Show OF FLAME SWEEPS OVER CAMPS CAMPSt t I OF LUMBERMEN IN CASCADE RANGE my y Mills Destroyed and and Others Have tarrow arrow Escapes in Race jor or OF Their Lives 1 i 1 SOME OF op THE LUMBER CAMPS BURNED k fountain mill Enumclaw King ICing county Jansen lansen Brothers' Brothers mill Enumclaw King county gans lumber camp Maywood Pierce county v 1 i road Railroad tracks and out-buildings out o of Kanaskat d. d Blacks Black's logging camp Sultan c county u ty lumber camp Hamilton Skagit county r k rehm logging camp near Snoqualmie King c county i hese e and many other camps have been burned during the progress o of parate arate forest fires two of which started stalled from tom l locomotive sparks spark one from a blaze in the Mountain mill Wash June 21 The The fire at Mountain Mill near near- yesterday morning at 9 o'clock n a ping g had receded from Hot near the summit of the Cascade J has changed and is now bask k over the burned burred course hotel el and health resort at t Hot Hotis vas saved by the hardest kind n the the part of the Tacoma fire is nt was sent on a special mile mile trip up the moun- moun was made in two hours Aflame S no further danger unless a av wind w v nd occurs The surrounding 1 10 th Cascade mountains are arene arene ne but the most mot combustible has all been consumed and nd only l L un s' s are left leCt on which the fire 4 J engines and hose bose loaned by byo o 0 the various threatened towns r turned cs rage through the heavy tl a OM he mountain side One Onet t Mountain Mill and the other country The former Enumclaw and the village lage hd had escape S ape are supposed to 1 lh in the track of the fire and J Every Every camp In the Green is reported to be either de- de i with ith destruction rill from Crom Pages Page's camp Eagle Gorge t tell ll a thrilling story of es es- es cape Fire struck camp at noon descending descending descending de de- de- de upon it in a roar roaring ng sheet of flame Through a a. narrow path to safety men women and children to o the number of sixty escaped Three men feared to try to pass and made their escape by wading through the river and up th the line It is is' reported that seven men from Smiths Smith's damp camp on Cedar river which w was as burned are missing but the report cannot cannot cannot can can- not be verified At Fairhaven the Homan shingle mill caught fire file and burned last night and at Ferndale near that point Davis Sons Son's dry kiln with shingle was burned May Burn for Days The forests of course will burn for several das da's but will not spread unless another wind rind gomes comes up The t town wn of Buckley containing 1500 people w was s not out of danger until 2 o'clock morning ning Three times durIng during during dur dur- ing the night the long railroad trestle which crosses s the White river rive there thereSo 1 rr caught t fire 1 So far as can as-can can be be e learned no insurance was can carried led on any of the lost mills the rates being prohibitive Fires in Tacoma Since the engines were sent away T Tacoma Tacoma Ta Ta- I coma ha has had four fires one a brush i fir of considerable proportion on the outskirts The fires tires on on the mountain although thirty to fifty miles away have made the weather almost unbearable unbearable unbearable able in Tacoma and clouds of smoke stilt hang imag tire over c city city- |