Heavy Casualties in Accident in Marseilles les, Nov. 20.
So far two persons are dead, ni injured and eight missing as' the result of the collapse of two tenement houses. The victims are most-women and children.
The houses had been condemned! and the tenants yesterday had m representations to the authorities urging that some action be taken on their belial Heart-rending scenes were wit. nessed after the crash, and the cries Jand groans of the victims were agonising. One injured woman frantically implored rescuers to save her child, who was buried beneath the debris, from where the child's voice was' heard calling, "Mother. Mother."
The Mayor of Marseilles, who is a doctor, tended the injured.
Dee. 1.
It is now known that four people have been killed and 11 injured as the result of the collapse of the two tenement houses, Ten people are Reuter.
London, Dec. 1.
Marseilles telegram states that eight bodies have been recovered from the tenement, houses which collapsed on Saturday. Eleven slightly injured persons were rescued and taken to hospital. It is believed that four others are still buried in the débrie.
—British Wireless through Reuter.
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