Show I MANY PERISH IN A BIG FIRE AT MONTREAL I Herald Building Burns and I Victims Are Mostly Employees Employees Employees Em Em- of P Paper per MONTREAL June IS- IS The Herald building was destroyed by firo fire today It is is- reported thirty five persons are dead in tho the ruins Loss on building Many are arc said id to have havo been carried to death b by a water tank which crashed through h tho the il bu-il building in when the tho fire firc started Bindery girls and linotype po men mon fell fel through h the hu huge e gap Jap in the floors o otho of tho the building and wore buried under machinery ma ma- chinery and timbers The Tho crowds assembled outside th the tho burning building could hear the tho shouts shout of tho dying inside while tho the flames flame were slowly traveling toward them but bu practically nothing could be bo dono done t to save savo them All the members of at tho the editorial dc de- de escaped uninjured Tho The flames flame wore at first confined to tho the first floor floo of the lUi building din but tho the firo fire apparatus was unable to control the flames It was as impossible to control the fire fin which was fanned by by a strong wind wim Inspector McMahon of the tho police th police fore force called caned upon those around him to organize or organize organ organ- ize ize s a a rescue party but a a. tremendous wall of flames suddenly rising from the Iho baB basement m nt mado made it impossible to enton eri en en- ton tor the building |