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Show r CANADA VISITED i By FOREST FIRE MANY PERSONS ARE DROWNED WHILE ATEMPTING TO DOARD SHIP8 8lx Towns are Destroyed ant! Much Damage la Done Aa Fire Eata Its Way Through the Dry Timber North Bay. Forest firo rofugees who arrived hero Thursday from Hall-eybury Hall-eybury reported that between fifty and 100 porsons hnd beon drownod when thoy wore crowded from a dock whoro thoy were trying to board a rescue ship. Anothor report brought by tho ref. i ugeca was that acorca hnd boon In- i Jured and several trampled to doath : whon flames swept tho Catholic church and caused a panic among hun- ; drcda who hnd gathore.l thoro for j safety. , Among tho refugees who nrrlvod on I tho boat woro Mlchaol IJurns, hla wife and flvo children, who woro res- cned from their blazing homo nt Hall oybury. Thoy doclarcd tho cruah at , tho dock wan Indcscribnblo and thnt j many woro pushed screaming into tho water. "At least fifty woro drownod nnd possibly a hundrod,' declared A. P. Whit lock, a travc'Ing representative , of Swift and company, who waa bad. iy burned about tho arms nnd hnnda. f Ho received tho burns whllo working v with a rcacuo squad on North Cobalt. Tho T. & N. O. railroad Is selling J to Icnvo North Bny. It agrees to tako them only so tar as tho line may still bo found to bo passablo. Motor scoutora go out ahond of the trains to lnveatlgato tho tracks which In many platf'oa havo been warped out o fahapo by boat of burning freight cars. Tho first rollof train from Cobalt arivod at North Kay with C10 paa aengora who wero lodgod in private homes churches and public instltu tlona. Other tralna vrero rushed to Cobalt to remove tho thousands of homeless rofugees who flocked thore from tho destroyed .towns. Tho Sisters of Provldonco hospital the Ilnmnn Catholic, Anglican, Motho. dlst, Baptist and Presbyterian church, es and tho now courlhouso of Ilnlleyhury wero burned by tho flames which destroyod tho town In less than two hours. Inmates of tho hospital woro removed In automobiles tn Cobalt. |