Show H PERISH IN FOREST FIRES FOUR TOWNS IN PORCUPINE DISTRICT DESTROYED AND OTHER VILLAGES ARE DOOMED an area of three hundred miles laid gare bare by flames which brought death to many and financial ruin to others north bay ont four towns co chrane kelso south porcupine and Potts spottsville pottsville vIlle have been de destroyed a dozen other towns and villages are burning or are surrounded by forest fires probably persons have per dished thousands are homeless and suffering from hunger and exposure and a property loss of above has been suffered in one of the worst disasters north ontario ever experienced an area of nilles miles north from north bay and from ten to twenty miles wide has practically been laid bare the fire raged with such fierceness all and d fury that the people of ti the lo 10 all lages had barely time to save eave their lives and abandoned everything in one frantic rush for safety at porcupine thirty men and wo men were driven into the lake by a wall ot of flame and drowned every mining camp from dome to whitley Is gone the mines burned include the dome north dome pres ton east dome foley 0 brien philadelphia united porcu pine eldorado porcupine standard imperial west dome and success |