| Show FOREST FIRES RAGING IN OREGON AND washington I 1 Is ft number of lives IJ report to t have lout lost while tho Ii camago to t properly is great the forest fires now raging in the mountains of 0 western oregon and western washington are probably the most moat widespread ever known within a radius of seventy five miles of portland 1 a n d 0 ore r eg fl five v 0 p people eo pl e a are re m i b si n g a and ani t 1 i it t is ali thought 0 u li t t they lie y b have a ve p perished rl s h e d i in n tho 0 games flames the flames have driven many people from their homes and it is known that many houses barns barm and much livestock have been destroyed at lents oregon several houses were burned and theline of theOre the Oregon goo water power railway company to that village has been disabled at bridal veil thirty miles east of aorl portland two saw mills burned nod and in clackamas Clack amas county near springwater a r at least fifteen houses and barns have been destroyed in dark clark county wash ten miles from vancouver eight farm houses were burned and three lives are reported lost in portland the houses are covered with ashes and the lights had to be turned on early in the afternoon on oa account of the thick smoke which floods the city tho the wife of john myers a farmer was burned to death in their home in lark clark county washington |
