MINING CAMP DISASTER.
EIRE AT COBALT. By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright Montreal, June G. At the mining town of Cobalt, in Ontario, a fire swept away the theatre, bank, hotel, ami other buildings, the entire business block being destroyed. The explosion of a lamp in the actors' dress-ing-room at the theatre started tho conflagration. Several persons were injured.
_ Cobalt is a mining town of about 2000 inhabitants.. It is most interesting as a specimen of <i modern mining-camp, reproducing the conditions described by Brele Harto and Artemus Ward, but without the lawless element. There is a largo and picturesque floating population drawn from all ports of America and from every class in the modern community. The houses aro chiefly of unpainted wood. The town is on tho sido of a steep rocky hill. The thcatro is a large building and is also u>e<l as a mining exchange. The Bank of Commerce is a portable building which was brought from British Columbia.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1461, 8 June 1912, Page 5
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159MINING CAMP DISASTER. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1461, 8 June 1912, Page 5
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