BUNKHOUSE BURNT
NINE MEN DEAD.
TRAGEDY IN MINING CAMP. MADMAN’S ACT SUSPECTED.* KY CABER-PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received 9.30 a.m. to-day. OTTAWA, March 19. A mesasge from Prineetown, British Columbia, states: Nine men are dead and five arc seriously burned, while a. number of others have suffered minor hurts as the result of a fire, believed to be incendiary, which destroyed the big new bunkhousc at -the Copper mountain camp of the Granby Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company yesterday. Everything points to a deliberate and determined attempt and the work of a madman. The waste-paper baskets in two bunkhouses were fired simultaneously, while the houses were crowded with miners. In one instance the fire was extinguished, but in the other the flames had eaten into the frame structure before the alarm was given, and in a quarter of an hour the building was a heap of ! ruins. 'A fire marshal left Vancouver to-day to make investigations.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 20 March 1928, Page 5
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