Appalling Disaster

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 177, 12 July 1927, Page 5

Appalling Disaster

Cloudburst in Saxony Death Roil Mounting. BODIES UNRECOGNISABLE. INDESCRIBABLE CHAOS. IBy Cable-Press As.n.-C.ipyrixht.) (Received 12, 9.15 a.m.) London, July 11. A British United Fress message from Dresden says that deaths due to tite cluudbuist are now estiumated at 200' lhe death roll is mounting steadily as bodies are being recovered m out of the way places, mauy so mutilated as to be unrecognisable. The damage is estimated at £BOO,000. It will be months before reconstruction work is complete, especially on many of the railway lines. SEARCH FOR RELATIVES. Hundreds of people are forlornly roaming the mountain sides, creeks and valleys searching with lanterns lor missing relatives, while on the mountain slopes, the whole night through, thousands maintained vigil at stations where corpses were collected. Here heart-rending scenes were witnessed; one mother became insane on recognising the bodies of three of her children. A FRESH HORROR. A fresh horror lias been added to the disaster in the Mireglitz and Gottlaube valleys owing to the fear of an outbreak oi disease through the destruction of water-mains and contamination of creeks by corpses. Doctors are being rushed to the scene to apply saleguards, while firemen have surrounded the stricken areas where the chaos and filth are indescribable.—(A. and N.Z.