Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-07-14
THREE TOWNS AND IL MINES IN
PoRcUPINE DISTRICT RE-
DUCED TO ASHES.
IN ONTARIO MINING DISTRICT
200 Suffocated in One PIace.-North
Central Michigan in FIRES
Grasp.-VilIages
Raced.
WORK OF THE FLAMES.
In Ontario,

oeVeral nundred lives believed
lost in Ontario; Property loss in
Ontario will reach several million
dollars; train carrying 600 refugees
from Cochrane reaches Toronto;
twelve mines in Porcupne district,
Ontario, burned out; two hundred 4
= miners suffocated in one shaft; 4
towns of South Porcupine, Potts \
Vile and part of Golden City, Ont,
in ashes; roads in Porcupine dis
. trict are streWn with charred bod i
les of human beings and animals.
In Michigan.
Fires burning in every county !
= north of Mason and Orenac coun- y
* ties and south of the Straits of =
Mackinac, Michigan; villages of y
y Au Sable and Oscoda Combined y
population 1900, destroyed and i
inhabitants homeless; village of .
x Waters, Otsego county, reported y
burning, Stephenson lumber plant, =
valued at 100000, also afire. .
Many Iumberjacks believed lost; y
Rovers City, Pressure Isle county, 3
saved by sudden veering of wind; u
people of state aroused and pro- :"
vision trains are being rushed to s
scene of devastation; state fire *
warden summons every available :;
man to help fight flames; five hun x
dred refugees from Au Sable and y
Oscoda reach East Tawas.
= - y =
Toronto, July 13.-The loss of life
in the POrcupine district from fires is
property loss will reach several mil
lions of dollars. Only three of the
| "a employees of the West Dome mine
have been accounted for and 200 min
ers, muckers, ETC., in the Dome mine
have been suffOcated. The mines
burned include the Dome, North Dome,
Preston, East Dome, Vipond, Foley,
OBrien, Philadelphia, United Porcu-
pine, Eldorado, Porcupine, Standard
la Imperial, White Dome and Success.
The Philadelphia mines loss Is
about $4,000; United Porcupine mines
loss, $4,000; Eldorado Porcupine, all
buildings destroyed; Standard, about
$4,000; Imperial, about $4,000; Sue
cess, probably destroyed; West Mines
| about $4,000. All reports give but
vague idea of the loss of life as
we'll as property in Porcupine camp,
which probably will total millions of
dollars and hundreds of lives.
In four short hours, the fire swept
from the Standard mines through to
20 Nf 1oI-
1t ate up the towns of South Porcu-
pine, Pottsville, and part of Golden
City, as well as many small buildings
along the lake front. While some loss
OF life occurred in the vicinity of Por-
cupine lake, the greatest havoc was
wrought around the main mines, not
ably West Dome and Big Dome.
Caught in Shafts.
There the entrapped miners, cut off
from escape, were forced to take to
the shafts for safety, and penned in
by flames, persisted. This was notably
true at Dome and West Dome mines.
At Preston and East Dome an untim-
bered shaft gave shelter and none
persisted. The streets of South POrcu-
pine are strewn with dead persons,
horses, dogs and cattle. Along the
mine roads are the charred bodies of
those overcome trying to escape.
Of the staff of 800 at the Dome
mine, but a few were saved, and at
the West Dome three out of IS en-
ployes are known to be alive Along
the highway between West Dome and
South Porcupine, over comparative
ly open section, were found six char
red bodies
Michigan Sea of Forest Fires.
Detroit.-With food at their disposal
and tents provided for their shelter,
the thousand or more homeless sur
vivors of the fire-swept villages of Au
Sable and Oscoda breathed easier than
at any time since the flames destroyed
their homes. The known dead remain
three in number. Late reports from
other counties in the fire zone are
generally encouraging.
The village of Waters. 1O7 miles
north of Bay City, on the Michigan
Central, is reported to be burning to-
gether with the Stephenson Lumber
Company mills and lumber yards, val
ued at about 100000. The village has
about 200 permanent residents and
large floating population of lumber
jacks"
The wind has subsidized almost en-
tirely and it would need but little
rain to smother the smouldering fires
through Otsego, Cheboygan and Pres
que Isle counties The rain, how
ever, is not probable and State Fire
Warden Oates has summoned every
available man to check the progress
of the flames. His reports indicate
that small forest fires are burning in
every county north of the counties
bounded on the west by Mason and on
the east hV Arenac In the MeStarn