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Show CANADA VISITED BY FOREST FIRE MANY PERSONS ARE DROWNED WHILE ATEMPTING TO EOARD SHIPS Six Towns are Destroyed am: Much Damage Is Done As Fire Eats Its Way Through the Dry Timber North Bay. Forest fire refugees who arrived here Thursday from Hail-eybury Hail-eybury reported that between fifty and 100 persons had been drowned when they were crowded from a dock where they were trying to board a rescue ship. Another report brought by the refugees ref-ugees was that scores had been injured in-jured and several trampled to death when flames swept the Catholic church and caused a panic among hundreds hun-dreds who bad gathered there for safety. Among the refugees who arrived on the boat were Michael Burns, his wife and five children, who were res-ened res-ened from their blazing home at Hail-eybury. Hail-eybury. They declared the crush at the dock was indescribable and that many were pushed screaming into the water. "At least fifty were drowned and possibly a hundred," declared A. I Whitlock, a traveling representative o Swift and company, who was badly bad-ly burned about the arms and hands. He received the burns while working with a rescue squad on North Cobalt. The T. & N. O. railroad is selling "blind" passage to refugees who wish to leave North Bay. It agrees to take them only so far as the line may still be found to be passable. Motor scouters go out ahead of the trains to investigate the tracks which In many places have been warped out o fshape by heat of burning freight ears. The first relief train from Cobalt arived at North Bay with 510 passengers pas-sengers who were lodged in private homes churches and public Instltu Hons. Other trains were rushed to Cobalt to remove the thousands of homeless refugees who flocked there from the destroyed towns. The Sisters of Providence hospital the Roman Catholic, Anglican, Methodist, Metho-dist, Baptist and Presbyterian churches church-es and the new courthouse of Haileybury were burned by the flames which destroyed the town in less than two hours. Inmates of the hospital were removed in automobiles to Cobalt. |