Oh, You,
Look at the attached and then do some dreaming.
Appears as though there had been something doing in the “big” country.
Have been wandering around for about a week. Just got in here this morning from Indianapolis. May stay a day perhaps more. What’s the use of worrying, anyway.
Yours “Dies”
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400 Lives Destroyed by Flames
Fire’s Fury Is Ended in Northern Ontario and Michigan
By Associated Press to the Dispatch
Toronto, Ontario. July 13th – Reports tonight from northern Ontario points are that the forest fires, which swept over from North Bay, covering a wide section east and west, are under control.
No further extensive damage or loss of life is expected. The towns of Cocherane, South Porcupine, and Pottsville have been obliterated. The fires swept clean the townships of Langmuir, Eldorado, Shaw, Deloro, Ogden, McArthur and the Cripple Creek district.
The known dead total 122 – the majority of them at South Porcupine.
There are believed have been many other fatalities, and estimates run a high as 400.
Refugees from the burned area say that it covers 10,000 square miles, comprising a district that housed 20,000 people. From every quarter, have cone fugitives who escaped the flames many of them badly burned in their efforts to save valuables in their fight.
Some survivors are coming in with their clothing torn and their limbs cut from their mad rush through the woods. Some told of stumbling over bodies of those who had run before them and died on the way.