New-York tribune., 1903-05-01
FOREST FIRES RAGING.
HOTELS THREATENED.
4dironddck Cottages also in Danger
Great Damage Likely.

P1attsburg ". Z. April 30-The forest fres
In the Adirondacks have gained great headway~
to-day on account OF the high wind. in spite oS
heroic efforts to check them Nothing but a.
heavy rain will the woods IN many places
from being seriously damaged. TeIephone anH
telegraph wires are down and few details are ati
hand tonight. but enough Is known to make tt5
certain that the worst forest fires in years arss
raging. At Dannemora close watch is betnst
kept that the State prison buildings shall not bs
damaged
At Lyon Mountain the Chateaugay OTe and
Iron Company to-day shut down all its mines
and rushed the men by special train TO Standish-;
where the fires have already burned large quan-i
tites Of pulp and charcoal wood. At Plumadore-s
Manley's Kilns and South Inlet hundreds. prob-l
ably thousands. OF cords OF pulp wood have beerss
destroyed, and at PIuInadore three dwellins1
houses have also been burned
At Loon Lake the summer hotel. the Loom
Lake House. owned by F. W. Chase. is in
serious danger. At Lake Placid the White Facs
Inn one of the largest hotels there. Is entirely
surrounded by forest eres and unless rain
comes tonight it cannot be saved The cot-
tage owned by Charles Burt. near the Whits
Face Inn. is FIRE Proprietors Of SUM
rner hotels all through the AdirOndacks havs
appealed to the railroads for assistance. and
the response has been prompt. Every avaiIabls
man on both the New-York Central and ths
Delaware and Hudson roads has been pressed
irto service Two hundred men bat-
thing with the flames. Among the other cot
tages in the vicinity are those Of George Fl.
Daniels general passenger agent of the New
York Central and H b Auchincoss-
The weather is warm and suItry. and this.
together with the dense smoke and intense heat.
makes the work Of fighting the flames unusually
difficult and disagreeable-
The Hurd sawTniI at Upper Lake. which, as
the time il was erected. about twelve years ago,
was the largest in the United Stases. canshe -
fire tonight. and was destroyed throwing tva
hundred men out OF employment. The entfrs
population of Tupper Lake is fighting the flames.
The contractors the Chateaugay Railroad,
have sent a gang of men TO the Loon Lake HoteE
in the hope Of saving il.
The top of Stregis Mountain can be seen aolazt
with forest fires. but none Of the woods owned
by the Paul Smiths Hotel Company have Caugh1l
fire vet At McCoIIorn's and Mountain View
gangs of men are fighting the fires in the sur
rounding woods to protect the hotels
Il telegram from Malone at p. m. saws II isl
almost impossible TO breathe. the village Is so
filed with smoke. and fires can be seen raging IN
all directions There are no immediate signs oe
rain
Glens Falls. y. Y. April 30.-A forest hrse
started Yesterday near the site Of Fort Gate
south Of Lake George and to-day nearly a thou~
sand acres had been burned over A large forcs
of from Lake George are nshOlnS H. ahH4
have il under control
Watertown. " Y April 3O.-Newton Falls. ~
village at the terminus OF the Carthage and
Adirondack Railroad. IS threatened with de-
str1ction by a forest fire. which has been rasins
for a. number Of days. The Carthage Fire De-
partrnent was called upon this afternoon. ana
sixty men. with apparatus. went TO the rescus
Of the village