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An Awttil AccidentHacoun Hefei Wrecked by [xjlo-sron of Gas Tank Ten Killed and Many Injuredllftcoun, ftaek.M-KightApril hilled ofatally lojorad »*d eight Mr lousty injured U» tbe exploeton at the plant fit thm Macoun hotel shortly after noon todijr.THK KNOWN DKAD.Wre. O. Hockbzuf, wile ol hotel proprietor.Rb»b» Hockhaue. aged 21, daugb ter,Thomas Drake, telephone coatractor. Moum Jaw,Clifford Vendee, hotel clerk, form rrly of Vaaeovm iFord Schmidt, bartender Joseph Grant, carpenter, died on way to Batefan. 4 Jamas Duagsr, buyer. International Klee at or lt;ornpany of Mlato.Harold Clark, government telephone lineman. Bate van.— — -Roden, lahorar.Mra. Petereon, hotel cook, and probably Harold Hockhaue, non nf the proprietor.SERIOUSLY INJUREDThe tan plant la an acatyleaa gea erator located In the basement of the hotel, and nothing la yrt known aa to tbe caaaa of ita explosion. The building waa raaad to tbe grm-nd by the Ire which followed the aeoond « ploalun. Two email be siding* ad loin Ing were alao burned, hut tbeee being la a eomawhut isolated position the fire did not spread to other eeetlone of the town, despite a high wind MowingMOOSM JAW MEN MISSING 7 There le no donM a* to the deathof fonr yonng Mater an men of a tae-, phone gaag. Peter Joyner, Alphonee Mtneiea. Nicudemoa Knteman and Jo aaph Miller, alt not yet accountedfor. while remora have Mooae Jaw aad Regina commercial travelerslA BkilTorh. commercial traveller,Urtneipa! McDarmM. Maeoea Thomaa Robertson. telephone am ployaa.Uidwlg hi*. Hitchcock Saab.Ward Peter*. hotel Hark.W. A. Daria. Standard Truet Oh, WinnipegLIFTED LIKE BALLOON The explosion* occurred shortly after noon, thirty people being In the building at the time The drat ex plowsoa lifted the main part of the building like a balloon, nad the wreck age dropped bark Into a con ■mhtryhi a arorc of par-in tbe detirfte. The ualnfhred Immediately net to work to eitrmate the sufferer*, when a aeeond nploakuB occurred, gad the mane o', wreckage hroke into fiaroee. cutting of tbe rase*era Twu men and Ave women are Known to have been burned aim. and amid their crt«e tbe reatuere made super human efforts to reach them. Nine others were taken from the wreckage and ruahed to the boa pita! at Matevan. Tonight the March among the rnlae la rrwulting m the finding of charred remains, only one of which, that of Jamea Lunger, could be identified.la the Bwtevan hospital Joaapfa Grant, a carpenter, died, while Mle* Margaret Wilson, a teacher of the Macmtn school. whom fclhnc le at Fergus Falla, Ont., and Mhea Stella Paterson, the botH cook, who haa a malar- living at Winnipeg, are dying Little hope Is held not for their rt-Of the injured, Davfd M. Bullock la representative of MeAUletar gnd Watts. Winnipeg. W. L. Peters la principal of Earl McDermott aehool. Mac ourThe death Hat from tbe catastrophe la expected to total eleven at the least, but It depends upon the results of tbe marcher* to know the worst It will be difficult to identify remains from charred ren.nanta1 of fieeh and bona* in the carefully shovelled debrisThe proprietor of the hotel. Carl Hockhau* la HI at Graaay Lake. Alta-No Warning came of the esploskxi nave that, a hardware elark coming out from dinner noticed a avaell of gaa nad told the hotel clerk. Aa toon aa the latter opened the cellar | door the explosion cameBOY AND DOG BLOWN OCT.Mr* P stereo e, the rook was thrown upon the stove while the prw ( prletnr'e second daughter, and ooe little eon of sight year* in the earns room ware imly slightly Injured The little lad wav ebasfag hie pet dog and both were blown through the door ft tea Margaret Wilson, teacher who cornea from Fergus Fall*. Oat., la not expected to lira.Tbe hotel MMag. together with an ad,olaing butcher shop, owned by ] H Wood gate, nad a barber shop owned by F W. Cwrry. wera com pletely destroyed, and It waa with great difficulty the Macoun trading company's store arrnae the atryrt. aad Dr Mitchell** drug store wareCORONER ON SCENE. Coroner Kagleaham of Weyburo nr | lived on No It train tonight nod so Inquest will tie held.Hundred* of people from nearby , town are on the aceaa nod there la i mdnea* and tears la many homes tonight' The marvel la that the whole town was not eooaumed aa a strong wind vm blowing nad the only water system lining a basket brigade and hose from the C.P.R. water UnV Doctors J. and H Creighton. of Kntevan Immediately they beard of the catastrophe motored over to Mn roue to see if they could be of any aaMstanee bet found Dr Main price of Midair and Dc Mitchell ol Maroun
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Rouleau Enterprise
Rouleau, Saskatchewan, CA
Thu, Apr 23, 1914
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