| Show 11 NEWSPAPER OFFICE WRECKED I 1 boors or more of live lives loat lost a aw R suit of unusual accident in canadian newspaper building montreal canada camada bet betheen veea twenty and thirty persona persons lost their lives on monday when the wip ip porta ports of the sprinkler system tank on the roof of the herald building gave way and the great mass of metal and water weigh ing thirty five ton tons went crashing to the basement fire broke out immediately pire fire men displayed splendid heroism 11 in a rescuing score 3 of people from per positions position within the tottering walls some of which had to come down before tue work of recovering the bodies could be safely attempted all those who escaped agree that the find of at the impending Impend log disaster classed almost unnoticed there was as a light slight creaking but it was not duill the ceiling plaster be gan to fall that a rush for the 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 on victoria square all the floors held for about thirty feet back from the front wall and to this la Is due the fact that the death list did not run into the hid hc idrena reds for there were nearly persons in the building at the time every member of the editorial staff esc aped unharmed their quarters bo be lae ing in th the front froat of the building fred maloney a linotype operator worked on a machine at a po point int farthest from the victoria square window lie rose from his chair on the alarm and as an he did so the machine on which be he had been working disappeared through the floor |
