LOSS OF 14 LIVES
CRASH OF GRANDSTAND NEARLY 200 INJURED DISASTER IN RUMANIA KING AIDS RESCUE WORK (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United PresA-Aasn.l (Reed. June 0, 11.40 a.m.) BUCHAREST, .Tunc 8. Fourteen people were killed and 184 were injured as the result of the collapse of a grandstand while King Carol and the Czechoslovakian Minister, Dr. E. Bettes, were reviewing Boy Scouts and Girl Guides. The hospitals are crowded with sufferers, who are chiefly relatives of the young performers.
Scouts and Guides were the first to rush to the rescue. King Carol and his brother, Prince Nicholas, and the Crown Prince Michael, led the rescue operations and prevented a stampede.
The scene of the accident was opposite the Royal box in which Queen Marie and Dr. Bones and members of the diplomatic corps were horrified spectators. Bands continued playing and the programme proceeded in order to obviate a panic. Another stand collapsed without a casualty 45 minutes before the disaster, which was preceded by ominous cracklings from the grandstand, which was built in tiers to a height of 60ft. A noise like a thunderclap signalised the collapse, the demolished stand becoming a mass of struggling people piled high on,top of one, .another. Six thousand persons occupied the stand. Prince Paul of Jugoslavia started to follow King Carol to the rescue, blit decided to retain his place beside Queen Marie. The. display celebrated the sixth anniversary, of King Carol’s restoration to the throne. Twenty-live thousand boy and girl members of athletic associations wore participating in a physical culture exhibition, which was held at the Cotroceni Plateau. An American with 600 boys arrived when the grandstand liad a place for only one more hoy, who took'it. He was severely injured. The other 599, who were accommodated elsewhere, escaped.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19036, 9 June 1936, Page 5
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