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Show NEWSPAPER OFFICE WRECKED Score or More of Lives Lost as Result Re-sult of Unusual Accident in Canadian Newspaper Building. Montreal, Canada. Between twenty twen-ty and thirty persons lost their lives on Monday when the supports of the sprinkler system tank on the roof of the Herald building gave way and the great mass of metal and water, weighing weigh-ing thirty-five tons, went crashing to the basement. Fire broke out immediately. Firemen Fire-men displayed splendid heroism in rscuing scores of people from perilous per-ilous positions within the tottering walls, some of which had to come down before the work of recovering the bodies could be safely attempted. All those who escaped agree that the first warning of the impending disaster passed almost unnoticed. There was a slight creaking; but it was not until the ceiling plaster began be-gan to fall that a rush for the stairway stair-way began. Several survivors tell of falling one and two floors and crawling through the dust to a place of safety. The majority sought safety by rushing to the front of the building, facing ion Victoria square. AH the floors held for about thirty feet back from the front wall, and to this is due the fact that the death list did not run into the hundreds, for there were nearly 300 persons in the building at the time. Every member of the editorial staff escaped unharmed, their quarters being' be-ing' in the front of the building. Fred Maloney, a linotype operator, worked on a machine at a point farthest from the Victoria Square window. win-dow. He rose from his chair on the alarm, and as he did so the machine on which he had been working disappeared disap-peared through the floor. |