The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1911-07-20
FIRE TOLL UNKNOWN
LIST or VICTIMS or ONTARIO
FOREST eLAzEs Ex.
cEEps 100.
GH0UL IS SHOT TO DEATH
10 Caught Searching Clothes Of Dead
Man and shot--35o Collins shipped
into Devastated country-Rellet
Hurried to Sufferers.

Toronto. Ont. July 15.-Nothlng
like an accurate estimate OF the vic
Tins of northern forest and bush fires
is possible as yet. but already the list
OF those named as dead exceeds 100.
The property loss Is probably more
than $1,000 900.
one dispatch from Golden City says
the greatest loss OF life may have oc.
Cured. after all. In the towns and not
In Che great expanse OF bush.
Forty bodies. Il Is said. have been
recovered from Porcupine lake.
The Pocupine relief committee ia
sending searching parties through the
burned area. many men being reported
as missing. Telegraph wires from the
far north are clogged with matter fled
for transmission which is expected to
throw light on the number OF victims
Town Enelreled by Fire.
A dispatch from Halleybury says
that Matheson. n town OF 800. is cir
cled by fire. which may prove disas-
trous should a gale spring up. Al
Carlton. 1870 miles north OF North Pay.
several houses have been burned
Fires are raging on the Quebec side OF
Lake Temiskaming and a large mum.
Der OF settlers around Sudbury have
been burned out and have had to Zee
for their lives.
Relief trains with provisions. tents
and blankets are being rushed in over
the government railway and the food
supply at Porcupine Is now adequate.
Ship $50 Collins.
Coincident with the arrival here OF
survivors OF Porcupine's great disas-
ter a train load OF $50 collins left for
the north country. The survivors
brought stories OF the horror and re-
counted many miraculous escapes.
The foreigners were put TO work
stamping out the smoldering fires al
Golden City and Pottsville. One was
shot 10 death az Pottsville when
caught going through the clothes OF a
dead man.
r. II. Weber OF Lockport. N. Y.
one OF the survivors. escaped from
the Dome mine. where 100 were
burned TO death. by wading into the
lake up TO his neck. There were 400
people standing in the lake" said he.
and saw 20 drown"
Many Are Missing.
Many persons are missing from the
more densely populated townships
How many OF the hundreds living in
comparative isolation have persisted
only days OF work by the organized re
lief parties can reveal.
Men. women and children. thlniy
clad and bearing marks OF the awful
flight through flames and smothering
smoke. are still fiocking into the larger
towns In the vicinity OF Cobalt and az
North Bay. Those escaping with slight
injuries or none have gone through 10
North Bay. TO be carried free OF charge
by the Canadian Pacific railroad and
Grand Trunk railway to their destina-
tions. Those more or less severely 10.
jured are taken TO hospitals In Haley.
bury. Cobalt, Liskeard and North Bay.
All these hospitals are filled with sui.
ferers.
Reports Grow In Horror.
Reports from South Porcupine grow
in horror One survivor states that 20
people we're swept on a raft on Porcu.
pine lake In the storm. Hundreds OF
people stood for Ave hours In the wa.
ter. where the only breath available
was close to the waters surface. be-
tween waves. which dashed spray
over their heads. Many sank beneath
the waters. and the first search
brough out nine bodies from Porcu.
pine lake.