Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-08-21 | Page 3 | Yosemite Park is Threatened by Fire

YOSEMITE PARR IS THREATENED IB FIRE United States Soldiers Fighting Flames Raging in the Hctch-1 Hctch-1 Hetchy Valley. MERCED, Cat., Aupr. 20. A destructive forest fire Is raging: in the mountains around the Hctch-IIetchy valley, In Tuo-I Tuo-I lumnc county, north of Yosemlte National i Park, nntl nround Lake Eleanor. The fire, which started two or three days nsro. has grown to such serious proportions that Majoi Benson, in command of the United States troops stntlonetl -Itv -Yosemlte Park, haw gone to the scene with two troops of cavalry. The soldiers arc now fighting the flames. A large area has been burned over, nnd the damage has already amounted to thousands of dollars. A party, of San Francisco supervisors enronte to the IIctch-1 Ietchy valley to Inspect the source of the proposed new water supply for that rlty, loft Yoscmltu lodav. but mav be unable to got Into the Hcte'h-Hetchy valley owing to I he tiro.