Show Scene Is Like treat Great Volcano By Associated Press PITTSBURGH May IS During lS-During During the afternoon while the Red Cross parade was being held here the tho thousands of or white robed women knew nothing of what had happened at their very verp door The fire that followed the explosion was probably as deadly as the real I blast although precaution prevented it taking t. its toll of or human life Residents Residents Residents Resi Resi- dents of the neighboring borough describe de dc scribe the scene as one resembling tho eruption of or a volcano Huge clouds of yellowish brown smoke rose in tho the air aJr in dense volume carrying with It Jt Ita ita a a. suffocating gas fume that spread over the countryside These fumes fume and those of sulphuric acid that had been released kept off an any one who would attempt to get to the plant on rescue work SAFETY ZONE FIXED Troopers of the state constabulary arranged a zone of safety about half halfa a mile from the plant and tonight the deadly fumes are so heay heavy that no one has been able to approach within that distance Dr J. J A. A Hanna a Pennsylvania railroad surgeon in charge chargo of the Ole first relief reller train which brought the injured to this city described Oakdale as a alivin living livin hell He said that when his train left the stricken community the flames names were shooting three and four hundred feet into the air and threatening threatening threat threat- I ening to engulf tho the town He said his train had to race through the tho flames to pass an unexploded tank lank of T. T N. N T T. Dr Hanna said ho saw children lying ying dead on the hillsides a mile away tway and that relatives and friends of or of or the tho plant tried to storm through the barred zone in an effort to o learn If loved ones had been killed Dr Hanna was struck b by a flying piece of iron about two miles from the he plant NURSES CALED TO DUTY When Then the tho injured began to arrive at it tho the railroad station in Pittsburgh tho Red Cross procession was at atts its ts height Without waiting to finish the Jie line of march seventy five registered registered regis regis- ered Red Cross nurses awaiting orders orders or or- ders lers to go to France left the line lino fo a march and under the direction of Miss Catherine atherine Dempster secretary of the Red ted Cross organization here commandeered commandeered comman comman- leered first aid stretchers being carried carried car car- ried led in tho the parade proceeded to the station and tile the various hospitals nursing nursing nurs nurs- ing ng forces of ot which have been depleted b by Jy the war Coroner Samuel C. C Jamieson and Sheriff W. W V. V S. S Haddock with a corps of or f deputies have established established- headquarters headquarters head head- quarters about the tho scene of tho sion ion |