The Archive · 1940

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and Turkish Ambassadors to and the Mahan Charge Building material and army tents were sent' to Moldavia Province, where damage was reported to be very great.

yesterday, sending fear-stricken peo-Two new shocks mdai Bucharest ple rushing from already cracked buildings into the streets.

Authorities estimated the death toll would be at least 1,000 and the injured would number more than 4,000.

The new earthquakes rocked the city at 836 am., but nọ further were immediate! reported a alt the capital was unable to municate with some isolated areas of 3 Rumania.

Explosion Adds to Havoc AN rescue work stopped in the wrecked Carleton apartment house when a giant explosion of crude oil stored in the basement caused more Losses to farmers Were expected havoc. to run into hundreds of thousands off The 11-story apartment, most dollars. From the stricken areas of!modern structure of its type in Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Bucharest, collapsed during the first Arkansas and Kentucky came reports shocks Sunday and trapped an un-least of the five states hit—United determined number in its ruins. The of was used for the building's central heating plant.

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