A number of people were also seen screaming for help from the upper windows, and two turntables were summoned to rescue them. One was sent from Sinza Station, and one Col. H. Knobel Named As Ambassador Vienna, May 22.
Leut-Col. Hermann Knobel, recently German Consul-General in. Shanghai, is understood to have been selected as successor to Herr Franz von Papen as German Ambassador to Austria. Here von Papen has resigned from his post.
The immediate cause of Herr von Papen's resignation is under~ stood to be q successful raid by the Austrian state police on the legal Nazi headquarters Vienna, The police claimed that they discovered lane quanti of material incriminating out~ fanding Germans.—Reuter. from Central, and another fire engine accompanied them to augment the machines already on the spot. The ambulances were carrying people off to hospital up to one o'clock.
The accident was caused through the safely. valve and ammonia receiver of the refrigerator pla plowing off, releasing ammonia" fas in considerable quantities, and under considerable pressure. On the two floors above were working employees fengoged in putting together tins to be used as egg containers, and. in testing the ogles. The fumes drift the main staircase, and the alarm was. raised.
Panic-stricken employees imme alately rushed In a body to the head fof the staircase, but found their way Blocked by a large quantity of the dangerous. gas, capable, of blinding or suffocating them. Some of them managed to make their way out, but the majority. were compelled 0 ascend to the first storey once again.
Tt is evident from the nature of the injuries, which Included 14 cases of fractures, bruises and abrasions, that the crowding on the main stairs caused several of the employees be Jostled severely, and possibly trampled upon.
The majority of the employees, finding their way barred, appeared the first floor windows and Sereamed for help. Escape ladders were set up, and those trapped In the building were rescued, many, of them choking from the effects of the ammonia fumes. The crew of the rescue Van, donning gas and oxygen masks, went through the blanket of fumes inside the main entrance, and Fescued numbers of those Inside, who were placed in. waiting ambulances and rushed to the Lester Chinese Hospital.
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