Salt Lake Tribune | 1902-09-14 | Page 13 | Seattle in the Dark

SEATTLE IN THE DARK Thick Canopy of Smoke Overhangs the City Seattle Wash Sept 13 Owing to the forest fires now raging throughout the State a thick canopy of smoke ovorhung this qlty today I was so dense that the eyes of ho I citizens were Inflamed and their lungs congested Gas and electric lights wero kept burning all day and tho street cars all carried headlights An Incessant din was kept up by their warning gongs and by the whittles of cratt on the bay On the water the smoke hung no low that It Wit Impossible to make the outlines out-lines of n vessel more than 100 feet away All the sound steamers ran at u greatly reduced rate of speed and Inconsequence In-consequence fell far behind schedule time The steamer Homer started for Portland and on reaching a point live tnllrs from port became lost In the nmolcc The whistle at Five Mile point was evidently out of position and Capt MoDonald required Ill hours time In which to get hlfl bearings well enough to be able to return to port The Oregon Ore-gon arriving from Nome anchored near West Seattle not risking an attempt at-tempt to reach her wharves The bridge on the line of tho Great Northern near Wellington which was burned Thursday night ivaa repaired ycsteraay and all trains on that line left on time last night over their own rails All trains are from four to eight hours late being obliged to run slowly In order to avoid the danger Incident to rapid traveling In the dense smoke From the new reaching tho city today to-day It appears that while the flames will do some damage It will not be HO largo as expected In the early reports Much of the territory has been logged and a great part denuded by previous tires The timber destroyed will be principally fir the destruction of the more valuable cedar being comparatively compara-tively light t The director of the local weather bureau bu-reau says barometric Indications and tho direction of the wind are favorable favor-able for phowers tojnorrow I has been shown In the past that light showers effectually prevent the progress pro-gress of forest tires