Washington County News | 1926-01-13 | Page 2 | Seventy-Five Perish in Montreal Fire

Seventy-Five Perish in Montreal Fire Montreal More than seventy-five lives was the toll exacted by a fire panic in the Latirier Palace movie Iheatre in the east end. Most of the victims were little children who had made up the bulk of the Sunday matinee mat-inee audience. Few were injured by the comparatively trivial fire, but, caught-in fear-stricken jams about the exits, many were suffocated. So tightly tight-ly wedged were the bodies that rescuing rescu-ing squads of firemen were unable to f.ain entrance. A stairway giving egress from the main floor was clogged clog-ged with small bodies. Efforts were made to break the jam by the woods-method woods-method of tying a rope to the key of the wedge and hauling away. Twenty men were unable to stir the mass.