The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-09-14
LIVES LOST IN THE FLAMES
Many Persons Are Rendered
Homeless by COnflagrati0n
Loss Of Live Stock is Heavy-Vast
Territory Covered by the Fire.
Several Towns Destroyed
in Washington.

Poland, Ore, Sept. 13.-The result Of
forest fires. which are raging in this vi
cinity, may be summed UP substantially
as follows up to this time:
TiIlamook City has been saved from
impending doom by timely change In
the wind.
Several villages of Douglass and Jack
son Counties are on fire, but the damage
yet Is small.
Superintendent Ormsby of the Oregon
Forest Reserve, says the fire has not yet
entered the reserve.
Sixty people in the town of Spring
water, Ctackamas County. were compen
ed to fee for their lives and rendered
homeless and a fine timber belt destroyed
Bridges and fences were attacked and
residences threatened in South Portland
She sawmill of the Bridal Veil Lumber
Company and the town of Palmer, stu
ated twenty miles east of Bridal Veil
IN this county. has been destroyed.
The damage in Eastern Multonagah
County amounts to $4,000 and every fam
lily has been fighting the fire since Mon
day.
Families Burned Out.
Several families have been burned out
on the section line road.
Three dwellings and the county bridge
are gone in Pleasant Valley.
The flames surround the dwelling OF
resident Of lockwood and are racing
/ west along the Baseline road.
To protect the town Of Gresham, mer
stand guard night and day. At Pieasan
Home a sawmill was destroyed and foul
nthav willis xn,ara in danUar
Fire companies were called out to Irv
| ington. The residents of that part o
Portland have been on duty since
| o'clock yesterday. Valuable timber ha
been destroyed near Coburg, Wilhoi
| Springs, Vending and other points. Mel
| at Vending are swamping the timber II
ordef to save II. - XII
The destruction of the village Of Viol
seems certain. The non-arrival of grail
and coasting ships Is due to dense smok
at the mouth of the Columbia river. Tn
steamer Columbia is reported to b
| stranded in the river near Astoria.
A woman was burned to death nea
Vancouver, and a woman and child ar
| missing.
Mills with lumber and timber to tht
value of 100000 were destroyed in Che
hais County. washington. The damage
near Lentz, Ore, amounts to over $4,000
Details Of various losses from numerous
country districts are arriving and the
record of small individual losses will moi
be finished until rain shall have come te
quench the ever-spreading flames. The
weather bureau has given no promise Of
rain within the next twenty-four hours.
Fire Fighters Forced to Flee.
Elma. Wash, Sept. 13.-Forest fires are
raging over a large area of country east
of Elma. Several large mills suffered
damages and some have been destroyed.
The Star mill and village has been wip-
ed out. The men fought bravely but had
to yield and fly for their lives. Wagon
loads of refugees are arriving from the
burning districts and people are begin
ming to move out of Elma. Many farms
houses and barns have been destroyed
Ashes and cinders are falling over Elma
A high east wind favored the fire and
gave it terrific velocity.
The Odd Fellows cemetery, one and &
half miles from town, is burning ant
many Elma citizens are taking every pre-
caution to save their homes from threat
cned calamity The seven big mills have
an aggregate value of over half million
dollars in their plants alone. Their tota
value is near the million mark.
Washington Village Burned.
Seattle, Wash, Sept. 13.-The density
Of the smoke from forest fires in various
parts of adjacent counties is increasing
Transportation facilities on all sides are