DUBLIN CALAMITY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XL, Issue 13172, 4 September 1913, Page 3

DUBLIN CALAMITY.

COLLAPSE OF OLD HOUSES.

HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE

(Press Assn.—By Telegraph— Copyright.) DUBLIN, Sept. 3. Tlie two tenement houses which collapsed m Dublin, were m the oldest parts of the city and were inhabited by poor working people. One man was m bed, and others were sitting on their door steps, while children were playing on the pavement.

The first house collapsed with a tremendous crash without warning, and the second soon followed.

A majority of the occupants escaped, and families m adjoining houses fled, terror-stricken. ' ■ - ' , A third house is on the verge of collapse.

Eight bodies, including a mother, clasping her baby, were soon recovered, from the wreckage, which had fallen into the streets, but others were buried under tons of briclc and mortar.

In one case a woman put five children to bed m one room, and when she re-, turned she found all buried. A man's dead body with a living .dog ' ■'•■ and a kitten were m; 'another . room. ".'■.-•. ■-■""> Fifty -three . people are still missing. Seven bodies have been recovered, including several pedestrians who were passing the tenements. .;.•"> (Received Sept. .4, 8.30 a.m;) 7 LONDON, Sept^ber 3.:'' Twenty-six persons are still unaccounted for m one house. .''.'ll.

It is impossible to estimate the number of lives lost.

There is is little hope that any of those buried will remain alive.

The fire brigade is still working, And a corps of doctors and nurses are m attendance.

The strikers are silent, being stunned with the horror of the disaster.