CANADIAN DISASTER
FIRE IN HOSPICE
MANY CHILDREN BURNED
(A.P.A. and "Sun.")
(Eeceived 16th December, 8 a,m.)
QUEBEC, 14th December. Fourteen persons, twelve of whom are children, are known to be dead as the result of a fire which' destroyed the Hospice of St. Charles. It is believed that altogether thirty, perished.
Later. Twenty-five bodies, mostly those of children, have been recovered. Five were asphyxiated. The bodies were coated with ice. ■ ' ■
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 145, 16 December 1927, Page 9
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70CANADIAN DISASTER Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 145, 16 December 1927, Page 9
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