Show 1 BIG TREE GROVE IS BURNING Raging Forest Fires Threaten Threat Threat- en California's Most Interesting Interesting Interesting In In- Attraction FATHER OF THE FOREST IN DANGER OF FLAMES Army of Fire Fighters Gathered in Effort to Stay Conflagration I STOCKTON Cal Sept 2 A A A telephone tele I phone received here this Ibis morning morn mom ing jug from Murphys Murphy's Calaveras county is isto isto isto to tho the effect that the forest fire has gotten gotten got got- ten into the thc Calaveras big tree trec grovo grove and th the big tre trod tred known as The Thc Father rather of tho the Forest a monster sequoia feet high and seventy eight feet in circumference cir cir cir- has bas been burning all nil night No other trees have caught fire thus far but the gravest alarm is felt folt The Thc i grove grovo is pretty well surrounded by 1 fire lC and tho the flames arc are sweeping in an ever ever- V narro narrowing ng circle from the south and west Help Hep is badly needed Deeded as there are arc not ino e than half a hundred men fighting fight ing the flames by y back t tiring firing riu and other means More oro men have been sent for foI and nud will nil be rushed in iii as ns rapidly as possible Last ni night ht the Big Tree Treo hotel had a narrow escape and ras was only saved sned after the hardest kind hind of work The fhe Mother of the Forest is a dead I tree It is burning fiercely and en endangers an ers I tho trees in the vicinity None of the tho living trees is burning I The Thc lire fire is raging aging between the Cain Calsi- verne cras grove rove roe and anel Gardners Gardner's up the tho San Antonio rid ridge c moua Garp l' l rs s. s I o i no m iud wiri r tT is bt but t. t ft it itis t is c nHUY for thy wind t to blow briskly brisk brisk- briski ly h- about noon and awl the tho worst is is feared cared though tho the fire I fighters arc working hard bard and there arc are hopes that the time damp daml conditions conditions conditions con con- of of the tho grove roe roSc Wi will check the flames 8 Thc Time firo fire has m made some sonic very en wi wide e lumps jumps due to the time heavy wind winel blowing burning back hack from front the time trees on the ther r ridges across to other ridges In several places the tho tops of trees arc are burning while there is no fire iu in the underbrush The firo fire first started on Monday afternoon afternoon af af- af ori originating from front sparks from froman rom II IIan an engine used in hauhn hauling logs los It got ot into the heavy timber half a mile west of tho big i tree grove and anel swept up to within a short distance of the Di Big Tree I hotel which stands a mile distant from tho tIme grove roc There was a Do hard fight la last t I Inight night ht to save tho the hotel which was 11 finally finally final final- J ly accomplished and that building in is is isnow no now safe The fire firo now raging around Dorrington Dorring- Dorring ton is dan dangerously close to the south grove giove There are arc many visitors camped in inthe inthe inthe the vicinity of the tho grove but ns as yet no I fatalities have hae been reported Fire rire fi fighters fight fight- ers era have havo gone ouo from front Angels' Angels Camp I ht-I to the grove ro c The Calaveras group consisting of I two groves groves- Calaveras and anti South SouthPark SouthPark Park Park contains contains more and aDd larger larcer trees than the other three groups combined there thero being 1380 trees from 65 feet to feet in circumference in the tho Calaveras group roup and seven ninety trees with a of 70 TO to 93 feet in the other All these trees range ranee from to ai feet in in hei height ht One prostrate specimen of the Calaveras Cain Cab veras grove The Tho Tho Father of the tho Forest For Pot I est est was est was was apparently 43 feet tall with witha I a girth irth of feet Practically all nU of tho time larger arger trees trees' have b been en named and labeled Tho The I New York is is feet in in circumference I ence euce the the Ohio Ohio IJ feet In the Tree of Refuge IJ sixteen head of ca cattle once sou sought ht shelter r during a bea heavy storm In Iu time the the Grand Grana Hotel l forty people can stand without crowding i I |