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men whose bodies have been recovered
the Following were missing at noon:
Is. B. Law, member of Parliament for
Yarmouth ~ s.
W. w. lnsow an engineer
). B. r. Laplant, Assistant Clerk of the
House of Commons.
William s. Loggie, member of Parlia-
ment for Northumberland N. B.
Among the injured in various hospitals
were Sergeant Mcdonald. of the nth
Regiment; Private Laroque and Private
Collyer, OF the same regiment; Walter
Hi, restaurant steward, and Fireman
Berry Berry had both hands frozen.
Detectives are securing this city and
Montreal for a suspect who is believed to
have planted an inccndiary bomb in the
reading room near Commons chamber,
where the blaze originated, shortly before
o'clock last night
After Commons chamber and the Senate
had been burned, the iremen concen-
trated their efforts on saving the Parlia-
mentary library, and this was the only
section Of the building which escaped
destruction. The fremen had terrific
fight, and at 4 o'clock 1t looked as IL the
library was doomed. but the fire fighters
were finally victorious. However, most
of the books and valuable documents had
already been carried from the library by
members of the nth Regiment as a pre-
cautonary measure.
Help was called from Montreal, but the
combined efforts of the ottawa and Mon
treal iircmcn could not stay the head
way of the flames.
Two of the missing are Nine Morin,
of Quebec, and Nine. Bray, of Montreal,
who were guests of the wife of Speaker
Sevigny.
Several men were reported to have been
killed when one of the stone walls of the
building collapsed.
William S Loggie, member of Parla-
mCnt from New Brunswick. was said to
be missing Many persons were injured
and were rushed to various hospitals
There were many narrow ESCAPES MS
the fire spread so rapidly that some of
the persons in the building were trapped
and had to fight their way through blind
ing fumes.
Minister of Agriculture Burrel was
ovcrCSme as he was making his way
through the thickest of the smoke, and
fell unconscious, but was dragged to safe
ty.
The Duke of Connaught. Governor Cen
eral of Canada, rushed to the scene in
an automobile and insisted on helping the
firemen.
REASSEMBLE PARLIAMENT.
Premier Borden announced that Parlia-
the loss of the building. The members
were notified to be ready to assemble at
o'clock this afternoon either in Russell
Theatre or the Government offices of the
Board of Railway Commissioners
Colonel Sherwood, head of the Dominion
police, is one of those who believe that
there is no ground for belief that the fire
was of incendiary origin.
THAT is impossible" he said. TT started
right under the nose of "a DOliCpn1nn
Colonel Sherwood explained the rapid
spread of the blaze by the fact that the
reading room was full of papers.
Among the works of value destroyed
were paintings presented to parliament by
Queen Victoria and King Edward.
General Sir Sam Hughes, Minister of
Militia for Canada, assisted in the drec-
ton of the fire fighting forces. He called
out the nth regiment which is in train
ing here and the men were set at work
rcscung trapped persons in the building,
carrying out books and documents and
assisting the firemen in other ways.
In the meantime the Minister of Militia
notified the military authorities all along
the border to watch for persons trying
to leave the country surreptitlousiy.
A number of newspaper correspondents
were caught in the press gallery by the
onrush of flames, and saved themselves
by climbing down extension ladders,
which the fremen raised to the windows.
Conflicting reports were circulated as
to the fate of Chief Liberal Whippardee,
who was in his seat in Commons when
an excited messenger dashed into the
chamber shouting: Fire! Fire! Run for
your lives"'
Mr.. Pardee, like many others in the
chamber, did not recognize the full eX-
tent of the danger and was slow In at
tempting to make his escape,
Many of the legislators, after making
their way from the building, gave such
aid as they could to the firemen. Some
of these paid for their devotion with seri-
GUS injuries.
EXPLOSION PRECEDED FIRE.
That the fire followed an explosion is
certain. Colonel George Brad
burg, a member of Parliament from Man
itoba; Medric Martin, the Mayor of Mon
treal, and Constable Helmer all of whom