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Show J FORE8T FIRE FIFTY MILES LONG SWEEPS ALASKA J Skagway, Alaska, July 24. A for- est fire fifty miles long, fanned by a southeast wind, swept down from tho mountains today and threatened 'J tho destruction of this city. Every man In Skagway and all the employes employ-es of the White Pass and Yukon railway, rail-way, Including President Dlckeson, ; .,- went into the hills to fight tho tire, i V and after working all afternoon pro- 1 T1 nouncod tho city out of danger. ; ? Tho fire had been burning in tho mountains two days. Much cord wood and many small camps wore destroyed but it Is believed be-lieved that no lives were lost. Five hundred men are in tho mountains .5 fighting tho fire. |