Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-14
T. r. Geddes.
Harry Hardy Dome Mines.

| MfS. A. r., Burt.
A. T.. Burt, assayer.
| John Destrom.
Mr. and Mrs. Mcqueen.
Holm Wall.
Charles Brooker.
John Saumeh.
| Hugh Mcleod
Chester Henninger.
J. Ryan.
Capt. Thomas Dunbar of Kennedy
Mr.. Cartwright and son, Ridgeway Pa
part owner of the Pearl Lake Mine.
H. A Sherman. mechanical engineer,
Boston
Arthur Aho. West Dome, Copper Cliffes.
II. l.. Sileman., SON of the president of
| the British Metallurgical Society at
Dome.
Kline a. Mannax Lick, burned in the
bush: another named Taylor a snoe-
maker, drowned; and a third named Friz,
a workman at the Dome Mine
OF the total of 81 employed in the
East Dome shaft three are accounted.
Thirty foreigners known TO be dead in
one Of the Dome shafts which employed
1900 No means of estimating the num-
Der of dead at the Dome Mines. but the
manager and Mrs. Meek Capt Lawson
and the local clerical force are safe.
Porcupine, ont, July 12.-One of the
most vivid stories by survivor OF the
conf.1Gration which swept away the
Philadelphia Mine settlement was that
of T.. p Ashmore. manager of the
mine, who lies terribly burned in an
impromptu hospital.
Dante" said Mr.. Ashmore. never
imagined anything so horrible as the
scene around the Philadelphia mine.
The wind drove the eonfiagration to-
wards us in hurricane sheets of flame.
Most OF our men began to run Through
the V 5ods, but / darted for the pond
with g. u. Adams. our cook.
lit was a terrible race amidst flames
Adams strength gave out and then l
had to carry him. In that pond We were
safe, but l had to keep Adams on my
shoulder Soon he died. For over half
an hour / had to stand with the dead
man on my shoulder before the flames
had passed and ! was able to reach land
again left Adams body by the side
Of the pond and began my long walk to
South Porcupine 1t was the most terri
Bile trip ina ginabe Charred bodies lay
all around me as / walked. Blinded by
smoke | CROPPED along. time after time
stumbling over corpse and by bending
down recognized the body of some friend
of mine Finally | reached what remain
ed of South Porcupine and fell exhaust
ed"
Lowell. Mass. July 13.-Harold A sher-
man reported killed in The fires ia the
Porcnpine district IN Sanada, mas sis
ter. Miss Charlotte sherman in this city.
His wife, who was Miss Gordon, Is at
Franklin. y. If. They had been married
a yer Sherman has been selling stock in
a Cobalt mine and month or so ago he
was in Lowell and 1t believed mere
that he returned II Canada. His rather
n. FRANK Sherman. - understood to bel
in Haverhil sherman was about % years
old
Philadelphia, July l5.-A dispatch
received by A. L. Freeman. stock
holder of the Philadelphia Mine at Por-
eupine, Ont. states that l6 mines were
completely wiped out by the forest
fire which started there Tuesday The
dispatch says that the body of Charles
r. Adams of this city. who died OF
heart failure in the excitement. is be-
ing brought to Philadelphia and that
Ashore. the general manager of the
Philadelphia mine, was seriously in
jured.
"Hundreds drowned and burned" the
message ends. The wind blew 50
miles an hour and rendered the fire
breakers useless. The Dome Mine with
a fire breaker of 5000 feet width Went
with the rest. over 200 men We're
smotherod to death in the tunnel. Hun
dreds were killed and God knows how
many drowned"
Toronto. Ont, July l3-Supt Black of
the Temiskaning * Northern Ontario
Railway at North Bay stated that fires in
the Porcupne district are now under con-
troll.
A. D. Miles, construction engineer of
the Great Dome mine, estimates the to-
tai loss of life at 200
IL is stated by one of the owners of
one of the best known porcupine mines
that the financial losses are grossly over
estimated. In his own case, for instance,
the loss has been placed at $4,000 where
as he asserts $4,000 would cover it. Sim
ilarly, he claims the loss on other mining
estimated anywhere from four to 10
times One exception is the Dome NINE
where a big plant has been installed and
four stamps were actually in operation
Whether the loss there can be supposed
to reach the published figures of $500, 1000
the mine owner quoted was not prepared
| TO say
A train from North Bay arrived here
| at 100 this morning bringing q refugees
from Porcupine, mainly Toronto people.
Mcdonald Wardop of Hamilton, a
nephew of Lieut. Gov. Gibson, was
among them. 1.-The report has spread
that ] was killed. he said, but | saved
myself by taking TO the water along with
about 500 more. We We're forced to stand
| In the cold water for over three hours
and became so numb with the cold that
some went under About 10 square miles
of forests were burned over and flames
| swept rapidly. As far as | am aware,
| the only ones who are gone are prospec-