The Archive · 1927

Impressive Funeral Service

Montreal, Jan, 11, The sonorous tones of Lo Gros Bourdon which is only tolled at times of ational grief, rang from the tower of Notre Dame church to-cay while the funeral service way held "at a neighbouring church of the 26 children who were killed ab the cinema disaster on Sunday, The service was attended by thousands, including a representative Jot the "Governor-General, Lord Willingdon.

There wore pitiful seenes, the sorrowing multitude fling past th long rows of little white coffin flanking the main aisle, Meanwhite one Montreal homo still endures the agony of suspense, for Louis Tremblay, aod 13, who anxious parents have visited every hospital and finally the mortuary where they pected fruitlessly at 70 smoke-blackened bittie faces.

A careful search of the débria has taited to reveal a trace of the a]burned body—Reuter.

Montreal, Jan, 11.

As a result of the cinema disaster, the authorities have ordered all theatre presenting stage features of any kind to be equipped with the same fire-prevention aids as in legitimate houses, including automa tic sprinklers and an asbestos cus tain. Within 24 hours, at least ten theatres presenting specialities in connexion with the cinema prorarniie were forced to delete stag

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