Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-05-22
THE MOUNTAIN FIRES.
Lice SQUARE MILES IN FLAMES.
THE BURNING OF oScEoIA.
FATHER McGLBW'S LIBEL SUIT.
VICE PRESIDENTS WESTERN TOUR
THE FOREST FIRES IN PEyy-
SHLb4NE1.
school Houses. DwelIings aud Iuru-
her Yards RMrnin.

school house and nearly All the residences in
the villages of Evergreen, StoddartSyille aud
Ss .n 1 have been wiped out by the
nre. Thousands of acres of forests are ham
ing. The lumber yard OF David Dale. of
Moscow, caught fire Thursday night and up-
ward OF 5000 feet OF lumber were destroyed.
several Other settlements and saw mills are
threatened. The fire is still raging. Three
miles OF the Pennsylvania coal company's
gravity road, on the celebrated highland
range, ABOUT twelve miles from Scranton.
nave been destroyed. and the immense coal
and passenger traffic OF this prosperous com
pahy mas been completely embargoed for the
TIME being. Iackawanna. Pa, dispatch
giving an account of the fires i'm that section
says: As the situation stands. unless the
wind changes or rain fan occur, about .4a0
square miles OF forest land are doomed No
great loss in dwellings or i'm human life can
occur, but the beauty of what has been ex-
tollcd as the American Switzerland W III be
fnarred for several years.
The GsceOIa Fire.
NEW YORK, May special DISPATCHES
from Tyrone, Pa. give the following inter
estlng details of the OSceOla fire: As far as
the eye could reach from the roof OF the tple-
graph office at OSceola last night. the forests
were blazing fercely. Where in the morning
OSceola had stood was marked by a number
OF small fires on the mountain side. Each
little blaze represented a house that a few
short hours before had sheltered family:
near where the WaShannon lumber mills had
stood the ll.000G00 feet of lumber was still
burning, and formed solid bed of fire.
MIRACULOUS ESCAPES.
so far as has been at present aScert aimed
the loss of life has been confined 10 the one
poor woman, the wife OF q q wOOlSman who
was burned in her log cabin in the forests.
the escape of the people to PhIllipSburg. n
distance of four miles. i'm the box cars pro-
vided by Train Master Wood was little short
OF miraculous. The railroad ties were burn
ing In several places, and many of the cars
caught fire on their passage through the
woods, but as the people were completely
covered in and the passage out was made AT
such great speed the burning cars were eX-
tinguished before much damage was done
During the short period between the time
people were boxed in the cars and their arri-
val at Phillipsburg their suferings as de-
Scrlbed by themselves We're fearful. To such
an extent did terror overcome the people that
many OF them had 10 be dragged to the ears
out OF the MoshAnnon creek, In the waters
OF which they had taken refuge.
AN APPALLING SCENE.
Inc scene IN an hour after the flames hal
caught the houses was appalling. Dense
clouds of thick yellow smoke formed over
the town canopy through which the sun
appeared like a ball OF red fire, and the burn
ing forests formed on all sides an apparently
impenetrable wall of flames. Several lead
ing citizens refused TO leave the town. They
fought the flames and succeeded in saving
aided by the Tyrone firemen, the Methodist
and Catholic churches and few houses in
The immediate vicinity OF these buildings.
The rest of the town has been utterly de-
stroyed. The people have saved nothing,
and out of 500 inhabitants 1000 al least are
kind.
HOutzdaie ON Fire.
AT 2o'clock 4. m, Thursday, the village OF
HOUtZdale, like Osceola, built entirely of
wood, took fire, and more than half of the
village has been destroyed and the fire is still
raging in the woods for miles around. Hun
dreds of woOdsmen have lost their homes.
On Thursday large number of people sue
ceeded in making their way To the wind
ward of the fire where they found safety on a
bill full OF timber. These people are utterly
II ifN1tn
TO Phillipsburg. In all there are about
LEO PEOPLE WHO HAVE LOST EVERY
THING
they had in the world and are now without
means of any kind. The woods at the back
of HOutZdale are still burning, and il was
believed On Friday that the town will be
utterly destroyed. Most of the people whose
houses were burned found employment in
the saw mills ard coal mines OF the region.
They have nothing now but the clothes on
their backs, ard for some weeks, at least,
they must be fed by the contributions of the
charitable. All the people, however, bear
up well under the great calamity and the
leading men have already announced that
they will rebuild the town. \ great deal of
the property destroyed is insured in foreign
companies. The losses in tbs region, includ-
ing Houtzdale, will run over 5000 900. IL
thought that number OF mines in the vicn-
lily OF HOutzdale must be destroyed.
The Fires near PhiIIipsburg.
A PhllIipsburg dispatch OF yesterdays date
says: A large fire is raging in the woods at
the southern end of this town. but as there
is scarcely any wind there is no immediate
danger OF the town. About two hundred men
are out fighting the flames. The woods i'm
mediately adjoining the town have been
nred by citizens TO prevent that means of
contact with houses when the main fire i'm
tne forest approaches nearer. The point at
which the woods are burning now is about
the only one from which danger to this town
neee be apprehended. The relief committee
will meet here tomorrow morning and or
ganize, and subscriptions for the relief of the
sufferers will be received by the members of
the committee.
Milford Threatened.
A Milford, Pa, dispatch OF Vas. ar5sy.S
raging in this eociinIy for the past few days,
sweeping everything in their course, yet
Sweep on with unabated fury. The fire has
passed over a vast territory, making its way
into ten out of the eleven townships IN Pike
county. 1t has destroyed hundreds oil miles
of fences, and much valuable timber land
Hundreds OF men, women and chlldren IN
their respective districts, are fighting the |
flames night and day, but owing TO the con-
tinued high wind their efforts thus far have
been entirely futile. few miles northwest
of this place the entire neighborhoOd is one
vast body of fire, and the people residing in
the back settlements are unable TO get either |
one way or the other. The fire first COM
menced i'm a small log cabin four miles north |
of this place. Sunday, which was broken |
into and fired by tramps. The fire Is now |
within a few miles of this village, and unless |
a sudden rain comes great damage'is ap- |
pretended.
ROne and Irvine Works Burned.
PHILADELPHIA, May 22.-This morning |
the rope and Irvine works of John 7. Bailey /
a Co., on Otsego street, near Tasker, Were /
destroyed by fire; loss $40 900, fully
insured. The fire will not prevent the firm |
from filling all immediate contracts.
A Thief Required.
MEMPHIS, May 22.-Andrew jackson, the |
leader of the express robbery at Corning, |
Ark. recently, and who was afterwards ar /
rested but escaped from the guards, has been |
recaptured west Of Corning.
Alleged wife Murder.
NEW YORK, May PA man named /
Kehoe was arrested In Jersey last night on /
the charge of numbering his wife, who was
found dead i'm her apartments with her skull
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