SERIES OF DISASTERS

Grey River Argus, 2 May 1931, Page 5

SERIES OF DISASTERS

i ———— — QUAKE’S TOLL Over 500 Lives (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) MOSCOW, April 30. 1 The latest estimates, show that the, , dead . .in devastated Trans-Caucas-a. 'number 536. The survivors ard suffering terrtiblo 1 (hardships,, owing to the continuous - 'rain, which is .'impending relief. Scores' 1 lot villages are entirely wiped out. j 1 RIO DE JANIERO, April 30. ' Half of . the four hundred employees J at the Naval Laboratory at Nidi- 1 Itheroy were reported killed or Injured I to-day, when an explosion wrecked the t ( plant. I As soon as they could get near, res- t icuers began removing the mutilated i I bodies ami carrying out the injured to. Nichtheroy hospital quietly. Many or Ithje victims were* brought here !■ _ • 46 Deaths i I 1 EGYPTIAN RAILWAY DISASTER. ' -1 (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) CAIRO, April 30. < The burning triain casualties total < '46 killed and 41 injured. Many of the < iburned are unrecognisable, including t 'ten children. t I A number of chaldron were fatally 1 injured through frantic mothers throw- c ing them from the windows. I —1