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Show Til0ILATE Ualess Gain Corner Coon the Pine and Cedar Forests of Naw Jersey ( will la Wiped Out. A HIBEEW COLONY DE3TE0Y ED The Electric Street Eailway Bams at Scraatou Burned Half a Million Dollar Fire at Bilboa, Spain. New Youk, May 2. A great section of New Jersey, extending from Point Pleasaut to the southern extremity of the state is desolated by lire, and unless rain comes soon thu pine and cedar forests are likely to be wiped out. The cranberry bogs are ruined. There is an unconfirmed rumor that a Hebrew colony in Cumberland couuty was destroyed. HALF .MILLION HOLI.AII KIUK. Iiil.uoA, May 3. The tire supposed to have been of incendiary origin, which broke out yesterday in the shipyards here, caused damage to the amount of half a million dollars. EI.KCTWO KAU.WA Y I1AUNS Ilt'HNF.I). S( l! anion", IV. May 2 The barns of the jScrantnn Klectric Street railway were burned this morning. Over thirty cars were damaged, and the total loss will be over $10ti,000. The insurauce is not known. rOKKST KIltF.S IV MAUVI.ANH. Oakland, Md., May 2. Forest fires are racing all over Garrett comity. Much valuable property is being destroyed. de-stroyed. 1'I.VMK.S NOW f.NDI K CONTROL. Vl.EASANTVii.l.K, X. .1.: May '.'. The forot tires are uudur control". Tho loss .isSi0,O0J. A HOOMED TEXAS TOWN. At sriv. Minn , May 2. I his morning morn-ing tire broke out at j.vlo, sixteen miles south of here and at 1:110 p. m. is still raging with two-thirds of the business houses in ashes. The Milwaukee depot was burned and the Kansas City 3tation is threatened. The Austin tire ro'ti-panv. ro'ti-panv. has gone to the assistance of the doomed town. |