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road, to extinguish the forest fires there. 

 They worked from noon to midnight be- 

 fore beating back the flames. 



Clinton. Mass. A forest fire burned 

 in the woodlands along the Boylston 

 Road, the territory affected covering 

 many acres, with "miles of flame." 

 There were no houses in the vicinity and 

 no efforts were made to check the fire. 



Port Republic. N. J. -The fire men- 

 tioned in the June Forester, was the 

 worst forest fire in this section in eight 

 years. The flames at one time extended 

 fifteen miles in width, and, with an unfa- 

 vorable wind, would have threatened At- 

 lantic City. 



Rockland, Me. A terrible forest fire 

 raged at Razorville, sweeping everything 

 before it and damaging land and timber 

 greatly. A stiff northwest breeze sprang 

 up, driving away the fire fighters. No 

 buildings had been destroyed, at last 

 accounts. 



Buzzard's Bay, Mass. A fire which 

 started in the Plymouth woods, near 

 Bournedale, swept toward Plymouth, 

 being aided by a heavy wind. A large 

 force of men went out to fight the flames, 

 and saved the immense cranberry bogs 

 by flooding. 



Pueblo, Colo. A large forest fire 

 burned through a part of the Hardscrab- 

 ble region, the best watered and best 

 timbered portion of the Greenhorn range. 

 The locality of the fire was several -miles 

 north of Hardscrabble canon, and west 

 of Wetmore. 



Hill City, S. D. It is stated on the 

 authority of H. G. Hamaker. Forest 

 Supervisor for the Black Hills forest 

 reserve, that fire in four different sections 

 of the Southern Hills had destroyed 

 large areas of valuable timber. In 

 every instance the fire was started by a 

 ranchman who was burning off old grass 

 and brush on cleared lands. 



Sparrow Bush, N. Y. The recent for- 

 est fire on Hawk's Nest Mountain killed 

 some thousands of fine young trees on 

 the bluff west of Butler's Lock. A trip 

 through the burned strip showed exten- 

 sive loss. Several mountain farmhouses 

 and barns narrowly escaped destruction. 

 As the Port Jervis, N. Y.. Gazette says : 

 "The starting of such fires is a crime 

 that ought to be punished.'' 



Iron Mountain, Mich. Northwest of 

 this place a woodchopper left his camp- 

 fire burning, and the wind, blowing a 

 gale, fanned it into a conflagration. 

 The flames spread both to the west and 

 south. Another fire started near the 

 compressor works on the Menominee 

 River, south of this town, and burned 

 standing Pine and. cut hard wood. 

 Many farmers had narrow escapes from 

 being burned out. 



St. John's, N. F. The village of Bay 

 of Islands, a settlement on the W^est 

 coast of Newfoundland, forming part of 

 what is called the French Shore, was de- 

 stroyed by forest fires the middle of June. 

 Sixty-nine houses were burned and fifty- 

 seven families are homeless. 



The French and British warships on 

 the coast afforded assistance to the des- 

 titute people until relief could be secured 

 from the nearest towns. 



. Rangeley, Me. At "The Chain of 

 Ponds" where there are large tracts of 

 merchantable timber, a forest fire burned 

 the supply-station of a large mill com- 

 pany and swept through 1,000 acres of 

 merchantable timber, some weeks ago. 

 The lives of two hundred lumbermen were 

 endangered. There was a northwest gale 

 blowing, causing the fire to spread with 

 great rapidity, with no possible means of 

 checking it. The station- keeper, Wil- 

 liam Mahoney, and his wife, escaped in 

 safety. 



At Mooselookmeguntic another fire 

 occurred. Two log booms burst and 

 entailed a loss of 1,500. Five million 

 feet of logs were included in the booms. 



