HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1911-07-21, Page 6UN
!N
RE
PERISH
UPLNE FIRES
B. O'Brien. Co., beat their way beck
through the town when the flames were
at their height and brought with them
an unknown man who was so seriously
burned that a portion of his band fell
h he ryas p'eked up. Little will
Many Burned to Death and Many Drown-
ed—Partial List of Dead and Missing.
Heroic Deeds of Daring—Dreadful Suffer-
ings of the People.
SUMMARY OF THEY DISASTER.
in the Porcupine
The following is a partial summary of theelieastrous fires
distrhot yeretarday. DROWNED e known dead
PORCUPINE. LAKE.
WILL!) i A. MOORE.
R. F. MONDUE:
MERV Il; STRAIN, Baileybury.
ANDREW LARL'E. Spokane.
NATJ ee. HAAS, mining engineer, SP
SUFFOCATED OR BURNED.
lti'ee-y+ear-old Saug1L-
ROBER:T A. WIk S, manager West Dome,
ter.
CAPT. JACK HAMILTON', West Dome vMine.
McQUEEN. carpenter, latest Dome,
ANDY lath:LL. United Porcupine.
FRANK FLYNN, United Porcupine. i nee
JOSEPH FLETCHER, United Porcupine.
C. E. ADAMS. Philadelphia Mine. C�,T GEORGE DUIBAR,
MTM. G1iOR, THOS. GEDDES, DAN SMT'TH,
South Porcupine.
TWENTY-SEVEN known to be dead in 'West Dome shaft, names not to
hand.
THIRTY FOREIGNERS known 85r a deed in Dome drafts.
NG.
DWYER, of United Porcupine
Only three of 84 emnployees�of :West 'Do a aid bg the read
nte for an
noon yesterday. There is no means
the of manner and Mrs. Meek, Capt. Lawson, the
licalof orce. Benin cBan-
butS
Ban -
tan, M911 conatructipit foreman, and all. with theexception
etc., are safe. The Dome has nearly ES BURNED.
ANGUS BURT, swayer, West Dome, and MRS. BURT. 1
off 'When
ever be known of the experiences on to the Murphy House, where hien a
some of the properties or in the bush,
as only, the "dead remain. e.to lig t i' 'For exo the
pth point of flamese1s were.bg t oresi iene s
h t ever already
fight
it all drug stoxes and necessaries which
were ee much needed . '!'here remained
nothing but to administer stimulants
and sedatives.
The fire in Golden OLty consumed.
about one-third of the town. it enter -
1 from the north and burned around
ov ,
ample; at the '(.lilted. Porcupine, .' ere
were the three Flynn brothers, who had
heretofore never'sepsrated, two are now.
alive. and, dare remains behind a charred
mass, At the United Porcupine pro-
perty there was no shelter from the
flames, and• the men eought refuge on
an outerop,Rling of rock, There Andy
Yuyll, the reman, perished with Frank
Flynn and Joseph Fletcher, while an-
other named Dwyer, a Colorado miner,
i,s' missing. On the same
me rock. t, ' Li.
Flynn and .Tosepli' Flynn watched
re-
ceiving
brother burn to death. T. L.
serious burns on face and arms.
With them• r•as Gilbert Gibbe who a feat
tures were burned beyond recognition,
and. whose arms and body were scoreh-
ed. The flames came upon these as
on. others with, such rapidity that even
blankets or towels to wrap about them
could not be obtained. and yet these
hardy men . survived the furna e of
flames. and after the fire had brei five Yn lesp into
ed
made :their We yover
rn spite of' their' injuries; and
are now oh their way to their homes in
Bracebridge. M the Ph�iladelphiaavben
it became evident that the mine roust
go, Manager R. P. Ashornre, Mr. and
Mrs. Samuel, Shovel and others retreat
ed towards town, With the p r Y
were
C. E. Adams,' sd:, resident of Philadelphia,
who Was at the 'property in the capac-
ity of bookkeeper. Re was in poor
health And died in the arms of Manager
Ashmore 'of ±heart failure. It was ne-
cessary to leave Adams' body behind to
the flames. The, men from the Eldor-
ado all eseal'red. What ocanrred in de-
tail at West Dome, the centre of of all
the iuoet-tenable part of the catas-
trophe; will 'probably never be known,
but it is apparent that so old and .ex-
perienced a. miner as Robert A. Weiss
would. never bave led his associates into
a timbered: shaft in titre of fire unless
a1l,otirer $teens of escape waas cut
Dome
However, torte are in 'the' includine
shaft!' twenty-seven ty-seven bodies,
that of Mit Wei„,a. To shots that re-
treat to the gnat must have been made
hurriedly is the fact that 100 pounds
of dynamite were known to have been
in
the bucket at the mouth' of the shaft.
What becenie'of 'the others of the 8d
erllleyece. •exee7?t three. known to be
alive, may' never be known, and yet
time maw' give them forth. It is ap-
parent tl»t1 at, one time an effort was
made, to eseape from the shaft, for the
employees of the Preston East Dome,
headteil. 111; C'alitain•,Taelt \'rrilson, vieited
the sir? as scan as ponsilale alae :
art p ' f-)addere, Bila e{ .
rrha-ft. • r 7 -
`.C'he bow` of Mrs. Bose "'Wallingford
Burt, nifte 'of Angus Burt, the assayer,
er,
was found hanging half way up
aland wens 'hit 'by is falliinge was tburning timto ber,
the mat;lr8 of evhich remain on her body.
The evoke.., id' gas from the dynamite
were so intense that no other bodies
could he reeox Bred.
The •eaeape et those at the Dome
and 1'resf•o11 East Dome, which were
in the eent.re of the fire zone, is little
short of- nireeulous. At Preston
East Dome not a man was lost. Some
taking
catered an untintibexed shaft, and
with them food and buckets,
passed up water to others. Captain
'Wilson and some of the employees lay
in a creek and threw water over them-
selves and even over the rabbits' driven
from the bush bythefire,-wchsou ht
refuge by snuggling upagainst
Captain l\'ilson's eyes trete burned, but
no serious injuries sustained.
e
of the town are destroyed and, a evenet
eburehes .and other btu tug
went. •Food was soon .exhausted and
this morning there remained nothing
to eat except What could be purchased
in the line of crackers, and such will re-
main the 0ndition until relief trains
are sent in. 'These trains arealready
sent for and Clem Foster equipped
train of doctors, nurses and supplies as
well as a hundred coffins for the camp
and . this should arrive at midnight.
C. F. Goldwaitbe.
(90
DOME MINES, all of the builds v except
forty-stamp almost
c's
$800,000, includes all shaft houses,
largeup-to-datecompresser plant. .ant and camps.
NORTH DOME MINES. loss $50.000, p
PRESTON EAST DOME. loss $150,000, plant and camps.
VIPOND, lose $100,000.. plant and comps.
FOLET'-U'BRiEN, total loss estimated at $100,000.
PHILADELPBL4 MINES, loss about $50.000.
UNITED PORCUPINE MINES.. lose $20.000.
ELDORADO PORCUPINE, small buildings destroyed.
hTANDARD, loss about $40,000:
IMPERIAL, loss about $35,000
—
SUCCESS; 4S; probably ue ,,e"
WEST DOME MINES, Plat
• THE STORY IN DETAIL.
Cobalt detpateb: The lose of life in
Porcupine district, as • the result of yes-
terday's fire. will e robably' reach several
hundred, wide tire property toes will
reach $1,000,000.
In tour . short hours, comnteneinf at
from noon. yd .e fire right through
ed
from thee...tansand Mines
to the shores of Porcupine Lease, where
it ate up that town, the site of South
Golden
Porcupine, Pottsville and part of .olde
City, as well as many small buildings
along the lake front. %Chile part of the
loss of life occurred in the vicinity of
Porcupine Lake, the greatest havoc will
be around the main mi
es, noe tableWe
Dome and Big Dome.
entrap-
ped miners, cutoff from escape by. the
flames, were forced to take to the shafts
for safety, and, penned in -by the flames,
perished. This was notably true at
Dome and West Dome Mines, while at
Preston • East Dome safety ryas sought
in an tintimbered shaft, anti there. was
no -loss of life. The streets of South
l:'oreupine are strewn with dead Iaunan
beings, horses, dogs and cattle, while
along the mine roads the charred
corpses of those who failed. to esc. •pe
the flames occur• at interveis. Tho
names and number of dead eau be but
roughly estimated, because of thederge
number of prospectors in •the bush who
could not have but perished in wept etla
ing furnace of flames that pa
f - a
rfront
a
in
• � country r.
cc
r
5'
the. 25 anile., u
60.irdle gale.
It is known, however, that of the
staff of 300 at tbe Dome but- a fele
were, saved, while at the West Dome
but three out of 84 employees are-
now
,renow known to be alive. Along the high-
way between West Dome and
Soutit
Porcupine, over -a comparatively open
section, there are six charred. bolding. In
the ruins of the town of
pine there lie the bodies of William Ghor
and his clerk, Mae Smith, Capt. George
Dunbar and Tom Geddes.
CA"JGIIT TT1\ANARES. •
Early yesterday morning dense
clouds of smoke csould be seen in the
southwest, but little attention was paid
to this in the towns, because of the ap-
parent remoteness • of the fire. A small
tire also broke out in Lakeview, Porte.-
• pine Townsite, but this excited little no-
tieo because of the frequency of lamb.
fires during the past two or three weeks.
As noon approached, however, thick
clouds of smoke reached the. zenith),.
marking the approach of thedfire,a aid
'soon the eun Was obscured in
rn-
ing red. belt cia fire.- At )f.30 the fire
head covered. an • area of 25 miles in
leen th and. over 2 miles in width .id
bad reched the base line of Tackle,
carrying with it the Standard and lm -
penal mines in Delors, P ii CJza)ltit. in
• Slit!, and the Eldorado
Southern i' ititney. Atas rea. m.dyid
he
scai,i.on, wee of the situ
'r e
ail
the
fire e
whenin South I'oreupine
was eoundecl on the Done Mine whistle,
with repeated btattstfrom hls tine iet less in
other sections, 13y
y
....,. eaten with umoke• and reeldents sit
house: loss
completed and
r
NEWS QF THE
DRV IN BREF
TOWN 1N FLLMES
Three Acres of Business Part of St.
Jerome Burned:
•„.... ..... . ...
'n$75,000. iidinge ,loss about
and light baggage for the hurried de-
parture. It was not long before the
flames had reached the Foley and
O'Brien, having enveloped the Preston.
East Dome, the Dome, West Doane,
North Dome and what remeine of
tl'e
J z
Dome tensioe after last t
tire.. e •
WIPED OUT 1i 20 MINUTES,
In twenty minutes South Pore -up*
was completely in flames ane lit three
hours there were but corpses and a
1
[ow smouldering embers where the most
flourishing town of the camp had stood.
Men. , women and children crowded to
the water front at the first warning, be-
cause it was plainly evident that the
town could not live in the face of the
fire and the fierce gale behind. lantnehes
and canoes. scows and boats were press-
ed into commission and woolen and eine
dlreu were first packed into the boats
and sent to Pottsville and Golden (:try,
both of which were places of ..afcty at
that time. Panic and chaos prevailed.
Men "fought, with .each other for their
families and it teas neeessery ler polled:
Murray, with the asietance of .leek
Gardner, .t:o stand off the para- si.rieken
foreigners who stood by and rushed for
each boat Rs it came in. Men were
hurled into the water and many ru 1ser
in as the only place of safety. Tilirty
launches and as .many canoes soon, bad
the women landed in safety on the other
side of the lake. There tows one, ex-
ception and only one, and that the most
pitiful
of
We.
WilliamnC
l
r. with
a baby in leer arms, teemed to leave the
town anti,• he hail some news of her
husband, lr. Gator,like the others who
• perished in the town, had. gone beck in
an effort Lo save his valuables and with
his clerk was pennsdl in tbe braiding.
For over two hours Mrs. C;•hnr, with
the child in her arms. stood in the water
of the lake, 100 feet from idiom, exiling
for her husba.na anal refusing to leave
until be was found. • Frei after all had
deserted the town end the file had died
out, the remained intent on stmt' wait-
ing for the reeovst'y of her ..Behind's
body. To add to the terror of the sit-
nation, while the fire raged. there were
scores ot horses, cattle and dogs run•
Ow wild through the town, theft
iwordtail bodies now lining the strei:ta
with bodies of the dead men.
ACTS OF HER'OtSM.
C. P. R. Trains in Maritime Provinces
to be Operated by Telephone.
Toronts Doctors to be Made L.L. D's
at Birmingh'am .
Twenty -Seven Families homeless and
$150,000 Damage.
Sb. Jerome, Que., despatch The most
disastrous fire in the history of" the toren
broke out at 3 o'clock yesterday after-
noon, and before it could be controlled
damage estimated at $150,000 was caus-
ed, au area comprising three acres ot
the business part of the town having
been razed to the ground. Twenteeseven
families are homeless as a result of the
conflagration, while several of the prin-
smolstoruins. in th It is not known how
smoking
the fire started. summoned,
The firemen, on being,
turned. out With one steam pump, three
hose reels and twelve man, but before
they -could, get down to work the • fire
had spread with such rapidity That' the
whole area comprised between et.
George and St. Louis streets and along
St. Anne street, nL• distance of some 500
yards, was one mass of flames. The tire
practically burned itself out by 5 o'clock,
but the members of the local brigade, as-
sisted by volunteer firemen from the
Rolland PapereMille, the Dominion ktub-
ber Company, as wen as by the citizen:;
geenrally, kept pouring water on the
smoking debris till late in the night.
There were no fatalities or accidents.
The chief sufferer is Mr. Beaulieu, who
*as proprietorof the lumber yards and
demerits• business- .'T•I•e plates his damage
at $50,000, and is only insured for ohne
000. • •
Germany to Fortify the island of
Heligoland,
,Tames Byeno, aged. 06, fell dead at
Belleville from heart disease.
The Dominion Partianlent representa-
tives were entertained at Port Sunlight
by Sir W. Lever.
Orivlle Montrose Arnold, K. C., a lead-
ing.barrister, of Bracebridge, died. of in-
ternal. trouble.
The wife of D. McCart, Town Asses-
sox; of Sarnia; died suddenly in '.forth
Christiana street from heart failure.
The C. P. R. has completed arrange-
ments for the operation. of all its trains
in the Maritime Provinces by telephone.
Milkis short in Windsor, and defames
announce they expect to raise ath tv price
from eight to nine cents a q
in
a few days.
The Berlin Government has decided to
fwhich
wo)the Wand. of ceded to her by Great gBritain.
as some
twenty years ago.
'.THIRTY DIE IN ONE SHAN'T,
Al: the Dome it is known that thirty
fareigrd laborers perished in a shaft
where they sought safety from the fire.
Other bodies ate lying about the proper
-
tat and of the big force of 300, it is
doubtful if half remain alive.,
The escape of Manager Meek and his
wife and children, with Mrs. Meek's
mo
-
ther, was providential. Their last
wan behind a row of water barrels,
wh',ch prove, an effeetive barrier to
the
flames and• preserved their liver, and
even that of their cow. Henry Ranson,
who is in elsarge of the mill e
onstrite-
tion, with is. few others, kept behind the
heavy rook :fou'ndatian of thee mill and'
Stili others stood in the big
.survived..
Controller Wanklyn, of Montreal, has
entered a libel action against Oliver As-
selin for reflections on his motives in
awarding paving contracts.
The crews of the Red Star ateartae
in the Antwerp -Boston service joined
the strike at Antwerp. All the Red
Star eervices; are now affected.
Williane 'Walker, probably the oldest
resident of Northilmberland County.
Ont., is dead at Edville, aged AT years.
Be had lived in this district Siinee 1833.
Members of the First Congrsgatienah
Church, London, have extended an in-
vitation to Rev. G... Watt, of Guelph,
to become the minister of their ehd7rch-
At the S. M. Rifle Club meeting ter,
Canadian cadets secured" the Lee, Chal-
lenge Cup. In the Earl Grey Cup com-
petition H. Laweon was the first .man.
Dr. J. A. McDonald and Dr. It. A.
Reeve, Toronto, have been invited to
am University
tacpt from he i
honorary oe July
27th.
The jewels of the late Idly Price, the
Duchess of Marlborough, were auetiene+i
at Christie',, London, and brought a
total of $165,700 within fifteen min-
utes.
Eva Booth; Colli fro* Commander
the
thoalva-
tion •Army, s
y
the hot weather. She is still under a
physician's care, and is likely to be for
some time
HORACE'S FARM.
Discovery Made in Heighorhood of
Perch in Sabine Hills
London, July 17.—An interesting
archeological discovery of what is
believed to be Horace's Sabine Villa
has been made in the neighborhood
Percile in the Sabine Hills, says
of e.
Dai
•„ of
the Y
en
nd
the Rome correspondent
Men.
Some peasants, while digging, came
across some Mosaic pavement and
Count Nigri was sent by the Govern-
ment to inspeot1 the has •0 very.diecoNed
gri believes
Horace s Sabine farm the situation
of which has always been in doubt,
asttong archaeologists•.
of water on the property and
reservoir
e Men stationed
escaped with 'sore ey s.'
at he pumps on the lake, however, be,
came panic-stricken, and trade for the
•'lush, and there died a prey to the
flames -
lDl NAMITE MAGAZINE EXPLODES.
On the Foley -O'Brien property stood
the Canadian Explosives dynamite
wag-
seine, containing 12 t Y
This burned for some time before it ex-
ploded, and at the time of the a rain ionH
Ernest and Barry Rolland, Cap
r. Munn and: •several ; others Vere oppo-
site it on the road, a distance of 300
yards. They were Burled from their
feeet by the coneuseio and bruises.t neof the
party was inured bey
Standing ori a siding in Lakeview
Porcupine Was .. a eat of .dynamite,
which exploded about s oe' l lowed ttre
aitetnoon ;'.Th•is;eSii9
.turning of the,.,glyeerin,e,'and•broke ev
e1•y pane of glees in Golden City`. Men
and. women standing
in hurled he f water rh att
South Porcupine were
feet, and flying debris was scattered.
everywhere: • A piece of iron fell t the
remains oath() dock, shuttering 't 'e arm
of all naksloWn man, who was about to
leave in a canoe. He was peeked up and
e en a thetake end hie arm later
irks
c:
.e tit retain u1
amA Miss s w
P and injured
of ,fore line
nes work- wetet an w v.. e>f t e ro s
A young man itt iogare lfn having
been
crossed in love, g
ok
at the.gulf body
beneath found n" t mo
im. aud—weet
home. His belly
ing in bed.
Governor Hoke Smith was 'sleeted
United States Senator from Georgia on
the first ballot taken by the 'House and
Sneate in joint eession, Ile succeeds
John M. Terrell. encu into tbP
An inquest will be op
death of Isaac Carseahlen. a aslteblor
farmer, of Ivanhoe, I3astinge Counts,
Ont., who was found dead with a bullet
in his head.
Richard Bullen and Edward (ase,who
pleaded guilty to assaulting Hark Oook,
C, T. R. foreman, were sentenced by the
Belleville Police Magistrate to two
years in the Penitentiary.
Word was received in Ottawa of the
death of Hon. T. Neese,
Sis ,form e�Tossesin-
General for Japan,
INewlturned to the, Far East, he had acted
as Governor of tie. Province of lends
in
in Corea.
THOUSAND OUT. 1
Firemen, Stewards and Oilers ot
Ward Steamers Strike.
New York, July 17.—About 1,000 fire-
men, stewards and oilers of the Ward
Line steamers were called out again to-
day, following the rejection of terms
red
"b
ter company to its``striking
off, y
na
.ex
,M
a
•1
a
' P e g
" G
.nt
• Lt
t
'employees. Ass.sta•
Macey said, however, that negotiations
were still in progress and that the com-
pany hard not abandonedtlt to of the set -
Ile expected
pany's linos, Morro Castle, would be able
to sail to -day de's scheduled,, despite the
efforts of the men to tie up the line.
The Marine Firemen's' Union last night
ended a truce declared several days ed ago,
rejected the advance in pay
s
a compromise, and held out for their
original demands, recognition of the.
union and $30 a month and 75 cents a
day "grub money" for the freight ethern-
et firemen.
Terrible Scenes Witnessed Dieing the
Progreso of the Holocaust.
Cobalt, Oita.,' despatch' h tris of •hesro-
ietn'throiiq'hout Poietfpine ilnting. 'the
progress 4)1 the fire are too nutnerotis to
mention in detail and the horrors of. the
holocaust too gruesome to inlet. As one
mean e;l.pressed it after the fire. "To go
throat 1t this, one could travel through
bell With a smile on .tie fake. One ratan
was led through the totve with both
be-
eye* awned on. t and rivallingd k ei blis
to bis partner ha dperished. Auoth er t repeated. shr in Toronto
with to
o"
McNAMARA'S CA5E'
Los Angeles, Cal., July 17.—Superior
Judge iiordwell has denied the motion
to quash the indictments against John
and James McNamara, charged with
nineteen murders in connection With the
.destruction of a newspaper plant here,
Oct. 1, 1910 ,
The accused men at once entered pleas
of not guilty to all the inclietxnents.
Timothy Buckley, of Cornhill, King's
County, N. B., driving a load of limber,
overcome by the heat and fell off the
wagon and was. killed. • '.'his is the
first Beeth in the Province attributed)
to the heat.
A large black snake, which was lock-
ed up in a distribttting station bon at-
teched to a pole• of the New York Tele-
phone Company, on Washington street,
Bloomfield, gave the hello girls at
Montclair Central Station and the line
repairers a busty hour,
ON VISIT FROM INDIA.
Toronto, July 17, --Mr. Er'erarci Cote!,
managing 'director of rite Eastern News
Calcutta, and hors. Cotes, better
known Jeannette. Duncan, are
known as Sara
use mass of•' is- for a tett/ days as 0e guests e
lits face and arms a ta# d There *ate tepea.e C lett 'rimy are going oe
00
pee
,lite
of
ntt'ol P
bh tion the burned j 'will t to oe
T and. still , iitir with his hotly and c d ill cent Prince Rupert b b re ton
penes by bores, ories,.for..dteietAra. P1hyNLelatas w '
T#nrr'y Roche, a mining' angineer, and
end,
e
While Captain Post, of the Post"F i °s 1
Co., Sandusky, Ont., and W. Deturier,
a Teeantington, Ont., liveryman, we1•e
driving near Point Pelee,
tehorse fret took
flight-tuna threw theoccupants,
rig. Captain Post reeeive•a serious in-
juries about the head.
The terrible death rate among child-
ren of Montreal during the past :toll
days is only now becoming nubile. reported
the total number of deaths rep
since June lit, ninety-six per eent. were
children under five Myearsf r o age. Tbe
were
total deaths were 473,
infants.
DIANA RAILWAY CHANGE.
INDIANA 113.—Western trunk
Chicago, July I
lines have pined an fndependeut en-
trance into the Calumet tel cities of
Northern Indiana, when the C%liteago &
Northwestern and the Mew, Milwau-
kee & . St, Paul nada purchaaied 40 per
cent: interest in the Indian Holler Belt
Ittsilroad Co The New York Central