BURNED TO DEATH
Girls Perish in Match Factory Fire
Vancouver, March 15.
At Hull, Quebec, six girls were burned to death when the Canada Match Factory was gutted by fire following an explosion to-day. From three to eight persons are missing. Roaring up from the mixing tank the explosion caught fifteen girls, and in a few minutes the building was a mass of flames. Twelve employees are in hospital. The danger of the fire spreading vanished by noon.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 147, 17 March 1933, Page 11
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78BURNED TO DEATH Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 147, 17 March 1933, Page 11
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