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cial Muse Ron H:: guest? day Se oe Hill ns m toe speaker “1 MURRAY RIVER . ay hoot 10 am urray Ri " Bush Fire Took 223 Lives 4 eas pa iat i er isang, eae Pentecostal ver 7 30-p'an. Sunday Behool lM _ KINGS Sunday- School 10° am. Worship .; .— GU E Pas'ora -ors ‘ontinued on- page 12 50 Years Ago This Week 1 san rage gesting Faved ae Creech Schl ihe’ Unhed hareh "Seeder POR ; THE PRESBYTERIAN Church day at & p.m. Annandale: Sun. (CTew’s Cardigan) Ciurch School the Uni nal alee y- jchtes. AU es e rs go $s e i). Murray’ Har~ day Schodt 10 a.m. Worsiip 8 16 am. Worsh * St 31 ower Barun 945 ‘am S ipping Season } : £5 ‘ +} ' aw . aver ing " e Worship ’ gue a 2 i : : Mt \THESON Ont cp RE aS eee ee Ginn ‘0 Yam The pm. °*Prayec meeting Wednes- © metal 8 Lorne \a _ font = ve m.. Sturgeon. 2.30 oO FP 19 ee j e t tee a ee ge es Lie. Myftle J él pm. St -Andre Monta-'pm eA eo Crozier, West: ns ror : 7 Those ‘who survived could de- now 82. and -hen family lived 4 f { a upper da pmok syrtie ingersol, ound : ~ A90 -A08 : Peter's Road Church School 7 pastor : gue: Worship 8 pm All servit>’meath, Ontario, guest. speaxer at § TUES THURS. % ecribe-.it only as a “giant Or.) Many others did not \A-search i 7 ae . Prenarat. = * €s-—conducted by Rev Hn —-Ga--alt services. Rev.-R.-F. Burns, “2 . sa apne 4 4 “_ bot se “ie Laat” wan ee: the folowing." day travel knee un the- Murray Har- MURRAY: HARBOR Pastoral Meron, Lunenburc, NS Re % mnister = _ CHURCHILL; Man. (CP) j SAT. ~~ a: verything: in its..ath was leq 4 the Black Rivet .in ‘a = § aaa B a” BD. frinister f a 4 Wed Soh yay? Rina ail sy ob Peon ee down Me Rae eee North. “Thursday, eveming Charge the United Church, Basil Lowery, BA’ B é MONTAGUE Church of Ciarist. ee ee Warkworth ar. ‘ Stella Maris G ‘Death for most’ was mercifully ‘ony jane. other: family: Alive {:Roclock Rev MV Carl Cur-. Murray: River 945 am. Mur- GEORGETOWN Baptist Church’ Sunday, July 31. Bible School .10 rive Wednesday to open THur- | Zz ; ~ 1 @- swift. For others, it was agan- Poe 1 Bie. min'stet , fay Harbor ’1! 15 a.m. Mr. John Sunday: School" 10:a:m Worship am. Morning’ Worship. 11-a.m. Chill’s 1966 ‘Shipping « se es y HALL ‘a izingly . slow- by* suffocation ESGAPE BY TRAIN’ *” 7 = oi pani . as Whiteway, quest speaker. 1)'.a.m. Gospel service 7-pan. Message>e"Escape from Bond- Navigation is, restricted : to an ¥ : Fire—the one thing dwellers: Most’ of those whd-s ed -AST ? rolestant. Fare - : ‘Rey. , astor ige “’ Evening. Service 7.30; | g of the: forests really fear—« Aa the Tire owed thelr tives to the ‘sh Sit n.d av’ School 945 am CENTRAL KINGS Pastoral Earle’ Smith. ps - Message The. Church at Ephe- ee 10 - week, period %, , NORTH RU co loose in. the scrub’ bush and proximity af a. hody of ster Worsivp and: Communion, Chris- Charge. the United Church, Sun-- MONTAGUE Baptist. * Pastor sis” Leslie “Sones, ‘minister.’ when. the Hydson Bay 4g is % : th prairie like grasslahd : ‘hat. sur- crivere. and small lakes Others '!? ure Niseiples) Sduth day, July 31 ‘Annandale 9.45 a‘m: ate. Rev. AG.) -Steeve> WA : _ qlee “free a “4 x Music - -— “Belmonts. Dancing/ from rounds. Matheson, It. -destreved escaped be: train. te kland |.ake am Wofship. ‘Baptist Georgetown, Sacrament of Holy BEd, BD; paster Mon‘esue ANNUAL Memorial Service| The Warkworth's’ 1,352 tons Y, 9: 30 until 12:00. Admission . gix tdwns and 1,000 square. miles Lake. 43 miles to the sautheast © hs! Kingsbere 730 pm. Commanion 11.15 am. Dundas ‘Sunday School 10 2. \\ ee Wt be — Oe Cemetery on'‘cargo included >a London dou- ‘ hy the : of homesteaders’ farmiands and and other. places out of the fire. Malcolni..0° Smith. pastor 8 p.m: Rev _James..W. Forbes, 11 a.m. Evensong 7 pm iw- Sunday, July at: 2.30 o'clock. ‘ble-detker’ bus “which wit—be—~ : bushland. The monetary loss areq’ Fire-fizhting. efforts were. - sak BA BD, minister ray River. Sunday Schoo| ° om f day unfavorable service will operated in Pegi | as a tourist Nerth Rustico Recreation Commission. rr wines -Dilt at $2,000,000, : iia aoe Mr was oie casla te PUNDAS — Ahnandale Unit-* * (WORSHIP 3-p:m. Murray Harber: he held ih the < church at St Pet-' attraction: _ : =. Two: Nand red TPT thebenterieetantivetedigaln quer iad Te ' LITTLE SANDS: Hall, tetas; ‘Sunday School 2 pm ers Bay. Guest” speaker Rev men, women and children died ‘the’ smouldering ashes and res Per titer ehatensth oe the July 31 Gospel. service 8 2 730 ‘p.m. Sturgeon Su 9 4 nf Frank Phinney. That was July 29,1916, and moved. the danger tof a further scorched bush os = ao went -into Canadian history a8 outbreak _ JUMP INTO, RIVER - : as , s - ; the Matheson fire. -= the Wiest! 4, wi be” oe Yushkia—10 \t Matheson, many survived } : 7 vet a ‘tragic.’ but not the miost devas- alles forth of Mo thes a in by jumping om a freight train ; A K ? © F 2 tating. in Canada’s records of WilffedGagne led or: his- Ro which had -been stopped at one i forest fires. It will be ¢hmmem- man Catholic parishioner ao end ‘nf -town The train ‘roared 5 ——prated Friday. 50 years after. t1.. “ditch beside the: railway —thenereh—- the—hre——Tive— 2888: — | : r -* with: the unveiling of a cuitn') ov, where he believed they. Caught” fire and were ‘dropped | : " three-quarters .of ‘a mile south woud he safe ‘then he went of after the occupants had “been i F of Matheson, centre of then ack i eke tet When tae fire’ transferred to other cars, Other A y burned area a ] a : Matheson residents escaped by a - swept in, Father jagre WAS ning into the, Black River ¢ burned: to death with 28 other: "Umnne 4 te

idea! for the ‘outbreak of -a -for- est fire—no rain for weeks, temperatures that in the nre- ceding sfortnight had reached 100 degrees: low humidity. And settlers were burning brush and

workmén were burning. scrub on railway. right-of-ways. Sud- denly, entire townships ‘vere ablaze: :

From ‘township to. township, ‘the orange wave swept The towns of Kelso. Nushka. Ra-

quois Falls and Matheson were levelled. The hamlets of Homer . and Monteith were © officially fisted as ‘‘damaged.”’ A sepa- rate fire on the same! day’ dam- aged Cochrane, 45 miles~ north- west of Matheson, and killed mine persons there.

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was renamed Val Gazne ‘'n pate Doctors” nukes and sol- memory of the ‘priest diers were brought in on relief

4 survivor of Nushka was 40 4..ine and many ‘settlers, like vear » ald “Simon Aument He Sefygees. were taken “outside.”” picked up the Aumont babs and or, ‘induce settlers to remain told hic wife and other. ch Idren n the aren the Ontario govern- to run for the railwav He coi cienl sranted them $150 for*loss lapsed after.running a short ais ta ha and (hb tr loss. of . tance and when he sregainea a house consciousness, went hack to the “ inieessetcatelematseaibaaiias ruins of. his home to -fihd ht . ° wife and nine children dead CITATION | Perey Alderson in Matheson, * tens a ran to. #® home five -nn'es in AVEL TRAILERS the bush when ‘he .learned that TR the fire was. approaching. He and his vonng wie sat dows! NOW IN STOCK on the ground as the fire swept ; around “them, showering them with flaming cinders. Next ¢ morning Alderson: was . blind

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the riches of the northland, suf- focated in root cellars and wells where they sought refuge’ Many were burned to, death as*they fan in terfor before the orange wave. When it was over, frail- -way boxcar loads of ‘pine cof- fine were shipped in to bury the

dead What Mrs. Frank Ginn terms’ @ miracle. occurred that dav.

Her eight'- year - old daughter,

Joan, lay on the floor of their frame farm home, sick from suffocating smoke, -and Mrs Ginn watched- the 40-mile wide sea of flame, whipped by ~70- mile-an-hour winds, bear down’. upon them. But, .somehow, the Ginn house. was the only thing

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