THE DESTROYED CITY

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LI, Issue 9074, 24 April 1906, Page 5

THE DESTROYED CITY

SOME TALES OF HORROR.

RIGOROUS PROTECTION OF WOMEN.

CITIZKXB ASSIST THEIR HELPLESS*

FISLLOWS.

MR ASTOR'S 3UBORIPTION.

[PKESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received April 23, 11 p.m.) NEW YORK, April 23 ' Refugees tell many tales of horror.

Ii: several instances men were pinioned in the "wreckage. As the flames reached them they pleaded piteously to be pat out of their misery, asking the soldiers or policemieTt to shoot them.

Other narratives show that citizens, pre paring to flee with their families, readily responded to the firemen's requests, risking their lives in extricating helpleat jeople.

Two men were shot in a park for insalting women. William Waldorf Astor subscribed twenty thousand sterling towards the relief fund.