Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-07-13
FIERY B|LL0WS
SWEEP CANADA
Five Hundred Persons Re.
ported to Have Perished in
Porcupine District
MAINE and MICHIGAN AFLAME
Forests In New Hampshire
Mountains Are Also Being
Destroyed.

| (By Special Leased Wire 10 New Mexican
7 Toronto, Ont, July 13.-Superir
| tendent Black of the Temiskaning
/ Northern Ontario Railroad at Nortl
Bay, states that fires in the Porcupin
&, district are now under control.
A. D. Miles, construction enginee
for the Great Dane Mine estimates
the loss of life at two hundred.
BiIlows of Fire.
! Toronto, Ont, July 13.-Vest bill
lows of fire. miles in length, continued
today to roll through the camps, woods
and brush of the Porcupine Mining dis
trict of this province and the regions
[ to the north Unverified reports con-
tinue to swell the number of fatalities
Some estimates are as high as five
hundred dead. The financial losses
represent huge sum. Only with the
return of life expeditions and the re
establishment of railroad telegraph ser
vice will the full extent of the CONT
nuing disaster be accurately known.
More details of death and suffering
with those also of miraculous escapes
were learned today as refugees reach
ed points of safety whre communica
| ton had not been disturbed.
Many have died in isolation; miners
huddled in shafts have perished; fire
has overwhelmed whole families and
only charred remains are left. Mer
women and children, domestic, and
wild animals were standing together
for hours in swamps, while the flames
ragged over the country.
In some cases they sunk at last to
death, partly suffocated and then
drowned. Others have weathered the
fiery storm, standing in streams and
putting out into the lakes in boats and
| canoes.
Many of the people report that they
saw number of persons on the docks
when the lumber piles began to crum
Bile and fall into the water but among
the Au Sable and Oscada refugee
none have been found who had beel
on the docks. The more conserva
tive, however, believe that all wer
saved.
Stood in Cold Water Three Hours.
Toronto, July 13.-It is stated b!
one of the owners of the best knowI
of the Porcupine mines that the fin
ancial losses are grossly over estimat
ed.
A train from North Bay arrived
here today bringing % refugees from
Porcupine, mainly Toronto people.
Mcdonald Wardop Of Hanilton, q
nephew of Lieutenant Governor Glib
son, was among them.
The report has spread that l was
killed, he said but saved myself BY
taking to the water along with about
500 others and standing in the colo
water for over three hours. Many be
came so numb with the cold that they
went under.
Four Bodies Found.
The Number O. burned bodies founG
at Oscada and Au Sable was four.
Reports received today from the
region between Alpena and Sheboygar
indicate that the town of Millersburs
was almost entirely destroyed Tuesda,
night and half of Tower is gone.
w. R. Riggs of Kansas City, anotf
er of the party said: "a great nun
Der Of people were saved at the Ho
linger property. That place was lik
an oasis in the desert. Quite larg
area had been cleared by the owner
and they had water pumps whic
were saved.
/ I am sure there were about 44O
refugees from all directions ther
besides the Hollinger employees"
All the party agreed that the est
mate of 900 lives lost was not exce'
sive.
| Women ad Children Drown.
/ At South Porcupine, 600 peopl
sought refuge in the lake. OF thes
two hundred persons, many Of the1
women, with children, in their arm
lost their lives, according to priv
ate message received here from "
A. Charlton of Haileybury, a pros
pector.
i West Dome representatives in Tt
ronto, have received kilograms givin
the total number of deaths at tha
place at rs, including Robert A. Weis
superintendent of the mine, Mrs
Weiss and Miss Weiss.
Fires In Maine Wilderness.
| Portland, Maine, July 13.-Fores
fires in the Maine wilderness and New
Hampshire mountains, continue t.
burn unchecked Fire is within si1
miles Of the town OF Jackman. Soutl
| Windsor and Cape Neddick are alst
iimperilled.
Mount Moriapa, one Of the conspi
cuous Peaks Of the White Mountains
is a blazing beacon.
| Fire almost completely surrounds
the village Of South Watefboro whicl
already has suffered heavily.
| q. Jerome "a Ruins.
| st. Jerome, Quebec, July 13.-Twen
ty-seven families are homeless her
and the entire business portion of tn
town Is in ruins a. the result of a fir
(which swept ACROSS it late yesterday
Northern Michigan Aflame.
i BAy City Mich IillY 12-The VII