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Show FIRES RAGE INMOUNTAIN Much Damage Is Being Done in Pennsylvania Timber Region. GREENSBURG, Pa.. May 14. The breaking out anew of the forest fires on Chestnut ridge has aroused the greatest great-est consternation among the people. Last night a mountain home owned by Booth & Flynn, near Blairsville Intersection, Inter-section, was destroyed. Telegraph and telephone poles crossing the ridge at Blairsville intersection were burned and the wires rendered useless. At Lake Hollow, near New Florence, the big mill for the manufacture of pins of poles wvs burned. The Evans Lumber Lum-ber company lost several thousand dollars dol-lars worth of pit posts today. Booth & Flynn lost several cars of cross-ties. The fire is raging in the vicinity of Ridgevlew park. People of Milwood and Derry are now engaged in fighting the flames. - |