DEATH B BY I 1 heart rending fatality near montreal Mont raal SEVEN CHILDREN PERISH too together ether mth their mother in their barnam burning 0 dwellen dwelling 0 I 1 THE FATHER 1 the tie sion of or a can of or kerosene standing andins Sf kear near a fire to be the th caw causs 81 special sp lal F chronicle Os ronicle se r vico leol I 1 NEW nr march suni suns 1 special from montreal says cote st michael el 0 britis hing little country I 1 parish pariah about five miles from montreal was the scene of a most heartrending fatality to today ti day onesime colbi rette a french canadian of about forty years of ae age was one of the I 1 ill most t well to do and prosperous farmers fanni deyss ers on the island of montreal lie lived I 1 t ve d with bis his wife and seven children in i n a laree largo stone house on the main road ae leading a ding from the tile city about 5 this morning he arose aa as I 1 usual nd after starting the fires proceeded to the out outhouses houses as usual to look after alter the cattle lie ile had not been long engaged in the work when he lie was startled by the cry of ore lire 11 and rushing out was appalled to fill find the whole bole houie in regardless koai ellees of danger he rushed into the burning structure and made desperate I 1 exerts to rescue hia ilia wife and I 1 cil children dren II 11 s efforts however were in vain ai the fire had secured too great a headway colarette col brette b rette himself was rescued frond from the flames inore more dead than alive within an incredible I 1 shirt sh rt space of time the house was reduced to ashes and all eliat of its inmates was a few charred bone bones the ill fated family consisted of 0 mrs colarette Col brette and nine children four girls and five boys the oldest of whom was yeara years of age a the tile 1 oldest girl was absent attending a convent and thus escaped the dreadful q I 1 11 fate of jf the others another of the I 1 girls thirteen years old eucce succeeded eded in lot escaping from the house the remaining I 1 ma into g seven were burned to death with their mother colbretta Ool Col brette bretto himself in attempting att to rescue bis family was dreadfully burned and was removed I 1 to a neighbors house hero where he now lies in a very precarious condition I 1 I 1 and it is doutt doubtful ful whether lie will ill recover the fire is supposed to 1 have been caused by the explosion of 0 0 a can of kerosene oil which was it left ft I 1 I 1 standing near a fireplace fire place and la is I 1 thought to have been ignatee by b I 1 sparks I 1 I 1 7 pre pres I 1 AfON MONTREAL TREAL march 9 mrs onesimo colarette Col brette wife of a wealthy canadian farmer and sad her seven cl children ildren were burned t t Z death in their home at cote st michael the family lived in a large largo stone house at an early hour thia mornice the building took lire and bd ba tore fore ati a istance stanca could be given it t burned to the ground had I 1 1 left I it the hou to attend to work about I 1 the be tam farm and on returning found the place in in flames a lie tried to rescue his family but was overcome over cone and I 1 I 1 fainted lie ile is terribly burned the fire firo was caused by the explosion of a I 1 I 1 can of kerosene ke roeene oil A soon ae as colarette Col brette saw the tile flames he lie rushed toward the house at the dor dour he was met by a burt of flames then he ran to th the e rear only smoke was c choai aal g out of this door d wr and into I 1 it colarette Col brette damned I 1 ie got as far as the door of the sleeping apartment but here was a solid wall of names flames the floor wae was burning beneath hia his I 1 feet the ceiling was burning over his head and the four wall vs alls 0 of the room in which lie was were burning fiercely to get to th the e stairway leading to the upper floor was utterly impossible unless he be dashed into a seething caldron of fire wherein he had last seen his wife lie ile could see the bed but it was a mass ol 01 flame r and empty lie ile felt himself bein being 0 overcome by the smoke and beat and ani I 1 seeming to go mad as he explains 1 a it and not knowing what be he did ha he 1 made a rush for the tho door through I 1 which ho lie had bad entered it wa adre afire but colarette Col rette got through and out in I 1 in in the air all bis his clothes were A burned burne doir off A dozen people arrived on the scene within five minutes after A the explosion took place bat but even then it WAS impossible to ap I 1 within twenty five feet of the building 14 the ground around it if ablaze and the men who dragi dragged gad 4 colarette Col brette out of further danger were V badly singed the bodiee bodies 0 of the 1 victims were all charred and of that 1 of mrs urs colarette Col brette only the trunk waa was I 1 4 found I 1