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ining Towhs w ood Out and Neatly one : - Hundred Lives Lost Mon Tals 18, The loss of life "in Porcupine district, as the result df, 'Hearly a Hundred, while the property loss 'will reach $1,000,000. #4 win dour short «hours; commenc- "ing at 12.20 noon yesterday, the fire ...wiped from the . Standard Mines «+ right through to the shores of Por- oupine Lake, where it ate up that town, the site of South Porcupine, Pottsville and part of Golden City, 8s well as many small buildings along the lake front. While part of the loss of life eccurred in the vicinity of Porcupine Lake, the greatest havoc was around the main mines, notably West Dome and Big Dome. Here the entrap- ped miners, cut off from escape by the flames, wero forced to take to the shafts for safety, and pened in by the flames, perished. This was notably true at Dome and West Dome Mines, wnile at Preston East Dome safety was sought in dn untimbered shaft, and there was no loss of life. The streets of Bouth Porcupine were strewn with dead human beings, horses, dogs, and cattle, while along the mine roads the charred corpses of those who failed to escape the flames, and perished in the seething fur- nace that &wept over the 25 miles of country in front of a 60-mile gale. It is known that of the staff of 300 at the Dome but a few were saved, while at the West Dome but three out of 84 employes are known to be alive. Along the highway be- tween West Dome and South Por- cupine, over a comparatively open section, there were six charred bodies. Early in the morning dense clouds of smoke could be seen in the south-west, bug little attention was paid to this in the towns, be- cause of the apparent remoteness of the fire. A small fire also broke out in Lakeview, Porcupine Town- site, but this excited little notice because of the frequency of bush fires during the past two er three weeks. As noon approached, how- ever, thick clouds of smoke reached the zenith, marking the approach of the fire, and soon the sun was obscured into a burning red ball of fire. At 12.30 the fire had cover- ed an area of 25 miles in length and over 2 miles in width and had reached the base line of Tisdale, carrying with it the Standard and Imperial mines in Delera, Phila- delphia in Shaw; and the Eldorado and United in Southern Whitney. At 1.15 p.m. the seriousness of the situation was realized in South Porcupine when the fire oall was sounded on the Dome Mine whistle, with repeated blasts from whistles in other sections. By this time the y was black with smoke and re- sidents of South Porcupine began to pack valuable and light baggage for the hurried departure. It was not. long before the flames had reached the Foley and O'Brien, u * "having enveloped the Preston, "54 Fast Dome; the Dome, West Dome "4°. th Dome and what remained ".% the Dome Extension after Sun- Si five, ©. lia smoke hung low and dense tt de ~uffocating clouds over South ~+Purcupine and in half an hour the «shacks in the outlying section of 'the town had been reached. This was the beginning of the end. It became apparent at once that the town and possibly all the inha- bitants were doomed, for the width "of the fire was sufficient for it to sweep over': the entiré town" of South Porcupine and around: both "of Porcupine Lake. When re Was & roar oe for miles. : South Porou- : x y in flames and EE om there were but corp- and a few smouldering, 'embers iol tet town of sto d. Men, women ed to the water. rday's. fire; will: probably G tion and oy one, and that, he most pitiful William hor with a fused to lea had some i ok. Mr. Ghor, lik ished in' the 'town! in an effort to say and with Nisjolork the building. Ate 1 Mrs. Ghor, ity the chil arms, stood in the water of the for her husband and refusing to leave until he was found. Even after all had deserted the town and the fire had died out, she remain: ed 'intent on shore waiting for the recovery of her husband's body. To add to the terror of the situa- tion while the fire raged, there were scores of horses, cattle and dogs running wild through the town, their scorched bodies now lining the streets with bodies of]; the dead men. FURTHER DETAILS. Out of the chaos and confusion of the first day following the fire affairs are becoming adjusted to such an extent that the terrible import of it all can be realized: But never will it be half appreci- ated as it is by those who went through it. "Doctors, nurses and medical supplies arrived during the night and no time was lost in get- ting te work. Hunger, the usual follower of such terrible incidents, is the one thing that those not otherwise injured had to fight against, and bread and provisions were rushed in as fast as possible. With the exception of what re- mained in the few stores of Golden City, there remained nothing to eat. Considerate friends down the country are looking after this, however, and there will be no dan. ger frora that point. At the beginning it was believ- ed that the greatest loss of life occurred at the wines and in the bush, where many prospectors must have perished, but the towns ave up the greatest number of lead, and 200 as a total is a con- servative estimate of those who lost their lives. There was no loss of life in Pottsville. and at first it was thought that South Porcupine's loss numbered but four, but since then five bodies, whether of men or women is not known, have been found in the rear of where the Em- pire Theatre stood, making it ap- parent that they were endeavor- ing to make their escape to the north of the zone of flames. Porcupine Lake has given up 41 victims drowned by plunges into the lake, by suffocation while standing in the water, or by being swamped when in canoes. Along the Shaw-Deloro line on the trail were found eight bodies of unknown dead, and on the south side of Porcupine Lake three more were added to the six on the trail between the Dome Mine and South Porcupine. Coffins are being built out of rough lumber. Joseph Tracey tells a vivid story of the disaster as it visited the West Dome property. It appears that Manager Weiss and those who perished did not take to the shaft as a last resort, but thinking the property well cleared was fairly safe from the fire, went there to get away from the 'dense smoke, with them was Mr. Tracey. As the fire approached, he went up the ladder to the surface and there found the bent frame and shafthouse ablaze. He tried to ex- tinguish the fire, but. could. not, and so shouted down the shaft for the others to come up and find some other means of escape, He then rushed for. the swamp, back of the power-house "and there buried in muskeg, escaped the flames which consumwd the others. "Shotgun Bill"" King, prospec- tor for Heinze, was among those who came out of the shaft after Mr. Tracey, but he perished on shaft. Tt is probable that Mrs. Burt, whose body was foutid half way up 'the main, was she. Jrying to follow. lake, 100 feet from shore, calling mi the surface at the mouth of the| 'A depute froth Torohte Further details of the 'awful' aster in Northern Ontario, with 8 {ditional estimates of the dead Tun 0 ning from 75 to 100, were broug ed from the norwn' on' the Gra Trunk {rain from North Bay which reached Toronto at 11.15. up to at least 300. Many of those: who stepped from the train' last night were without any clothin, except that which they wore, a and] most of them had no coats. boots. were scorched white, ein ing where they had walked over, the hot ground. Many anxious friends were waiting for the arriv- al of the train, and as the survi- vors stepped to the station plat- form they were at once surrounded | * and hurried away, some to hotels,' some to private residences, and others hurried to 'Turkish bath- houses. Mr. J. J. Moss, a mine operator b from Reno, Nevada, was among those who saved their lives by. standing shoulder deep in the waters of Porcupine Lake until the fury of the flames subsided. He. said that fully ¢u0 people fled to the lake, and expressed the belief | fi that twenty or thirty in his viecia- ity had drowned. He joined a party of seven of the Imperial ank staff, who had placed the gold and money belonging to the bank in a canoe to save it. 'It took all the strength of the eight of us to prevent the canoe from he- ing swamped by the waves," said to Mr. Moss. His clothing showed the effects of the long immersion in the rough waters of Porcupine Lake. Mr.Moss, however, had been able to save his valises and their con- tents by burying them in a rut in one of the-streets of South Por- cupine. R. Brown, news agent on the train which arrived last evening, came through from Englehart. "In addition to the people who were on the ground when the fire broke { 46 out,"" he said, "there were 300 prospectors who had arrived on Saturday and Sunday, and they were all going into the weods. They must have perished. On Wed- nesday night 55 people slept in a Pullman car at Cochrane, while others slept in the T. and N. O. station, in day cars, box cars, and cattle cars. They were glad to get anywhere in order to snatch a few | hours' sleep. When he left the north 27 bodies h-d been taken from the Dome Mine. Five or ten more were in sight, but had not | medi been taken out. Matheson was completely cut off by the fire. Coming down from Englehart to North Bay the train passed through} a section of the-country which is' burned over, and the heat from the | eh ground was' so intemse that both sides of the coaches Doth ks scorched." : SAW MILLS BURNED. Buildings of Riordon Paper Mills in Quebee Burned. A despatch. from Calumet, Que., says: Fire totally destroyed the sawmills of the Riordon Paper Company here. The clerk in charge had barely time to tele- phone the news to the head offices | of the company in Montreal. Three |fem' hundred men are employed by the mill, and, in company with the men from the _company's: Hawkesbury mill, across the river, successfully checked the spread of the flames to 'the neighboring cottages and to the |. piles of lumber in the vicinity of the mill. A 'fire engine and ten men were | sent out from Montreal to help in | the "work of preventing further d nally extinguistiod to Toronto Thursday evening yw Y ners and prospectors, who gruirg ng Every | man who was eeen expressed the]. opinion that the duvath list will run} Work will Beghn a at Oncé on Sid- +! A ldespatch from Toronto sa; BUTTER AND AND £0ds; on {2% DRT, Brinta, 1 1a 196; I= 1b. for rolls, and Execs for twins, COUNTRY PR PRODUCE, d, 'in SE, ogi Uo. per 1, ipl © #6 to $6.50 on track; To Fe to $1.75 per bag ina fob ultry--Yearling chi , 14 gone pohisken 8, # to Tae id turkeys. 36 HOG "PRODUOTS, Bo Long, clear, 11 1. os qume-- Metin shor © gut. of a eavy, 13 13 to Lan rolls, hk 1 io break tast 'bacon, 17 to 18c; ide 19 14 Lari-Tierces, 10 1-4c; tubs, 10 120; pails, BUSINESS IN IN "MONTREAL, Montreal, July. 18, Westwérn, No. a 17 to at oan adian to 42 140; ex X store; ton Rlous Mani. Jatents, $4.50 3 straight $1.85 ht ba o 3 . $21 ou nldd)ings. Ont. 325 Go 831. "Beas Branton, $1: ue osorna: 11 38 to 11 Ensterns, 1 to Ao. Fastorns, 1 11. Butter--Choicest, {ater "wea WS Bed in ba A, Swope barrel, is: 90 Ibs s Dorn American No. fe Kinet nel 1 " ario, $22.50 to -S mouille, 8 UNITED STATES MARKETS. IL ey - % 180 No. Thard 2, Hour Fil Deents , 86 to $56.20; to 84.75; first clears, fd RE Lene, Ye heat--N hy = OR for dali. 0 shld de | us yi 680; ; Win r di L Jorn er; % 3 i ¢ yal doi" N » a Fig & blo = 'C. wh TO! bifiead"" FOatsHigher; w oo: No. 3 Ss 50 140; No. 4 whiter ns 5°00. LIVE STOCK M YARERD, Montreal, Jul 18. ~--Bteers, § 1-2 to 6 1-2¢} 312 W. at Lom 3 to $6 each; 0. 84.50 to $5; cows, $4; mmon i mediunt, $2.50 to Horak: + do. 50 , $1.50 ta $2.50 A iE 5 ii {oede ers, SE 5.007 on bag hw o hen Rs J ohoios 0. at i oows, choice, Wedin 3 TH ucks, $250 ois and' iered I coNTRACTS SIGNED. ""Bury-Port Arthur Line. "Contracts for the constructios rt Arthur to Sudbury divi jon" "of 'the "Canadian Northern Rana the greatest link 'in the gle transcontinental ably Paul, vad the Northern Con-} FALSE dozen, | ae tn, 190 Iie 2nd" w 12340 3 are noted £07 to] $13, on track, |. 20; | travel through he io.| mass of blisters and still another I | with his body opened by burns: to|and A. B. Shields, representative 1 of the J. B. O'Brivn Co., beat their to! bush, as only the dead remain. A] are. | few have, however, already come eto light. For example, at the Unit- ..| ed Porcupine, where were the three to! Flynn brothers, who had hereto- [sought refuge on an outcropping of dias): y the Foley Brothers. I; Scenes Vien Progress of Great "IE pha enrol JTBE ME | S A despatch fron Cobalt, Ont., says: Acts of heroism throughout Porcupine during the" progress of the fire are t00 numerous to men- tion in detail and the horrors of the holocaust too gruesome to print: As one man expressed it, after the fire, '"To go through this, one could i with & smile on his face."" . One: man was led through the town with both eyes burned out and moaning only cause his partner had perished. Another with his face and arms a Harry Roche, a mining engineer, way back through the tewn when the flames were at their height and brought out with theman unknown man who was so seriously burned that a portion 'of his hand fell off when he was picked up. Little will ever be known of the experiences on some of the properties or in the fore never separated, two are now alive and one . remains behind a charred mass. At the United Por- eh | cupine property tliere was no: shel- ter from the flames, and the men rock, There: Andy Yuyll, the fore- man, perished 3 AV Frank Ely: and Joseph: Flotehor,, While other, named Dwyer, a Cols miner, is missing. 'rock, J. L, Flynn and Joseph Flynn watched their brother bura to death; J. L. Flynn receiving seri- ous burns on arms and face. With them was Gilbert Gibbs, whose fea- tures were burned beyond recogni- tion, and 'whose arms "and body were scorched. The flames came upon these as on others with such rapidity that even blankets or tow- els to wrap about them could not -|be obtained, and yet these hardy men survived the furnace of flames, and after the fire had passed made their way over five miles into Por- cupine in spite of their injuries. At the Philadelphia, when it became evident. that the mine must" go, Manager E..P. Ashmore, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Shovel and others re- treated toward town. With the party was O. E. Adams, a resident of Philadelphia, who was at the property in the capacity of book- keeper. He was in poor health, and. died in the. arms of Manager Ashmore of heart failure. It was necessary to leave Adams' body behind to the flames. The men from .the Eldorado 'all esc What 'occurred 'in detail af ost Dome, . the centre of the most ter- rible: part. of the catastrophe, will probably never, be known, but it is: apparent that so ou. and d expert enced a miner as Robt les would never have. led i assooi- ates into a timbered shaft in "Hime - : of fire~unless all aller. means of escape was cut off. However, there are in, the Dome shaft 27 [badies, fncludin ing that of Mr. was ce on . The Prince 0 les was invest- ¥led in his rine ality by his fa: ther. ~ BAPPENINGS 'FROM ALL ovER | The ve UTNE GLOBE IN A ye NUTSHELL.