COLLAPSE OF FLATS
RESCUE OF A VICTIM. (Received Tuesday, 9.20 a.m.) , PARIS, Monday. A message from Lyons states that a young woman named Madame Mathieu was telephoning to her husband when, two five-storey blocks of flats collapsed on the Quai d’Herbeville. Her husband was unable to re-establish the call and rushed home. He saw the wreckage and despairingly realised that his wife was beneath the ruins. He watched all day and all night long, and to-day was overjoyed to hear his wife’s voice crying: Where is my husband? I am stifling. ’ ’ She was extricated after eighteen hours’ burial, but was little hurt. \ (A previous Paris message stated: — Hope has been abandoned of recovering further victims at Lyons, though screams and cries are still heard among the debris.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 10 May 1932, Page 5
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