The Archive · 1900

Scenes in the Neighbourhood

After dinner we went to the Quakerage and Housimén. The Quakeraze apparently suffered the least of any, though most of the doors were blown open. We had these all nailed up. The hill seemed to protect their buildings somewhat. Afterwards we called on the Presbyterians and found them in the midst of broken glass and dyers, o: c. At our hospital there was aleo a good deal of damage done in the drug-room. In nearly all the houses the plaster has badly {allen off. While at the Hospital we heard that it was the powder magazine at Kulingan, so we rushed off there to see if we could do any thing to help, especially by divesting these bringing the wounded to the Hospital, We had got just beyond the Housimén when we came to a house which had fallen down. Hero we found one dead and another dying—both women—and two men badly wounded by falling beams and bricks, {This was two miles from the magazine.) They said that there nus another person under the ruins, but caw only the four, The woman who was still alive was unconscious, face bruised, leg broken, and blood oozing out of the left car. After giving directions about the wounded, we went on, but sary no serious results till within one helfmile of the temple at Kulingan.

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