Show DEATH AND devastation I 1 wrought by tile fin 0 it rire fire Winne winnipeg peg oct 4 the prairie firo fire which raged all the country saturday lied died out during the night the mornings sun dawned upon a terrible scene of death and devastation farm houses implements crops and live stock hock everywhere every where iero consumed many farmers lost their all at 13 beaise cause forty miles east of this city two women and five children named were burned to death fire came upon their house in the woods from two directions simultaneously and shut off every means of escape only a few charred remains were found the next morning there were many narrow escapes ant and a number of families are homeless and utterly destitute bagot seventy miles es wiped out of existence at stony mountain lire fire ran upon the canadian pacific Iaci fic platform where by desperate desp crata efforts its progress was stayed at oakland on the portage branch of the northern pacific railroad several hundred cords of wood and thousands thousand of tons of hay bay were consumed by fire |