engine, but the time I speak of the Red Demon was 

 let loose by a merry camping party. They set up 

 their camp one evening about a quarter of a mile 

 from where I stood. As I stood 250 feet high I 

 could see over some smaller trees in front and I 

 could hear what was going on in the camp. After 

 spending the night the party got into their light 

 wagon again in the morning to go away. I heard 

 one man say: 'Are you sure the camp-fire is out? 

 Throw a pail of water on it.' Another answered, 

 That's too much trouble. I guess it is out, and 

 anyway we'll take a chance.' They got into their 

 wagon and drove away. Soon the wind arose and 

 blew the embers into a blaze, and a little later a 

 sudden gust drove the sparks into a heap of dead 

 leaves and dried twigs. From that the flame attacked 

 a dead cedar tree, and in half an hour after the 

 camping party had left a forest fire had started. 

 The wind drove the flames up the valley toward a 

 small settlement. The settlers left their work and 

 tried to beat out the fire with wet bags and green 

 branches, and to dig a trench across its path but all 

 to no avail. The fire caught the fences and out- 

 buildings, then the barns and the houses. The 

 domestic animals, cows, horses, and pigs rushed 

 about trying to get out of their enclosures. Some 

 were suffocated in their pens or pastures. Others 

 broke loose and ran bellowing and screaming ahead 

 of the flames. Some escaped, and some were over- 

 taken and were burned along with the wild animals 

 of the woods. But the plight of the settlers was the 

 more pitiable. Seeing that their!homes were doomed 

 the men and women caught up their young children, 

 and, with their other children about them, rushed 

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