| Show NEWSPAPER OFFICE WRECKED score or more of alves lot lost as resul hosul cult t 0 of f un unusual u su a I 1 accident in ca canadian adlan newspaper New paper building montreal canada between twenty and thirty y persons lout lost their lives on monday when tho the supports of the sprinkler system tank on the roof ol of the herald building gave way and the great mass of metal and water weighing thirty five tons tona went crashing to the basement fire broke out immediately firemen displayed sp splendid lendia heroism in rescuing scores of people from perilous positions within the tottering walls some scale of which aich had to come down before tn tnt 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 as a slight creaking but it was not until the tha ceiling plaster lieban to fall that a rush for the stairway began several survivors tell of falling failing one and two fro 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 tor for about thirty foet feet back from the tha frost wall and to athla la ill due the fac that the death list did not run into the hundreds for far there were nearly TOO persons jn in the building at abo tb time every mcra ler of the editorial staff escaped unharmed their quarters qu artera ie be ing in the trout frimet of the building bull iUne fred malowey a linotype operator worked on a machine at AL point farthest from the victoria square window lie ile zose rose from h his is chair on the alarm and as lie did so the machine on which lie had been working feared through the floor |
