Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-14
FOREST FIRES
BURN OVER GREAT
AREA Of STATE
Newark and Essex County Are
Among the Greatest
Sufferers.

Forest fires burned over wide areas
an BsseX county and other sections
or New Jersey yesterday, the biggest
stems of loss being incurred here IN
Newark. when burning grass on the
..f,,Inken meadows set fire to the plant
,.of the Wavefly Paper BoN Company
aIon Bessemer street.
Sparks from a locomotive caused a
. Grass hre near Trenton which de-
stroyed the home and valuable col
lection of specimens of DIR. Charles {.
Abbott the naturalist. The loss IS
placed al $4,000.
one home and a large area of tim
her land was burned in Passaic, the
Du Pont powder mill WAS feared 10
be in danger for a time from a grass
fire in Mavne, the plant of the Tero-
leun Company was damaged in Ken
ilworth, a farmhouse and large area
OF timber went In Sussex and there
We're seven alarms in Elizabeth,
There was another fire near Ruth
erford, but the most widespread OF
an fas in Dongan Hills on Staten
island.
Famed by a southwest wind, for
est fires ragged in and near Caldwell
late yesterday afternoon and last
.nicht, causing hundreds of men TO
dght the flames for a distance OF
Tlfourteen miles on each side OF the
sPassaic River. Fortunately no build
ings were destroyed and the flames
were confined to the meadow lands,
where they started.
81 Caldwell is situated on the top of
- the mountain and the Passaic River
skirts the edge Of the mountain. The
Sky was red all the evening. The
flames could be seen for miles
a AT the village of Pine Brook. men
Fought the flames all the evening and
have il now we'll under control In
that section, there are many large
trees and they were an easy prey TO
The FIRE This fire Is supposed to
have been started by careless hunters.
Fires broke out yesterday IN
Grover Cleveland Park, Caldwell.
(which is being developed into a pleas
aure resort. 1t comprises eighty acres
aand in some places there are large
timber lands and underhrush. As a
resuit the entire fire department of
: Caldwell was called out and after two
or three hours OF hard work the men
4 got the flames under control.
At many of the places where the
: flames are raging there is no water
supply. and the men are forced to
~ fight the fires with wet bags, wet
grass and anything that might beat
/. the fire out.
Sparks from an Erie Railroad train
d held responsible Tor the forest
fires which RACED late in the after
noon and through the evening at the
Village OF Mountain View 1t is esti-
mated that about 100 men are still
standing by watching TO see if the
flames should break out in other Sec
lstiens and probably destroy the VIII
lage. II is now Under control. but the
dryness Of the meadows and timber
st sra4 hon fA
A brush fire In the woods at
Verona avenue and the Erie Rail-
road was nipped in the bud last
night A spark from a passing loco
snotive is thought 10 have caused
3 the blaze, and its prompt discovery
proba bly, stopped a disastrous fire. |
as the wind was particularly high /
at the time.
The fire departments of West Or !
Rnge and Maplewood were sum
moned yesterday 10 subdue a forest
Gre in the South Mountain Reserva-
ton which had been burning for
some days and which. famed by the
high wind of yesterday. assumed
dangerous proportions. The region
an which the fire was burning was
close TO the town line.
The firemen succeeded in quench-
ing the conflagratlon after a long
battle. The West Orange depart
Fnent was summoned q second time
later in the day for another fire in
she Pleasantdale section. II was ex-
<jnguished.
PASSAIc, Nov. IA forest FIRE /
broke out in the vicinity of Athena, 4
IN AcQuackanonck Township. across P
che Passaic river, yesterday, and
before the farmers and others who /
fought the flames were able TO
get them under control they mad |
burned the homes OF two families 10
she ground. The flremen in the
meantime had been summoned and
they, aided by the farmers, were
able - check the spread OF the
flames. but not before a number of
acres Of timber land and farms had
been burned.
The flames destroyed the home of
Paul Antonio and also the home Of
Domanico Fassio. a short distance
away The families were driven into