QUETTA EARTHQUAKE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 240, 24 July 1935, Page 3

QUETTA EARTHQUAKE

NURSE’S GRAPHIC STORY FLOWERS BLOOM AMID CHAOS A graphic description of the desolation and despair which followed the recent earthquake at Quetta is contained in a letter from Sister Jean Stacy, an Australian nursing sister.- to her mother, Mrs Florence Stacy, of Tumut. Sister Stacy said that the first day she was in a woman’s nursing section, and almost 100 patients were brought in, suffering mostly from fractured legs, arms, -or pelvis. Indian students were doing the dressings with the staff. The Indians and British were wonderful. The wives work very hard as V.A.D.’s without - a grumble or complaint. . “A few hundred yards away, added Sister Stacy, “lay a great mound of stone, dust and boards, under which were 26,000 dead. It is almost inconceivable ; a- great invisible pall ot death, pluir springs; the water system is unThere are no' cracks or fissures; no sultouebed and the railway hardly damaged, while trees are standing and flowers blooming. But all houses below a certain area are levelled and death lurks everywhere.”