WHAT HAS BEEN SAVED?

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 17 August 1910, Page 5

WHAT HAS BEEN SAVED?

the Brussels cox i lac ration. i'HPss Association. —Copyright. REI'SSELS. Tue.-day. The British section in ■tin- principal Exhibition J3tiild was completely d" s.t roved. Tlie Ki-eneh wine court per ished in eight minuUs. The Dutch and Spanish sections were seriously damaged, and the others were less seriously injured. Priceless pictures in a .-t.pa.rate building were unha,rmed. A safe containing 140.000 francs, the Exhibition takings. was recovered from among charred and twisted masses of ironwork. The domes and minarets are reduced to broken masonry. Troops are preventing further looting. 'Che fire spread with terrifying rapidity, and there were frequent deafening reports from the explosions of ehemienis. The flames invaded the. menagerie. and eight gendarmes with rifles were ordered to shoot, but the order was countermanded for fear they might -diout the crowd. The elephant, white asses and monkeys were freed and escaped, but lions, tigers, and other animals were burnt. The firemen were procrpt. but many houses had no water ;service. The people of Brussels were in a state of pitiable anxietv throughout the night, as there were rumours that hundreds were dead. Lloyds do not believe that their losses will exceed half a million. Their total insurance is a million.