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Fire Fighters Are Carried t Death Among FallingBricks CRASHING WALL BURIES AERIAL TRUCK A sheet of flame shooting through the basement drain set fire to the house of Maurice Barnes, Fisher St.. and before the blaze was extinguished, $800 damage was caused. A small fire was also started in Edward Blake's house on Ross Street. At the junction of the Ross and Welland Street sewers, flames spin-ted 20 feet in the air and considerable damage was done in this section. It was the first sewer gas explosion experienced in Welland, and is thought to have been cansed by the sewer be- of William Walsh was blown out and the rest of the building wrecked. Mrs. Walsh and three children were at din- ner, and though the dining-room was almost demolished, neither Mrs. Walsh nor the children were seriously in- jured. Welland, April 18.â€"Sewer gas ex- ploded with disastrous results on Ross Street at noon to-day. One house was Wrecked, three set on fire and several persons injured. Mrs. D. L. Weaver, who was standing on the rear porch of her home, was thrown several feet by the impact and sustained a fractur- ed arm and other injuries. The Weav- er house was badly damaged. The entire south side of the home Woman Injured When Front of Her Home is Blown Out by Blast. HOUSE WRECKED BY SEWER EXPLOSION We can supply you beautiful ; DISTRIBUTORS N ||IIIlHIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIiiEE!il!IElli!!!|IllilHIIIHHHIHIHHHHlllllllilililllfiii 3E rVC not expensive. Its low cost will surprise you. Think what hardwood flooring means! It means the disappearance forever of a rough and un- sightly floorâ€"no more carpets to buyâ€"â€"or take up in the Spring and Fall for cleaning. It means that the floor can be cleaned with practically no effort whatsoever. It means per- manenceâ€"â€"for hardwood floors don’t wear out. It means also that your house is more valuable. HARDWOOD flooring is Richmond Hill Consumers buy 30 million feet of SEAMAN-KENT FLOORS a yearâ€"of Oak, Maple. Birch and Beechâ€" each fascinating in color and grain. SEAMAN- KENT is the highest standardâ€"it is trade-marked and guaranteedâ€"and it is the height of economy in first cost and in service. \V a L limes & 30m 11‘ ne \V£ His Throat is Cut by Class From Broken Windshield. Montreal, April 18.-â€"Ovila Chateau~ vert, aged 58, orderly of the St. Jo- seph Hospital, was instantly killed, the chauffeur suffered severe scalp wounds, and a motorist and two boys were injured when the ambulance of AMBULANCE ORDERLY KILLED IN COLLISION fear that two huge side walls of the structure that tattered inward might fall any moment, burying the rescuers beneath them. More than twenty firemen were mounted upon the city’s new steel water tower, erected in the centre of the burning structure, when it crump- led up like so much paper beneath the tons of brick that rained down upon it. Work of rescue parties was hamper- ed when the entire neighborhood was plunged into darkness, and by the fear that two huge side walls of the and apparatus beneath tons of debris, on Blue Island Avenue, near Four- teenth Street. _‘The entire front of old Curran Hall, 27‘ landmark on the Southwest Side for many years, collapsed without warn- ing, and before any one of the firemen fighting the flames was given a chance to leap to safety. 1L Hospital, was in haufl‘eur suffered 15, and a motorist injured when the lospital, speeding Phone 87d “ 13 R3 )l‘ ITI€ West, a sic with the The dead are William Ramsay, aged 48 years; his wife, aged 50 years, and their elder son, Willie, aged 18 years. They failed to effect their escape from the burning building, though it is as- serted by several of the inmates who IN F ARMHOUSE FIRE Farmer, With Wife and Elder Son, Perishes, While Others Escape. Quebec, April 18.â€"â€"Good Friday brought death and suffering to a fam- ily at Breakeyville, near Levis, when three lives were snuffed out and seven others menaced by a disastrous fire which utterly destroyed the modest home of William Ramsay, a farmer, who seven short years ago came from Glasgow, Scotland, to make his home here. THREE LIVES LOST St. John, N.B., April 20.-â€"â€"A snow storm of unusual proportions for April swept New Brunswick from the Bay of Fundy to the borders of Que- bec, Saturday and Sunday. The fall varied in depth from a few inches to a foot. In St. John the wind reached 35 miles an hour and at Lepreau, a few miles from here, fifty miles. raged Saturday afternoon and night, which, while not causing any known destruction of property, curtailed pre- Easter shopping and made street trafo fic very difficult. The vigor of the storm was especially felt on the waterfront, several ocean liners being delayed for hours on account of the blinding snow and high seas. The Swedish-American liner Kungsholm remained at quarantine from Satur- day afternoon till Sunday morning, while the Cunard liner Scythia was‘ held off the harbor for over twenty«‘ four hours. - l Five Inches of Snow at Hali- faxâ€"St. John, N.B., Also Storm:swept. Halifax, N.S., April 20.7~Hzilifax had a white Easter, the surface being covered with'four or five inches of snow to-day, following a blizzard that BLIZZARD ON COAST DELAYS ATLANTIC SHIPS A New 4'PASEENEER EUPE Above all, the 4-passenger coupe is characteristically a Dodge Brothers product. It possesses all the attri- butes of construction and low-cost service for which more than a million Dodge Brothers MotorCars are favor- ably known throughout the world. A high grade coupe of moderate weight and size that will seat four adult passengers in genuine comfort. The body is an admirable example of fine coach building. Low. graceful, smartly upholstered and attractively finished in Dodge Brothers blue, it reflects dignity and distinction in every line. This car is Dodge Brothers response to a definite demandm C. M. Palmer & Son What of Sthractlon 7 Wife (reading newspaper)â€""Scien‘ tists can multiply the sound of the hu man voice 12,000 times.“ Husband (thoughtlessly) â€" "What have they done in the way of subtrac- tion.” Even so, Charlie Maule was badly burned about the hands and feet and had to be taken to the Jeffrey Hales Hospital for treatment. Three boys, Jack and Charlie Maule, who were guests of the Ramsay fam- ily for the Easter recess, and Charlie Ramsay, younger brother of Willie, who was killed, jumped to safety in the nick of time. escaped that they were heard moving about. I know the quality of inaterials and workmanship used in their manufacture. N 0 matter what style you want in a. hand Pumpâ€"whether for a deep or shallow wellâ€"I can supply a “Toronto” Pump which will give every satisfactionâ€"at a reasonable prlce. Drop in and let me show you the “Toronto” Pump Line. Buy a “Toronto” Pump from me. “Toronto” Pumps are sturdy, prac- tical â€"- the product of thirty-five years in the Pump businessâ€"and J. LUNAU, Agent Richmond Hill PM“ 7“ Good Pumpsâ€"4 At Right Prices 1!? Apple shipments from British Col- umbia during 1923 to the United King- dom and Scandinavian ports amounted to 781 cars. Only a small proportion of BC. apples went via the Panama Canal. Nationalities in 1921 c3531; Census. German . . . Hebrew . . . Dutch . . . . Austrian . . Ukranian . Russian . . . English French Scotch . Irish MS} 3M 2,545,496 2,452,782 1,173,824 1,107,817 294,636 126,196 117,509 107,671 106,721 100,064 Eritish Col-