Show EIGHTEEN FIRES RAGING I IN WYOMING AID IS ASKED OF GOVERNMENT CHEYENNE Wyo Sept 16 16 Gov Richards has been Informed b by telephone telephone tele tele- phone from Grand Encampment that for many miles on the W Wyoming Wyoming-Colo Wyoming Colo Colorado rado line north o of Pearl Colo a furious furl furi ous oue forest lire fire Is raging deva devastating cyer everything In Its path Every Ever effort to subdue the flames names has been exhausted without effect Gov Go Richards Immediate Immediately immediately immedi Immedi- ate communicated with Got Gov Ormon of or Colorado and arran arranged ed for tor both to send a n. telegram to the Secretary of the Interior asking for Cor aid According to fo o the latest reports there are at tt least eighteen serious forest fir fires burning In fn Wyoming to say nothing of or numerous smaller ones and brush fires There are three fires In southern Albany Alban county count that are destroying great swaths of oC fine pine timber in the Medi Medi- Medicine Medicine cine clue Bow range rang and threatening Mining Buttes The Government sent a n. force torce of or fighters under a supervisor to look after atter the fires last week but the men quit claiming the they were v underpaid and the efforts to check the flames are now confined to individuals Though a n. hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred miles from Che Cheyenne enne the smoke from these fires ob obscures cures the sky here and the odor of or burning wood Is notice notice- able The three fires in southern Carbon county which the Government haa has been fighting for tor two weeks still burn erce 1 fiercely A Government Go agent ent with Ith a Jorge force forc of ot men Is on on the ground but butIs butis is Js reported to be bo m making little progress Five or more fires are burning burning- In Fremont Fremont Fremont Fre Fre- mont county count and more than 00 square miles of ot ma magnificent timber land is al already already already al- al ready In ashes The lar largest e t of or the fires is terrific and nothing that the settlers can do haa has an any effect on its sweep In central Uinta county a fire small In comparison to the others Is burning and in the Jackson Hole country two big blaz blazes s arc are eating the timber In the game Frame Ilmo countr country Further east in the Shoshone hone re reservation a fire firc the m magnitude magnitude magni magni- tude of which Is 18 not known has been burning for tor weeks week In Natrona county a good oo sized fire has been destroying timber for the past ten days dayt One hl big biff fire threatens the timber of the DI Big Horn mountains and there ther Is Is' no report o of an any effort having been made to check Its progress The fire on the Grey Bull was furious for tor several se day days but is believed to h have he e spent Its tur fury |