Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-25
FOREST FIRES
RAGE UNABATED
LOSS ALREADY REACHES OVER
S1,50O,0O0
Nearly All of Northern Parts of Hum
boIdt and Del Norte Counties Are
Covered with Fierce BIazes
Gaining Headway
[By Associated Press.I

EUREKA, Cal, Sept. 24.-At $3.50
o'clock tonight the train dispatcher or
the oregon & Eureka railroad at Samoa
received word from the officials of the
company at Bulwinkel that the mill of
the Little River Redwood company
near Bulwinkel, valued at $250,000, was
burned to the ground.
With 1t went an electric light plant,
just installed, valued at $4,000, and
other property worth fully $4,000 more.
This mill was completed only three
months ago and had sawed only one
log. The chief officials of the COM
pany are Frank B. Bronzen, president,
and Levi Crandall, secretary, both OF
Ottawa, Ont. The other owners are
mostly Canadian capitalists.
Advices from Bulwinkel are to the
effect that fire has again attacked the
Oregon & Eureka railroad there, and
two engine crews and fifty men are
working to keep the flames out of the
trestling till morning.
The fire Is still travelling southeast
ward, through rough timber lands, un-
abated. Owing to the fury of the gale
twenty-four steamers are in this port
and will remain until the weather mod
crates. Several small local fires oc-
Cured today, but the quick work Of
the firemen prevented a conf1agration
that would have swept the business
portion of Eureka had the incipient
flames gained headway.
EUREKA, Cal. Sept. 24.-Gaining
new impetus this morning from a
strong wind that once more sprang
up, forest fires to the north of this
city that wiped the town of LUTON
holtz from the map last night are
again raging with added force and the
greatest obstruction during the prog
ress of the fire was recorded during
the day.
At Luffonholtz and Kelstrom's mill
ing plant, the fire has done its work
lof devastation and has passed on into
the Little River redwood lumber coun-
try, where it Is now burning fiercely.
The plant of the Little River Red
wood Lumber company was thought to
be safe last night, as was the town
of F'ieldbrook with it's many mills and
residences, but according to reports
tonight the mill of the Little River
company was burning, with no hope
of its being saved, and all that pro-
tects the town of Fieldbrook is 100
yards of green timber which may ward
off the flames, although the residents
there are preparing to flee with their
household furniture.
One Hundred Are Homeless
At least 100 people are now home
less and the condition of the fire causes
apprehension for the property Of many
others.
The wind with velocity of sixty
miles an hour at Trinidad and Little
River is carrying the flames back from
the coast into the mountains in a
southeasterly direction, and at present
the fire has devastated stretch Of
timber over thirty miles long and from
four to five miles wide, burning houses,
mostly squatter settlements, thousands
of cords of bolts, wood and many thou
sands of acres of timberland. The
plant of the Little River Redwood
Lumber company, now reported as
burning, is valued at $1,000,OOO, exclu-
sive of timber, of which there are sew
eral thousand acres.
Killstrom's loss reported last night
as being 100000 will probably surpass
that figure, as he lost thousands of
cords of bolts and much dry timber
The Oregon & Yreka Lumber COM
pany's loss is given by OFFICIALS as be-
ing $S5,O0O and VIII probably reach
$4,000
The total loss will run to a million
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