Deseret Evening News | 1908-10-17 | Page 2 | Forest Fire Refugee's Story

I FIRE R U E s STOR STORi i I Wesley IrWin Tells How Train Ran Into Flames In Short t B byI INA STEEL COAL CAR CARI I Cries and Children C Heart 1 Ig OH Took lo I J Jr Woods r l and J CUy c t h Oct 17 Wesley fey Ir Irvin IrIn vin In n II Bay 13 man ilia II wh w s one OI of the trie survivors of the MetT relief train tr n i gave a H III JC P he forest tre t tire fire tragedy tI edY Ilo He HeU U Th about ab Jut 6 i p In and a d Mn Into the lire nrc I n l s ot of that place A burning pile pf t cedat cc m had warped the t hc I trap the train leap leaped ed J human cargo to de elt destruction 1 Ie box hux cars i and 1 It wa 11 with cult the OO In them es esca esad ca ad c Jn steel coal CUT cm were w re located l d t tl e women and children ami alii il t Increased se 1 they the were unable unable t s Men were forced to tol cek mill and could give Ie no aid Itris to 10 witness and andI I 1 1 Je bo be compelled to lignin again It II made onos sink as the pitiful cries n n the or Ji In that seeth I women their p l n for tor aid Agon AgonizIng izIng all air and an caused the blood Iri body gd to run rUIl cold coldA coldI I A party oC seyen of oC us took to the theo woods o ssi ah forced tp over ocr logs and an run through fire li In Inn n l ape Jt It was the tho only t w thought It i ii with the women u d the same samo fate fairS les we wo ran rail through q which EQ every evory bi our strength away awa mile of or Posen my mye eyesight e t gave put t and I 1 could only do de pen l thc railroad truck track to guide gUl e ugh Only On I two tWit ot oC the original IH each 1 p Eon that night The Tho ono one at nt a time tillie J Ij TH i WHITE I M J Arthur A r White Iet another a sur survivor o of the tha saId When Wh n the relief train reached a apoi point poi lit l t south o th bf OC Mets We wo run nu Unto I nto lar hull of and over the o en car cor seating on fire and sing big bur ur hall hair All uta a sudden the cn el AYS t t t f b rt h w re rC lIet to me 1 Ocro side of tl nd and sot liot out mit I Could riot no find my III brother but f I picked pl J up r the tl boy bo and struggled througH the th flame and smoke lo to an anfield an orie t field