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Show Many Lives and Much Property Wiped Out in Flaming Forests Kill DEAD IN CANADIAN FIRES NUMBER '35 Eight Towns Completely Destroyed; De-stroyed; Property Loss May Reach $10,000,000; 6000 - Persons- Homeless ELEVEN FOUND DEAD IN ONE BUILDING Refugees Throng Roads in Every Kind of Vehicle; Forest Flames Cut Wide Swath Through Country TORONTO. Ont, Oct. .(By V. P.) Thirty-fly dead. 000 homeless, eight town In complete ruin and damage amounting to probably 110,-004,000 110,-004,000 la the Incomplete toll today of j a terrific multiple forest fir which swept th district of Temisksmlng. Fifteen bodies were recovered at Halleybury. seventeen at Heasllp and three ar Charlton. Halleybury, county aeat, was rased by withering flames which were fanned by strong southwest winds, and th fir cut a awatb through th central section of th stricken district. Refugees are pouring Into North Bay with stories of tha disaster that exceed In horror anything Canada has known since the Mathieson conflagration conflagra-tion of lilt. - REFUGEES CROWD ROADS. I Automobfroov wagons and ' convy. ! ancea of every description si 111 crowded roads leading from the district dis-trict today as a checkup showed ths full extent of the disaster. In some sections the fires, fought by volunteers, volun-teers, still burned. Rain which fell last night checked the main conflagration, however, and saved ths die trie t in the path of the flames. Robert Bond, his wife, their eight children and Bond' wife's brother, John Marshall, were found suffocated In a house where they had taken refuge from the flames. While It will be days before any-thlng any-thlng like an accurate estlmsts of ths dtath toll can be arrived at. It Is believed be-lieved that at least sixty lives were lost. Other fires In various parte of the province of Quebec were sweeping their consuming wsy today, still threatening villages through which the endless stream of refugees poured. BIQ AREA DEVASTATED. Par of northern Ontario 'lies, a wasted, charred area, literally a desert. des-ert. From this territory, as flames d e vou red wood pa t c hea. fa rm a and towns, streamed men, women and fhlldren, terror stricken. Families were separated on the long trails snd strangers carried along little children for whom mothers sought In vain. The rapidity with which the flames swept the district, where small Inflammable In-flammable timber lent Itself readily to the conflsgratlon, was responsible for the heavy loss of life. Thirty days of drouth prepared this section for ths devastation. Kaln which mercifully rherked the main body of flames saved many lives snd village, but left the province with a terrible' toll of deaths and property loss to consider today. |