| Show MOUNTAINS OF FIRE whole forests destroyed in a single night the rm leres sweeping down into villages pillages during the past twenty days forest fires have been raging fearfully about us within a radia i of thirty five miles until the rain which came on saturday d ay evening and continued during yesterday the earth was very dry and parched the river was at it its 8 lowest water mark creeks dwindled to small streamlets stream lets wells and springs were empty and leaves and buds were withering ring the air was filled with smoke from the burning mountains surrounding us the sky was covered with a dull haze and the sun shone with a n dim red glare in the evening the sight of the firs fi re fiend stalking across the hills was grand as it was terrible on oa the hills bills to the west the flames fanned by the strong southwest wind rose highest though doing less damage whole forests foreste of timber land were swept down in a night thousands of cordson cords corda of wood and tan bark thousands of railway ties annu innumerable merable merabie saw logs miles of fence and many houses barns and aud outbuildings buildings out were devoured by the fiery element the proprietors of the acid factory three miles from this town lost 1000 1000 worth of wood which was in the forest ready to be drawn out W brandt owner of a tannery on the line ot of the Jeffra jefferson branch loses 1000 worth of hemlock and oak bark A report was wasi in circulation on friday that a large steam saw mill near on the i jefferson was burned it has hag not been contradicted several bows cows were burned in the woods wooda within a few miles of here on thursday at thomson on the jefferson the farmers burred out en masse and fought the flames saving their school building and houses the erie authorities sent a dorco of men to protect their extensive trestle which spans a bottomless swamp near this place in north jackson six miles distant the flames burned burned over a section four miles square destroying everything on its line we the people rallied dug trenches la in the woods and stayed the burning tide woodlands belonging to the hou hon william L ford and dr smith situated between this place and deposit burned over destroying many acres acrea of valuable timber on gardiners gardinere Gar diners mountain near haies hales eddy on alexander hill near deposit and in the sand I 1 pond region whole forests of heavy timber land were burned creating a heavy lobs loss on oa thursday and friday a gang of erie workmen work men were at gulf summit eight miles milea east esst of here preventing the rail ties fences and woodland irom from burning at this point as along al most the entire delaware DIv division islon the smoke and cinders were so dense that engineers and train men were nearly suffocated and could not see three rods from their trains green ties burned quickly and a spark made a fire wherever it fell barge large boulders were heated through and cracked like artillery fire as they sent large pieces whizzing upward the roar of the fast flying flames could be beard for a mile sap ling a foot in thickness went down with dry old pines on sand pond hill a house belonging to thomas gallagher burned down within fifteen minutes near mill millway way in broome county N Y a steam mill residence barns barna and several outbuildings buildings out belonging to R M richardson the dwelling of joseph Pik bik pike etwo two million feet of logs and a vast amount of 0 other lumber were burned from fire communicated from the burning forests michael fearley of was so severely burned on friday while fighting the flames that his life is despaired of many telegraph poles were burned in some instances they were saved by trao track kmen men abcar at carbondale the engine houses on the mountain division of the delaware and hudson railway were in constant danger and the shrill steam whistle daily rallied men to their rescue the fires destroyed worth of property near scranton seran geran ton too including cords of tan bark three miles of the pennsylvania coal and iron com banys track several miles of gravity road track and logs belonging to stout bonlick Gon lick the birds left the burning forests for the underbrush lining the susquehanna river or flew southward A flock of at least 1000 birds formed over the valley on wednesday described a circle and passed away in lna ina a southwesterly direction very many rattlesnakes came out from beneath hot rocks and burning gorges to die on laurel hill some were seen to jump into the air sir alrin in their frantic efforts to escape deet destruction ruction some came down the mountain side and hid beneath logs and near creeks above lanes boro scores of the reptiles large and mali maii small mall were fean peen to mingle upon a rock jump upward and run ruu down the hill to the flames names rain bain is now falling and the farea fires have been quenched susquehanna depot pa v f correspondence of NV sun acoman A woman in torre haute glues her husbands eyelids together when he gets drunk and when he be promises better things bhe shi e soaks them in warm water and restores his vision lady lindsay baid sald of her brothers lord lord Guild fords forda library that it contained but two sorts of books books that could not be read and books that ought not to be read trees have been found in australia taller than those of california though not as large one has ben b en measured and found to bo be feet high the wood closely resembles the red cedar and the bark is sometimes eighteen inches thick ex |
