One of the fatalities was a boy, about fourteen years of age, whose feal had been cut from the nape fof the neck to the forehead. Thi boy's right leg also was broken and] his body was. generally mangled.
The other dead were three men, including the manager, and _two women, who were breathing whea the ambulances arrived, but who died of burns subsequently in Hopl-{al Ste, Marie. One of the women was conscious almost. till the end and kept on begging the nurses to bring her four small children to her bedside in order that she might seo them for the last, time. It was Jand solved quickly the dificult problem" of "keeping thousands " of jeurlous persons in check. The report Jot the explosion brought people from far and" wide, on both sides of Siccawei Creek, the boundary of French territory.
Valuable services in helping to oleas wreckage and restore the street to a linearly "nonnat condition were performed by the French Department of Public Works, in whose trucks tons lof debris were removed. The Public Works forces were on the scene almost Immediately after the firemen had Jarrived and greatly helped the Brigade In its work.
M. B. Fauraz, Administrative Direc-with members ved on the scene Jquiekly and made a thorough inspection of the premises.
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