http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0403265
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issued: 2021-11-03
issued: 1927-01-06
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note: %a Two After Mayor's POSITION, CRANBROOK See Page 10 OIO» S*»**--**2T K-aUVINCIAC LIIRARIAN VICTORIA D C VOL. 25 NELSON, B. C, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 6, 1927 No. 211 Ball Players DENY CHARGES See Page 7 ARSHIPS RUSHING TO CHINA WATERS WO MORE OF DROWNING VICTIMS ARE FOUND t ray sit SWIMS Further Inquiry Into Winnipeg Fire to Yet Be Made by Jury |PIRE CAPTAINS TELL OF HEROIC EFFORTS |Sprinkler System Frozen Up; Alarm System in Theater Was Out of Date "WINNIPEG, Jan. 5.—Following evidence by nuinermm witnesses al the central polfoe station tonight, the coroner's inquest into th;* denth of four firemen as a result of the fire *wb**h destroyed the Winnipeg theater, Thursday, Pec-ember IS, was nd- [ Journed till Monday nlnht. It was announced hy Fire Commissioner Me- Orath that he hnd reeetred 1 isi- Winute telephone rails from people who stated they were In a position to -five information regarding the fir.1 or circumstances refuting to it. and I>r. H. H. Cameron, provincial coroner, agreed to adjournmrnt in Order to give the citizens in question a chance to come forward and testify. Meantime, through the advertising columns of the press. Fire Commis- eVOner McOrath will formally call upon tht*m to perform their duty by elating what they know. points brought out In the evidence Were that owing to a frozen pipe, the sprinkler system whieh had been in- Stalled fayed to. on-ora:*- nnd that the building was not In' ^-ompllf-ncr with the city bylaws In ifapeci to the fin- alarm syt-tcm. Graphic Storiet .OMphlc Rtorlei by Fire Chief J. lv ^ratfhanan and fire hall captains of the heroic attempts of the firemen to nave the building showed tint many Af tho fire fighters hnd gone well inside the building, but th.it when dan- iter of life was threatened Ihey wero ordered out, and that death name to three of the men, Donald Melville. Robert Shearer and Robert Stewart, with 'the collapse of lhe Adelaide street wall, when they were OVfeaMe on the footpath, getting hose in tion. Th…
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