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Show SEVEN BURNED TO DEATH ON A SCENIC RAILWAY MONTREAL, Arc. 10. Seven per. sons were burned to death tonight In la fire on k scenic railway at Domin- ion Park, an amusement resort near this city. The bodies of three men. three women! wo-men! and a boy were recovered from the ruins shortly before midnight It is feared several more persons lost their lives and that the bodies will be found when search is resumed to- I morrow. It has been impossible to i identify the dead. The cause of the fire, which not ' only destroyed part of the iconic railway rail-way but also the "Mystic Mill" near-1 by. is unknown, but it is believed : it uns started by a lighted cigarette o.' match. The fire started in the mill and quickly the flames laid hold in th skeleton structure of the railway. When the firemen arrived the mill was a brazing pyre and a few minutes min-utes later thai nan of i h- railway ii constructed over the mill fell with ! a rash into the roaring furnace Ac-cording Ac-cording to witnesses, a car filled wi'h merrymakers took the fatal leap into the flames. Coming from the mill could be heard moans of agony and cries for help, but the firemen found It possible ' 1 rescue only a few of the men. women and children trapped in the blazing structure. They did succeed, bow. ever, in cutting their way through the walls and draging forth a few persons per-sons almost smothered by the smoke. Two of the bodies were found huddled hud-dled together In the ruins The others lay In different parts of the burned buildinrr so badly chared lhat it is believed identification can be established estab-lished in only one or two cases. To allay the fears of thou-ands who crowded the park. Sousa's band which is playing there this week eontinued its concert, and while shouts of the firemen mingled with the moans of the dying there came from the band stand the notes of opera and ragtime ! airs. Even when the black wagon arrived ar-rived from the morgue, flying its black flag, the gay tunes continued As the flames died down under the streams of water played upon them, the section of the park in which the tragedy occurred was the only part of the resort In darkness. no |