FATAL FIRE.
M 11 DEAD, 40 INJURED. TRAPPED IN BURNING FOREST. A TERROR-STRICKEN FLIGHT. United Press Assn.—Eloc. Tel. Copyright. NEW YORK, August 22. A message from Cody, Wyoming, states that I I workers aro dead and io arc suffering from burns, 22 of them in hospital through being entrapped on a ledge' of rock when lighting a lire in the Shoshoni national forest. The outbreak was duo to the explosion or over-heated trees. There aro 500 tiro fighters, who are expected to control tlie flames by the After gruelling trips with stretcher and ambulances from mountains 5000 to 0000 ft. high, where the fire originated, the leader of the trapped group said: ‘‘The wind suddenly whipped the llames to tlie tops of the trees and encircled our party faster than we could run. • I herded the men on the ledge' and ordered them to lie prone. Several of the younger men, terrified by Ihe approach of the liaines, lore from Ihe grasp of comrades, ran off the ledge DEATH-ROLL IN FJRE 12 DEAD, 18 INJURED l nHcd Pres* Assn.— Flee. Tel. Copyright. Hccevc.l August 2i, | p.m. NEW YORK. August 23.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20280, 24 August 1937, Page 7
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190FATAL FIRE. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20280, 24 August 1937, Page 7
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