The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-13
DEAD AND MISSING
Human Lives Sacrificed in the Ter
rible Fires of the Cascade
and Coast.
Towns Plunged Into Darkness at
Mid-day-Lumber and Fine
Timber Burned.

| Special to The Journal.
Portland, Ore, Sept. 13-The result of
the forest fires may be summed up sub
| stantially as follows:
Tillamook City has been saved by a
| timely change in the wind. The forests
in Douglas and Jackson counties are on
| fire, but the damage is small, Superin-
| tendent Ormsby says no fire has yet en-
| tered the Cascade reserve. Sixty people
| in the town Of Springwater were forced
! to fee for their lives and were made
homeless. A fine timber belt was de-
| stroyed.
| The saw mill of the Bridal Veil Lum-
Der company and the whole town Of Pal
mer, twenty miles east of Bridal Veil in
this county, have been destroyed. The
damage in eastern N\ltnomah county
amounts to 100000, and every family has
been fighting fire since Monday. Three
| dwellings, and the country bridge are
gone in Pleasant Valley. To protect the
| town Of Gresham men stand guard night
| and day. At Pleasant Home a saw mill
was destroyed and four others are in
| danger.
Valuable timber has been destroyed
near Coburg, Wilheit Springs, Wandling
and other points. The destruction of the
village of Viola seems certain. The steam
| er Columbia Is reported stranded in the
. | river near Astoria. Inc nOn-dTTlVd1 OI
grain and coasting ships is due to dense
smoke at the mouth Of the Columbia river.
A woman was burned to death near
| Vancouver and a woman and child are
missing.
Mills. lumber and timber to the value
i Of 100000 were destroyed in Chehalis
1 county, Wash. The damage near Lentz,
Oregon, amounts to over SIS, 900. - $50
i Portland, Oregon, Sept. 13.-The Cas-
cade and Coast ranges, from British Co.
lurnbia to the California line, are being
devastated by forest fires. Two persons
are known to have lost their lives and
others are missing. Every team Is being
pressed into service to get people to places
CT safety. Millions of feet Of lumber have
, been destroyed, together with many farm
houses, barns and much live stock.
The Palmer and Brewer mills at Bridal
Veil, Oregon, have burned, and Elsie
Palmer. proprietor of the former, was
burned to death. A man named Trickey
, is missing. Forty mill hands are in dan
, ger Of being surrounded by flames. On
Mill Plain, near Vancouver, eight farm
houses are in ruins, and Mrs. Hendrickson
and her two children are missing.
Enumecaw, King county, Wash, is in
great danger. and people are being hur-
, ried to safe places.
pecora and Centralia were in darkness
, yesterday and business came to stand
P'e'S> PSSEA0
, to believe that the phenomenon was from
forest fires and congregated on street cor
ners, predicting disaster. The town of
, Mitlock, in Mason county, was in immi-
nent danger when last heard from. Tim
Der 100 feet high was burning.
Tacoma was also in the dark. Boats
could not pass the narrows owing to the
darkness and at Olympia the electric
light plant shut down. The Bordeaux
string of camps in the Blackhill district,
sixteen miles from Olympia, are in great
danger. Forty men on horseback have
gone to rescue women and children.
Victoria, B. c., Sept 13-Immense
brush fires are burning in the districts
surrounding Victoria. The town Of AL
been burned at Sooke and the aeral
tramway and bins Of the Tye mine
L are in danger. The blue Jackets had hard
work to save the naval hospital.
=. Everett, Wash, Sept. 13.-Forest fires
:. are raging along the Great Northern be-
tween Skykomish and wellington. Tel
egraphic communication between here
and Seattle is cut off. Freight and pas
. senger traffic is demoralized from the
:, east by the burning of a bridge at AL
vim, near the Cascade tunnel. The Great
:, Northern is patroling the line with en-
:, gines fitted with fire fighting pumps.
Seattle, Wash, Sept 13.-The density
y Of the smoke from forest fires in various
Y parts Of adjacent country districts is in
creasing. The most serious fear is that
Enumclaw, south of Seattle, will be wiped
: out by the fires. Captain Bryant, fed
y eral inspector of hulls, and we'll known all
along the Pacific coast. and A. P. Stock
o we'll, wealthy logger had thrilling
escape Thursday. For half an hour they
!. rode through an area of timber roaring
with fire
-. Elma Wash, Sept. 1S.--Forest fires are
= raging over a large area of country east
q of Elma. Several large mills suffered
- more or less and some have been de-
IL stroyed. - ~. r
It Tacoma, WASH, Sept. 13.-Forest fire:
e. are burning in every county Of western
y Washington. The CONGREGATIONS are the
n most extensive in Mason, Thurston
IL Chehalis and Lewis counties to the south
,e west of Tacoma. Folsom, in Chehali:
= county, has been partly destroyed. Some
y of the towns which are in great danger
(. are Shelton, Mattock, Black Hills, Bucoda
= Rainier and Castle Rock
q The latest reports from Mason count!
~ are that every portion of that county il
= in flames with hte exception of Shelton
The Grays harbor branch of the Northern
Pacific is on fire even to the ties in sew
eral places. At Enumclaw Mrs. Biles wa.
driven from home with her deadb ably II
: her arms, while her husband was on
t. fighting fire.