Cross Hospital on Arsenal Road. The Chinese Public Benevolent Cemetery's van came later and re-," moved many of the dead. Injured and dead were brought out in such numbers, that it was almost impossible to' segregate the dead from wounded and, according to a for-observer, both classes were in the truck to the Chinese Red Cross Hospital. Several were reported to have died in ambulance whilst ow route to St, Marie's or to Shantung Road Hospital. At the, former institution three died shortly after admission. Large numbers went home in rieshas from. the scene. The last ambulance left the spot at noon, At the foreign hospitals, both foreign and Chinese doctors responded to the emergency calls, and the full staffs of nurses, including many of those, just off night duty, worke! throughout the morning and a. par: of the afternoon. All operating:
Brisk Work by Operators Just, before nine o'clock, many injured were being rushed into the Shantung Road Hospital, "Treat. ment was at once administered the more serious cases and two legs Were amputated,—Ninteen persons wore "admitted, three of which wore serious and one of these was ina very critical condition and mot expected to live, Two died on admission.
Seen by our representative, Sung Lienssung, who was suffering. from a broken' leg, said. that. he was Standing beside his stall (he was a hawker) when he heard a Toud crash, was about to see what it was when suddenly something. fell, top of him, He tried to escape! and [he was very. scared bat. he was pinned. beneath the timbers, ande Femained thos for about 16 minutes, When "he was helped out." There were hundreds of people' in." the Jhmarket at the time but there, was nothing, aire from the noise of the rash, to warn them to dash, to safety. "There was absolutely nussibility of escape for those who fore in the inner' part' of the Kos Poo-yung, who was suffering from a crushed leg, a broken head ind injuries in the' vicinity of. the heart, said he was buying food at the time of the crash. As soon as. he heard the noise, he, like many others, endeavoured to escape," but knocked to the ground in' the panic. The roof then fell on him. He managed to crawl out and, when he tried to get up, he found that his leg had been broken,- He thought that the sudden crash and the panic which resulted werg-responsible for many people being tunable to escape.
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