Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-05-26 | Page 1 | 5 Die as Fire Sweeps Forest in New Jersey

Die as Firer Fire Sweeps r Forest Foresti i In New Jersey 1 8 t S i 1 S il l Acres of Flames Bring States State's Worst Conflagration Crews Rushed in Trucks r S to New Point of Danger J I I. I NEW GRETNA N. N J. J May 26 AP AP-A AP A South Jersey forest r est st fire in which five live men died was brought under conS con- con rol S today after more than men fought it on a wide ont ant for 48 hours A final check of the crews crews showed all aU accounted account d for AtS At Atone ne one S time several workers had peen Jeen reported reported- missing hut ut they were found on the fire lines Jines i Only IY- IY one e danger spot remained ear sear Manahawkin and men were shed there by truck to meet the tho T The e state forest fighting ervice called the fire lire the worst h n a its history and estimated it had acres The dead J ohn T. T LaSalle 20 New Bruns Bruns- wick ick Edward F. F Sullivan Sulli 20 New Brunswick Stanl Stanley y Carr 22 Waretown l I Kingsley White 38 i t r Ira l Morcy West Vest Creek I LaSalle Sullivan and Carr were embers embers' of the C C C camp at Bass ake e. e Morcy was a a. state fire fight- fight ir 1 rand and White was a civilian t Seek Other Victims Two fire wardens Benjamin and Henry Updyke bot both of New ew Gre na reported mi missing were round found o id unhurt t a. a as searching parties began i jan a hunt through the still- still g woodlands for possible further urther victims The rhe triangular area swept by the theme flames me lies just north of Atlantic City ty and neighboring summer re- re and south of Asbury Park and md d oth other r seashore vacation place the to south The he sandy plain is over d i with pine pino wo- wo woods ds and contains con con- Iii two state forests The little hamlets in e area were saved d from the ef flames es by the fire fighters but buto BO o one ono knew knes the fate of numerous l small 1 lJ cottages and homes isol isolated ted In IIi the he woodlands Plan Piano Directs Fight Colonel Leonidas Coyle the flyIng fly- fly Ing fireman who is chief state fire warden arden directed the fight from front an airplane John H. H Thornburg division fire warden in charge of the field headquarters headquarters head- head qu quarters rt rs set up in a Manahawkin hotel botel said Baid the four men in the Tuckerton Tuck- Tuck erton morgue had met death when a u sudden ludden den change in the wind trapped them em in the fire on a back road three ree miles mUes north of Stafford Forge They were in an army truck he aid wid d and the thel road was so bad they uld not turn around to flee Abandoning the truck they tried to tape through the woods but rere ere caught by bythe he flames