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Show GAS EXPLOSION I IS INVESTIGATED I Wreck of Hotel, Killing of Nine Persons and Injury to , Seven Subject of Inquiry. FEW PERSONS ESCAPE H Building, Lifted Like Balloon, 'M Drops Back Into Flames in Basement. JB Macoun, Sask., April 21. An inves-tigation inves-tigation into the cause of the gas ex-plosion ex-plosion which wrecked a local hotel yesterday, killing niuc persons, who were in the dining room was begun by the authorities today. So suddenly did the floor and walls ot the dining room collapse into the basement that fow persons in the room escaped death or Injury. Most of those who perished were pinned beneath the debris and burned al-most al-most beyond recognition. The seven persons injured wero taken to Estevan where they were placed in a hospital. fl Explosion or an acetylinc gas plant in the cellar of the Macoun hotel at IH noon yesterday resulted in the loss of nine lives. The explosion occurred at dinner time when more than thirty were In the building. On the instant the ex- IH plosion occurred the main part of the hotel lifted like a balloon and settled down in a confused mass. The Dead. MRS, C. HOCHHAUS AND IH DAUGHTER, EMMA. JM JAMES BURGER. - V . CLIFF VAN DER. - - X .H F. SCHMIDT. ' WALTER CLARK. THOMAS DRAKE. JOSEPH GRANT. MR. BULLOCK of Winnipeg. Injured. Stella Peterson, cook, not expected to Six others injured, will probablj Macoun is in southern Saskatche wan, ten miles nortli of the United States boundary and fifteen miles west of Estevan. |