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Show SEVERAL PERISH IN FIRE BLAZE LEVELS MANY TOWNS; CITIZENS FLEE i Fighters Believe Rain Is All That Will Save Other Cities RELIEF TRAINS READY Huge Property Loss Recorded Re-corded and Growing As Flames Sweep ! I NORTH RAY, Ont . Ocl ." Forct j fire roTutCOo; who nrried here tMla 1 from Hatlcybnry reported that be. tsreen -Ml ami 1 00 persons bad bemi drowned wllCll tllQJ were CTOWCtCt from n dock where they wore trying ti board a rescue h!j. OTTAWA, ont. Oct. 5. Forest (!res, raging in n-orthwostdrh Ottawa ind Kwee)lnK down .f'nc St. Maurice j valley In Qiiehec, hi-..' cost several lives, have destroyed six towns and I threaten to leave many other tovns rased In their wake of destruction . unbss rainfall comes soon to check I I ho flames, Several score of people are missing property worth millions ; of dollars Is destrojed ami the flames are still advancing. I North Lick ear d was today added ; to the list of destroyed north On-I On-I tarlo towns. Two stone house alono J marked the spot where the village l had been It is believed several ln-j ln-j habitants perished. Fire fighters reported that it would ! he almost Impossible to prevent the J fire from reaching other towns along the Temiskaminc. and Northern On- I 4.1 I . O I 111 I H The st. Maurice valley conflagration conflagra-tion was swooping down early today from the mountains to the St Mathleu de CSJtton which was already sur-ronnded sur-ronnded hy flam s nnd to Shawlnipan j Grand Mere and Grand Plies. Quick action by fire fighters saved the village vil-lage of St. Lambert. The first relief train from Cobalt arrived at North Bay today with 6H refugees who were lodfred In private homes, churches and public institutions institu-tions FEAR 30 LOST, ViiRTH BAY. Opt., Oct 5. Fear j that upwards of ;io lives have been' I lost In the fire which is sweeping northern Ontario was expressed in , the latest reports available from tin ' I effected area early today Soon after midnight Georpe W; Leo, chairman of the Temiskamfhg J and Northern Ontario railway Issued (his statement concerning the firei raping In the north country "Over five hundred people have hecn rendered boneless The loss at life is considerable and is mounting. The towns of Hallev bury, 8.50i people north Cobalt, l.ooo, Charlton, 50n, and Flcusop. arc totally destroyed and the town of BSnglehartf has o on partially par-tially destroyed. That part of New Liskeard w est of the T. and N. O. , tracks has been totally dtroyea "The situation at Cobalt Is clear.' There is a small firo Burning one mile away with a mild southwest wind blowing. "Three trains with 24 ears eon-' talnlng 1,400 refugees. have left' Cobalt for North Raj. Relief trains are being prepared as aoon as possible. pos-sible. Loss will run into millions of, dollars. The fin- Is still burning j uriBKiy, iannea oy a subsldimr win. I "There Is no prospect of rain and ( tho fire will have to burn it-sHf oul The T. and N. it t racks, fronting the station at Halleybury, north Cobalt land Heaslllh were destroyed, the ties burned and th. rails wasped: "This Is the hardest blow the north! country has r received.'" RR VVINi. I OK ft . j ST. PAUI Minn. Q0t. G , Over an j area more than 100 miles square, -scattered forest fires today in northern .Minnesota, whole forest and .t;ite , military officials directed the fight to subdue them and hopefully scan-, j nod the skies for forecasts of rain. Many homes are threatened oy the flames, but there have been no cas-I cas-I ualtle3 and non- arc looked r,,r ,',. ; lees the wind attains exceptional ve-l loclty. |