The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-05-22
TOWNS AND LUMBER YARDS DESTROYED.
Death Of Woman and Narrow
Escape OF Others.
The Dry Underbrush and Dsad
Wood All AblaZe.
THE EFFORTS TO sUBDUE THE PLANES.
Fourteen Hundred Square Miles
OF Forest Land Doomed.

SCRANTON, pa, May q, 1878.
The fofest nres are still raging on the noun
tans, sweeping Ike simeon over shis portion OF
Pennsylvania and blo.tlng ont towns. hamlets
ana lumber Industries IN their fearful path. The
scene Al StoddartSyIie, Goldsborough, Evergreen
and other small towns on the NOM tatns or Mon
roe county to-day i thrilling. Scores
OF homes are laid In ashes. The
Is ooscurcd by the density OF the smoke.
The atmosphere IL hot ana oppressive, and
no one who nasnot witnessed the weird spectacle
Of a whole region in flames can form an adequate
idea or the picture. The greatest excitement ex-
lists st Stoddartsville. Last night when tho
danes swept down upon the village
THE INHABITANTS FLED
every way in the widest confusion, and amid the
scene Mrs. Cox iell ana persisted IN the IRE. IN
scho,lhousc and nearly all the residences in the
villages Q! Evergreen, Stoddartsvile and Colds
borough have been wiped out by the Ore. Thousands
OF acres OF forests are flaming. The lumber yard
OF David Dale at MOSCOW caught Ore last night,
and upward OF 10000 feet OF lumber were de-
stroyed, and Is was with great difficulty tho saw
mill was saved. several other settlements and
saw mis are threatened, and II Is feared
THE WORST HAS NOT BEEN sEEN.
An error 10 punctuation MADE my despatch II
to.dayis HERALD locate the extensive sawmtls OF
Dodge Melgs \ GO: on the M sSs, hghan as
line OF the delaware. Lackawanna aud Western
Railroad. Three miles OF the Pennsyl-
vauia Coal Company's gravity road, on the
celebrated Highland range. about twelve miles
distant, were destroyed by the flames lass night
aud the immense coal ana passenger trafilc Of
this prosperous company has been completely
the COM any's mines al Plttston ana Dunmore
are rendered idle Tor q lew days.
A STRONG FORCE
OF the cOmpany's men, under the leadership or
the General superintendent, John u. smith, are
fighting The flames along tine line to-day, followed
DY an army oil track layers ana laborers, tearing
up tho red hot ilea and rails and repairing the
track where practicable. Yesterday AFTERNOON
when the road was at nrst enveioped by
fire where the forests are tnlckest, at
Plane 81 an excursion party including
Mrs. Thomas DICKSON, of this city. and several
ladies from New York, were returning over the
highlands from HawIey and for 4 time were
hemmed IN by the flames. They were finally
forced 10 abandon the cars and procure convey
ances al a distant farmhouse 10 convey them
here, wnere they arrived lac last night.
Five hundred coal cars standing the
track between the burning railroad and HaWley,
ana ut one time TINS morning they were threat
ened; but the gangs OF men stationed along the
road saved them. The trees and blush GOD are
a. dry as finder and the flames rush along with
amazing rapidly,
ROARING LIKE DISTANT THUNDER
In their mad career Mayor McKune OF this CITY,
went to TJbyhanna this N. rning SO as 10 be ready
to call the hremen 10 that point; but the wind
has changed and is now blowing the fire an
opposite direction from the town. The woods
around Carbondae, Archibald, Winton and else.
where IN the LacEawanna Valley are burning
nercely, and the entire destruction oil the forests
IS expected before tue tide OF 1re subsidies.