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Show TOWNS ARE IN .- DANGER Forest Fires Continue to Burn Along the Boundary Line Spokane. July 21 The town of Marile,. on the Columbia river, about ten billes south of the Canadian boundary, boun-dary, is reported burning. A land company has been making im.imve- ments . valued at hundreds of thousands thou-sands or dollar sthere The town u I surrounded by fire and its destruction, ' M expected. . Fire in the Flat ereek country, near Bossburg, Wash., is steadily spread-i spread-i ing and threatens to wpo out the- majority ma-jority of the homes in this section In the China .Creek basin tho citizens, have been fighting flames almost con-' tlnuously since Sunday afternoon. Indians bring news to Bossburg that all tho buildings at the Napoleon I mine, five miles west of the town, have been burned Dispatches from Nelson. B C, state 1 that 800 government fire fighters are working frantically to save the town I of Sandon from destruction. The l llames have already crept within one , mile of too place, and should the wind come up the town will -be doomed. . Thousands of dollars' worth of valuable val-uable timber in the Sloan and Arrow lake districts have been destroyed, as have several ranch buildings and. crops. I Fire fighting is being done on a scientific sci-entific basis, and It Is now believed that further damage in Hall and Arrow Ar-row park-districts has been averted. Fires around Nelson have not yet been extinguished and tbe city is en- : shrouded In dense smoke. Some fear is entertained regarding the Kalso j creek .district. The government has ', sent. a. detachment of iro men to this j iolnt to check the flames. J Winnipeg, Man , July 21. Latest reports re-ports from Srfndon, in the Kootenai district, state that the town is in imminent im-minent danger. Women and children left this morning on a rescue train. Three Forks, reported burned, Is still in existence, bvt surrounded by fire. : ., The total 'destruction of White Water and MoGulgan is confirmed j Fir Is no wiaglng In the Rosslan Cou- , ter mines. , At Kenora. Ont., 100 miles east of i , here, brush fires ore within a mile of j the town. Form houses on the out- ' .skirts b"ve been destroyed and the i town' is, filled' with smoke. A fire brl- I gado has. been, out continuously for' thirtv-slx hours, residents are pack- j in gthci'J valuables, preparatory to a j hasty departure. |
