WRECKED HOUSE.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19202, 7 January 1928, Page 13

WRECKED HOUSE.

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SLEEPERS ENGULFED

bk; casualty list

(SV CA3LF.—I'KESS ASSOCIATION— CO?Y]U6HT.) (avstkai.un' and x.::. cabls association'.) (Received January dill. 8.20 p.m.) BERLIN, January o. The city house explosion came without warning. A flame shot up twenty feet, and in a moment the sleepers on the various floors were engulfed, beds and all, in thirty feet of debris on tho ground level. Twelve dead are already recovered, and at least four are still buried. The search continues with the aid of searchlights. Twenty aro seriously injured.

It is ii miracle that anyone escaped, as tome masses of debris were hurled a quarter of a mile. Tho rescue was a task of extreme danger, as crumbling masonry .was continually crashing down. The police and firemen were very plucky, and several were injured. The building Has a big concrete tenement occupied by ninety-nine persons belonging to twenty-eight families. Just before the catastrophe thirty gueits who had been merrymaking at a birthday party left the building, but the host and liostess were killed. A tiny dog was heard! whining in the darkness. A fireman' sawed through a heavy beam and saved the dog, and their acetylene lamps revealed the dog's master hanging head downwards among the bricks and mortar, whence lie had fallen from the upper floor. He asked the firemen first to extricate his wife, but the firemen found! that she was dead. .-..'•.

DEATH-ROLL MOUNTS

(ACdTitAUAN A.ND S.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.)

(Received January 6th : 5.50 p.m.)

BERLIN, January 5. Latest reports show the death-roll to be fifteen, while one is missing.