received This Day, 11.10 a.m.) BUCHAREST, November 12. Some 400 persons were killed and 800 seriously injured throughout Rumania by the earthquake on Sunday.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 November 1940, Page 5
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