Show MINSTREL COMPANY Y 1 NEARLY PE PERISHED I i Chinese of Victora Victoria Theatre Wrong Door of a Coke I Burning Buring r i Or Ore April 2 specia cia CIHI to the Telegram from Victoria 4 I 4 un says that eight numbers o of a mm 4 4 company who wel were looked booked 4 4 for a performance at the Victoria 4 4 theatre last nIght almost d dI 4 their lve lives ow owing to the 4 I Cf f a Chines Chinese f sf the the 4 sire nire who ho opened th wrong 4 draught in a heater 4 which permitted the poisonous 4 gases to fn fill the dressing rooms 4 I 4 Iud and corridors or of the theatre The i minstrels trel who were gathering for forthe or 4 I the performance noticed the he pe e 4 culiar odor the sickening san Mn 4 4 MUon and made hasty 4 the open All air but so ot overcome were 4 eight of oC the members member or of the troupe 4 4 that th they y became in 4 their rooms Only the prompt n nI ac 4 Uon or of the stage manager saved I I their lives Docton Doctors were hastily 4 summoned and after working working on ont 4 t I 4 the the men for or several hours pro I an all but one out of danger Th The Lee e brothers were still un 4 4 Con conscious lols this morning and their 4 I 4 recovery recover Is problematical |