TERRIBLE FOREST FIRES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1180, 15 July 1911, Page 5

TERRIBLE FOREST FIRES.

HUNDREDS KILLED. Canadian miners imprisoned by FLAMES. MORE TOWNS DESTROYED. By Telegraph—Press Association— CoDyriEht Ottawa, July 13. The forest fires in the Porcupine district, which lies south of Calgary, along the'eastern foot-hills of tho Rockies, arc the worst in Canadian history. Tho death list numbers over 300, and the loss of property will run into many millions of pounds. _ _ A great wall of flam© swept tho mining camps, closing in with startling suddenness. , The victims of the fires are believed to include two hundred employees of tho Dome Mine, who are penned in tho shaft. Tho streets of South Porcupine are I strewn with dead bodies. | Many prospectors' bodies- have been found. Fifteen persona were driven into , a lake-in the effort to escape from tho flames. All of them perished. Six hundred inhabitants of Cochrane •escaped in a relief train before the town was destroyed. Part of tho town of Tisdale was destroyed. , Four thousand residents in. the neighbourhood escaped in a relief train. The flames were checked when a number of houses were dynmiited. The town of Kelso was abandoned to the flames. . In Golden City men refusing to tight the flames wero forced to act at the revolver's point. Frenzied foreigners attempting to reach the boats on which women and children wero being removed to safety were held b?ck by armed men. A relief fund has been opened in Toronto.