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Show ' , V i TORONTO, July j.. Nothing like an accurate estimate of the victims of the northern fires is yet possible, but already the list of dead exceeds one .hundred. Two names were added thTs morning, when sMrs". Meek, mother or the Dome, mine manager, and John Bigelow, an employe, died at New Liskeard Forty bodies, it is said have been recovered from fPorcupine lake The Porcupine relief committee is seudlng searching parties through the burned area, many man being reported missing. Telegraph wires fiom the far north are clogged with matter filed for transmission, which is expected to throw light on the number of victims. A dispatch from Jiaileybury .says that Mathewson, p. tpwn of 900, is encircled en-circled by fire. AJfearlton, 1Q0 miles north of NorthBny," seveial "houses have been burned. Manj settleis around Sudbury have had to flee for their lives Relief trains are being rushed to the afTected d.stricts ana the food supply at Porcupine Is now adequate Frank Cochrane, a member of the Ontario government, whose de partment of lands and mines is particularly partic-ularly responsible for the settlements of North Ontario, saidr "While wo do not wish to minimize this terrible affair, we feel that the newspaper reports have been exaggerated exagger-ated The peoi jo have been alarmed unnecessarily. Mr. Clements, chief engineer or-T.-&r N. O. railway, says that only one hundred persons hayo been accounted for as dead We have it from the Dome people that their death list is nine Wild Tumors are caught up and spread to an incredible extent. The fire has been unnecessarily unnecessar-ily magnified There is no Are at the prisoners' camp, and this is only about three miles from Porcupine |