Show J p. p r 1 CREMATED IN DORMITORY FIRE FIR 83 3 Sleepers Flee Burning Building 12 Workers Hurt r Identification of Victims is Uncompleted I High Wind Spreads Flames to Other Parker Dam Structures By Associated Press t LOS ANGELES Feb 3 Seven 3 Seven workmen burned to tod death d ath today when fire destroyed a dormitory at the Parker j construction camp on the Colorado river Two others were seriously injured ind ten received minor inor burns the i water district was wa in- in f armed of the bodies have been taken rom torn the wreckage but r ion on has not been completed competed u c. Ninety men were asleep In the I dormitory when the blaze broke out I high wind swept the flames rough through the structure and carried khe L e blaze to the mess hall hail and comI com com- I which were also destroyed jIo No names were given in the report I the district 1 headquarters si s i South of Bo Boulder lder Dam Parker dam is being built approximately miles south of Boulder I dam to divert a portion of the Colorado Colo Cob rido rado river into the aqueduct aque- aque dud duct being built by the metropolitan water ater district to Los Loz Angele Angeles and n nearby earby communities r Search earch for bodies was immediate immedIate- y started by fellow workmen in the construction village The Tho firo fire broke out at a. a m. m and md nd in a few fe- minutes the tho dormitory was wu as in flames the victims being trapped in their bunks An appeal was sent out for doctora doctors doc doc- tors tora ors and nurses from hospitals along the mile aqueduct The e fire Is 18 s the first disaster in Continued on Page Pa two Avo Column Six DORMITORY FIRE KILLS 7 MEN Continued from P Pa Par s One Oni the he huge bugo construction project a The fact that a prolonged winter dry ry spell allowed tho the desert sun to bake ako the frame dormitory and make maket It t highly inflammable Increased the seriousness of the blaze The Parker dam has been the focal ocal point of a n bitter dispute between between be- be tween Arizona and California over the he water rights of the Colorado iver now harne harnessed by Boulder dam am Last st year car Governor Go B. B B. B of f Arizona sent a n. detail of the Anzona Arlona Arl- Arl ona zona JOO guard to Parker dam to stop all 11 construction and the the- army remained there for tor several months The federal government ordered work resumed on the diversion dam darn and nd the tho question of ot water rights between the two states is expected to o be settled in the supreme court |