Show havoc by peat fires hugo huge tree totter and eventually fall at ioline dale cumberland england often without warning many giants of the forest with trunks trucks over ever four feet in diameter are numbered aifong almonr the hundreds of trees which have fallen the reason la Is that for several weeks a peat fire has teen been burning under the surface of the earth As the roots ef r the trees are ma trees treed wither and come crashing down it Is almost beyond human power to extinguish such an underground fire these being similar to subterranean cool alrea which have been known knon to burn for many years before going out |