THE EARTHQUAKE DISASTER

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 3263, 5 February 1931, Page 1

THE EARTHQUAKE DISASTER

KILLED AND INJURED. NAMES REPORTED SO FAR. Casualties definitely reported by telegraphic and other means are as follows: — . NAPIER. DEAD. - Alfred Bonor. Mrs. T. Barry. Val. Harrison. Nancy Thorne George. Mrs. L. T. Bisson. Mrs. C. Bickerstaff. Miss Mita Hughes. Mrs. N. G. Ellis. Mrs. Lemiham. Fred McArthur. Infant named Canham. (Others killed but not identified.) INJURED. Archdeacon Brocklehui*st. P. Devine. HASTINGS. DEAD. Ted Rattray. Mrs. Agnes Jensen. Mrs. Mary Alice McLeod. Lilian Jenkins. - Brian Hooper. Thomas Wilson Alexander. Albert Gig. Eugene Brace. Thomas Gill. Miss Holughan. Miss Cleary. - Mr. Drummond. Mrs. D. R. Ross. Roy Graham. Miss Shora Aileen Spence. Miss Grudenoff. Bert Dyer. William Pool. Herbert Walker. Percival Lewis. Miss Olive Cambridge. Mrs. Constance Horseley. Ella Nuttall. George Stevenson. Dina Murray. Mrs. Murray. Alex. Rattray. Miss Sylvia Allan. Ernest Jones. W. L. Walker. Doris May Hexton. Ray Brown. Dick Hercoe. Rodney Francis Russ. Henry Dimond. Mrs. F. B. Coles and 2 little boys. Rodney Lewis Ross. Hugh McDonald. Miss Patsy White. ' Mrs. McDonald. John A. Ross. Master Brian Hooper. J. H. Colebourne. ' Edward Holland. Ray Grohard. Thomas William Goodall. Phillipa Cooper. William Love. There are six unidentified bodies, four mutilated beyond recognition. Nine people, definitely missing, are believed to be buried beneath the debris of .Roach’s, Ltd., and the Public Library. INJURED. Mrs. Mulgrove. Mrs. Hutchinson. Miss Mcßobbie. Arnolda Retter. Mrs. McKenzie. Miss N. Duggan. Mavis Faulknor. Mrs. John Eetheridge. Mrs. D. S. Storey. Miss Hoata. Mrs. Potham. Miss Betty Percy. Mrs. Leaning. Mrs. D. Scholfield. Miss Carroll. Miss Peggy Blowes. Miss A. Brown. Mrs. Baumfield. Mrs. Martin. Miss Dorothy Ruse. Miss Clark. Mrs. McLennan. Rosie LahoodMiss Baddley. Mrs. Beal. Mr.’ Lahood. Jr Sheffield. Thomas Carney. —. Scholls. —. Scholls. J. Marshall. B. Hone. Leo Kelly. - T. Isaacson. -G. Willingham. P. Ching. T. F. Bowney. F. E. Bowen. W. T. Blewett. >- Fred Boyle. R. Thompson. Jim Ryan. W. Thomas. —. Macdonald. J. G. Seaton. D. Carrington. Leslie Rattray. B. A. Morley. H. G. Lean. John Wallace. Stan Newland. J. Ryan. Jack O’Donnell. J. Elder. W. L. Lawrence. B. P. Galvin. The following are also inmates, r. Pallesone, William Bartle, Brown, Miss Holmes. ■ MISSING. A. L. Ryan. WAIROA. DEAD. _ ' Mrs. J. O’Malley, i 1 Xfim Kee, Chinaman.