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Show TORNADO MAKE8 FIRE TRAP. rangled Mass of Mind-blown Trees Covers Vast Area. Washington. Tho greatest fire trap Known In the history of tho United States resulted from tho cyclone which wept tho forest of the Olympic peninsula pen-insula In the state of Waslilngtou on lanuary 20, according to reports received re-ceived by tno United Stntos forest tervlco. "A tremendous tornndo," states Act-hg Act-hg Forester H. A. Sherman, "blow loun timber estimated nt five to eight lil lion board feet In a strip seventy-rio seventy-rio miles long and thirty miles wide Din billion board feet of which Is ultiln the Olympic national forest. Dili Is the greatest disaster ever re--orded lu tho annals of forestry or lumbering." |