Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 19, 1949, Winnipeg, Manitoba Wen Peg free press monday. September 39, 19 Page 13 i Kerry Drake by Alfred Andriot Row of relatives trying to identify victims. W. J. Stewart chairman of the isotonic emergency committee set up saturday night announced at press conference an inter Denovi 10 memorial service will be i purple inked burned coliseum next sunday. Boat in Toronto Harbor relatives face grim task i i of identification Toronto. I penned on death certificates a s the task of identifying victims i of the . Moronic fire continued i monday. Travel weary relatives seeking loved ones unlisted among survivors Lound the process painfully slow. The majority came from Cleveland and Detroit by plane train or motor car. Port Arthur taxi Driver murdered ton picked up a fare shortly after 11 . And on the car s two Way radio told i he dispatcher he was going to a Street in the West end. Janout two Miles from the spot where the body was found. Ministerial groups in those cities. The service will be conducted or. Vav Illard brewing Moderator of the United Church of Canada. Or. Stewart said it is planned to hold a mass funeral service after everything has been done to identify the bodies. This service will be of a private nature with every consideration being taken for the Xvi port Arthur. Sept. Id the body of taxi Driver Harold Hamilton 39, was found behind a clump Bushes near the City limits Here sunday. There was Bullet Hole in the neck. Acting police chief James Hutch Eon said he had been murdered no Trace of a weapon was found. A passer by found the body Captain fights tilt overcome Toronto sept. 19 up Captain William Taylor master of the fire swept moronic sunday night told the Story of a fierce and hopeless Battle to save his ship and passengers. His own face scorched and his right hand in bandages the 63 year old Mariner mourning the disaster said i had hoped to end my career without loss of he rested in bed at the Home of a Friend Captain h. W. Web Ster recovering from exhaustion As he went Over the horror of saturday s pre Dawn holocaust. His face already burned from it winds of 43 years on the great lakes and reddened further by the morn ing s fire and smoke. Covered with Salve and i Day s growth of tender to shave. His medium still Chhe figure stirred restlessly among the White sheets. At one moment his big White ship was snug in her Dock Pas sengers laughing in the drinking Coffee eating sandwiches relating incidents of a night ashore in Toronto and the cruise which was taking them from Detroit and Cleveland to the thousand islands. He waved to old friends As he passed through to go to his Sowri Cabin from a visit ashore. What must have been Only a few min utes later when he returned the passengers were scattered and the vessel last becoming an inferno. No time then to give orders from the just to be an axeman and Hoseman giving instructions where possible Arous ing whom he Job of life saving. The Captain s Story "1 entering Rny Cabin on a deck when a wheelman came and told me there was a fire on a deck. I told him to go put in an alarm from the Dock if one had not already been put in from there though All i expected to find was a Little smoke. In breaking firemen in windows. Were playing i when i came aboard before water the alarm the passengers were on the ship the first time 1 got Well behaved. People were in the off. I glanced at my watch when i first got the alarm and it was Between and . Est. Chicago printers to end strike against papers Chicago sept. 19 a a. F. L. Printers of the International typographer s Union voted sunday 1.2s7 to 279, to end their 22-month lounges eating sandwiches and drinking Coffee and enjoying doubted that All could be selves. When i got Back identified. They turned after the alarm All the scientific Means to help and were Speed up their task. I can Tofty think that people doctors a Rayed the rushed for the stairways became bodies a procedure found helpful choked with smoke and collapsed. I went around a deck i see people inside and i to them to get out of i turned Anc ran Down the stairways amidships to a deck. Strike against five Chicago news when 1 arrived there was so j. Smoke i could t go aft of the the secret balloting followed adj stairway. Then i knew it was a meeting at which of the As could shouted there. When i came off the last time a and h decks was c. 1 could t seed Dock for smoke. In the identification of human re Mains recovered from major fires in the United states. Praying p what is wonderful babies grand for cooking perfect in beverages As can be and like Cream thing would be lot More than a minor Blaze. I hollered fire1 to people on the Dock As 1 proceeded through the ship. J Cut Over to the port S.D. mul went out on deck und pulled Down a Hose and opened it. I threw water and made As much noise As possible to arouse people and one of the Crew and several other people came and helped me. We broke open win Dows but there were no Passen Gers in those rooms. We found a woman who had fainted and carried her to the deck below so that she could be carried out through the Gangway from the engine room. The fire at this time was aft to the amidships door and we did our Best to put out the fire in that Section. Bui a room would go offt like that the windows would blow out. And the whole ablaze. I ran Forward to the Bow where the mate Gerry Wood was putting people Over the S.D. with a rope. A deck Cabins empty i went Back and fought As Long As 1 could on that S.D. and then went Clown to a deck. The rooms of Crew and passengers there were open with no one in them. Members of the Crew kept hollering for me to get out of there As the fire was coming Down. I visited the Crew s quarters aft and went Down through the Engin room and from there out to the Dock. I asked people there Are you sure every one is out and decided that they could not be. I went Back to a deck and it was ablaze All the Way through. It was hot there. I went a second time to d deck and used the Hose again. Water by this time was up to the door Jamb. A Stout kid was with me and we walked in water up to our Knees. We had to hold our breaths to keep from being smothered and we came out to the Dock Agibin through the. Enigi Jeroom. T went along the clock to the Bow to see whether i could see any one on Board and tried to get Brick but people on the Dock stopped me. T guess i was t polite to them. Far As was humanly possible i covered every part of the ship i could get to. To make sure every one was aroused. Throughout members of the Crew were doing their jobs As Well As they could and passengers were reasonably Cool under the Circum . Local adoption of a i was no explosion the likeliest place recommended the for its was in some spa new work contract would reveal fractures suffered or. Operations undertaken in a life a time an official said. Meanwhile identification in most instances was made from jewelry removed from bodies or fro m per on a which Sonel effects found deck. As Welge woman identified by her __., there Kin pie Amon the unidentified. The scene bordered on the macabre As relatives of miss ing persons their faces taut some tears t a i n e d. Went through the identification pro desk. They were accompanied by attendants from the is. John ambulance corps or the salvation army. One part of the building was screened off. So relatives could re a lease their tears in private after j the routine of trying to identify loved ones by first viewing per a Sonal effects then jewelry and Asi a last resort looking under those White Linen sheets at what once were human beings. 100 feet away with the motor still rowning. Follow Drivers said or. Hamil among them were men who Jeerings of those believe their 2 . The taxi was parked a boil wept. By 0 . Sunday death certificates been issued for Only 31 of the 121 Small Mounds of burned humid flesh behind a screened Section of the Glass domed horticultural building on the a to Niziul exhibition grounds. Officials of this emergency South Winnipeg Liberal association the members of a meeting of this association will be held sept. 21st at 8 . In the Prairie room Marlborough hotel lip s Ireania incr you flavour of covering workers. John a j Ilch. Local presi Dent declared the document already approved by the. Pub Lishers and the . S inter National executive Bort re is the. Best that can be obtained at this the settlement proposal s pro visions fall Short of the demands for which the printers struck nov. 24, 1947. It Calls for a so weekly raise. The demand which pre a a imitated the strike was sl-1.50. And its provisions for . Influence in the newspaper composing rooms Are less stringent than those insisted upon by the Union during a Long series of bargaining sessions before and after the strike began. The publishers maintained that the Union sought controls which would have violated provisions of i the Taft Hartley labor act against the closed shop. The Long strike has been in and out of Federal court and National labor relations Board proceedings. Captain Taylor exhausted by his efforts was treated aboard the . Kingston and ordered to by a doctor. a o v e r n o r Kay Lawman of Ontario who headed an official party in a visit to the morgue said he Felt exer Lhing possible was being done to ease the pain and Sor West Nova s reunion Aldershot. . Sept. Id up i West. Nova Scotia regiment.1 first Canadian infantry outfit o. Embark on Active overseas service1 during the second world War. Held a reunion Here sunday. The outfit had 373 men killed. Most Novas were mar timers but its ranks contained men from Ontario and Manitoba. The Parira. Rev. L. F.1 Wisnio of Winnipeg said this is a great moment in my stances. Brown special officer helped me with Russell photographers open registration for meet Here the two Day convention of the Western Canada photographers association starting monday at the Marlborough hotel is the first to be held by that body and follows its re organization a couple of years of. Registration opened sunday afternoon for the 150 delegates who Are expected from Alberta Saskatchewan Manitoba and Northern Ontario. Visitors will also be com ing from North and South Dakota and Minnesota. Scheduled to address the Conven Tion monday Are Gene Claseman Sioux Falls. S.d., James Tinkey is. Paul. Minn r. A. Cannon presi Dent of the association. Winnipeg and Wilf West. Regina. To close he Day there will be a get acquainted hour. Tuesday morning there will be further addresses by miss Cleo Hardman. Sioux Falls to. E. Fryer. Fort William and Bill Gould Winnipeg. The annual meeting and elec Tion of officers takes place tuesday afternoon with a reception and an axe dinner in the evening. Daily crossword across 1. Ravel 5. Flower 9. Float 10. Girl s name 11. Furnishes temporarily 12. Correct 14. Question 15. Definite article 16. Perform 17. At Home 18. Cipher 3. Sum up 20. A Panto 4. Affirmative mimic reply 5. . State 6. City it 7. Anger 8. Light foot covering 11. Secular 13. Do not contracted 20. River pol 18. Climb 21. Prairie Wolf sharply gesture 22. River Belg 23. Slight out 25. River so. Am 26.pierce with a Dagger 27. A Fleshy 15. Rock Boring fruit tools 29. Place of perfection 30. Classify try to Tso Lens irradiated evaporated milk kit s ifs fit to 23. 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