The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-07-14
HUNDREDS IN TRAP OF flame
TALES or HORROR FROM NORTH
ONTARIO FIRE REGION.
Miners Gut On In the pits and settlers
surrounded In the alcarings- Death
list May Ncach 500 THE Lake the
Refuge Of south POrcupine's People.

Refuge Of south POrcupine's People. !
| ToRoNro. July IL From 300 TO 500
people are dead in the Porcupine mining
district in orthern Ontario. An immense
horscshoc OF fire swept down through
forests. dry as tinder. and in twenty
minutes towns and mining camps in the
path were wiped out. Men, women and
children were forced into the lake. which
was dashed by sixty mile gale. and it is
, feared some were drowned. Many
miners were trapped in the shafts OF the
various mines.
Men arriving here at noon place the
estimate of lives lost at 500 The officials
of the +. 4 \. o. Railway have an official
/ list of eighty-seven dead, but this does
not give names
Vast billows of fire miles in length con
, tinued all day TO roll through the camps.
woods and brush of the Porcupine mining
district Of this province and the regions
north The financial losses will reach
million at least. Only with the return
of the relief expeditions and the reestab-
! lishment of railroad and telegraph ser
vice will the full extent Of the disaster be
J known. Many have died in isolation and
fires have overwhelmed whole families.
! Men. women end children and domes-
tic and wild animsls standing together
for hours in swanrs while the hFmes
licked up the countryside hGve in some
cases sunk at last to death. or been par
tally suffocated and then drowned. 9th
ers hpvc weathered the fire storm stcnd-
ing in streams end putting out into the
lakes in boats fnd canoes.
About coo peop'e sought refuge in the
lake when the fire swept through south
Porcuprs. According To sone stories
many women with children in their Grmr.
lost their lives. Others say all reached
the opposite shore III safety.
Between the Dome road and South
Porcupine 1T least forty bodies lying
charred along the cord roy road were
lcountcd Most OF thes" he'd met derth
through sufIocation md burning.
Two hundred settlers, Their wives
and fcmi'ies who had smell clearings in
the section swept by the fire are mis- sing
end it is certcin tn" deGth list there Is
very greet
Mines completely or partiellv destroyed
are Ed rradp Porcupina. United PorcL-
pine. stand I'd Imperial, West Dome.
Success. Dome. North Dome. Preston.
Eas, Dome, Nipond, Foley OBrien and
Phiia delphia.
e. T. Goldthwaite. who came through
South Porcupine. says that in twenty
minutes the town was completely en-
veloped in flames. He adds: Men.
women and children crowded 10 the
waterfront at the first warning. Launches
and canoes. scows and boats We're pressed
into commission and women and children
were first packed into the boats Panic
| and chaos prevailed. Men fought with
each other FOR their families and II was
necessary for Police Oficer Murray, with
the assistance of Jack Gardner, to stand
of. the panic stricken foreigners who
stood by and rushed for each boat as IT
came in.
Men were hurled into the water 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 the lake. There
was one exception and only one, aud that
7 the most pitiful of all. Mrs. William
!, Ghor. with her baby IN her arms, refused
l., to leave the town until she had some news
u of her husband. Ghor, like others who
perished in the town. had gone back ~
7 an effort to save his va'uables and witt
Il his clerk he was penned nv ms b'iiidinS
A For over two hours Mrs Ghor. with hel
4 child in her arms, stood IN IN" water o
, the lake 100 feet from shore calling tol
u her husband and refusing to leave untl
he was found. Even after all had de-
!. serted the town and the fire had died on
g she remained intent on waiting Tor M
. recovery of her husbands body
9 while the fire RACED there We're scores o
u horses, cattle and dogs running wlt
@ through the town. Their sCorched bodies
II are now lining the streets with the bodle
of dead men.
Along the mine roads the cnJrret
l. cOrpses of those who failed TO escape tn
l. flames occur at intervals The numhe
k Of dead can he but roughly estimated be
/. cause of the large number of prospector
=" IN the tush who must have perished |
is known however, that OF the stan OF 30
|" AT Dome but a few were saved, while "A
I West Dome h,i, three out Of eightyfou
RI EMPLOYEES are nov known to be alive"
A. DETROIT. July i3 The forest fire.
~ in the UPPER Michigan counties are grow
in. more serious. Fire has begun agai
l. at Bristol. near Ausable. and northcas
a. wind is tanning the blaze toward Tawar
d The finding Of the homes of "A man /
N tho ruins of the Elliott HOte! to-day an
II another body. believed To be that Of Fran
~ tlaremon, brings the death list in bsCod
'e and Ausable to five and in the State t
4 seven.
4 Twenty members of the Ray City Mill
tary Company have beei turned out o
a, patrol outy with orders to prevent van
a. lali-m Safes have been broken ope
IL and valuable>, taken. Mining stock Ger
tificateS we're torn and thrown aside
Fire has DESTROYED ifiy-seven building
IN Millersburg. in Presnue Isle count,
The wind is blowing a gale and the forest
near that village are beginning to hlaz
NJ AGAIN.
w The State Railway Commission ha
authorized railroads to transport fir
h sufferers for fifteen days free Of charg
n and Gov Osborn Is preparing proclamf