HOSPITAL ENGULFED.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5486, 18 March 1910, Page 4

HOSPITAL ENGULFED.

PATIENTS AND DOCTOR LOSE THEIR LIVES. VIENNA, Jan. 9. An extrajoydiparyi oa|astrop|he cd, cuired at-Raibi, Carinthia, yesterday when the lecal miners' hospital, < two-stxirkid buildings wap sudd*silj swallowed up in the earth, with seve occupants including a patient am the (family qf Er. Wessely, the resi dent surgeon. It is believed that a disused galliry existed in one portion of the mine, directly under the hospital and that this caused the subsidence Eye-witnesses say that the building disappeared in a Jfcw. Seconds, "with a loud roar," ami every trace ol 'She hospital was so (completely obliterated that the people who saw it disappear believed that they had ■lest their senses, and were the victims of hallucination. Er. Wessely was dressing the in juries of a miner who had been hur while at work when the collapse occuired. When rescue parties arrived they found a deep depression, in tho earth where the hospital had stood, but no sign of the building A stream which flowed near by was dl v-crted owing to the catastrophe, sc that the depression speedily becam< a miniature lake. The unfortunate occupants of the hospital would therefore be -drowuied, had they escaped instant death among the falling timbers. Miners are now trying to divert the water in order to sink a shaft in the hope of ftndfyig) the buried building and the bodks of -the victims. Houses in the vicinity which appear to be in dan-ger of collapse have been evacuated.