Show HUNDREDS DEAD IN FOREST FIRES SEVERAL SMALL TOWNS ARE WIPED OUT BY THE ONRUSH ING FLAMES hundreds Hun dreas of squares mites miles of bush aad arid farm land burned and many settlers meet death after futile fight against flames englehart ont forest fires raging in northern ontario are believed to have resulted tn in the loss loaa of from to lives scores of person s have been injured and it to la feared many of them theia may die so SeveraL v small towns have been out by the flames reports thus tar far received show that fifty seven perished at ai bushka a Fren french baua adi adlan an settled settlement ant and thirty tour fot 1 ii at matheson Cb cochrane chrane has haa eighteen eighme en dead a andi eolith thirty four injured iroquois falls fifteen dead and many injured and ramore cramore fifteen dead the number killed at porcupine junction Is not known but the entire town was destroyed except the railroad station death list will be materially materia ily increased it Is feared by victims in outlying districts there are apparently well authenticated reports that many prospectors have been trapped at tashota and kowash one farm farmer er and his ten children ChIl children drin are known to have been turned burned while the mans wife was wan vainly seeking aid to check the onrushing flames dushka a hamlet consisting of a score of trains frame buildings and stores suffered buffered worst it had bad been threatened for several days but the residents lingered in the hope they might save cave their homes they waited too long bo however wever and walls of fire cut ott off escape hundreds of square miles of bush and farm land have been burned over isolated settlers took refuge in lakes and rivers leaving all their belongings behind |