NEW YORIv, Dee. S. At loast 11 were killed and 1 S iujured when the Hotel Darry, at Haskatoon, Haskatchewan, cauglil 11 ro early today. Hearchers are still eombing the ruins for bodies. The lire startod when a petrol stovf exploded as the staff were atteinpting !• earry it out of the grouud lloor res taurant. The blaze swept up the stair way witliin a few niinutes and soon gutted the Imilding which was supposi*', to be lire resistant. yiany of the liotel's 100 guests eschp ed by climbing down ropes improvised from sheets or jumping out of windowT'he bodies of some guests who jump ed from upper floors, fell to the pav? nient around the liremen as tliey were raising ladders to the windows. A nian a fireman found sitting ealinlv in hiroojii explalned that he had been read ing' about the \Vinoeol1' Hotel disastei and' had noted 'tliat maoy deatlis then might have been avoided if the guests had stayed in tlieir rooms.
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 December 1946, Page 5
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