| Show I m FOREST fH FIRES m FIERCELY fU GI G Gj Redwood Country in Big IJ j Basin Santa Crux Crill Mountains Swept b by I SHOW TREES ARE DOOMED Jalc Sweeping All 11 It log jag and of All Hinds FOUR GREAT ORF T CONFLAGRATIONS it jt It It h I Feared that In Many Man Instances It Will III be Impossible for People To K Escape Ran lIn l co Sept Foret Iron ire tr now flOW raging In many of oC the timber sections In III the tho northern of California In the Iho Ille ot of this Ihla city ell cit According to the th latest reports four great gront fires ore 1110 oreE 11 E HV w sweeping through the We redwood country In III 11 the Iho Santa tun t uZ mountains over oer the tho WI of oC f nilo and Lake counties t ms Ing the mountains of oC 1 county mid Md also ato tho timbered slopes of oC the In Contra Costa county and county lm In the Santa Banta Cruz mountains the tho sit alt situation u Is III serious III In tho ho extreme und and andSt It St it IS believed that ut at n t present I that tho tIe Mate flato park In the Dig nig which con cont t ins some Borne of the UIO finest redwood tim tier br 1 r In m the state Is II I downed doomed Owing in 10 Hi tit beauty an Ue eIo of oC tho tim In this lurk some of ot which mo arc feet feol high art d from 30 to 40 feet In girth this f I rr I Ins RS preserved Intact only to 10 as aR It Is I now feared In Humes ALL l ou n ii the to 10 tho coast coit line Hoe Pi h M ore ire now sweeping every everyn t tl ng n before them ranches and ami proper property ty f all kinds kind find and It Is III I only hoped out the Ille conflagration may not extend tn III th the of Santa Crux The rhe lire tire In Ini i county Is te now checked 1 It II l Is III be uP beafter b after aCter devastating ilM nn nil arm area of oC fl Many Inny buildings have hae been rl doyed 1 oyed for 01 a time the slopes of ofT T were ere threatened MEN MF ME FLAMES nA IFS n 11 army of men Ilen hart hM been beell engaged IK fI hours hure In fighting the tho flumes II II have swept a stretch of uC country eo 10 to long and ranging from one to tu tofi 11 fi 1110 n runes miles wide wille taking In all nil of the dl ill between Contra Costa COSIA and Maneda counties counte leaving III In their theira wk a pile of ot ruins rube Fa Pam Fam m hOUSell housa and burns have havI bein heu n wId rd out In all directions anti and the UI iIi f fet tell for numerous herds of at cattle hoe has hi all aI been ticen be n destroyed Dl r rom om Butte Hutto and other points m north come coue reports of oC Ions bee by flames lILmeR huli have havn swept Bert the mountains In to J county south of oC here her hert over a oree res or of pasturage have hae been and several Block ranch V 11 ive 10 suffered heavily by lIy tho tha Ions Ion of tle So Bo far ral no lose loan of ot human life lire Jia bt beta n reported but liiL It Is III feared thAt In 1 many Instances It II must been Int i for people to 10 escape H a P i 1 lilt ut 1 1800 feet of or the Southern Pa Pac c cr r f i near Blue Cimon lu on in I ii I the Ihl Sierras Sierra were destroyed bv by b fire tirE A largo large force of ot nm worked nil repairing the ther tr Ir r k Ic aid nt lit 6 G this morning hod tr ti work i ro flO o that the delayed deloyed l trains began to move I traffic was wall alio resumed Th Tho destroyed the telegraph Vir s but bul these IhRe havn havo teen been ie re I e lit it i Forest Porst fires fireM are arc also alKo raging In the thet Miu t and have ha the Iho theMe thee Me e is e in but the lire tiro 5 haSE been lieen kept In readiness to toni 1111 ni any In lm front from tin the siene tene of oC t for st fire tire raging In 10 the DIg nig Hushi J pa a K ii Santa Mania Cruz county states that th fir hoe hAil been belli clucked checked within n a nr r arter r of 01 u a tulle mile of the t trip and It II Is thought that the thi danger of 0 fin p entire Ile 1 of or till the TeNor resor v Rl In in is I now pint the tie he lit ut t reek Creek hns Improved th the wind tho blaze bhue end driving the Iho lire fire t rd Id d tho the const coast All danger to th the Is not over however UH as u the water is said Mill to 10 be e precarious anti the theof Ih kr 1 rl of ot fighters are aio worn out with th r 60 61 hours l I boi Ill In other te I Ie t e |
