The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-02-05
CAPITAL RUINED.
SIX ARE KILLED
BY EXPLOSION
BEAUTIFUL PARLIAMENT BUILD
ING WRECKED BY EXPLOSION
WORK OF INCENDlARiEs.


nificent parliament building, which
cost more than $4,000, 900, lay in ruins
today, swept by a fire attributed by
some to bomb or internal machine
| AT least six lives were lost and many
persons were injNed. The known
dead are:
Nine. Bray, wife of H. A. Bray OF
| Quebec, and daughter of the late
George Tanguay of the Legislative
council
Nine, NORM, wife of Louis NORM OF
st Joseph de Beauce, Que.
Alph des Jardins, a Dominion po
| liceman.
A plumber and a waiter
Another Dominion policeman is be
roof fell
William S. Loggie, member of par
| Lament for North Umberland, N. b..
| is reported missing 1t was stated last
might that Frederick F. Pardee, the
chief liberal whip in the house OF
commons, also was missing, but it
e114444s
went to Sarania. Ont, yesterday, and
that he could not have returned be
fore the fire.
The financial loss is difficult to esti-
mate, but the contents of the building
were of great value. At an early
hour today it was believed that the
parliamentary library in a rear wing
had been saved While the fire was
burning soldiers carried out many of
its 10000 volumes.
The parliament building was rated
as one of the finest Gothic structures
ION this continent. 1t covered four
acres on Parliament Hill.
Several persons who were burned
or otherwise hurt in fleeing through
the corridors before the swift rush of
the flames, or in escaping from the
windows, are in hospitals today. One
l'of those most severely injured is Mar
tin Burrell, minister of agriculture,
who was burned about the mead. DR.
Mitchell Clark, member for Red
lJtCl, oulltl tu DuIilo dDOul illt
Sir Robert Borden the Canadian pre-
mier escaped without injury
Nine. Bray and Nine. NORM were
guests of Nine Sevigny, wife of tho
speaker, and were trapped in the
speakers rooms Nine. SevignS
dropped her two children into a fire
mans safety net and then leaped into
| it herself as did another of hen
guests, Nine. Dussault of Quebec
They escaped unhurt. When the fire
men reached the speakers chamber
they found Nine. Bray and Nine. Mo
rim unconscious. An investigation tC
determine the origin of the fire will
| begin as soon as possible. The fire
started in the reading room of Tho
house of commons. Col. Bradbury, q
member of the house from Manitoba
Mayor Medric Martin of Montreal and
Constable Hemer, who was standing
at an entrance of the library, agree
that it was preceded by an explosion
They say they believe the explosion
was caused by bomb or internal ma
chine.
In the library were thousands OF
loose papers. Smoke rolled in dense
volumes out through the doors and
into the chamber of the house of com
mons, where that body was sitting
With the spreading of the alarm
members of the house of commons
spectators in the gallery and attend
ants fled in panic for windows, doors
or fire escapes. SO swift was the rusf
of the flames that many narrowly
escaped.
Col John Currie, who commanded
a regiment of Canadians in the battle
of st. Julien, in Flanders, hastily or
lganized a fire brigade of members d
the house and attendants and Tough
the fire with lines of hose in the cor
ridors, but could make no headway
The blaze spread so fast that wheI
the Ottawa fire department arrived
the building was doomed. Aid wal
Summoned from Montreal, but as ;
Especial train laden with fire apparatus
and company of firemen was leavini
the city about midnight the cali wal
lcountermanded.
The tall central tower Of the paria
Iment building fell at 1870 a. m. to
day and about the same time three o
four men were crushed beneath th'
failing roof of one of the wings.
The parliament building included I
IoanfpaI h1IiIdinp with fxUo wings in al
470 feet in length, with a tower 22
feet high and library building il
the rear. Many valuable sculptures