Show impossible FOB OH SETTLERS TO OUTRUN RACING RAMES people were trapped by forest fires hundreds losing their lives and thousands being made home less winnipeg the destruction of ufa life and property in the fire which has raged in east cast kootenai Koo tenal since saturday Is 15 simply appalling from 5 to 7 men women and children in int flight from the flame swept region ot crow crows s nest territory are camped la in cranbrook and on the surrounding hills relief of food and col thing s anxiously awaited in fernie ferrite the loss of life was great est in the west and there the flames spread so rapidly that it was imps elble sible for the inhabitants to outrun the approaching heat searching parties have been sent out for those abo ho were overcome bodies are being brought in every hour Van vancouver couer B C this city awoke to a full sense of the completeness ot of the destruction around hernle on tuesday according to a competent authority the loss will exceed 10 and the death list total will never be known it Is now believed that at least have perished vancouver wired 5 tor for relief and a trainload of supplies went out winnipeg dispatched a special train with nurses doctors hospital stores and provisions loggers to the number of eighty in the camps of the E ely ly lumber corn com pany have perished in the flames and settlers with their families who lived on the line of the railroad between fernie ferrite and michel have disappeared the death total will probably grow larger and a dispatch faolu winnipeg declares that it will reach 40 0 when the flames were consuming fernie fertile all the p prisoners riso ners with the exception of five black hand BUS pacts were freieas released ed later they were recaptured and sent to nelson crowds of refugees have already ar rived at nelson the overflow oveT flow from cranbrook these are being cared for us much as possible but their condl uon tion Is pitiable in their flight they brought nothing away but the clothes they stood in |