BUILDING COLLAPSES.
# ■■■ RUINS SHELLED BY FRENCH. ARTILLERY. WOMAN*JS REMARKABLE ESCAPE. (VHITED P&tSB ASSOdATfOH—BI XCXCCSIO - rtLjSOSAJft—COPIBIOHT.) ' PABKJ, May 9All hope of tEc safety of the victims - of the collapse of a block of buildings in Lyons has been abandoned, and the authorities ordered the rains to fee shelled by artillery to prevent any .further collapse. Ten thousand people watched the artillery fire several founds, but the bombardment only resulted in rekindling the flames, necessitating the fire brigade being called out. It has now been decided to use high explosive . . shells. A message from Lyons states, that Madame Mathieu, a young woman, was telephoning her husband when the five- , storey building in which her fiat was situated collapsed. Her husband being unable to re-establish the call, rushed home, saw the wreckage and-despair; ingly realised that his wife-waft beneath the ruins. He watched all day and. all night long, and to-day wub overjoyed to , hear his wife's voice flailing: Where is my husband, lam stifling. ■ ■ ■■ She was extricated after eighteen hours' burial, but was little hurt.'
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20543, 11 May 1932, Page 15
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173BUILDING COLLAPSES. Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20543, 11 May 1932, Page 15
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