Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-07-13
L0A(ST CLAIMS HUNDREDS FLES AND NIL 0S0 DOLLARS PROPERTY

exhausted before the fire as it swept
over South Porcupine.
Twenty minutes after the flames
struck the outskirts the town was in
ruins. An who escaped the flames
made for the water where all sorts OF
water crafts were pressed into SER
vice.
Women and children were first hur-
ried into the small boats and started
off for Pottsville and Golden City,
where they were temporarily saved
from the flames. Many miners lost
their lives in efforts to save others.
Panic and chaos prevailed when
the flight 10y water from South Por-
eupine began. Men. fought with each
other for places in the boats for their
families. Police Officer Murray. with
Jack Gardner had to stand off the
panic-stricken foreigners. who rushed
for each boat as il came in. Men
were hurled into the water and many
rushed in as the only place of safety.
Thirty launches and as many can
Oes soon had the women landed safe
lv ON the other side of the lake There
was one exception, Mrs. William
Gohr with her baby in her arms, re-
fused to leave until she had news OF
her husband. Gohr had gone back to
save some Valuablcs, and with his
clerk was ponned in the building.
For more than two hours Mrs.
Gohr stood in the lake, calling for her
husband and refusing to leave until
he was found. Even after all had de-
serted the town and the fire had
burned out. She remained nearby
awaiting recovery of her husband
body.
Acts Of heroism were numerous,
while the horrors OF the holocaust are
too grucsome for print, one man
was led through the town with both
eyes burned out; another with his
face and arms a mass of blisters, and
still anothers abdomen was burst
open by burns,
Little viii ever be known of the ex-
periences at some of the properties
as only the dead remain. At one
camp there was no shelter, and the
men sought protection on an outcrop-
ping rock. There Andy Yuyll, the
foreman, .perished, with Frank Flynn
and Joseph Fletcher, while another
man named Dwyer, Il Colorado miner
is nissing.
j. r. Flynn and Joseph Flynn,
wAtched their brother burn to death,
th@ former receiving serious burns.
Wiih them was Gilbert Gibbs, waose
face was burned beyond recognition,
and whose arms and body were badly
scorched.
At the Philadelphia, when ii was
seA that the mine must go, Manager
AsAmore, Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel ShoV-
ell and others, retreated toward town.
With the party was c. e. Adams OF
Philadelphia. He died in Ashmores
arms Of heart failure.
What occurred at the West Dome,
the center Of the catastrophe swili
never be known, but SO old and eX
perienced miner as Robert II. Weiss
never would have taken his associates
into timbered shaft in time of IRE
unless all other escape were cut OIL
The escape of those at the Dome
and Preston East Dome was marvel
ous. From East Dome not a man was
lost. Some entered untimbered shafts
with food and buckets and passed
water to the others Captain Wilson
and some of the employees lay in
creek and threw water over them
selves Captain Wilson's eyes were
burned, but no serious injuries were
sustained.
At the, Dome it is known that thirty
foreign laborers perished In SHAFT
Other bodies are lying about the prop
erty and 1t is doubtful If half of the
force of 800 remain alive.
Whether anyone was lost at the
Standard or Imperial Is not yet known
but tomorrow relief parties viii be
sent out. The Vipond was a total loss
hut all the men escaped. The DigDy
Veteran, American GOldtields ana
others, may have lost men. No word
has been received from Success
whore there We're Gifty-tour men.
The flames crept around Porcupinc
lake to Pottsvllle and there destroy
ed all the buildings except two Italian
boarding houses, into which Constable
Percy gathered all the Italians with
the warning that any man stirring ont
would be shot. The fire in Golden
CITY consumed about one-third Of the
town.
There is a scarcity Of food ana re-
lief trains have been sent for