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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 settlers on , Malcolm island, some" distance up the coast from Vancouver. Van-couver. In a terrible holocaust which broke out while the men were at a : meeting, in a common living house in which twenty-four . families were living,' liv-ing,' eleven women and children were burned to death and seventeen injured. in-jured. ! 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 building, 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 doomed hotel. There were about 100 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 performed per-formed acts of great bravery, and were badly burned. |