FOREST FIRES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 594, 24 August 1909, Page 5

FOREST FIRES.

DAMAGE IN BRITISH-COLUMBIA. (Dj Tolceraph -Tress Association-Oonrrlcbll (Rcc. August 23, 9,6 p,».)' Now York, August 23. Forest fircß, recalling those- at Pernio ia August of last year, aro raging in the Kootenay district, of British Columbia. Timber valuediat millions of dollars, many sawmills, and sevoral bridges on the NolsonEoseland railway havo been -burned. / Valua'blo timber limits along Arrow Luke aro now burning, and tho forests aro ablaeo near Oreston. Tho inhabitants aro safe

[It was estimated that the deaths in the British Columbia bush fires m Augnst of lust jenr weio about 40. The pepplo pf l'frnio received little warning before the flames weie upon them and wiped out the town, ,lt was due to the heroic efforts of the railway officials that thousands of persons were saved. Boxoars weie got together in \wonderfully short time, and people wtio transported four miles down the line to a place called Cut Bank, a high bank sheltcung-a long sandy spit below. Befoie long some 3000 persons, -mpstly wpmen and ohildien, hnd been-taken to this place. Theie they lemained all night, The embers of Vernie were hardly cold before rebuilding started.]