Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1908-08-05
10 PEOPLE Persisted.
Disastrous Bush Firts Sweep Sec
\. tiOn Of Canada.
1000 PEOPLE ARE HOMELESS
esl. towns Have Been Wiped on the
, Map BY the Flames which Have
Been Raging with undIsputsd Sway
sInos saturday Night.

Seen Raging with undIsputsd Sway
since saturday Night.
Winnipeg, Manitoba. Aug. 1.-The
most dreadful conaagration In the his-
tory Of Canada has swept the Elk
river valley in East Kootanai.
FOR forty miles tremendous bush
IRE has burned everything before Il.
The connagration has held full and
arribls sway since o'clock Saturday
afternoon
Estimates are that perhaps $50 peo.
ple have met death In the flames.
The following places have been de-
sroysd;
Fernle, with a population Of 3 500.
Coal Creek, with q population OF
1900.
Hosmer, with population Of nifty.
Ono dispatch says that Hosmer and
Michel are stiIi fighting the fire.
TIE homeless will number more
thhn 5000 persons.
The fatalities are growing hourly.
In one case five families at Fernie
we're hsmned In and every soul per-
lsbed.
AT least seventy lives were lost in
Fernie.
Tae property damage Is between
four and ave million dollars.
TAs Crows Nest Pass Coal COM
nay has $1,000 900 In property at
UOal Creek. which Il reported ae-
Elroyed.
me disaster Is unequRIled IN the
history Of western Canada. In that
@tre section Of the country the rail.
Ways and bridges are swept away.
Late Sunday night the Are was still
burninr nercely.
Property Loss es ,oOo,o 900.
The property loss Ia IS. 600. 600 In
Fernie and the residents have been
iassn In trains to places OF safety and
are now destitute.
THOUSANDS OF dollars have been sent
" western Canadian cities to the re-
hei OF the destitute. Medical supplies
are greatly needed.
Fernie with It's lumber mills ana
sAliWay terminals Is wiped out
TIE IRE Is still raging around Hoa.
nsT and sparwood. but Michel Is safe
sunday.
II a gale springs up, that town will
% again In danger
seventy men In the camps OF tne
- Aver company persisted 10 Eae
names
Flames sprsad Rapldiy
=. Tn cottages and two coal of.lces.
'le " ealern Canada Grocery and Coal
t, 'upany'a new warehouse are anil
80 remain ~ Fernie. Within eftren
:. '4.ss OF the time tho IRE broke into
~ Guy the place was mass 81
az saws ~ A'o" E~h-
= ~ early as 2 O'Clock SATURDAY ire
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....'s In The ImmedIats nairhborhood |
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y y sTerY direction
Us roHn. where mary ~ ,hn -,
y. ,,et'Sed suicAly burnsa nns shrn /
- 80 ga Dorsion caught Ore. Tae
A.. "a portson came last amer ne
$50. ..l..t Of TIE ETA River lumhsF 4
'aay lad bssu dessrpyes
rsa Over aurnEno Brlses
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- - tAs IA river os.ie -, -.
!, several peepls b.at shs,r 49,.
-. . escape ever she burnsnr
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