Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 27, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free press monday november 27, 1078 there s no mystery about where you can buy the finest Home gifts in town at the most reasonable prices. Stunning set of 3 Chrome and Glass nesting tables. And As an extra special feature they re games tables one top for chess or checkers and one for backgammon. Modern Oriental design table lamp. Off White antique Ceramic base fabric covered Empire Shade. Tri Lite socket. Home entertainment Centre in engraved Walnut finish that resists stains and scratches. Double Pedestal knee Hole desk in engraved Walnut finish. A great gift idea. 3-in-one Book unit. That s right you get All three in this attractively teak finished unit. It serves As a Bookcase bar and when turned around you simply fold out a comfortable bed your Choice of elegantly Mediterranean styled cocktail table hex or Square commode. All tops Are stain and mar Resis Tant. Trestle Roll top desk with pid Geon Hole compartments behind Roll top. Knotty Pine Wood Fin ish. Handsome Wall unit pick the pieces you need and save your Choice of bold colonial cocktail table hex or Square commode. Boldly proportioned table group with oodles of storage space. Gifts under stylish swivel rockers Avail Able in an assortment of Superb decorator velvets. Tailored with Button tufting and a kick Pleat. Boldly proportioned Recliner offers 3 Comfort positions upright. To viewing position and fully reclined snooze position. Complete 5 piece swivel Dinette. Includes table with Extension and 4 swivel chairs. The chairs feature a durable easy care Vinyl cover. We buy a lot so you save a lot. Now 3 stores to serve you Best special offer no interest no payments till March 1, 1979 on approved credit Winnipeg showrooms 1030 St. James St. 970 Nairn ave. Brandon showrooms 1240-18lh Street across from the Keystone furniture appliance showroom hotel Blaze kills 10 Rochester . Up five Toronto area women from two families and two other Ontario Resi dents were among at least 10 persons who died when fire swept through a fully booked hotel Early sunday. At least 24 persons were admitted to Hospital including 13 Toronto area women and four firemen. Survivors huddled out Side in temperatures of minus celsius. Police said about 50 per sons jumped from second floor windows of the holi Day inn to escape the flames which at times shot 30 metres into the air. The fire raged out of control for two hours and caused an estimated million dam age. The seven canadians who died in the fire were Ruby Cushinan 81, and her daughter Ruby both of to Ronto Margaret Duncan 57, of Toronto her Daugh ters in Law Pam Shariff 30, of Toronto Huguette Sun due 33, of Brampton ont., and e. F. Farley of Toron to and his wife. Don Riley a town super visor said five of the dead were found heaped together in a second floor hallway near an exit. The Monroe county medi Cal examiner s office said All 10 victims died of smoke inhalation. At least 120 of the 200 guests registered at the 91 room Holiday inn North West in the Rochester sub Urb of Greece were canadians who had arrived by bus for Christmas shopping. In co operation with the red Cross Holiday inns took some guests to a department store and outfit Ted them with new clothes. Many of the canadians re turned by bus sunday night. We were just lying in bed and All of a sudden it sounds like Beds being rolled Down the said Gail Roth of water Down ont. All of a Sud Den i heard it i thought there was a fight because i heard windows smashing. But 1 opened the door and there was smoke Black smoke. So we shut the door and smashed the the Blaze erupted in a ground level storage room at the Corner of the l shaped building raced up a stairwell to the second and third floors and spread out into both wings said Michael Fantigrossi an arson investigator. He said arson has nut been ruled out. By late sunday Rescue workers and trained dogs had searched through the rubble. A construction Crane was used to lift Large pieces of collapsed roofing. Officials said they believed that All 13 persons previously thought missing were accounted for. We did a room by room search with the Riley said. They actually took the debris out and set it Down outside. We actually went through it scoop by scoop and there was no one it was not known whether the Motel had a fire alarm system. Some survivors said they heard a muffled alarm before fleeing the 15-year-old building. I thought it was a Tele said 67-year-old Ethel Smith of Toronto. It was t very loud. At first 1 thought it was an alarm clock that had been set by Fantigrossi said the building was erected before passage of a code requiring installation of a smoke de Tector or fire alarm. It would t have done much he said. You could fill up a room with smoke and kill All the peo ple in it and never set off a heat alarm. The presence of Carbon monoxide does t mean there s Riley said the Motel passed a safety inspection nov. 8 ;