Show PIRE FIRE DRIVES TO DEATH carcasses of wild animals choke a lake in washington state in a special dispatch from tacoma wash not long ago the strange story was told of a lal e in clarke county that was choked with the bodies of wild animals driven into ibby fierce forest fires L E duval a timber cruiser for the northern pacific rail road tells the following story about it in the san francisco bulletin the lake is only about one acre in extent and I 1 have frequently vis cited the place before when passing near the spot several days ago I 1 noticed a peculiar smell and turned aside to make an investigation I 1 found the surface of the lake one mass of deer foxes bea s wolves and all the small varieties of animals that roam in our woods the lake Is in a deep hollow between the hills and the fire had encircled it at a great dis tance in the first place crowding to ward the lake by degrees and at last driving every livin living animal that had made its home in the woods for miles around into the lake to be slowly roasted to death before he the I 1 fierce alerce heat the whole surface of the water was covered with carcasses and how many deep they were I 1 had no means of knowing from the remains of otner otiler animals near by I 1 surmise that some tried to escape through the cir cle of death I 1 have heard that in such supreme moments the fiercest animals forget their ferocity some thing lile e that must have occurred here for forbears bears deer wolves mink and squirrels were indiscriminately min aled in the mass probably the only struggle was for lodgment on the backs of the already dead animals numbers of the people I 1 ving remote from that region were making grim grimager agea to the lake to view the spec bacle |