Show HUNDREDS PERISH IN FOREST FIRES POUR FOUR TOWNS IN PORCUPINE DISTRICT DESTROYED AND OTHER VILLAGES VILLAGE ARE DOOMED an area of three hundred miles laid bare are by flames which brought death to many and financial ruin to others north day bay ont four towns cochrane kelso south porcupine and Potts spottsville pottsville ville have been destroyed a dozen other towns and villages are burning or are surrounded by forest alres probably persons have perished thousands are homeless ho melesa and suffering irom from hunger and exposure and a property loss ot of above 00 has baa been euffe buffered red in one ot of the worst disasters north ontario ever experienced an area ot of miles north from north bay anufrom te ten ajo to alq twenty y 41 bare I 1 the fire raged with such fierceness and fury that the people ot of the villages had barely time to save their lives and abandoned everything in one frantic rush for safety at porcupine thirty men and women were driven into the lake by a w wall all ot of lame flame and drowned every mining camp from dome to whitley la is gone the mines burned include the dome north dome i preston east dome poley foley 0 flen philadelphia united porcu pine eldorado porcupine standard imperial west dome and Suc success cees |