The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1900-04-28
FOREST FIRES
CAUSE HAVOC.
Houses, Barns and Thous=
andS OF Dollars Worth
of Lumber Burned.

| dubois, Pa, April 2S-A for est fire i
raging in thi; centrs and this town was
| seriously threatened yesterday. Shortly
after noon, driven by high wind, lorna
do OF flames swept over the hills from the
north, and severul houses and barns in the
| outskirts were on fire in q few minutes.
| PromD action ou the part of the fl Q de-
partment and residents Of that section,
nided by shift in the wind, checked the
fire beforo it secured foothpld. This au-
tire section of the country is a smoking,
dcsoate waste Of charrod stumps and
| trees.
| Renova, Pa April 2s Forrest fires have
been raging since Thursday and already
thousands Of dollars worth of lumber has
been des royed. rhs fires ae purtic-
ulary dangerous in the vicinity ofkeating,
sixteen miles west and &C North Band, six
miles east of here
Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth
OF timber is breatened, and the fire ,epu-
ties are doing all II their power to check
tho spread Of the flames. A high wind
has been blowing all day, tanning the Ill
ready destructive fires.
Roadng, Pa, April %. Tho people in
this section are scared by the forrest fires
Yestesday the fires covered an area of
three miles.
Carlisle, Pa April aS "A mountain fire
OF largo proportions Is sweeping over the
section of the South Mountains directly
south of Carlisle. and has dovouvcd prop.
ecty amounting up thousands.
Beginning at Pinogrovc Of unknown
origin, the surrounding districts were
soon covered and tho flames directed
themselves to Laurel, where are located
summer cottages of the Misses Penrose
and many Others ant tho enormous
houses of the John s. Lowe Ice Company.
The houses, with tweIty Thousand tons of
ice. were burned, together with the cot
tage' belonging to the Stuarts, Connel,,
Browns, Lows and McCarJneys, of Car.
Isle.
Pottsville, April 2s.-Vast mountain
hres are raging in this section, and many
acres OF valuable timber land are being
burned over.
The mining villages and tho colliery
buildings in tho Hecksherville valley, at
Eagle Hill and other points in the vicin-
ity. are in danger of being destroyed.
Unless the present high winds abate
anu rain sets in the loss TO the timber will
bo great.
Shenandoah, April 25.-Fierce forrest
fires have been raging ou tho mountains.
north and south If this town, and hum
dreds of acres of fine timber is being de-
stroyed, particularly ou the Broad Noun
tAin5, south of town, where the damag has
already amounted to thousands of dollars.
Fortunately there arc no settlement in
the fires path thus far, but IL is fast eat.
Ing its way toward Frackville and Morea.
Hammontown, N. j April 2S, Forrest
fires have been raging in this section and
Pleasant Mills, village seven miles from
here, was partly destroyed. The buildings
burned were general store Including
house, stables, largo hay barn con aiming
about illty tons OF salt hay and n barge
Dnr rtNy 1po1 Ind ,t,tth ta,.
Frank Mathis; house and barn OF Robert
Love, with $500 that was socreied in bu-
reau drawer; house and barn of Mrs.
Heincke, an aged widow; house aud barn
OF John Reynolds, and the Catholic
Church.
] he men of the place wore all away
lighting the forrest fires that have been
burning in that vicinity for two days
1t is supposed that tho fire WAS started
Ia the roof Of the barn belonging to
Reynolds, and from there took building
after building until the last place was
gone. The homeless people will be takon
care of by noighbors.
Tho forrest fires that have boon raging
for the last two days over the Wharton
tracts are still burning, and being driven
by high wind Tonight towards Weeks
town, arc likely to wlpc some of the small
Millville, N j.. April 2S.-Forrest fires
surround this city mud tho entire fire de-
partmont Is In readiness. Yesterday the
L. G. Wheaton &'Co s Glass Works were
in danger and the employees, being un-
able to work fora time, owing to the
smoke, turned out and ought the flames. |
The Stanard Oil Company's big tanks |
were also In danger, and stream of |
water was kept playing for several hours
around the plant The fire near Centco
Grove is under control, after having burn.
ed hundreds of acres of valuable timber |
and several farm buildings.
Vincand, N, J. April 2s The forrest
Tires are working into Cumberland. |
county menacing the villages OF Brotmans.
vile and A lliance, and is now raging in !
the Maurice river swamp about two miles |
from Nineland.
Several houses owned by Charles Gar
rlson. Sr. and located in the swamp along !
Lands avenue, arc in great danger OF be-
Ing burned. and gangs Of men are fight
ing the flames by back flung and throw
Ing up lines Of sand hills
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