The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-01
FIRES IN THE ADIRONDAGKS
FORESFCoNFLAGRATIoNSC CAUSE
 GREAT DAMAGE.
White Face Inn at Lake Placid suF- rounded by FIamss-PTOprietors of Hotels Call on Railroads for Assisf- -DliIIIon Dollars or Damage in Penn- syiVania.

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 Million Dollars Of Damage in Penn
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 Plattsburg. N. Y, April SO.-Forest fires in the Adirondacks have gained great headway to-day on account of the high wind. Telegraph and telephone wires are down and but few details are at hand tonight, but enough is known to make it certain that the worst forest fire in years is raging. At Lyon Mountain the Chateaugay Ore and Iron company to-day shut down all their mines and rushed. the men by special train to Standish, where quantities of pulp wood and charcoal wood. ,
 At Plumadore. Manley's Kilns and South Inlet probably thousands of cords of pulp wood have been destroyed, and at Plumadore three dwellings have been burned. ,. At Lake Placid the White Face Inn, one of the largest hotels there, is en- tirely surrounded by forest fires, and unless rain comes tonight it cannot be saved
 Proprietors of summer hotels all through the Adirondacks have appealed to the railroads for assistance, and the response has been prompt Every avail able man on both the New York Central and Delaware and Hudson roads has been pressed into service. ..,..- | The Hurd sawmill at Tupper Lake, which at the time 1t was erected, about twelve years ago, was the largest saw mill in the United States, was destroy ed tonight, throwing 200 men out of employment. The contractors on the Chateaugay railroad have sent a gang of men to the Loon Lake hotel in the hopes of saving that hostelry. 7" .-
 The top of Stregis Mountain can be seen ablaze with forest fires, but none of the woods owned by the Paul Smiths Hotel company has caught fire as yet. 'tx1 | A telegram from Malone at g p. m. says it is almost impossible to breathe, the village is so filled with smoke, and fires can be seen raging in all direc- tions.
 There are no immediate signs of rain.
 MiiItoH Dollars of Damngc. &s
 Bradford, Pa, April 30.-The worst forest fires in the history of this see- ton of Pennsylvania are raging to- l night and a million dollars worth of property has been destroyed. The for ests have been ablaze for the past week, but the fires were kept under control by large gangs of men until this morning when a stiff southeast gale sprang up and famed the smouldering embers into a roaring mass of flames. Watsonville, ten miles south of this city, is reported as being destroyed and it is feared that a number of lives have been lost. The last word from there was received at 2 o'clock and at that time the fire was on all sides of the place and the people were fearful of being burned to death as there was no avenue of escape. %..
 At Simpson, where the forest is thick and large number of oil wells are To- cated, the fire was very fierce. On both sides of the railroad the woods were a mass of flames and swept over an area of two miles, taking everything in their path. The people of that town were rescued by special train being run as far as Davis City and brought to this city this evening. They lost all their belongings and the latest advices from there state the town is destroyed and it is feared some have perished in the flames. 7.
 The town of Mount Jewett was threatend with destruction this after noon from the fires that hemmed in the place but by heroic efforts the. place was saved but not until several build- igs were burned.
 Fires are reported from all sections and a number of lumber camps and chemical factories are reported as be- l ing in ashes.