CANADIAN CAPITOL DESTROYED BY FIRE GAS G A 5 BOWS OR INFERNAL MA CHINE DECLARED TO HAVE EEN BEEN S THE CAUSE two women perish and several po an and ad fireman burled under debris debri W when h on building valued at 5 Is destroyed ottawa th the historic claudio canadian par or tado filament building in was destroyed thursday da Y night toy by a fire declared unofficial ly IY to have be been caused bed by the emple explosion 1 ot of a gas bomb or an internal machine two women guests ol of the wife of speaker SevI gy were overcome by smoke and perished several pelie linemen and d firemen were burled buried under alam debria is when w hea one or end ad ot of the build log ing collapsed it has bell been established that the first burst beret of flames ft in in the reading room mom of the be house of 1 commons was pirn lire ended ceded by at least or one explosion and it probably by two the force ot of th the a concussion was so severe that per zons aona standing some bome distance away were are hurled buried to the floor A rigid in vesti rost igat gatlon I 1 n to determine the emse cause of the th fire bready has bee be been carmle by the dommin dominion authorities th the names spread with such ch areas ang S rapidity that the ottawa live bit gade aide was helpless to cope with them unal aid was sent ent from montreal on a cial train the loba 1 carmot cannot be estimated to in oy money m o Y the th building was as valued at about ab t 6 but the contents cou tents we are of inestimable value there them was no insurance members member ol 01 the th parliament up spec gators i e 1 in the gallery of the lower house government mr emp loyes aloyes anath 0 era who ter sers in ia the th building narrow row ly escaped death or injury within a few minutes after the fire began cor car viar aldora w war filed with evink and it at many points wells walls of tame flame barred progress be