Show 1 00 M 00 K Killed By Landslide in iii French Frenc h Town J- J A 26 Rescue Workers Arc Are Caught Under Second Second Sec Sec- ond Colla Collapse se 3 BODIES RE RECOVERED 11 1 Injured Injure Are T Taken ak n to Hospital LYONS France Nov 13 Aio- Aio cit dated d Press A Press A catastrophic at str p ic I land nd slide alide ide taking tho the lives of between sixty and ani nd a h hundred dred persons has ha thrown irown the entire entre city of Lyo Lyons i into mourning In n nth tl tho dead dead of last night cally the entire hi hill the noble noble- basilica of ot St. St Jean slid In the proper ringing bringing c ten h houses down In r ruins in This afternoon more than twelve hours ours after aCter the first of ot three recurrent rc- rc current collapses cs three b bodies lad had been recovered and eleven cn Injured had lad b been en taken to fo a hospital Twenty seven persons unhurt but badly sadly shak were beIn being cared for or at tho the same h hospital pIt f. f Herriot mayor of Lyons for twenty twenty five years rears was personally s p Ing rescue work ork arising 1 from a a. sick bed where here he h had been n. n confine l for o severa ayl ASKS ARMY'S AID ID f ln an urgent call to army array headquarters at asking Grenoble Ut that lat t two companies of ot engineers be dispatched tc ed to Lyons Immediately to o lead cad v volunteer rescue parties now disorganized to a certain extent Tb This is disorganization was vas caused by y the death deaUl of nineteen firemen and seven policemen who were trapped by a second collapse e at 3 o'clock clock this morning while attempt Ing ng to re rescue cuo the victims of at th the first landslide The Tho bodies found included those of f two firemen While it was was was' still f impossible possible to Cont Continued on on page 7 1 J Killed by Landslide In French Town lown Continued cd from page ago 1 I. gauge e the full extent of ot the tragedy because ct cf tho tons of or earth that must bo be removed late estimates placed tho the number of ot dead d d between sixty and a hundred A sinister crackling crackling- like a thunderclap was the way Pauline an elderly woman described the landslide I 1 was surprised she said because because be cause causo the sky was clear and many stars were verc visible She Sho was rescued b by o firemen who WIo also was rescued said ald she was vas awakened awakened awak awak- I ened by a R. terrific noise while her house shook shook- frightfully I had the Impression It was a severe severo earthquake sho she told the tho authorities today Pierre PIerro who lived JIved In one ont of oC tho the destroyed along with fifty CUty other r tenants said I Ii rushed out at the first noise I 1 thou thought ht It was wa an explosion of oC dynamite Fifty feet away I watched the tho house crumple I still sun dont don't know how many of ot my friends were trapped and burled buried Tho The hospital Des Chazeaux and surrounding districts were evacuated lato late lato today In fear of ot further land land- slides I Former Former Premier presided at an art emergency meeting of ot citizens citi zens and antI decided as a n precautionary measure to strengthen hill with wooden beams because of t the tho danger of ot new slides Residents of ot the city were ordered farther tarther away from tho the scene Dangerous fissures appeared dur dur- durInS during InS ing tho the day in the land adjacent to the hospital which has been entirely en en- timely evacuated It waa ya feared that the tho building a story five structure ture tur might collapse The Tho catastrophe was tho the result of oC a a. geological slide which had been feared because of oC recent heavy rains authorities said Police poUce and other municipal agencies agencies asen- asen agen agen- cies cles continued their efforts to as ascertain ascertain ns- ns certain the tho exact number of ot those killed and officials of ot tile the buildings B department as a a. precaution or ordered ordered or- or dered domed evacuation a of the convent of Notre Dame Dam de do Slon Sion The AntI AntI- hospital was evacuated yesterday yes yes- and officials were to make another survey today to decide whether thc they Y would order tenants out of ot all houses in Ia the danger danser zone Meanwhile former Premier Her lIer- rIot ordered an Investigation to determine determine de de- termine whether any ny municipal of officials of- of had been remiss in their duties of or Inspecting buildings |