Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-06-04
THE OILFIELDS AFIRE.
Lives and Property Licked Up
 by Flames From the Forests.
ONE TOWN ENTIRELY WIPED OUT.

Millions of DoIIars' Damage Has Been
 Done In Pennsylvanla's Oil ReGioI-, and
 Men Missing.
 BEApFoEp, Pa June 4.-Telophone messages state that fire Is raging in the oiltield bear here. and great damage has been donG At the state line on tho Western, Nsw York and Pennsylvania railroad seven dwellings, together with their contents and n large amount of lum- Der, have been consumed. 4 lumber camp composed of seven dwellings at Oil Valley Junction was destroyed, together with thousands of dollars worth uf lumber.
 The fro may now bo said to extend over the entire northern oilEr!d of Fennsylva- mia. It is impu, sib.e to give the loss, but it will run into the millions. nor can the number of deaths be given on account of the great scope of country which the fire covers.
 In Mckean and Elk counties it is esti- mated that the loss will reach into the millions. Tho extreme warm weather has made the forests as dry as tindor, and a spark from a locomotive set fire to the woods
 At Hunters Run. F miles southwest of kane, 200 mon wero engaged all Satur- day night and Sunday fighting the deStruc- tive sweep of the flames.
 Much property was in danger. The Midland Oil company lost five rigs, two tanks. two boiler houses and considerable timber; J. k. Campbell 5000 feet of hemlock lumber. and Robert Brown a largo number of logs.
 At West Line n few miles from kusho- qua and the terminus of the Mount Jew cit, kizea and Riterville railroad, fire broke out Saturday afternoon. force Of men fought Its advance all night with considerable success, but brisk wind gave energy to the smOldcring ombers and caused them to start up again with redou- bled fury. The course of tho destructive contagratIon was in the direction of Tally Ho.
 A largo house, owned and occupied by sidney Pathway, together with consider ahlo of the contents, was consumed Elisha k. Kane lost several thousand feet | of logs. \ Buffalo firm is also said to have been heavy losers B. F. Hazleton lost a small skIdway uf logs and several hundred cords of wood at Hazlehurst. At q late hour last night the ire was reported | to bo under control.
 At Sugar Run Hammond & Andrews and Stout X Holden lost several hundred | feet of logs.
 At Ormsby tho forests aro on fro. At | Don't on the B. R. P. railroad and at Mo Ambley the woods arc burning. At the | former place the Emery oil company has been lighting to protect its property. At the latter place scarcely anything Is left to bo devoured except n few houses that comprise the village.
 \ Mountain of Fire. The cast hill at Load Hollow is a mountain of fire. Captain Jones has lost one or two rigs. and moro property of the | George Piko farm is in danger. The Emery Oil cOmpany's property on the Op- | pOsite side of the road is now considered safe from the flames, Late Monday aft ernoon the fire had again crossed the crook at Log Hollow. and the Emory steamer Junior was sent out to protect the property of the Emory oil company. | The load pump station of tho United | States line n 25 Q0O barrol tank and n 6OO barrel tank El!od with oil wore In imme- diate danger, along with tho dwelling houses at this pince.
 i \ sJund of firemen, directed by Chief l McAllistcr and aided by tho residents of | the Hollow and Pino limo employees sue | cccdcd in escaping the flames out of the | settlement. From the Buffalo, Rochester | and PittsburG roundhouSo. just south of I the CltS, llo swamp luT u illIe anu a uAIL Is on fire. Al knapp's Crock. near the | New York stato limo, the forest Is burning 1ierccly, and many oil rigs aro destroyed. l The lines of the Postal Telegraph company between hcr3 and Clean have been burned down for u considerable distance. Telephone wIroS also h3ve suffered great | ly, and for this reason information from small towns and lumber camps ns to tho extent of tb9 damage cannot bc ascor- tainod
 Coon Run, in Elk county. ten miles from Kane, ha3 been wiped out There were about 2L dwelling houses in the l place, fivo or six of thoso had been report ed destroyed when tho telegraph office caught fro and tho operator was drivon from his post The Inhabitants fod for | their lives
 l Forty six oil well rigs nt Coon Run and
 Russell Ci:} werc consumed t'y Iho flames l Thirteei r. :s wCrO burned in thu imme
 diato Ni> nlty uf Kauo. Every available
 man Is at work fighting the fires in all directions If rain does not fall soon the | loss will be extremely heavy. 1 Iutcr information from Coon Run via
 knno states that six or seven bumpers Are
 missing. It cannot To aEcertaired whether
 thoy have lost tliolr livos in tue flames or
 sought place ut refuge On account o'
 tho fire people caunot get within n mile Oi I the site of Coon Kun.
 Just south of bradford and not tnr from
 tho city lne fire is raging at Routherford | Run. The Rock Glycerin company
 magazine. containing 500 pounds of ex
 plosive, is almost surrounded by fire and | it is feared will bo destroy ,d before the
 flames can he chocked.
 At 9 o'clock tho South Pennsylvania
 Oil company sent 90 men t. Dagolita tC
 fight tho raging Are which Is raging neal
 oil property. The city is being secured fol
 men to fight fire in parts of the local oil
 fields. Fifty conts to Sl an hour is being l offered for the work.