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? HUNDREDS OF L I' IN Fires Sweep Uncheck< Northern Ontari* . Completely \ Toronto, Ont., July 12.?The loss of life in the Porcupine district from A J - in tn KO CPV ;yesieraay s uics ivuunu cral hundred and the property loss "will reach several millions of dollars. Only three of the 84 employes of the "West Dome mine have been accouhtcd for, and 200 miners, muckers, etc., in the Dome mine have been suffocated. The mines burned included the Dome, North Dome, Preston-East Dome, Vipond, Foley O'Brien, Philadelphia, United Porcupine, Eldorado Porcupine, Standard Imperial, West Dome and Success. . Among the dead are Robert Weiss, 'manager of the West Dome, and his " "wife and child. The Philadelphia mine's loss is about $50,000. United Porcupine mine's loss, $20,000; El% dorado Porcupine, all buildings destroyed; Standard, about $40,000; Imperial, about $35,000; Success, f-". ' probably destroyed; West Dome mines, about $75,000. All reports ^ive but a vague idea of the loss of life as well as property in Porcupine camp, which probably will total millions of dollars and hundreds of lives. Eats Up Towns. In four short hours, commencing J at 12:30 yesterday afternoon, the fire swept from the Standard mines ? through to the shores of Porcupine lake, where it ate up the towns of South Porcupine, Pottsville and part U ... of Golden City, as well as many small pt- "buildings along the lake front. While ?r?mo insc nf lite occurred in the vi f| cinity of Porcupine lake, the greatest lavoc was wrought around the main mines, notablr West Dome and Big Dome. There the entrapped miners, cut off from escape, were forced to take to the shafts for safety, and, penned in by the flames, perished. J- This was notably true at Dome and V "West Dome mines. Strewn With Dead. 0 The streets of South Porcupine are strewn with dead persons, horses, illk'r- dogs and cattle, Along the mine *v(roads are the charred bodies of those overcome while trying to escape. Of :r : the staff of 300 at the Dome, but a IP'; few were saved and at the West Dome but three out of 84 employes are known to be alive. Early' yesterday morning the P miners saw dense clouds of smoke to the southwest, where the fires were' fii raging. They gave small heed. It 1 was not until noon that the dense kj ' ' smoke clouds began to roll over the U Porcupine district. The miners became alarmed. Messengers were sent out and soon returned with warnings that the fire was traveling through the forest at a rapid pace and was licking up many towns. Covers Many Miles. Shortly after noon the fire had cov red an area of 25 miles in length and two miles in width and was licking up the base line of Tisdale, sweep~ ing o^er the Standard and Imperial I mines at Delore, the Philadelphia, Inshaw, Eldorado and United mines in Py southern Whitney. ' * When the seriousness of the situation was apparent the fire call was sounded with the Dome mine whistle. In half an hour the flames were raging on the spot. They swept over the Foley O'Brien mine, then jump% ' ed to the Preston-East Dome and followed over the Dome, West Dome and North Dome. |?y > Hundreds fled before the flames, t>ut the dense clouds of black smoke liung very low over the land and made progress difficult. Fell Exhausted. Many fell exhausted before the rag. ing fire as it swept over the town of 0. '> South Porcupine. The frame buildings burned fiercely. Twenty minutes after flames struck . the outskirts the town was in ashes. - -- * ' ' -a A* fny. All WHO escaped ine names mauc iui the water where all- sorts of water craft, launches, canoes, scows and - i skiffs, were pressed into service. Women and children were first huddeled into the small boats and started off for Pottsville and Golden ?g-, ; City, where they were temporarily safe from the flames." Many miners lost their lives in efforts to save others and some were drowned. Thirty lost their lives at Porcupine. Fifteen men were drowned at South Porcupine when they were driven into the lake by the dense clouds of smoke and rolling wave of .fire. Two men were burned to death at Eldorado mine and another met a similar fate at the United Porcupine mines. Three Towns Destroyed. Three towns have been wiped off the map and hundreds of refugees are facing starvation. A tram containing 600 women and children was rushed out of Cochrane f t IVES LOST RAGING FLAMES jd Through Woods of o.?Whole Towns Destroyed. c j this morning for the south as the | wall of flames advanced toward the j village. The town of 2,500 inhabi! tants was soon a mass of fire and is entirely destroyed. South Porcupine and Pittsville are charred ruins. Golden City was surrounded by flames for hours and is still in danger although only the suburbs have been burned. Port of Tisdale has been wiped out, the fire being controlled only by dynamiting a dozen houses in the middle of the town. Two special trains have been sent to bring the 4,000 persons who are facing starvation or death by fire in the Tisdale district. Communication with stricken districts is exceedingly difficult. Almost No^ Warning. The flames swept down on South Porcupine and Pittsville almost without warning. The alarm came just in time for the people to rush for the lake, but they wrere forced to abandon all of their belongings. Gasoline boats, rowboats and even hastily improvised rafts were utilized to get the refugees, many of whom were * women and children, across the lake to Golden City. There all, with other survivors of the fire in the north are at present fighting back the fire. There are only a few days' provisions left in Golden City. The laborers employed on the Ontario government's new railroad line which runs from Golden City west reached the city after a desperate fight with the flames in which many % were badly burned.' They lost everything hut the clothes they wore. The town of Kelso was abandoned to-day after a fight lasting since Sunday. RULE OX NEGRO IV SLEEPER. Can't Stay in Sleeper with Whites, Says Shreveport Judge. Shreveport, July 12.?That a negro woman can not occupy a berth in a sleeper car where there are white passengers even as a maid, in this State, has been ruled by Judge Blanchard in the police court. Two negro women were taken from a berth of an incoming train at the lo cai union depot nere on Monuay night on the appeal to the police officers by several white passengers. A vigorous protest was made to the ejection of the negresses by a white passenger, who claimed the women were traveling as maids to his daughter. These negroes were reluctant 1 to leave their berth, and were escorted to police headquarters in their night clothes bef. re they could be i persuaded to don more suitable attire. Judge Blanchard fined them each i .$25 for violation of the "Jim Crow" i law. ' Sparrows Cause Bad Fire. Lancaster, July 12.?Fire of un- ( known origin was, discovered in the ( Bank of Lancaster building this afternoon about 1 o'clock. The blaze was hard to locate, as smoke was issuing from the top story in such a volume that it was impossible to as; certain at what place it was burning. The bank is on the lower floor and , the offices of Lerov Springs and the Lancaster & Chester railway on the I second floor. W. T. Williams, Col. Springs' private secretary, had just left the office, and everything was all right. There was no one in the Lancaster & Chester office, it being the dinner hour. Col. Springs' office suffered the heaviest loss, the bank and the Lancaster & Chester railway office suffered considerable damage from water. The fire company did good work. The fire seemed to have caught between the ceiling and the roof in a lot of rubbish carried in by English sparrows. "CHARLEY" ROSS IN ASYLUM. Farm Hand Driven Mad by Old Kid napping Case. Bangor, Me., July 14.?In the Eastern Maine insane hospital here is "Charley Ross" who has just been committed by the town authorities of Milo. The man was working as a farm hand in Sebec, when he became violent. The man is apparently a monomaniac on the subject of the long missing Charley Ross, whom he claims to i be. He shows a strawberry mark on his chest, a wart under his ear, a peculiar formation of one of his fingernails, which he claims ought to prove his identity. His pockets were full of notes and clippings about the kidnapping of Charley Ross, and many written notes about the doings of the "Black Hand" which he says spirited him away in 1874. f SOME OF LINCOLN'S STORIES. Anecdotes Told by War President? His Love for Jokes. All great men ,do not love to laugh but Abraham Lincoln was different. He loved to hear stories that would make him laugh, says an exchange, and he loved to tell them and laugh at them, which shows that he was not a professional humorist. He used stories as a tonic. On one occasion a member of congress, who took life seriously, came to the White Hous.e to see the president on business of national importance. It was when the clouds hung heaviest over the union cause and the member was not feeling hilarious. Neither was Mr. Lincoln for that matter, but he began ?to tell a funny story. ' The member resented it, and told the president he was there on serious business and not to listen to funny stories. Mr. Lincoln looked hurt and his sad face grew sadder. "Sit down," he said, waving his caller to a chair, "sit down and let me explain. I have the very highest respect for you and a regard not much less than your own, I guess, for the nation at large; but if I didn't get a chance to laugh sometimes I'd die in my tracks. I can be as serious as you are, but not all the time. Which reminds me"?:and he finished his story with the approval of the serious member, who felt better for it. "Abe" had the story telling bug in his system and it was a benignant bug. Some of the'stories Mr. Lincoln laughed at were not altogether fit for publication in a family journal. One of this sort had been told to him and he had laughed. A very proper friend of his spoke to him about it and he J 3 ll% A promptly coiiuemueu tut; stuiy. "Then why did you laugh at it?" inquired the friend. * "I didn't," smiled Mr. Lincoln gravely.t "I laughed because I was so glad Ithadn't told it." Although Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky he was never a man who took liquor as a beverage. This is a pretty sire sign that he was really and truly great, because only the greatest are able to raise above the influence of their early environment?in Kentucky. Once he was asked to take a drink by a politician who was meeting him for the first time and he declined on the ground that he never drank. "UnuT (Inoo Viqnnon ?" Innnired 11UTT UVVO WUHb th,e politicians in surprise. "Wern't you born in Kentucky?" "Yes," replied Mr. Lincoln, with the well-known twinkle in his sad, gray eyes, "but you see, my friend, I never acquired the habit because those other Kentuckians got to the jug before I did. You know I left Kentucky when I was quite young." This little anecdote shows what Mr. Lincoln missed by moving north of the Mason and Dixon line. Nearly all the papers and letters bearing the signature of Mr. Lincoln show that he signed his name "A. Lincoln." A facetious college professor called his. attention to this and added: "You are not a Lincoln, Mr. President; you are The Lincoln." Mr. Lincoln chuckled deep down with modest enjoyment. "That may be," he admitted, "but don't you think it would be rather cheeky for me to sign it that way?" This one is a sign that Mr. Lincoln was as modest as he was great. Every great man has some personal weakness or other. If he didn't have he wouldn't be human. Mr. Lincoln was very human and he was a bit sensitive on the usual pronunciation ' of his name. To a visitor who had the custom, not unusial, of frequently mentioning the name of the person to whom he was talking, he said. "Don't pronounce it as though I was a sausage. Call it Linkun." Mr. Lincoln's language in ordinary conversation was characterized by the same simplicity which adorned his speeches. "You never swear, Mr. President, do you?'' asked a prominent Boston man tttVin Viod with him nn hpv lXiUU IT UV UWU MAiUVVi ft AVM vm ww * eral occasions. "Oh, I don't have to," he laughed not loud but deep. "You know I have Stanton in my cabinet." This may have been a reflection upon the virile and vitriolic secretary of war, but it was no less a delicate compliment. One morning Mr. Lincoln met a well preserved tramp near the White House grounds. The tramp didn't know the president and struck him for the loan of a dime to save him from immediate starvation. "You look like an able-bodied man," said the president; "why don't you join the army?" "They won't let me," whined the tramp. "I'll be glad enough to die for my country, sir, if they would give me the chance." "Well,^ maybe I can be of service," said Mr. Lincoln, kindly. Taking an envelope and pencil from his pocket he wrote a note and addressed it to the officer in charge of the recruiting station near by, in 15th street. "Take that," he said, passing it over, "and give it to the officer at No. 714 15 th street. If he can't do anything for 't" ' V. . - ' j . .* ?' you come back here to me, I'm just walking around.*' The tramp took it and shuffled away, but he never came back; neither did he go to the recruiting office. The note was to this effect: "Col. Fielding. The bearer is anxious to go to the front and die for his country. Can't you give him a chance? A. L." This story proves that while some of the people may be fooled some of the time, and some of the people may be fooled all of the time, all of the people can't be fooled all of the time. In his youth Lincoln ran a ferry on the Ohio river at the mouth of Anderson creek. The only passenger for a whole day was being ferried over, and to enliven the journey he Af WachtTurtnn thrnw ing a silver dollar across the Rappahannock at Fredericksburg. "Well," remarked young Abraham sadly, "he couldn't throw one across the Ohio at the mouth of Anderson unless he was doing more business than I am, or unless he stole it." Some question has arisen as to Mr. Lincoln's religious opinions, but this story may put to rest all doubts about his position. A Southern woman who had come to see Lincoln about her husband, who was confined in a Northern prison because of his "pernicious politics," mentioned the fact that the prisoner was a religious man. "I am glad to hear that," said Mr. Lincoln, cheerfully, and the lady smiled hopefully in response. Then he went on: "Because any man who wants to disrupt this Union needs all the religion in sight to save him." Mr. Lincoln's love for the soldiers was well known and he was a frequent visitor at the hospital in Washington. A young doctor was showing him around one afternoon to let him speak to the men. The guidet took him past the entrance to a large room, saying that he didn't suppose the president wanted to go in there as they were "only rebels." "But I do want to go in there," said Lincoln, "and don't you call them 'rebels;' call them 'Johnnies.' i-x. j_ i_: J 1 -* 1 A <11 11 SOU 11 US irmuuiivi. nuuiu >uu want to be called a 'Yank' and neglected because you did the best you knew?" A New Yorker at the White House said to the president that it seemed strange that the president of the United States and the president of the Confederate States should have been born in the same State. "Oh, I don't know about that," laughed Mr. Lincoln. "Those Kentucky people will tell you that they can raise most anything in their State and I reckon they're mighty near right." Some one told Lincoln that a distinguished and aristocratic Southern statesman had referred to him in a speech as a "rail splitter." "Well," said Mr. Lincoln, musing-] ly, "I suppose there is a difference in j men. Some are rail splitters and some are nation splitters. I think I prefer to split rails." Although Lincoln's accomplishment in the Black Hawk war. was hardly Napoleonic, he was no coward. Some one said to him as he was departing for the front: "You are not afraid of Black Hawk, are you?" "Well, I guess not," replied the youthful captain proudly, "I'm no chicken." Literally he was not, hut in years he wasn't much more than a broiler. When the civil war was practically over Mr. Lincoln responded at once by an improvement in health afTil spirit, but he did not want to go to the theatre on that fatal night, and not from any presentiment of evil. The play was "Our American Cousin," and he had seen it once. It was funny enough and Mr. Lincoln loved funny things, but not twice in the same place, even for company's sake. He tried to get out of going, but Mrs. Lincoln would not permit it. She had had troubles of her own with that theatre party from outside? Gen. and Mrs. Grant having been called away at the last minute?and she did not propose to have her own husband desert her. She insisted on his going. "All right," he said in his meek, submissive way, when he found resistance was useless. "All right, Mary; I'll go, but if I don't go down, in history as the martyr president I miss my guess." He didn't miss his guess, but his little joke became a world tragedy. Plan Orangeburg Hospital. Orangeburg, July 12.?Dr. Parker, of Columbia, and the physicians of this city are considering opening a modern hospital here in the near future. The great need of a hospital in Orangeburg has been keenly felt for many years. The plan proposed is for*these doctors to erect and maintain the hospital. 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