Sherbrooke daily record, 26 janvier 1942, lundi 26 janvier 1942

[" V S>hprlînuike Satin Swnrîi \u2022 \u2022 \u2022 Established 1897.THE PAPER OF THE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC, MONDAY.JANUARY 26, 1942.WEATHER JliWer with snow.TEMPERATURES Yesterday: Maximum» 0^ minimum, \u20142.Same day last year: Max., 24; min., 6.Forty-Fifth Year.TWO BELIEVED DEAD IN THETFORD FACTORY FIRE Five Injured As Munitions Plant Swept By Flames At Least Two Unidentified Girls Employed at Lynn MacLeod industry Missing\u2014Several Explosions Followed Outbreak of Fire\u2014Flames Spread to Garage and Dwelling.& \u2014\u2022\u2014-\u2014\u2014\u2014 - ANGRY DEMANDS Axis Forces By-Pass Bengasi in FOR PUNISHING ^ai°r Libyan Counter-Offensive U.S.OFFICIALS Thetford Mines, Jàn.26.\u2014At least two unidentified persons are known to be dead and five others are confined to hospital suffering from severe burns as the result of fire which this morning swept through the Lynn-MacLeod Foundry and Munitions plant and later spread to the MacLeod service station and garage and a neighboring dwelling.The fire started at 9.30 o'clock today on the main floor of the MacLeod plant and spread rapidly through the building, tongues of flame shooting up the elevator shaft and carrying the blaze to the second storey within a few minutes after the outbreak.Members of the Thetford Mines fire department were stilt battling the flames at noon and endeavoring to keep them from spreadin 'to other buildings.Police of this asbestos-mining town, seventy miles from Sherbrooke and fifty miles South of Quebec City, said that two unidentified girls were dead and that others \u201cmight be missing.\u201d Several explosions are reported to have occurred when the fire reached the war industries section of the building.Three young girls and two young men were taken from the scene of the fire to St.Joseph Hospital suffering from serious, bums, but their condition was not considered critical.The injured were Cecile Bois, Be.a- , PIcHlGS trice Belanger and Jeanne Nadeau and Rene Bouchard and LouLs La-barre, all in their twenties.One of the girls was reported to \\ have jumped from the second storey .of the plant when she became hys-1\t\u201e\t\u2018 terical at the rapid sweep of the 1 Rangoon, Burma, Jan._6.\u20140 flames\ti Airmen of the United Nations dump- Firemen were on the scene a fewjUk.^01\"IS1.î/ explosives on Japanese minutes after the alarm was S0Und-1\t