Show MANY LIVES REPORTED LOST IN FOREST FIRES Lumber umber Mills Houses and Barns and Much Live Livestock Livestock Livestock stock Fall Before the Roaring Flames Sun Obscured by Smoke and the People Pe Are Huddled in the Streets Predicting Disaster I I ORTLAND Ore 12 The for forY fort forI 1 p I P Y it t ire now r IH hi th the moun mountains uina of Oregon Orgon and nd west weM western ern pm m are the moat I ad ner known kROwn A t tI I an lat t night and ami today faWned farmed the flam and spread over ov n nw w dill tn tv Within a rs H e of or av null fillS s of fl 0 f t th h city cI t It ve p people ar are aN ml me ITI in and It I is 1 th they y have pr 1 r rin hN in w the s Th They y are Mrs auNt and Hd two children at It t Fifth Plain Clark lark cou ty L C palmer r Bridal VW Ore I Bre rl r Ore OreTh rh Th ita haw have ha driven many nen people from their and A iid d It t la Is known k wn that I man houM hoUMe barna ru and much live MK I k hate ban ben destroyed i iA A At Lenta Lenti six lx miles mUN seat t of ot hr sev leV sevraI v frat trai raI houses house were wr burned burn today and aDd the theline theline line Im of or the Oregon OroR Water Power A I runway Rila company to that village haa has haaN N n dIsabled dI At itt t Bridal Veil thirty mil ast flUt of o here two ho saw MW mills Irold and end In hi Clackamas CIa county n ar r at toast fifteen ftH ei houMa Dud and barns barn have bay been bee be destroyed In Clark county Wash ten teft miles from Vancouver Va vel eight ht farm tarm houses housesIt Itou I i v It r rl burned burn cad and three thrA lives live are ro re reported ported lost loat lostIn I In this city elty the houses bou are covered with ashes uhe and the lights had to be bit turned on early It In the t afternoon t on ona a count of ot the thick smoke which floods the city elt The wife witt of John JOhR Myers Mye a fanner farmer va as aM burned to death deth IK Ia their home in Int nark t county Washington yesterday DAY CAME WITHOUT LIGHT People Thronged the Streets Predict Predicting Predicting PredictIng ing Dire Disaster Tacoma TAMma Sept t 11 The nearest dill die disastrous lire ire la Is at sixty miles southwest of OC 0 here where seven raven large lar e lumber mills mU are In great danger of ot destruction At S 5 aU all wires to Grays liar Her bor country west want Ht down and ne no word tan ran al be received trees from or Aber Aberdeen deen About 11 a telegram reported in lo King Chg on Oft the tM main line of the Ole N Pacific Pad east eastin eastin in er treat U danger dancer The TAe town appeals appeal for fora to r rIt a It Are engine and aed hose heN but aa u many man brue fires are aN burning g m 00 Xa JR comas om outskirts out none noM can be spared The Tb town of or Bucoda in Thurston ton r C nty f miles R south of or hers here 1 via ca In t inky darkness at U 11 1111 I forenoon and the t people were obliged I to go KO about with lanterns From S Ii this iM morning mornin until 18 35 the entire Ilk sky ky was blood red with no 10 signs of or sunrise lIrlee The T e smoke is I so high that many people refuse to believe that the phenomena results from forest urea and many of or them are congregating on street treet corners predicting teUn dire disaster At Lewis county darkness ha hat leiS caused eau ed all business to stop Re Reports Orta from Shelton at noon state that nearly all of ot the mills in Mason county are on fire The town of Mat look loek k that county coun Is in imminent dan danK K Kr gr r of total destruction Sixteen mites from Olympia the nor for Bordeaux deaux daux kaU string of ot camps in the Black Hills Hilla district are In great danger Forty urty orty men have gone go on o horseback to women wems cad and children In Tacoma a heavy bevy darkness Is set tUng down Boats cannot pass the I narrows OB os account ot of darkness dark es esAt At Olympia the electric plant has shut ahat down and aRd at noon it was as dark dink darkas tui as the blackest night THROUGH A SEA OP OF FIRE Thrilling Ride of ot Two Men Last Sunday Afternoon Seattle Wat Wa tJ Sent 13 The density of ot toe Ibe smoke from fires In various iNtro Nm W t f adjacent country districts is In tu cr a to U l e everywhere e are ana I 1 v tc br or ore a change in n at atee the ee wind i indicative of ot rain After Aft a it slight change chance could be bo felt and aDd It wits was w hoped that HUtt this meant Uw the th wind WIt was to the southern louthern Bar Barter ter ir i facilities on oz all aides airtes ail ar at impaired and communication with man mau counties cut t off Nearly all nfl mU mana are late latt The Th most moat serious lear fear Is that thet a little town just south of ot Seattle will be entirely wiped out by bythe b bythe the Mr fir tIres P ou cornier into the city ht resort report but a few houses and andt oat ost t fields ft nave have been MU burned The are al T all cli the fire Ure in the woods near nar this city and so iH far have bave sue suc succeeded In stepping its approach toward ih the town Can tain Brvant Brant federal fedral Inspector of o hulk ullo well 11 known alt all along alonz the Pacific PaUle toast coast and A P Stockwell a wealthy leger er had a ride Sun Sunday day diu afternoon For half halt an hour hOMr they rode through an area of or Umber timber roaring with fire tire Burning trees f fell teU ll on every side sid but the travelers ra were successful in reaching the outskirts in safety A five minute Halt belt at any aft point would have hae resulted In their th r death so fierce were the tbt wells walls will of Af flames names flanking either side tilde of the road Immense Bush Fires Victoria B C Sept Sapt 12 Immense bush tIres fires are burning in the districts surrounding Victoria The town of or Al AI Alberni Alberni berni is threatened several houses have been burned at Sooke and the aerial tramway and ore bins of ot the Tyee Tee mint mine are In danger The blue jackets had a ahard a 0 ahard hard tIght fight fi ht to save the naval hospital A pall ot Of smoke moke hangs hanga over the city and I ashes are falling failing in the streets Many People Homeless I Oregon City Ore Sept 12 Late re reports reports ports from Springwater state that sixty people are homeless All AU of ot the coun country country try known as aa the Rocky Point section is burning The fire reached the town of or S this morning and de deed ed a church school house houe Mar dac aMe han hall Grange hall ban postoffice storo atoro and many houses house The Th people eople t ere I forced to flee for their lives Many ManyI horses horse cattle and hogs were burned I I The mot most valuable timber belt In InI I Clackamas county is ia practically wiped out Reports from Salmon river state I that the place was destroyed d the store a house and barn and fifty five tons tO IJ of ot hay consumed by the flames Large numbers of ot livestock ware were burned to death de th Wires Are Down Everett Wash Vash Sept 12 Forest fires are raging along the Great Northern North rn between Skykomish and Wellington i Telegraphic communication between her hUtt and Seattle Is cut off olf Freight and passenger pu enger traffic Is demoralized from I the east by the burning of a bridge at Alverna Alvern near the Cascade tunnel The Great Northern is patrolling the die dis district dietrict I I with Ith engines fitted with fire fight fighting fightIng ing leg pumps pump |