The Archive · 1936

Death Roll of Two in Canton Fire

Search in Ruins Shows First Estimates Exaggerated Canton, Apr. 13.

Great relict was felt' throughout the elly today when It became Known that only two bodies had been found, after two days of car ful search, among the charred rule in the area ravaged by the disas-(fous fire on Saturday morning, which gutted over 200 buildings in the west-end of Canton.

mis definitely disposes of the earlier widespread fears of a heavy death-roll, "Tt ig stated that most of those frst thought to have perished in the fre, which followed an explosion at a godown belonging to the Government Explosives Monopoly Bureau, wera only seriously injured.

"Among those now being treated in hospitals for burns and other hurts are 32 firemen According to the police, the small casualty list is partly because of the fact that the explosives were stored in. spacious warehouses and partly because the buildings in the nolgh-Bourliood were low and not crowded, "The damage, however, is, estimated to exceed $1,000,000, including $200,- exceed #00 Incudag

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