Show PERISHED IN THE FLAMES eleven women and children meet death in sight of loved ones A special from vancouver B C says thursday evening witnessed a grim tragedy with dire results to the finnish h settlers on malcolm island s some ome distance up the coast from van auver in a terrible holocaust which broke out while the men were at a meeting in a common living house in III which twenty four families were alv ing eleven women and children were burned to death and seventeen in lured the anguish of the men who were powerless in many cases to help the women and children owing to there being no water supply was terrible As they stood outside the blazing build ing children were thrown from the house at their feet and the frantic women were falling all about them crippled and bruised as they leaped from the second story of the d doomed hotel there were about families on the island the burnt building was put up to provide temporary shelter for the more recent arrivals who had been living in tents many of the men per formed acts of great bravery and were badly burned |