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Show FIVE HUNDRED ON COLLAPSED SHED Ony One Dead, but Four Others May Die From Disaster at Montreal. MONTREAL, March 9. It Is feared that ' four of the persons crushed In the collapse col-lapse of the Allan line's shed last night will die. it Is estimated that fully GOO - persons were on top of the building watching watch-ing the steamer Montreal burn at midnight, mid-night, when the structure collapsed. Only one was killed. Fifty-seven persona were treated at the hospitals and a large number were attended by their own physicians. phy-sicians. The dead man is an Italian laborer la-borer who died an hour after admission to the hospital with a fractured skull. The Montreal when burned was still in possession of the Bertram Ship Building company of Toronto, the builders. They had received $325,000 from the Richelieu . company on the contract price, the latter holding 87,000 of insurance ns security. Tills, it is believed, fully covers the loss. |