New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-13
LIVES LOST IN BIG FIRES.
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hogan. Men fought with each other for
ulaces in the boats for their families.
Police officer Murray, with Jack Gard
ner. had to stand off the panicstricken
foreigners who rushed for each boat ms
il came in Men We're hurled into the
wafer and many rushed in as the only
place Of safety.
Thirty launches and as many canoes
soon had the women landed in safety on
the other side of tho lake There was
one execution. Mrs. William Gohr. with
her baby in her arms refused to leave
until she had news Of her husband.
Gohr had gone back i'm an effort 10 save
some valuabes. and. with his clerk WAS
penned In the building. For more IMAM
two hours Mrs. Gohr stood in the water
Of the lake. hundred feet from shore,
calling for her husband and refusing 10
leave until ne was found. Even AFTER
all had deserted the town ana the nre
had burned ont she remained IN tent
on the shore awaiting recovery or her
| husbands body.
Acts Of heroism we're too numerous IN
mention in detail. while the horrors OF
the holocaust are too grewsome for print.
What occurred at the West Dome. the
centre Of the most terrible part OF the
catastrophe. will probably never he
known. but SO old and experienced min
er as Robert A. Weis would probably
never have led his associates into
timbered shaft i'm time Of fire unless all
other means Of escape were cut off. OF
the eighty-four employees of the West
Dome. only three are known to he alive.
Enter Untirbered Shafts.
The escape OF those AT the Dome and
Preston Fast Dome, which were in the
east of the fire zone. was a little short Of
miraculous. From East Dome not man
was lost. Some entered untimbered
shafts, taking with them food and buck
cts. and passed up water TO the others
Captain Wilson and some Of the employees
/ lay in a creek and threw water over
| themselves and even over the rabbits,
driven from the bush by the FIRE, which
sought refuge hv smuggling up against
the men. Captain Wilson's eyes were
burned. but no serious injuries were
sustained
At the Dome 1t is known that thirty
foreign iaborers persisted in a shaft
where they sought safety. Other bodies
are lying about the property. and Of the
force Of three hundred it is doubtful II
half remain alive.
! Whether any were lost AT the Standard
or Imperial is not Yet known. but to-
morrow relief parties will he sent out
No word has been received from the
/ Success, where there are fifty four men.
The McIntire and the mines around
Pearl Lake, including Bewick, Moreing
& Co, escaped without loss Of life or
property, but the town Of Pearl Lake
was again visited by fire.
The fire swept around both sides Of
Porcupine Lake until it struck the Foley
OBrien. The employees, headed by Man
ager Richard and Superintendent Motz,
! escaped. on the Foley O'Brien property
stood the dynamite magazine, contain
! ing twelve tons OF dynamite. This
| burned for some time before il exploded.
The flames crept around Porcupne
Lake to Pottsville and there destroyed
all the buildings except two boarding
houses into which Constable Percy gath
ered' all the Italians with the warning
that any man stirring out would be shot
on sight.
Detroit. July with food at tneir dis
possl and tents provided for their shelter,
the thousand or more homeless survivors
Of the fire swept villages Of An Sable snd
/ Oscoda breathed more easily tonight than
AT any tine since the flames destroyed
! their homes yesterday afternoon.
The known dead remain three In num-
/ her. with Samuel Rosenthal, q tailor. the
| only one yet Identified The bodies of
| the others are charred beyond recognition.
The village OF Waters. 107 miles north Of
! Bay City, on the Michigan Central, was re-
ported 70 be burning tonight. together
/ with the Stephenson Lumber Company's
mills and lumber yards, valued at about
! $4,000 The village has about two hundred
| permanent residents and a large floating
population OF lumber jacks The FIRE
warped tho rails so as 10 hold No all tratflc
/ on the Michigan Central. and burned down
/ the wires Communication north Of Waters
! is thus again cut off.
It is believed that loss Of life will result
/ from the outbreak ~ the flames near
Waters. as there are many lumbSrmen in
the woods. Reports come from camps
near by that the men fed for their lives