The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-06
SOME FIRES STILL RAGING
OTHERS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS
 ARE DYING OUT.
Situation i'm Vermont Very Much Im- proved-Fires Near Lakewood, N. J |, Somewhat ted-NromtcIair Clergy - Fear That Orange Mountain Forest wilI Catch.

Burlington. Vt. June 5. - Reports sent the Free Press from different 1 points about the state show that the forest fires are pretty well under con- trol and that some of the damage re- ] ported earlier was exaggerated. Men in charge of the business of $. L. Grif- filth at Danby, say that there have been no serious fires on his property. He has had no timber burned and only a small ! tract Of waste land burned over. No fires are raging there now. The re- ported destruction Of the cottages at | Spring Grove proves to be erroneous. | The fire on Worcester mountain has been subdued. It is estimated that thirty-fiye hundred acres of timber land have been burned over there and half million feet of logs that had been cut were burned.
 Portland, Me-, June 5.-Additional re- ports of the havoc done by Wednesdays forest fires continued to come in to-day but no estimate of the losses was pos- sible. Only few fires were reported, owing to the unfavorable condition of the wind, but the brisk breeze which sprung up tonight is likely to cause much additional loss. Reports from every section of northern Maine only confirm the first suspicious of tremen- dous loss to the numbering and other in- terests. In addition one town has been | 0or1op1etn1y dasfroxyod of buildings have been burned in all the heart of the state; at least two lives lost because of the fires, and much suffering, labor and inconvenience caused. Maine's s Numbering interests are hard hit by this misfortune, following close on the track of snow in the wooks this winter and the drouth which caused the loss of more than 25,OOO,000 feet of logs.
 A report of heavy losses in the vicin- ity of Patten was received tonight. rounded by fires at close range for for | ty-eight hours. Eight townships have been burned over causing loss of $250,- 900 to the lumber interests there. Ex- cept in Aroostook county and other parts of northern Maine, the conditions to-day were quite favorable.
 1 St. John, N. B., June 5.-The general 1y improved tone of the days fire news was disturbed by the report from AL bert county tonight that the flames had swept down upon the village of FIopewell Cape and twenty-one build | ings were reduced to ashes. These in- cluded the court house and nine resi- dences, some of them very handsome. A new steamer being built for Warren Dickson, of Hopewell, also the tug Del | ta, were destroyed.
 At Black River, St. John county, five houses and bridge were destroyed this evening. But for these two places New Brunswick reports are better. There was a sprinkling of rain in this city to- night.
 Montclair, N. J., June 5.--Aroused over the continued long spell of drouth and fearful lest the Orange mountains will soon take fire, clergymen of this ! place will on Sunday offer prayers in their various churches for the much- needed rain.
 Lakewood, N. J., June 5. The forest fires in this vicinity, which have sur- rounded Lakewood ill a dense fog of smoke for the last two days, somewhat bbated tonight. Large tracts of tim- Der land have been ruined and many cranberry bogs are past recovery.
 Hoosic Falls, N. Y, June 5.-The smoke cleared away for a short time to- day, but later became very dense on &C., count of fires gaining new headway. The fires on Gradton mountain are ex- tending and new fires have broken out south of here, burning fiercely and de- 4 stroying valuable timber landss