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Show PERISH IN FOREST FIRES. ELEVEN LIVES KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN LOST AND A NUMBER MISSING. Fierce Porent Fires In Oregon nnd Wash. liiElon llrlngs Heath nnd Denotation Denota-tion to Inhabltniita of llevantated Area, Driven from their homes In the darkness dark-ness of the night by a raging forest fire which swept everything before It from Ariel, Cowlitz county, Washington, Washing-ton, to the foot of Alount St. Helens, a distance of twenty-five miles, eleven people were dead, four are missing and over 200 people havetbeen left homeless, home-less, and many have not even clothes enough to cover them. Four men who were working on a claim belonging to iJames Hawthorne have not been found and It la thought that they are dead. Some fifty or sixty six-ty people were camped at tho lake at the foot of Mouut St. Helens and they have not been heard of since the Ore. It is not known whether they escaped or not. The first news of the devastation was brought to Portland by Alilo At. Dim-mlck, Dim-mlck, who experienced many dlflicul-tlea dlflicul-tlea In making the trip out to Bend aid to the sufferers. From his description the suffering there Is great and the devastation de-vastation is the most appalling of any that lias been reported. For a stretch of twenty-five miles, he says, there are but two houses standing. The fine timber these people expected to realize upon has all been destroyed. About 300 people are left hoinrlcRsa in Multnomah and Clackamao counties as a result of the forest fires which have raged for tlio past week. Fires have burned over a large scope of country but the greatest damage in this state appears to have been done In these two counties. In the fire that destroyed the town of Palmer, nenr Ilridal Veil, two boys named Hamilton were caught while trying to escape from the flames aud burned to death. News reaches Kalamah,'Wash., that the forest fires on Lewis rivor have wrought sud hayoc, D. L. Wallace, wife and two children being burned to death. They were camping in the woods when caught by the fire. Their wngon was found burned up and the charred bodies were lying near. A 12-year-old boy of Air. Hantcy's Is dead also. Mrs. John Potly and baby, and a brother, name not known, aud Mr. Newhouse and Airs. Oiaves are dead. Fifteen others were found without clothing, except gunnysacks. |