Coalville Times | 1902-09-19 | Page 2 | Forest Fires Raging in Oregon and Washington

HJHKSr FiHh-i HAi!Nr; IN OHMiOlM AND WASHINGTON 4 Number of I. l led lo list Hern I .!, U I.Ov Itir Hums" to I r..prir The forest tliea now raging la the mountain of western Oregon and western Washington ar probably the; most w idespread ever kuown. Wilbln a radius of seventy five miles of l'ort- j laud, Ore., Ile people are missing and it Is thought they have perished In the flames. The flumes have driven many people from their homes and It la known that many houses, barns and much live-Stork live-Stork have been deairoyid. I At IenU. Oregon, several houses were burned and the line of IheOregoii Water rower t Hallway company to that village has been dlbled. At llridsl Veil, thirty miles ensi of PorV land, two saw mills burned and In Clackamas county, mar Springwatcr, at least tlfteeu bouses and horns have been destroyed. In C lark county. Wash., ten mllca from Vancouver, eight farm bouses were burned aud three Uvea are reported re-ported lost. Iu Cortland Ihe houses are covered with ahc aud the llghla had to be turned on early lo the afternoon on account of the thick smoke which Uooda the city. The wife of John Myers, a farmer, waa burned i death In their homo lu ClsrU county, Washington.