The Archive · 1940

500 Feared Killed

London, Sept. 11.

About 600 men, "women and chile dren are feared to have lost their ives when a school in the East End of London received a direct hit bomb on Monday night, itis revealed today, The victims had been found temporary "accommodation in the school after Saturday's alt-raid had wrecked their homes.

Doctors and nurses who rushed to the "scene in response to a general call, worked by torch-light "giving treatment to the survivors, who were rescued from under the debris, many of whom had to be given morpho injections.

Masonry and girders crumbled down" on the. refugees who. were sheltering on the krannd floor of the School having no basement to which to x0.

Reseie parties carefully raised pieces of debris in the hone of savings the. victims who were' alive. The survivors were taken to various Nos. pills where operations continued all resident "from nearby: declared al torpedo or a tandemine dropped, as "hey were no mary explosions." The devasting, of one explosion was shown 4 crater 40 feet wide and 20 feet deep, The whole of the district suffered, street upon street being converted into a mass of wreckage. With, the exception of the schoo}, sualties app been com: ba Rescue squads found. two babies—tone nine months and the other two onthe ekimatl alive. it ie though that they may Tecwer—Rtenters

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