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Show HUNDREDS OEAO IN FORES! FIRES several small towns are wiped out by the onrush-ing onrush-ing flames. Hundreds of Squares Miles of Bush and Farm Land Burned and Many Settlers Meet Death After Futile Fight Against Flames. j Ijiitiehart. O-it. Forest fires rag-, rag-, lug in northern Ontario are believed j to have resulted in tho loss of from i l11 to L H lives. Scores of per-! per-! sons have been Injured, and It Is feared many of them may die. Several small towns have been wiped wip-ed out by tho fiauit-s. Keporls thus far received show that fifty-seven perished at Mtishka. a Froncha'.ina-adian Froncha'.ina-adian settlement, and thirty four at Matheson. Cochrane has eighteen dead and thirty-four Injured; Iroquois falls, fifteen dead and many Injured, and liamote. fifteen dead. The mini-i mini-i her killed at Porcupine Junction Is i not known, but the entire tow n was i dt s roved except the railroad station. Tht dtath list will be materially Increased. It is feared, by victims In outlying districts. There are apparently appar-ently well uu;hent!ea:od reports that many prospectors have been trapped at Tasi.ota and Kowash. O'le farmer and his ten childn n are known to have boon burned, while the man's wife was vainly seeking aid to chock the onrushir.g fiames. Mushkn. a hamlet consisting of a store of frame buildings and stores. ; suffered worst. It had been threaten-; cd for several days, but the residents j lit. gored in the hope they might save their In no s. The wared too long, however. and wvds of fire cat ;cfi escape. ) Hundreds of squire miles of bush i -i.i.l farm land h .vo bt t n burned :"vcr. bo'.a e.l so tiers look rt.n.'o in likes and rivers, leaving all their be-' i 0 I'.gil.gs behind. |
