Hundreds Battle Vainly with 



continued to burn tonight in townsliips 

 north, east and west 'of Berlin in spite 

 of the endeavors ol hundreds of labor- 

 ers sent out by the owners of timber- 

 lands to subdue them. 



Tlie fire wliich was apparently stopped 

 at the shore of Success pond yesterday, 

 took a fresl) start today and went 

 across the Maiiie line into Grafton town- 

 ship, while other tongues of fiame swept 

 over large areas in the direction of 

 Lalieside and Errol, north of Success. 

 The Blanchard & Twitchell Company, 

 sent 200 men to battle with this blaze 

 tonight, as much of the burning timber 



are a number of hunting camps, the 

 occupants of which will doubtless he 

 driven out. The entire region about 

 Berlin is covered with a thick smoke 

 cloud, and in the woods to the nortli 

 and east of the fire the smoke is said to 

 be so dense as to be almost suffocating. 

 Many deer and other wild animals have 

 been driven from cover. 



The Berlin Mills Company has a squad 

 of 200 men working to stop a fire in the 

 Ammonoosuc valley west of Berlin. This 

 fire tonight was burning valuable tim- 

 ber in the direction of West Milan, 



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