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dcws and cried aloud for lciders, while the flames leaped from the "adjoining windows and flared high above the roof. Their only hope of escape was by the front windows by mesns of 1 rs. The whole in terior of the building, with its stairways, 'hoists, 'elevators, eto. "had been carried down by the dw- Jdeaving only a' little fringe of the floor adjacent to front windows. The scene = was indescribable. Brave men dried like children, and women and® girls fainted as the screams and ories of the helpless victims reached their: ears. The water tank, containing, it is said, about 80,000 gallons, or 'a weight 'of = about 150 tons, was pérched high gbove the centre of the 'roof at the rear of the build- ing. Apparently the weight of the tank was too much for the support- ing walls. At any rate; the tank crashed down without a second's warning, carrying the entire in: terior of the building with it, In- to this vortex were swept Fits and men from every floor. ust how many are lying under the debris is not definitely known. . The entire centre wall, the whole of the rear boys sid ire os met SB Er win. "ed the terrible heat and danger the funder the linotype dom; ter the the girls from the rescue the girls J id 0 down about one hun- flames bursting from = bipes' 5 type: 'battery and stereotype department set thie blaze going on every Aigo betore ho fire: 'men could get their apparatus to work: Qwing to the amount of paper and combustible matter the building was wreasthed in flames in an incredibly short space of! time. In addition to the roaring flames, the crashing timbers, the falling walls and the dust and smoke, and, ahove all; the cries of the wound- el, made 'it a perfect inferno. Winnipeg Oouncil will' call for competitive 'plans for a new City Hall. : The body of Cecil G. Howard, a young: liveryman of Brockville, who dicappeared in January last, was found in the 8%. Lawrence on Thu were mot scores burned to were all 'broken, and 'the reday. NE STRIKES A HOCK Three Trainmen Killed Near Port Coldwell on the C. P. R. A despatch from Fort William says: Two trainmen were drowned am! one instantly killed when the eastbound Canadian Pacific freight train left the tracks early on Fris dey morning wear Port Coldwell, abent 175 miles east of here. The dead. are:--Frank Wheatley, en- ineer; J. M"Millan, brakeman; Clark, fireman, all of Scribner, Ont. The engine, which struck a rock, rolled down a forty-foot em- bankment into Lake Superior and is still lying there; with the corpses of Wheatley and Clark, in seventy- five feet of water. MoMillan, who was under thé rails with a broken: neck, is thought to have jumped. Rails and telegraph poles were torn' up for 'a' considerable dis- tance. Only & few of the freight cars left the tracks. None of the men were married, The train carried with it many feet of permanent way, thus inter: rupting direct communication. A wrecking train 'was hurried from Schreiber. The track at this point runs along the north shore within a few feet of Lake Superior, the rock slipping down abruptly into the water. ' ¥ BLOWN T0- PIRCES IN MINE Two Men Were Killed in Cobalt Loading ' Holes, "7A 'despatch from 'Cobalt says: While loading some holes' at the | of Hargraves mines two Cornishmen med John Walsh, married 'and. with two children, and John Park- is, a young man, wers instantly killed by an explosion of dynamite, The cause of the accident is ua: While found Parking with his head blowa und shattered to tie 'weist, 'evidently best bending ver the seat of explosion. Walsh' also dead, but not so badly mutilated. 'arking had' only been two weeks in the camp from Michi: | § gan. 'Both were experienced min: |x