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DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF .SUMMER LAND, PEACH LAND AN DNARAMATA SUMMERLAND, B. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1926. $2.50, payable in advance. VOL. XVII.—No 36

DISASTMJ Indian Potentate Pays First Visit to Canada R FRUIT MORNING I PICKERS ARE THOUGHT TO COMMUNITY; BIG PAYROLL AMONG UNKÖWN DEAD Only Possible to Identify One Among Dead on Fateful Fire Caused by Spark From Boiler—Was Fought by Vol• Freight-Train—Cars Careened Wildly for Seventeen unteer Bucket Brigade—Loss Estimated at $20,000, Miles—Might Have Held to Rails Had it Passed thé Was Partly Covered by Insurance—Fire Was Very Bridge Curve Successfully. ' Spectacular—Pay Roll $120 per Day on Average. CAUSE OF DISASTER UNKNOWN Summerland is facing the loss today of a valuable asset to the community. At about nine o'clock this morn• AND MAY NEVER BE KNOWN ing flames totally destroyed the local ^ box factory and caused a loss conservatively estimated at twenty thousand Six Other Trespassers Thought to Be Buried in Debris— dollars. The factory might have been saved—in fact, it Endeavor to Stop Train With Hand Brakes Failed would not be going too far to say that it would have been —C. P. R.. Officials Congregate. saved—had there been an adequate water supply. The •\ serious water shortage situation in Summerland meant The Outstanding Hero that the only water to fight the fire consisted of that in the Engineer Marks was faithful to his duty to the last, and tanks at the.„factory. his last moments were spent with hand upon the 'throttle'/and' The fire was caused by a spark from the top of one of his last thoughts'for the safety of others. .•..•the-boilers lighting on a pile of sawdust in a rather inac- • But One Identified ce'ssible place. In a very short time the building was a Only one body has been identified in the wreck; a watch roaring furnace. In about two hours' time the» building bearing the number belonging to Engineer Marks was the sole and lumber surrounding it were burnt to the ground de• identification established. ':••.', •• • spite the strenuous efforts of the volunteer, bucket brigade: That there were six trespassers killed on the Kettle At one time the depot was threatened'and the train from Valley train wreck Sunday morning' in the Coquihalla Pass, the coast was delayed. in addition to the four members of the crew, is now the suppo• Only yesterday a car of lumber was received. This •••;; sition, although it cannot, and probably'will never be definitely was destroyed by the flames. Mr. Muir Steuart, the established. 1 owner,' declined at' present to make an estimate: of the In addition, two youths, Ralph Rachleft,-17, loss until he had done some checking up. He stated that• of 737 Twenty-third Avenue West, and Herbert Walton of : the loss was partly covered by insurance. Thirteenth Avenue West,,,who were picking fruit in " ; Mr. Steuart purchased the factory this year from -a and. later worked for the K.V.R.cfor a; short time at Mile coast firm which had purchased it following^the assign• Exhibits from India' at Chateau Frontenac.—Inset, The Diwan. Twenty, were seen on the train, and are believed to be among' iwan Bahadur > Sir T. - Vijayaraghavacharya; dis-Indian" inlaid and lacquer work which was sent over ment of the Summerland Lumber Company. . Mr. Steuart' ; tinguished Indian -representative i of'-'the - Madras' to Canada, by" the Indian Government at,the Diwan's • the-victims.' • ;"•'''•••' had been doing remarkably well since he took the factory Presidency in the All-India Legislative Assembly, and instigation. He assured E...R.'; Bruce, •'director'';of.', - There may possibly be others, but this would bring the a former. Prime Minister of the Cochin: State of. •exhibits for- the. C.P.R., who met him, in Quebec, that over, and wasconsidering ways and means of keeping it he would see that the collection^is .added to '.on, his . death list up