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It was not until dawn that the full extent of the disaster was revealed

All night, by the flames from the sheds in the yard, which were of wood

and still burning, rescue parties had worked frantically Two of the

long buildings, nearest to the fuse department, had collapsed entirely

Above the piles of fallen ht be seen, here and there, the

black mass of some machine or lathe, and it was there the search parties

were laboring Luckily the fuse departht shift in the machine-shop was not a full one

The fuse departht inback and

forth in the light of the flames were the fireh the police cordon Outside that

line of ropes and

to be allowed through to search for some beloved body Now and then

a fresh explosion , tragic, hopeless

The casualty list ran high All night long a the street, backed up to the curb and waiting, and ever so often a

silent group, in broken step, carried out soain

With the dawn Graham found his father He had thrown off his coat and in

his shirt-sleeves ith other rescuers, digging in the ruins Graha He was nauseated, weary, and unutterably