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Subject: [Ont] Porcupne Fire 1911- Part 1
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 20:49:01 -0700

This is taken from The Enginerrng and Mining Journal dated August 12,1911
List of the Dead and Missing in Porcupine Fire

The following list of dead and missing, as a result of the Porcupine fire, was compiled by the Relief Committee appointed immediataly after the disaster. Because of haste and confusion necessarily following such disaster, it is quite probable that there are some innacuracies, but it us published herewith on account of its being the best information available at this time.

Death List

Jules Metayer (Le Bretton) ;buried northeast side of lake
Andre Le Roux -Montreal;buried at Edwards point
Orpila Mondoux, Cobalt: age 50 body recovered.
Charles E Adams;Phoenixville, Penn: age 21 body shipped.
William Taylor, Reading England, relatives advised;buried at Pearl Lake
RA Dwyer Butte Monte: relatives advised:found and buried on United Procupine Gold Mines property
Andy Youill Toronto, superintendent:found and buried on United Porcupine Gold Mines Property.

Joseph Fletcher, Cockermouth, England ,found and buried on United Porcupine Gold mines property
Patrick Dwyer
William Moore ;Cobalt ,age 35 body shipped
Melvin Strain, Porcupine, body recovered
Nathan Haaas, Spokane, Wash, relatives in Houghton Mich, notified, body shipped.
Stanley Nicholson, Guelph, age 28 ,body shipped
Willaim Gore , Porcupine age 43 buried in Porcupine
T R Geddes age 54 buried at Foley-Obrien property
Mack Smith, new Liskeard, relatives advised buried on Foley-Obrien property
Thomas Bodin (man of same name is living) buried on Foley-Obrien property
Captain Thomas Dunbar- Kennedy & Dunbar, Pembroke -buried on Foley-Obrien property

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