BERLIN EXPLOSION

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 5, 7 January 1928, Page 13

BERLIN EXPLOSION

HEAVY DEATH ROLL DANGEROUS RESCUE WORK (United Press Association.—Copyright.! BEBLIN, sth January. The explosion in a house in the city reported yesterday came without warning. 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 the ground level. Fifteen dead have already been recovered. At least four are still buried. The search continues with the aid of searchlights. Twenty are seriously injured. It was a miracle that anyone escaped, as some masses of debris were hurled a quarter of a mile. Keseue was a task of extreme danger, as the crumbling masonry was continually crashing down. Police and firemen were very plucky, and several were injured. The building was a big concrete tenement, occupied by 99 persons, belonging to 28 familes. Just before the eatastropho 30 guests who had been merrymaking at a'birthday party left the building, but the host and hostess were killed. * A tiny dog was heard whining in the darkness. The firemen sawed through a heavy beam and saved the dog, and their acetylene lamps revealed the dog's master hanging head downwards among bricks and mortar whence he had fallen from the upper floor. He asked the firemen first to extricate his wife, but the firemen found that she was dead.