Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-07-20
Now Believed That Area Burned
Over in Porcupine District
Was Exaggerated.
FIRES STARTED IN BLOTCHES
Many Places Reported Destroyed
Are Found to Be Untouched by
Flames-1o0 Will Cover
Number Dead.

Toronto, ont, July 14,--AlthouGh tho
various relief expeditions covered tho
greater portion or tho burned Porcupinc
district to-day, they failed to report any
further loes Of life than contained IN
Yesterdays dispatches which definitely
placed the number OF lives lost at about
100. With the arrival OF additional re-
lief workers. the burned area is being
covered moro thoroughly.
Many Of the missing are believed to
have fed far into the interior and found
refuge at isolated farmhouses, and
although safe may not be heard from
for several wekes. Richard y. Cartwright
and his son, r. a. Cartwright. Jr.. who
were reported Yesterday among tho miss
ing and probably lost arc safe at
Eaieybury.
Reports Of the l"tcst survivors Indicate
that the fires started in immense blotches,
instead of in one place. and failed to
cover the whole district
Frank Cochrane. minister OF lands and
mines. said that he was convinced from
his investigat ton and that Of other govern
ment officials that tho loss of life will
not exceed 100.
That the loss OF life will not exceed
lr,' he said, 'is borne out by the report
Of the relief committee which says that
only 80 identified bodies have so far been
recovered Energetic relief workers are
covering tho ruins in search OF more
bodies"
TWO TOWNSHIPS ONLY.
The first refugees of the fire swept dis
trict, horror stricken by the disaster be-
lieved that the flames must have swept
very great area. The latest of TIE
survivors say that the deva stated area
was confined to tho townships Of Whit
ney and Tisdale.
Latest adviceS received say the fires
are out Three carloads of provisions
reached Pcrcupine to-day end more are
on the way. shelter tents and materials
for houses are also being sent. The
work Of rebuilding the mine structures
has also begun
The largest area burned WAS that CONF
prising the townships Of 1isdale and
Whitney where were located the towns OF
Porcupine, South Porcupinc and Potts
Vile and the largest mines. No word
has been received of damage at the
poyer plantt at Trunns Landing, and this
strengthens the belief that the fire did
ported by the early survivors. The fire
that destroyed Cochrane, loo miles dis
tant from Porcupnc. must have started
independent OF tn. ones IN and about the
Iorcupine district.
Two names were added to the list of
dead this morning when Mrs Meek. moth
or Of the Dome mine manager. and John
Eielow, an employe, died In the hospital
at New Liskeard
FLAMES ENCIRCLE MATHESON.
A despatch from Haileybury saws that
Mhtheson. a town OF 900 Is circled by fire
which may prove disastrous should a gale
81 ring up. Earlyton, 100 miles north OF
North Bay. has had several houses
burned while at AnGlehart residents are
working hard, piling up ana burning scat
tered brushwood. There was n slight
shower there yesterday. Fires are rag
ing on the Quebec side Of Lake Tennis
tanning and large number OF settlers in
the country around Sudbury have been
burned out and had to fec for their lives
Frank Cochrane. member OF the Ontario
government. whose depn rtment Of lands
and mines is partially responsible for the
settlements OF northern Ontario. SAYS:
while we do not wish TO minimize this
terrible affair there is every justification
for feeling that the newspaper reports
| " to date havo been exaggerated.
Mr.. Clements, chief engineer Of the
| 7. e. n. c. railway snys that ONLY -
people have been accounted for M
dead. We have 1t directly from the
Dome people themselves that their
death list is nine only, In number