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Show !ll- mt n r a IIMany Persons Burned SI to Death-Coffins All, by the Carload Sjl , Toronto, July 14. Coincident with jllithe arrival of more survivors of Por-SjBncupine's Por-SjBncupine's great disaster early this olflfcL morning a tralnload of 350 coffins left 5 Hj;for the north country. The survivors H&t brought additional stories of the hor- j 'ror and 'recounted many miraculous i J, scapes, j I J The men were put to work stamp-W stamp-W n-lng out the smouldering fires at j 1 Glenn City and Pottsvllle. One was If t shot at Pottsvllle 'when caught going I 1 through the clothes of a dead man -i R. IL Webber of Lockport, N. Y , one of the survivors, escaped from the Dome mine where 100 were burn-' burn-' ed to death, by wading into the lake !up to his neck The wave of heat sweeping over the water burned his face badly. "There were four hundred people standing in the lake," said he, "and I saw twenty drown." Several thousand dollars In currency curren-cy was saved by J. J Ross of Reno, Nev., by canoeing far out Into the lake. A H. Crampton and Joseph Healy, manager and superintendent of the Imperial mines, escaped with fifteen employes by a run ot six miles around the lake. They stumbled over bodies along the road and saw a woman pick up a skull and put It In her handbag. hand-bag. George Llsk, a prospector near the j l West Dome, saw his brother and part-1 5;; ner burn to death Penned In on all! : ' sides by the flames, they sought safe-' ; : ty in a small stream. As the fire . 3I EWfttlt nvpr thp qtroam T.fclr anir lilc two companions die, while he rolled J, on hlsback in the shallow water. 3 i I '' Coffins by Carload. i Cobalt, OnL, July 11 Every hour i adds to the list of the dead, injured J ! and destitute in the fire of the Por-i Por-i ' cupine district, where the property i s loss probably is more than $2,000,000 The number of dead in the district I ; remains Jargely a matter of conjee I. ture. Many pel sons are missing fiom i h the more densely populated town-! town-! -J- ships. How many hundreds living in comparative isolation -have perished f jronly days of work by the organized relief parties can reveal, ilr- A message from Porcupine early toil to-il day stated that seven bodies had 'just j I been found at the Vlpond mine Their M condition made Identification impossl-B impossl-B ble. Men, women and children, thln-;l(t thln-;l(t -ly clad and bearing marks of the aw-ijn aw-ijn ful fight against the flames and Sl smothering smoke, are still flocking M Into the larger towns In this viclnit p and at North Bay Those escaping with slight Injuries or none have gone ; through to North Bay to be carried ' free of charge by the Canadian Pa-A Pa-A cific railroad and Grand Trunk railway rail-way to their destinations. Those more or less severely Injured are tak-i tak-i en to hospitals in Halleybury, Cobalt, Llskeard and North Bay Ail these ; ; hospitals are filled with sufferers j Hundreds of people are at Porcu pine awaiting special trains out. Al-. Al-. ready 1,000 have left. Bush FireE Raging Sellwood, Ont., July 14. Serious j bush fires have been raging for three I davs along the Canadian Northern i railroad line from Sudbun to Sell-' wood Millions of feet of timber have Ibeen destroyed and farmers with their families have abandoned their home?. Many fled toward Sudbury. Along the railroad they found several bridges burned away. The fire at one time Breached the outskirts of Sudbury and threatened Its destruction . The total loss here is about $250,-000. $250,-000. No loss of life has been reported. report-ed. Jr. Porcupine Dead. Cobalt. Ont., July 14. The bodies w of several of the dead from Porcupine 3, have reached here. More than, a hun-' hun-' dred refugees are in Cobalt. Various Iff estimates are made as to the total j number of dead, many as high as 500 aft Fires have covered an area of 10,000 1 square miles. |
