Show tMroSsmLE fOR SETTLERS i TO OUTRUN RACING flAMES People Were Trapped by Forest Flrtu Hundred Losing Their Lives and Thousands Being Made Homeless Home-less I Winnipeg Tho destruction of life and property In tho fire which has raged In east Kootenal since Saturday ID simply appalling From 5000 to 7000 men women and children In flight from the fiame swept region of Crows Nest territory are camped In Cranbrook and on the surrounding hills Relief of food nnd colthlng Is anxiously awaited In Pornlo the loss of lIfo was greatest great-est In the west and thoro the flames spread so rapidly that It was Impossible Impos-sible for the Inhabitants to outrun tho approaching heat Searching parties have been sent out for thoso who wore overcome Bodies are being brought In every hour Vancouver B CThis city awoke to a full sense of the completeness > ol tho destruction around Rornle on Tuesday According to a competent authority the loss will exceed 10000 000 and the death list total will never be known It Is now believed that at least 200 have perished Vancouver wired 5000 for relief and a trainload of supplies went out Winnipeg dispatched a special train with nurses doctors hospital stores and provisions Loggers to the number of eighty In the camps of tho Ely Lumber company com-pany have perished In the flames nnd settlers with their families who lived on the line of the railroad between Fernlo and Michel have disappeared The death total will probably grow larger and a special dispatch from Winnipeg declares that It will reach 400 When the flames wore consuming consum-ing Fernie all the prisoners with the exception of five Black Hand suspects sus-pects were released Later they wora recaptured and sent to Nelson Crowds of refugees have already arrived ar-rived at Nelson the overflow from Cranbrook These are being cared for much as possible but their condition condi-tion IB pitiable In their flight they brought nothing away but tho clothes they stood In |