11 BURNED TO DEATH
•Press Assti.
Workers Trapped by Forest Fire 40 SUFFER INJUR1ES
(By Telegrapb—
— Cdpyrigbi.)
NEW YORK, Aug. 22. A message from Cody, Wyoming, says tliafc 11 Civil Conservation (jorps workers ai'e dead, and 40 biirned, tlirough beiiig eiitrapped on a rock ledge while fighting a fire at Slioslioni National Forfest, due to tlie explosion of over-lieated trees. Twentytwo of those injurecl were admitted to hospital after gruelling stretcher and aiubulancc trips down from Ihe mountains, 5000 to 9000 feet kigli, Avlicre tlie fire broke ont. The loader, wlio was trapped with a group of men, said: "The wind sud: deniy whipped the flames up to the very tops of the trees and eneireled out party faster than we could fun. I herded the men on td a ledge, ordeHng tbem to lie prone. "Several younger men, tefrified at tiie approach of the flames, tore from the grasp of their comrades and raii out over the ledge and perished. " Five hunderd fire-fighters are expeeted to control the flames by morning. Later : Tbe dead noW total 12 and the injured 48.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 186, 24 August 1937, Page 7
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