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Show THREE LOSE LIVES IN FOREST FES THOUSAND HAVE BEEN MADE HOMELESS AS RESULT OF BLAZE IN CALIFORNIA. Only Business Section and Few Isolated Iso-lated Dwellings in One Town Left Standing, Many-Country Villas and Winter Homes Burned. Los Angeles. As the result of the starting of two brush fires in the Santa Barbara National forest, three women are dead, the residence section of one town has been wiped out, crops over a wide area have been destroyed, about 1000 persons have been made homeless and several settlements and resorts vrcre placed in great peril. The dead are Mrs. John Warder, ;Mrs. Frances Marroquin and a Miss jSwayer, a nurse, all of whom succumbed suc-cumbed to shock and prostration due to the fire. The greatest damage was done In the lOjai valley, ninety miles northwest of tLos Angeles. Only the business section sec-tion and a few isolated dwellings in the jtown of Ojai were left standing by a Jfire which swept through the valley Sunday night. Many large and expensive expen-sive country villas, the winter homes of eastern business and professional imen, were burned to the ground. The second fire, whiclv started near ;Carplnteria, Cal., on the Santa Barbara Bar-bara coast, and for a time threatened the town, changed its course and swept toward Stanley Park and Sheppard's Inn, two summer resorts. After burning over fifty sugar mills jand causing damage estimated to be in excess of $300,000, the flames were re-i. re-i. ported burning fiercely on the high Mdges north of town and still beyond control of the 500 fire fighters. |