New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-15
MADE DESTITUTE BY FIRE,
FIERCE CONGREGATIONS on THE
PACIFIC COAST.
MANY PERSONS BURNED To DEATH-MILI-
IONS or FEET or TIMER DESTROYED

MANY PERSONS BURNED TO DEATH-MTLL-
IONS or FEET or TIMER DESTROYED.
Oregon city. ore Sept. f4-Nearly every
farmer in the territory covered BY the post
offices Of Dodge and Sprngwator has been
burned out The loss is appalling and cannot nc
estimated. People are destitute. homeless. and
without money. food or clothing. and have
called for aid. All Thursday night and Friday
the fire ragged fiercoly. following down Clear
Creek and Clackmas River, crossing Spring
water Ridge and stopping at the upper edge or
Viola Logan and Viola were saved from oe-
.struction by the wind dying down
Fires in that section are now checked. and
-boro * no danger unless the wind rises again.
The damage was great i'll the Eagie Creek sec
ton Twenty-four places were entirely de-
stroyed Fires in the district near Shuoei'
C-Iarkes Beaver Creek and Mosheuk settlement
are now under control.
Kals1na. Wash, Sept. 14.-News reached here
late last night that forest fires on Lewis River
have wrought sad havoc D. l. Wallace. his
wife and two children we're burned TO death
They were camping in the woods when caught
BIZ the fire. Their wagon was found burned up
the charred bodies lying near. A tWelNe-year-
old son Of Mr.. Manley is also dead MIS-. Iohh
Polly. her baby and d brother and MI New
house and Mrs Graves are dead. flfteeh o'ieiS
were found without clothing except > ui"S '7 ~
Five logging camps are burned out completely.
The fire has spread from Lewis River north 10
the KalaIna River. and fifty sections of the
finest 1imberland on the coast have been de-
s+roy-ed II is impossible TO give any estimate
of the amount of the damage done TO property
Oak Point twenty miles below here. on the CO.
lumbia River has been destroyed. Ihere are
no reports of lives lost but loss of property
is estimated at about 100000
\ great fire IS also raging on the CoWenlaf n
the northern mart of the county. Everything in
its path has been consumed. The air IS timex
win smoke and falling ashes Three lumber
camps are reported destroyed or badly dam
aged. Two men from Bars camp are reported
missing Paople are panic stricken and crazed
over the loss Of property
CoU-litz County thought It was going TO es-
cape until to-day. when the bad reports came
thick and fast each worse than the last rive
,eon1a were dead and two missing, with only
martial reports from the burned district me
news has cast 4 gloom over the entire county
, courier. inst arrived from Lewis River states
Ibar only TWO houses are left standing on the
river from Traits place to the head or inc Iitei'
distance Of thirty miles, and that NOT less thdh
fifteen persons have peIlSheo.
Vancouver Wash Sept lf-freo 0urii''-
game who arrived here yesterday allei h''"
f,,n, y-a,oI, thirty miles north. said that
terrific fire has been raging in that Nlt'nl'S i'f
,r, last tzyo DAYS The fire, he says IS no"
burning in the big timber district norm ana
c,st Of YacoIt While helping to fight the names
I2,r1incane was surrounded by hre, ano "'' 70
fee for his life, He VAS horf'p'y pu' ' ,,.o
Buildings and crops of all KINDS ana '''u'' ~
stock were destroyed l,,rT7ond that
number Of families plunged into aGars .r,
creek and remained IN the - Conditions are
% ,o he much worse than yet, IGPonteo nd ~,
the burned src, remote 5TG Of feet Of
telegraph n hs,a been destroyed, in addi-
ton TO- an immense amount Of h fTfhr g'G at St
II is reported that the .ea. Lo bnrned