The only foreign witness near the scene when the bomb fell was Mr. John H. Barrow, the radio operator of the U.SS. Mindanao, a native of Rockham, South Dakota.
As he stood dumbfounded he saw four Chinese women buried alive by a falling wall and later a number of trapped girls from the sewing factory burned to their skeletons by the fire which followed. Altogether he counted eighty corpses removed from the wreckage.
Reuters correspondent, who reached the area just before it was completely cordoned off by the police, was able to see, from the edge of a dense throng of onlookers, fifteen mangled corpses extricated from the wreckage, some of them of young girls, First aid centres were - hur-nedly set up in the side streets nearby while Red Cross nurses, ambulance men and firemen were rushed to the scene.
Throughout the afternoon anà evening they fought to save those they could, frantically tearing away at the debris with their bare hands and removing the dead and injured.—Reuter.
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