Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 17, 1949, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press september 17, 1949 Page 15 ships racing to Aid freighter aground off Cuba Miami sept. 17 fair building taken Over As morgue Toronto sept. More about ship fire continued from 1 apparently jumping into the water to est Noje. Not since the Steamer Phoenix bean sea saturday toward a Strick i death toll been claimed by a Lake hour Able to go i aboard the Moronie at . In belgian freighter aground in their search for snip fire. The moronic s Fister ship the Southern coast of Cuba was decided that the coroners of the Canada steamship lines the urgently in need of could accommodate burned near Sarnia in recovered bodies. 1945 with one dead j t the ships master Cap i Liam Coroner Smirle of helped arranged 1o. Set. Up a morgue at awaken Many of the passengers. The horticultural building pc w. R. Brown of port Arthur. Canadian National exhibition a special officer for the line he four Miles West along the in Cabin doors and car i Shore. Ried at least one some 30 crewmen were believed aboard the . Brabant. A coast guard officer Here so the ship must be breaking up or they would t have sent an so a so close to the coast guard said they heard a message from a Jamaica station assuring the Crew of the morgue that a tug was racing to their Asj space for distance under forced draft. Officials had prepared an estimated 150 dead. . Blemish a spokesman at the i morgue said bodies were coming i in so fast it was impossible to make an accurate count. By ugly pimples a ref. Or Zama or it lick in Tiv Kin irritations mkt Cimex. It received is remove ramp receive report correction merc Rex for skin affections Tinl perfumed non Gre Oil try it for eczema . Said saturday they had correction on a report i issued Friday that r. H. 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Crew members said the Captain leaped Over the Bow As flames and smoke closed Over the i vessel. Later he was reported in a state of severe Shock and in nol condition to talk to reporters. Many of the passengers awakened by the Roar of flames smashed portholes and climbed through them to reach the deck. Dozens were Cut about the head and shoulders jagged fragments of Glass which Clung to he porthole frames. When they reached safety they were blood smeared and Semi hysterical. From the railing of the upper decks some passengers still into the lower registration 194s-49 was 55. Officials of St. John s College predicted that classes there will i be filled almost to capacity. Preshies expected As students throne u wind att opening of classes less. Than a week away hundreds of freshmen Are thronging to fill in registration forms at the uni verify and affiliated colleges. Hut students will include a Cro up of displaced persons and several Young people from Nigeria and the British West students have shown their in re during the first two Days of registration More than 600 fresh i Crest in the new slavic languages men enrolled and it. Is expect and almost 20 have Al this figure will be More applied for it. Doubled before classes begin wed figures covering the first two registration show that students Nave registered at the Broadway build Ings of the University and an equal number have enrolled for second year classes at United College. An official of St. Paul s College classes there May he slight july smaller this year. Enrolment mesday. Classes will pro Anhly turn to pre War u spokesman for the University reported Friday. There will he veterans in the Junior division of arts and science Moke about Eye witness continued from Page 1 Coal co. Ltd. Coal Coke Wood 506 Paris phone 927-404 License no. 2 two government speakers talk things Over Here. They Are senator Elie Beauregard 65. New speaker of the Senate and Ross Macdonald. 57. Liberal member for Brantford. Ont., so was elected speaker of the House of commons just be fore opening of Canada s 21st parliament thursday. Life belts Bor. Firemen police and pier men worked in the Smoky flame ripped darkness to haul them to safety. Other passengers swarmed Down the moronic s mooring lines Cement pier. Most were for rope Burns to their hands. Deckhand helps save Over 100 passengers the flames in the Forward part of the ship. On top of the luxury liner steel was buckled and lifeboats Hung crazily in their divots. J it was obvious that scores had i been trapped in their Cabins Over come by fumes and smoke before j they had a Chance to escape. They were found slumped in the doors still locked. I hysterical Dills to the darkened con a w. To. Macdonald of Winnipeg was at. The Toronto Telephone exp when the fire was first Dis Leleck de second regional a emergency Crew had covered. Assembled handling Calsi by. Dragged and near-1_ from a i Jacco Imants elect Row Nat for bodies of any _ Van at might have drowned As scores Iii jumped overboard or Slid Down j Bobbing of Stiffl life guards a fire officials standing on pier littered with life belts and debris were still unable to Friday at. The annual. Ion the mad Story of the the cause of the outbreak. Toronto. Confused flight to safety was pieced they concentrated on the task together from the tories of sur re covering h. A Doane. Of Charlottetown. From frenzied relatives and friends. S and wives railing of chartered accountants in Detroit and Cleveland screamed hysterically into the Telephone. Some rushed 1o airports in the stories of sur a recovering visors. Peter Sage of Hull que., a deck hand on the moronic said he groped his Way through the smoke eur. President of the association filled engine room and helped More than ,100 Moronie passengers to reach the Cayuga a Toronto nag Jara passenger steamship moored White coated attendants stretchers. The Moronie beside wheeled p.e.i., and Halifax. . The recently formed Institute of whose sister ship chartered accountants of new the a Monic was wrecked by Firel Fondland was recognized As a with the of one life e a r constituent corporation of the Juni cd Stales and frantically j booked passages to Fly to Toronto. It was estimated that a crowd of 200.000 jammed the waterfront area. At times police had to fight to hold them Back. Sarnia in 194a. Lay in the slip with Dominion association at the meet Lemberg voted unanimously Ood 001, registered Trade Mark insulation for your Home a Manitoba product produced by Thorkelsson limited 1331 Spruce Street Winnipeg phone 21 811 other o Morrision. Idem a. Over the rail and said that was the closest rail i want to Jim Williams of i Ili i toss Street. Winnipeg one of the. Pantry staff escaped Down a hark ladder and said i m told All the the deckhand escaped safely. Nobody knows for sure where the fire started but some of the Crew say it pro Ltd out on Lii promenade passengers who reached the pier uninjured dashed to the four phone Booths in the steamship company offices to let relatives Enow they were Safe. Some were shaking from the effects of Shock while they placed their Ong Dis Ance Calls. Many pyjamas and dress ing gowns or. Wearing whatever second vice president j. R. Church Van Nuver. First regional representative h. P. Herington. Toronto to insurer. In club Taik on hears feed 112 her main deck almost in the water. Alongside the Moronie. With her the wooden super Structure of the to include tire Newfoundland in Low and upper decks was burned away statute which was incorporated in Mph members soon put out that land the ship s Skeleton was March. Fire with Cayuga j buckled in at least two places moved Otu into the Harbor. Where steel lifeboats on the starboard remained until danger of the Side. Of the upper deck alongside ire spreading to Oiler vessels in the pier were crumpled like we the area appeared past. Paper. carry of fort Kris. Out., Canada steamship lines a member of the Crew jumped Jno Ronic was a storm Centre of the 19-16 Canadian seamen s Union strike when slip became stranded in the Welland canal near Thorold. Ont. All her portholes and hire Sheds of Glass on her observation deck Werc smashed by picketing seamen who threw stones at her from the Dock. Claimed by a Small group of officers who kept up a rain Nimir Battle with the strikers thu moronic was freed after several Hundred Ontario provincial police and Royal Cana Dian mounted police officers lined the canal to let her out into Lake Eric. Cussed the importance of proper several officers and crewmen nutrition. Were injured in the fights. Officers the first half of a film train aboard the ship set up Small fort Ling you to train your dog which Moue about i accidents i continued from filers elected were k. J. Calgary first vice a crossing is Clear with no obstruct k. Beauvais. Quebec 1 Lions of any kind to mar vision. Clothing haste they could put on in their on benches in the the september meeting of the Cocker Spaniel specially club which was moved up from next i tuesday on account of the fort Garry Kennel club dog show was held Friday in the free press Board room. W. J. Monaghan presided. Gerald p. Dennehy gave an address on the proper feeding of dogs. He outlined the essential requirements in a diet and Dis resses of flour bags in which they depicts a 24-hour watch against shown. Tion was found for them. Husband i boarders. When the obedience a film of training was the Hiawatha u. S. Harris District Coro Ner said mrs. Holstein and or. Gellion died almost instantly. An in ripest will be held. The detachment of the1 . Is investigating. Friday s tragedy was the prov Jince s second fatal Railroad Cross ing Accident in two Days. In North thursday a car train claimed the life of Anton j a Middle aged Cook s. Creek Farmer. Or. Gelhorn owner and operator the contracting firm of George Gelhorn and sons. Cathedral Avenue for the past 16 years is survived by his widow four sons. Godfrey Alex Henry and George and one daughter mrs. Mary Smith All of Winnipeg. Born in Russia about 56 years ago. Or. Gelhorn came to Canada with his family 37 years ago locating in Saskatchewan for a few years before coming to Winnipeg. He was an Active member of the announcing the1 twins in Beauty luxury comforted wives brought to Brink of hysteria by Shock. Policeman rescues survivors from wafer bystanders said thai Toronto police Constable John Anderson jumped off the Dock and saved j to 15 persons. They had leaped into the water to escape flames and were too weak to grasp ropes and Lifebuoys tossed to them from the Dock. Among the survivors was lome Petit a Crew member from port Arthur. Leo card of fort William was listed among those taken to Hospital. Extent of his injuries was not known. Mildred Briggs of Detroit said the flames spread almost As if thei ship was a Matchbox. The fire just welled up along the corridors and spread faster than any fire i be Ever she said. She praised the heroic work by Crew members notably the hip s offi i Fere in maintaining a Sei Nolence r and order. J. Donald Church of Silver Lake described by fellow Pas senders As one of he heroes i said he thinks the fire started i in a laundry cupboard hear i bar. Lie went out in a Row boat to pick up three men i struggling in he water and got Vliem close to the Dock before the boat capsized Alberta agin of Detroit said there panic on the when she reached it. There was a mob of men acid women surging Back and were pushing women around and Many were knocked to the floor. The screaming filled the air. There was so Rich panic that. I Don t How these people got segregated to find a Way to safety. I Slid Down a the searchers were unable to go Boad until almost five Livours after the first of three alarms was sounded at 2.3s . Bringing is fire trucks and i to fire boats into a futile Battle against the at the Canada steamships lines pier at the foot of Bay Street. Huge crowd views fiame Jii sred Hull across the Queen s Quay Road Way from the ship settled by the Stern to the hot ton of the slip police held Back a crowd of on lookers. The crowd which dwindled at Dawn to about having packed the pier with pedestrians and motorists during the height of the Rescue efforts increased after Daylight. The Bow of the fire scarred Hull pointed to the City with the name Moronie ironically almost unblemished and with wreckage and ruin on All sides. The Bridge and other parts of the superstructure had vanished but the two master stood. The Forward crows nes flame singed. Inside on the main deck firemen groped through debris. Blackened wreckage which looked like a burning Coke pile with flickering Candle rows of flame. The gentle West wind Hafl blown away almost All the heavy smoke and steam which for hours shrouded the wreck but a Dull Haze Tunc Over the scene. Leased she headed ship for refused to handle was at Minneapolis and one of he Morris and Essex show were where stevedores i her. The Moronie wailed out the rest Socrate professor of animal science of the strike in the St. rive Jaf the will be Christ Tju Theran Church. Aberdeen i Avenue. Or. And mrs. Gelhorn had been Man flees Hospital a Man awaiting jury trial for theft escaped Friday evening from Winnipeg general Hospital while surgeons deliberated whether they would operate on his injured Skull. He is Harry Leo Mccasky. Of no fixed abode who earlier in the Day had appeared before judge h. W. Whitla in provincial police court Ami bad his trial set for nov. 23. According to sheriff d. C. M. Kyle. Mccasky was being taken from the court to Vaughan Street detention Home when he slipped examined by physician or. .1. Hoy Martin. Mefa suy was admitted to he Hospital for investigation of a possible Skull fracture. A f 1 e i examination he a As thought to be Semi conscious and placed in a Ward under guard. The guard according to the sheriff left Mccasky for a moment to visit a washroom. Am you May obtain to or the Money you need at household finance on your own signature. No endorsers or other bankable Security needed. Pfc will Advance Money for overdue belts seasonal. Expenses doctor or dentist belts repairs on House or Cai or for any Good purpose. You May repay in convenient monthly instalments arranged to fit your income. Pfc s service is prompt and Friendly. No. Pay of of ton household finance win nifty branches Toyd tldg., Portage ave. Phone 927-427 132 Portage of fort 92ft-244 Hourt 9 to 5 or by Oppolt Manl loom made to Stu Chou of no cry Ike Pitt let since 1b78 alongside the. S also screened. Ion on a through or. Elwood w. Stringham Saskatchewan and had picked up mrs. Holstein. Or. Gelhorn s aunt and University of Manitoba. I her grandson George Holstein the speaker at the ocl. About la. To bring them to Peg for a Short Holiday. 18 meeting. First supper dance of the season saturday oct. 1 9 . To 12 . Continuing every saturday thereafter during the season. Irvin plumm and his orchestra phone 922 i ask for supper dance reservations for these reasons absence of posts in basement allows full use of entire basement area. Trouble making Interior footings eliminated. Plaster cracks seized windows and doors due to uneven Rise or fall of footings eliminated. No checking or sagging of beams with age. Extra Cost surprisingly Small ;