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Clothes and shoes in the wreckage
Tuesday 5th January 2010, 8:25AM GMT.

A mattress in the wreckage. Picture by Ian Sheppard
Some cars had smashed windows and shredded tyres, others were squashed flat under bits of wall.
About 10 windows at the hotel were also smashed.
The pavement looked like it had been hastily dug up to access the gas mains.
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