The Texas School Disaster.—The scene of be disaster to the school at New Loudon, Texas, United States of America, toward the cud of last, month, when a gas explosion in the basement wrecked the greater part of the school building am) killed upward of 100 pupils and teachers. The building was in the form of an E, of which the assembly hall, in which most, of the pupils were at the lime gathered, formed the centre prong. The remains of this hall appear in the centre of this picture, while nearer, on the right, are the ruins of tin buildings at the end of one of .the outer prongs., The trunk of the E stood in the left of the picture, nil that was left of it being-a-jumbled mass, of fallen brickwork.

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 174, 20 April 1937, Page 7

The Texas School Disaster.— The scene of be disaster to the school at New Loudon, Texas, United States of America, toward the cud of last, month, when a gas explosion in the basement wrecked the greater part of the school building am) killed upward of 100 pupils and teachers. The building was in the form of an E, of which the assembly hall, in which most, of the pupils were at the lime gathered, formed the centre prong. The remains of this hall appear in the centre of this picture, while nearer, on the right, are the ruins of tin buildings at the end of one of .the outer prongs., The trunk of the E stood in the left of the picture, nil that was left of it being-a-jumbled mass, of fallen brickwork.