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Show DEATH STALKS HI WAKE OF FOREST FIRES Hundreds Perish In Blazing Blaz-ing Woods of Northern t Ontario. MANY MINING TOWNS UTTERLY DESTROYED Property Loss in Porcupine District Will Aggregate Millions. TORONTO. Onl.. July 13 The lose of life in the Porcupine district from lh forest fires is known to he several hundred and the property Inn will reach several million dollars. Only thro of the eighty fmir employees of tba Wnt Dome Mining company have been accounted for. The mines burned included the Pome, 1 North rmCrrt.i!CKa!'rTn!nar'Vr. rind. Folev O'Brien. Philadelphia, nited Porcupine, Eldorado Porcupine, Standard, Imperial, Wet Dome, and Success Among the dead are Robert etaa, manager of the Weat Iome, and hia wife and child. The Philadelphia mine 'a loaa i about $.WflOO; Unit.'d Porcupine'", 20.ihki; Eldorado Porcupine, all hiiildingn de atroved: Standard, about 40,0Ou; Imperial, Im-perial, about tlM.OOO; Buccass, probably deatroyed: Weat Dome, about 75,imm). Fire's alwlfi Advance. la four abort boiira. commencing yet terday aooa, the fire awept from the Htaadard minaa to the ahnree of Porrn-yine Porrn-yine lake, where it deatroyed South Pcmipiae. Pottsville and art of Uol den (itv, aa well aa many amall build' ings along the lake front. Tha great aat havoe waa wrought around the mail minea, notably Weat Dome and Bis -Dob. center of the catastrophe, will never be knnwn. but so old and experienced a miner as Robert E. - Weiss prnhuMv never would have taken his associates Into a Umrtered shaft In time ft fire unleaa all other esoaua was cut off. MixacttJout Escape . The escape of those at the Dome and Preston Kast Dome was little short of miraculous. Krmn Kast Dome not a man waa lost. Some entered untimhered shafts with food and buckets and passed up water to the others. Captain Wilson and some of the employees lav In a creek and threw water over themselves- Captain Cap-tain Wilson's eves were burned but no serious Injuries were sustained. A( the Dome it la known that thlrtv-four thlrtv-four laborers pertshfd In a shnft. Other i bodies are I vine: about the property and It la doubtful If half of tha force of threa hundred remain alive. Whether anyone was lost at the Standard Stan-dard or Imperial Is not vt known, but tomorrow relief parties will be sent out. The VI pond la a total loss, but all the , men escaped. The Dlabv, Veteran. Amr- lean Uoldfielda and others mav have lost men. No word has been received from the Buri-aes. where Cher were fifty-four fifty-four men. Tha flames crept around Porcupine There the entrapped miners, cut off from escape,,- were forced to take to the sliafta. and. penned In by flames, perished. per-ished. This was notably true at Dome and West Dome mines. At Preston Kast Dome, an un timbered shaft cava shelter shel-ter and none perished. Tba at rents of tfouth Porcupine are strewn with dead persons, horses, doers and catt'e. Along tha mine roads are the charred bodies of those overcome try-In try-In to escape. Of the staff of 300 at the Dome but ew were saved, and at the West Dome but t h ree on J of eighty- f on r em ploy eaa are known to be alive. Along the highway high-way between East Dome and Bouth Porcupine over a comparatively open sect tin were found six charred bodies. In ruins of ftoutn Porcupine were found the btvllea 01 William Cohr and his clerk, Mae Smith. Captain George Dud bar and Tool Ueddee. Daafcr Vot Eaallsed. Early In the -morning the miners saw dense clouds of smoke to the southwest, south-west, whence tha fires were ragtng. They five little heed. tAter a email blase starteo In La Me view of the Porcupine .ownsits. but it passed almost unnoticed, because o the recent frequency of bush flre. It was not until a eon that the dense smoke clouds began to roll over the Porcupine district. Then the miners became be-came alarmed and tha camps took on unusual un-usual activity. Messengers were sent out and returned with warnings that the fire waa traveling through the forests at rapid speed and waa licking up many town-fhlpa. town-fhlpa. Shortly after noon the fire had covered cov-ered an area of twenty-five miles In width and was sweeping over the Standard Stand-ard and Imperial mines at Del ore. tha Philadelphia, Kidorado and United mines - tn southern Whitney. When the seriousness) of the situation was apparent tba fire call was sounded lake to Pottsvllle and there destroyed all the buildings except two Italian boarding houaea. Into which Conatahle Percv gathered all the Italians with the warning that any man stirring out would be shot. The fire in Golds n t'itv consumed con-sumed about one-third of the town. There la a scarcity of food and relief trains have been sent for. Only thirty -six employee of Weat Dome had -been accounted for up to a late ! hour Wednesday. There la no nteana of estimating the dead at Dome mines, but , the manager and Mrs. Meek. Captain leawson and Henry Hanson, mill construe-Uoa construe-Uoa foreman ere safe. wttn th IJoim mine whlst'.. Mln.ra and womea and chlidren scurried about la the dense smoks. parking valuables and Hftit baggage. In half an hour tha flames wrs raging on th. apot. They awept ever the Foley O'Brien mine, then eatsed to the Preston Ksst Dome and followed over the Dome. Weat booie and North Dome, moke a Peril. Hundreds fled before the flamea. but dense clouds of smoks hung lowend msde progress difficult. Many fell exhausted before the fire ea It awept over South Porcupine Toe frame buildings burned fl.irfy. Twenty minutes after the flamea etrurk the eutsklrts the town was In ruins. All whe escaped made foe the water, where all aorta of water craft Isunches. canoes, scows aad skiffs ware pressed Into eerv. Wewiea and children were first hurried Into small boats and atarted off for Plttavllle Pltta-vllle and Golden I'lty, where they were temporarily sate from the flsmea. Many miners lost their Uvea In efforts to aeva ethers. ..,,,n!!L,", rhlLam Pre'SUrd when the Wehl by water from South Porcupine be. gen. Men fought with eech other for "e.hoatg for their families. Po. lice orscer Murray, with Jack Urdner. bed to stand oh? lha panic stricken for-etgnere. for-etgnere. who rushed for each boat aa It earae In. Men were hurled into the water wa-ter and many Jumped In ae the only place of aafety. Thirty launches and aa maay nanoee aooa had the women landed safety on the ether side of the lake. There wss en exception Mrs. Willi. m Oohr. with her baby In her arms, refused to lee re until she bed news of her hushend. Oohr bed gone back to eave soma valueblea 5T!L.mU "r" WAM Penned In the building. For mora than two hours Mrs Oohr stood In the lake railing for her buahend and refusing ts lesvs until he waa found. Even after all had deeerted the town end the fire had burned nut ahe remained near by awaiting reosvary of her husband s body. Acts ef Heroism. Acta ef herolam war. nttmemua. but the horrors of the holocaust are too grew" me for print. One man was led through ths town with both eyes burned out: another with hie fa-. and arma a mass of blisters, and still snother- abdomen ab-domen was burst open by bums. Harry Roche, a mining engineer, and A. 8 Shlelde brought out a man who waa so seriously burned that a portion of his haad tell off when he wss picked up Little will ever be known of the eipe-l rlences at some of ths properties, aa only the dead remain. At one ramp there waa no ahelter and the men .might abetter abet-ter on an outcropping ro. li. There Andy Tuvtl. the foreman, perished with Frank Flynn and Joseph Fletcher, while another an-other man named Owyer. a Colorado man te aliasing. J. T. Fln and Joseph Flynn watched their brother burn to death, the former receiving serious burns. With them waa Gilbert Olbhs. whose fane waa burned I beyond recognition and whose arma and ! body were score ed. Flemes came upon them with eucb. rapidity that even blankets blank-ets and towels to rast about them could not be obtained, and yet they survived the furnace. At the Philadelphia, when It became evident that the mine must go. Manager Man-ager Ashmore, Mr. and Mra, Samuel fl.oval and ethers retreated toward town with the asrtv waa C. K. Adama ef Philadelphia He died la Ashmore s arms ef heartaJslture. What diciured at the Weat Dome, the |