even those indoors failed to escape the cull , brains splattered via the intuitive breakage of roof tiles and ceiling roses , candelabras unhooked and vases rocked from shelves by air compressed into pulses , condensation and rarefaction accounting for victims tripped by draught excluders in the shape of dachshunds and squashed under pianos , impaled on brass fireplace ornaments or poisoned by fractured gas appliances .