Show TWO PEOPLE KILLED SEVENTY FIVE HURT montreal march 8 the richelieu and ontario companas comp anys magnificent ent team cr montreal in course of construction was burned to tho waters edge last night A huge crowd was attracted by the fire and several hundred persons found their way to tho of an alien line shed which unable to stand the weight collapsed roof and people going down in a bunch in the shed two persons were killed and fully seventy five were injured some of whom it ia thought may die the fire broke out 8 in the after part of the vessel on the main deck how it started no one knows but within a few moments from the time the watchman first detected the fire the boat was a mass of flames from stem to stern tho reflection attracted an immense crowd and it was the eager quest for a point of vantage that resort was had to the hed of the alien line this building was a flimsily constructed affair originally built so that it could be removed from the wharf during the winter months when ft largo number of people climbed on the roof was drawn to the danger and the police had just begun ordering tholo on we root to get down when the collapse fame thero a crash and it was not until the of aitho e who went down with the building and held down by the timbers tent the air that taft big crowd knew that the accident had occurred then h rush ensued to the spot and for the next half hour there was a scebe of bewilderment excitement and confusion the rescuers pulled on the heavy corrugated iron roofing and twisted apart th broken timbers ambulances were calleia from all the hospitals but it was fully ito it o hours before the last of the victims had been carried away many were able to go to their homes two dead bodies were thoe of a man fand a boy neither of which at midnight has been identified the steamer constructed last year at the bertram yards in toronto and was brought to montreal for her inferior fittings and was to have gone into commission spring on the mon treal quebec line the bertrams were paid for the boat and her engines and fully 7 had already been pant by the company on her uncompleted fittings which were intended to make her the finest boat in Tari adian waters |