Forest Fires in America
[Per 'Frisco Mail at Auckland.] . i New Yoke:, May 13. Reports from various sections of New Jersey show that forest fires are doing immense damage to the young timber. The whole forest south of Pamona has been burned. People living on ' the edge of the town of Conoverton lost their houses, the furniture being removed to the open fields. Many of the farmhouses were destroyed. Hundreds of people are fighting the' fire at ,Atco, and at Chiselhurst the whole country is covered with clouds of black smoke. | There is much apprehension of tb/> fate of Bailey town, but it is believed the exp of the people in fires of -this character will" serve to save the town this time. Reports from Reading, I'e'nn., say a fire on the south side of the Blue Mountain is six miles long" and t»vo wide. At Beltofonte, Perm., a million of feet have, already been destroyed, and it is reported that every sawmill on the mountains between Beltefonte and Lewisburg has been burned.
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 143, 26 May 1891, Page 2
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