Raoul Gauthier Killed at Fire
Chief of Montreal Fire Department and Three Firemen Killed by Second Explosion on Tanker Being Repaired in Drydock
RAOUL GAUTHIER, head of the Montreal Fire Department, and Director of the International Association of Fire Chiefs, was killed by an explosion, the second of a series that destroyed the tanker S. S. Cymbeline which was lying in the drydock of the Canadian Vickers Company. The casualty list also includes three firemen and twenty-three riveters. It was these workers, trapped in the hold of the ship after the first explosion, that the Fire Department were trying to rescue.
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