The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-10-06
NORTHERN ONTARIO
SWEPT BY FLAMES
UPWARDS OF THIRTY-FIVE
=. LIVES ARE LOST
HUGE PROPERTY LOSS
Damages Will Run Into Millions
and Fire Still Burning;
Many Refugees
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch. !

tASSOCldIeQ HTeSS DlSPdlCI'I
Ottawa, Ont, october5.-For-
est fires in Canada spread today
until at noon reports had been
one hundred lives had been lost,
six towns destroyed and rail-
roads burdcned with thousands
of refugees attacked by the
flames. Prospects were that
the flames would take even
greater toll.
Montreal, October 5.-Montreal
was overshadowed with dense
smoke tonight from the many
forest fires that are raging
throughout the eastern portion
Of the province of Quebec. The
sky was hidden by a grey fall,
making the burning of electric
light in the eity's offices neees:
sary. The odor of burning wood
was in the air. Ships on the st.
Lawrence were being naVigated
with great caution.
North Bay, Ontario, October g.
The fear that upwards of thirty lives
have been lost in the fire which is
sweeping northern Ontario was eX-
pressed in the latest reports avail.
able from the affected area early to-
day.
Soon after, midnight George w.
Lee, chairman of the Tempiskaming
and Northern Ontario railway issued
this statement concerning the FIRE
now raging in the north country.
More than FIVE thousand people
have been rendered homeless. The
loss of life is considerable and is
-
$500 people, North Cobalt, 1000:
Charleston 500, and Heaslip $50, are
totally destroyed and the town of
Engfehart mas been partially de-
stroyed. That part of New Liskeard
west of T. and NJ o. tracks has been
totally destroyed.
Property Losses High.
"The situation in Cobalt is clear.
There is small fire burning one
mile away with a mild southwest
wind blowing.
Three trains with twenty four
cars containing 1.400 refugees have
left Cobalt for North Bay. Other
trains are being prepared as rapidly
as possible.
run into millions of dollars. The fire
is still burning briskly, famed by
q WlhN 10 III PiO
spect of rain and the fire will have
to burn itself out.
The T. and N. o. tracks fronting
the stations at Haileybury, North
Cobalt and Heaslip were destroyed,
the ties burned and the rails warp
ed. II is impossible. to maintain
traffic. This is the hardest blow the
north country has ever received"
Six Towns Destroyed
Forest fires, raging in Northern
Ontario and sweeping down the st,
Maurice valley to Quebec, have cost
several lives, have destroyed \ SIX
towns and threatened to leave
many other RACED towns in their
comes soon to check the flames
Several score people are missing
property worth millions of dollars
Is destroyed and flames are still ad-
Vancing.
North Liskeard was today added
to the list of destroyed north On
tario towns Two stone houses
alone marked the spot where the
village had been. 1t is believed sew
eral Inhabitants persisted.
Fire fighters reported that it
would be almost impossible to pre-
vent the fire from reaching other
towns along the Temiskaming and
Northern Ontario railway.
The st. Maurice valley confiagra-
ton was swooping down early today
from the mountains to the village
of st. Matthew De Caxton, which
was already surrounded by flames
and to Shawnigan, Grandmere and
Grande Piles, which were recovered
by a heavy smoke pail,
Quick action by fire fighters saved
the village of ST. Lambert in Shaw
inigan. The first relief train from
Cobalt arrived at North Bay today
with $40 refugees who were imme-
diately lodged in private homes,
churches and public institutions.