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Show THREE LOSE LIVES III FOREST FIRES 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. . . f Log Angeles. As the result of the starting of two brush fires in the Santa llurbara 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 were placed in. great peril. The dead are Mrs. John Warder, Mrs. Frances Marroquin and a-Miss Swayer, a "nurse, all of whom succumbed suc-cumbed to shock and prostration due to the fire. The greatest damage was done In the Djal valley, ninety miles northwest of Los Angeles. :. Only the business section sec-tion and a few isolated dwellings in the town of Ojai were left standing by a Ure which swept through the valley Sunday night. Mrny large and erpen-filve erpen-filve country villas, the winter homes of eastern business and professional pien, were burned to the ground. The second fire, which started near Carpinteria, 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 lun, two summer resorts. After burning over fifty sugar mills nd causing damage estimated to be in excess of $300,000, the flames were re- ported burning fiercely on the high ' ridges north of town and still beyond : pontrol of the 500 fire fighters. |