Show wj l 4 1 4 4 NEWSPAPER OFFICE WRECKED c Jcore or More of Lives Lost at Re f cult of Unusual Accident In Canadian Newspaper Building t f t Montreal Canada Uotween twen I tty nnd thirty persons lost their lives H 7 > n Monday when the supports of the sprinkler system tank on tlio roof of 4 the Herald building gavo way and the great mass of metal and water welch t lug thirtyfive tons went crashing 41 I s to tliii basement r KIro broke out Immediately Fire j mon displayed splendid heroism In III rescuing scores of people from per I ilous positions within the tottering walls some of which hrul to come down before the work of recovering r tho bodies could bo safely attempted All those who escaped agree that tho first warning of tho Impending t disaster passed almost unnoticed i3 There was a slight crealclng but It 1 i was not until tho rolling plaster began r be-gan to fall that a rush for tho stairway stair-way began L Several survivors tell of falling one 1 anll two tloors and crawling through I IK the dust to a place of safety Tho I Ifi 4 fy majority sought safety by rushing to j r thn front of the building facing on IK 3 Victoria square All tho floors held 4 for about thirty feet back from tho 8 j > 1 if 4t front wall and to this Is duo tho fact that tho death list did not run Into i the hundreds for there were nearly 4 300 persons in the building at tho time J Every member of tho editorial staff I escaped unharmed their quarters beIng be-ing In tho front of the building Fred Maloney a linotype operator r forked on a machine at a point I furthest from tho k Victoria Square win i dow Ho rose from his chair on tho ulirni and as ho did so tho machine y on which he had boon working disap peared I through tho floor |