Show PARISH IN FOREST FIRES ELEVEN LIVES KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN LOST AND A NUMBER MISSING flerry forest fires in oregon rafn and wash tab larton dearil and daola Deol olm tion lion to inhabitants InhabIt anti of li devastated arm aren driven from their homes hoines in tile the datke dark ness of 0 the night by a raging forest fire which swept everything before it from ariel cowlitz county washington to the foot of mount st Il elens a din distance lance of twenty five miles eleven people were dead four are missing and over people have been abeen left homeless and many have lave not even clothes clollie a can enough 17 gh to cover coter them four men who were working on a claim belonging to james hawthorne have not been found anti and it is thought that they are dead some fifty or sixty people were camped at tile take lake nt at the foot fool of mount st SL helens and they have not dot been heard ot of since the fire it is not known whether they escaped or not dot the first news of the devastation was war brought to cortland portland by milo all dimmick who experienced many difficulties in making tile the trip out to send aid to the sufferers from his description the suffering there is great arld and the devastation is tile hie most appalling of any that lias has been repot led for a stretch cli of twenty five miles lie he says there are but two houses standing the fine timber these people expected to realize upon has all been destroyed about people are left homeless in multnomah nomah and Clack amao arnao counties as a result of the forest fires which have raged for the past week fires have lave burned over a large scope of country but the greatest damage in this state stale appears to have been done in these two counties in the file that destroyed the town of palmer near bridal veil two boys named hamilton amilton Il were caught while trying to escape from the flames and burned to death news reaches kalamaha Kal Ka amali lamah wash that the hie forest fires on lewis river have wrought sad and havoc D I 1 L wallace wife and two children being burned to deich d ea t h they were camping in the woods when caught by the fire their wagon was found burned up and the charred bodies were lying near A 12 year old boy of mr lla Han leya uleys is dead also mrs john polly and baby and a brother name not known and mr newhouse and mrs graves raes tire are dead fifteen others were found without clothing thing except gunnysacks gunny sacks |