Show NINETEEN PERISH IN ill ML HOSPITAL FIRE FIVE CHILDREN EIGHT WOMEN AND SIX MEN TRAPPED IN BURNING BUILDING those who perished were entombed by tons of debris nuns risked lives to save children entrapped by flames farnham quebec nineteen persons alve children eight women and al six men lost their lives in the fire which destroyed st elizabeth hospital early thursday there were persons pr sons in the hospital of whom were children 36 aged women find an d the others servants and assistants to the grey nuns one reason for the difficulty in definitely establishing the loss of life it 11 was said was that the majority of oe the inmates Inn intes of the hospital were without ou I 1 relatives or friends those who perished are believed to have loan bean entombed by tons 0 of debris an investigation as to the cause of the fire disclosed that a blaze started lit in a chimney 0 of the hospital tuesday night it Is tho the theory ot of the authorities that this shouldered ed and broke broh e out again many of the nuns it was sald said risked their lives in efforts to save patients and children entrapped in the hospital fanned by a strong breeze the flames unchecked by the small jett jell of water the wiremon were ablo to throw on them swept through the building with lightning speed cutting oft off the ini inmates nates lu in tho the various departments Il |