Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-07-15
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FIRE O|S.I]'.|R|IC | | I
Arrival Of Refugees Con-
firning Reports of Large
Number Of Dead Leads to
Move for Burying Them.

Toronto Ont, July 14.-Coincident
with the arrival of more survivors OF
Porcupines great disaster early this
morning train load of $50 coffins left
for the north country. The survivors
brought additional stories of the hor.
ror and recounted many miraculous
escapes.
The foreigners were put to work
stamping out the smouldering fires at
Golden City and Pottsville. One was
shot at Pottsville when caught going
through the clothes of dead man.
r. II. Webber Of Lockport, N. Y,
one OF the survivors, escaped from the
Dome mine, where 100 others burned
to death, by wading into the lake up
to his neck. The heat wave sweeping
over the water burned his face badly.
There we're four hundred people
standing in the lake" he said, "and l
saw about twenty drown"
Several thousand dollars In cur
rency was saved by j. j. Moss OF Reno,
N. Y, by canoeing out into the lake.
A. H. Champion and Joseph Healy,
manager and superintendent OF the
Imperial mines, escaped with fifteen
employees by a run of six miles around
the lake. They stumbled over bodies
along the road, and saw a woman PICK
up skull and put it in her hand bag.
George Lisk, prospector near the
west dome, saw his brother and part
ner burn to death. Penned in on all
sides by the flames they sought safety
in small stream. AS the fire swept
over the stream Lisk saw his two
companions die, while he rolled on his
back in the shallow water near the
banks.
Property Loss Over Two Million
Cobalt, Ont, July 14.-Every hour
adds TO the lis. of.dsad ana Injured
and those remaining destitute In the
[ fire devasted Porcupine district where
the pro perty loss has been more than
|$c,0O0,000.
The number OF dead in the districts
remains largely matter OF conjec-
ture. About 80 bodies either have
been buried or designated for shipment
in the coffins now being sent north
ward by the carload. Many persons are
missing from the more densely popu-
lated townships. How many hun
dreds in the isolated districts have
peF1bH0O only u6Jbt VI WOIu AiOHA, eAA0
relief parties can reveal.
A message from Porcupine early
today states that several bodies had
just been found at the Vipond mine.
Their condition made Identification
impossible.
Men. women and children thfnly
clad and bearing marks Of the awful
flight against flames and smothering
smoke, are still flocking into the
larger towns in this vicinity and at
North Bay. In Haileybury, Cobalt,
Liskeard and North Bay. all the hos
pitals are filled with sufferers.
Bush Fires Raging.
selwood, Ont, July IA Serious
bush fires have been raging for three
days along the Canadian Northern
railroad line from Sudbury to Selwood.
Millions of feet Of timber have been
destroyed and farmers with their
families have abandoned their homes.
The total loss here is about $250,0O0.
No loss of life has been reported.
Fire Refugee Gets WindfaII.
East Tawas, Mich, July 14-- Miss
Belle Stocks, one of the Au Sable fire
refugees who had been employed in
a boarding house several months, was
found here by her sister, with infor-
nation that she was on of the twenty
one heirs to $4,000 left by an aunt
who recently died in Pittsburg, Pa.
The money was handed to her az she
was leaving to find shelter with q
brother in Detroit. She has already
given generously of her opportune
windfall to other unfortunates.