HILL COLLAPSES IN LYONS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20086, 15 November 1930, Page 15

HILL COLLAPSES IN LYONS.

IN DISASTER ! ranches wreck TWO STREETS. ■ RESCUE WORK. !► WP' " . , [ tifjt " . ■ ' luig association—bt electric tOMO^I-cofYßiam.) ggguvei November 14th, 7.30 p.m.) *•*?' ' LONDON, November 14. UjMysorabed by old Roman workings with tho flood-waters of jjpfr if**? rains, an entire hill, in the St. Jean district of laiiik" ' n a series of avathis morning. Two streets up, many houses god more than 100 are be-"to-have-been killed. Many died jgikir doePdisaster occurred in the old part jjf&j town which was soaked by rc:(!jsseptional rains. Thousands of 'earth fell, the thunderous noise Ajfiif the entire district. of injured were taken to tho y&hg&a], where they were attended to

jpwwVflW police immediately began the jflfoiafinit of the houses in surroundw dtetxiets. Whole families were sod lcd to places of safety. , like thunder awoke me," Mj'mesurvivor. "When I openedgPjS J saw the rains of mv house I lay in the debris until iremen. ' Half an hour later rumbling sound, and ancollapse buried rescuers and my:W»aa terrible sight. The houses # lUus a pack of cards, and the trembled as though there was ; urton&qnake." I -■>" Collapse. sent a huge mass sn3 stone like an avalanche ■M£ already engulfed houses. of sappers equipped i'f3& searchlights were quickly on the IMP'* 11 * P^ e<i °P < * ust an d being . seen fj' '• ttzemen and sappers surthe rains searching for ninecomrades, bat were unable Their anxiety was when . another : 'collapse 4 o'clock. of the havoc precludes ■jflasimptrtation of the deaths, which liber one hundred. Two '■ street,slid fifty yards i the river Saone, near the Bhone. •e. convulsions between ?ourviere, a cathedral 1 on a rock, towers on lewly-formed precipice, tiquailla Hospital,' now back tons of debris vast chasm, ng came whoa the. high Ma Hospital, situated Uied, /dQwn.ron _b house h' it like >i*e like an explosion, ed by the tooting of ot ■ the fire brigades, to bed, escaping an tis brother and aged Collapse of. the house junates also "had re it were .mostly saved >Cd with ropes an& after the first col-set-was packed, with Women, and children thes, until, amid. the awsommodatian : was ire resembles a rum lg~to tbq presence of Old '- goods throwii' ahed 'up in the sly installed arclights houses fell on them, fred subsidence until fen-storied tenements If OaMaatiy, s;volunteers, defying gallantly proceeded rork. All the'- taxiwere mobilised its the ax-Premier, M. tyor, hastened to the the firemen explain

IFfttree bodies were under ® oc ' lat a . w ? Ijtttiuon were struck down *Mlo directing operations. @6kt was badly gashed by fWy» but Continued his minJ;the injured. J»or ambulances conveying ».overwhelmed with their the final avalanche ocws a.m., and reduced the H*r rnin, : »J*® being pushed on des--4? subterranean cries and being extricated, * the river. f>* 8 " r® administered to a semiwho could not bo » .~ oc^or > after wriggling lgj*« e utmost risk, injected ■Wnrse of the rescue work of Lyons, P& "/. priests carrying fj» absolve the S dying. When ffigSjWoek«d- a convent,-. a pH^n' on the top an d timbers. m en ant ] wom cn, " 01 " >s ' w h''c in tch-lam p glimmer.when, niiwtr its' des-