With hardly a building in Bucharest unscarred, the death toll was mounting as rescue crews removed the debris.
A baby. and her governess were dug out alive from the ruins which once had been the. eleven-storey Carlton Apartment House, Bucharest's largest and newest structure of its type in the heart of the capital.
Although only 44 bodies have been removed from the (Carlton ruins, officials estimated that at least another 100'bodies would be found when all,|the.debris would be cleared. Some 400 persons were, at frst believed to høve been buried in the debris when the-tew apartment building crumbled.
"Onilookers wept with joy when firemen, brought out the baby and her governess after all hope had been villages together with the disruption of communications resulted 1n abandoned of finding them alive. Forty persons were killed as the rumours of much higher death figures, old Jewish quarter here was severely but officials emphasized that collapsed. damaged, buildings ín many areas were but Damage was. reported in the oil flimsy structures and thus there were few casualties, Such a.cese was in the oil town of Campina, they said, where despite extensive destruction only four were dead. field. Among the refineries damaged was the American Standard Oil Company's subsidiary, Romano American:
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