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Show i Was Caught in Forest Fires and Had a Narrow Escape J Colorado Springs, Colo., Sept. 3. That Senator Rolse Penrose of Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania and his two brothers, Dr f P.. Penrose ?t Philadelphia. "and Spen-" eer Penrose of this city, were hemmed In by forest fires In Montana, where they had gone on a hunting trip, and were compelled to spend several days cut off entirely from communication with tho outside world before they won their way through the flames bv a system of "back firing," was the news brought here yestorday by Spencer Spen-cer Penrose on bis return from Montana. Mon-tana. According to Mr. Penrose, several men were killed In the fires near the Penrose camp. So dense was tho smoke that for two weeks tho sun was completely obscured, and at times if. was Impossible to see more than 100 i feet In any direction. 1 The hunting expeditions of the Pen- 1 rose brothers, who Join In an oxcur- .' sion into tho wilds every fall, seem marked by narrow escapes' from death. A few years ago Dr. Penrose was badly mangled by a the bear I whose cubs he had shot. |