Show MOUNTAIN AND COAST FIERCE FOREST FIRE I Twenty Square Miles of Territory in I California Burned o Grub Gulch Cal July HSince July 1th a licree fire has been raging in the I I district south of Fresno river and up to date territory to the amount of twenty square miles has been burned The fire was started on the Fourth of July at the llolton place near tho Chinese store on the Coarse Gold road by 1 a firecracker set off by a little girl The house and outbuildings were burned and the names rapidly spread eastwardJ sweeping everything before them All fences have been burned and three families have been rendered homeless The fire reached North Fork Tues day The whole population turned out to fight the lire It took a hundred men to keep it from the houses The I flames passed around the town and are still sweeping eastward The old Wa terloo stamp mill together with thousands thou-sands of dollars worth of machinery ivas burned Thursday A terrific explosion I ex-plosion Monday announced that the powder mill at Quartz mountain had blown up Hundreds of cords of wood have been I burned There is no tolling when the I I fire will stop I |