Show Perish in Montreal Montre 11 Fire I Montreal More Montreal More than seventy-five seventy lives was the toll exacted by h a fire panic in the Laurier Palace movie theatre in the east end Most of the victims were vei little children who had mado up the bulk hulk of oC the tho Sunday matinee mat mat- inee lace audience Few lew were injured h by bythe bythe the comparatively trivial lire fIre but caught in stricken fear jams about bout the exits many were suffocated So tightly tight tIght- ly Iy we wedged were the bodies that rescuing rescuing ing squads o of firemen were unable t to a again gain gam entrance A way stairway giving c egress ress from the main Hoar floor was clogged clogged clog clog- ged with small bodies Efforts were made to break the jam by the wo woods woods- ds- ds method o of t tying in a rope to the key of the wedge and hauling away Twenty men Inch were unable to stir sUr the mass |