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VOLUME XIII., No. 215.
HUNDREDS OF LIVES LOST IN FOREST FIRES;
SEVEN TOWNS LEFT IN SMOULDERING RUINS;
SIX THOUSAND HOMELESS ARE STARVING
BURNING BUSH RAVAGES IN
MANITOBA DISTRICT OF
HUNDRED SQUARE
MILES
AT LEAST 350 BURNED
Property Loss of Ten Mil
lions Has Been Sustain
ed. Vast Territory
Placed under Mar
tial Law.
Result* of Canadian Fires.
Several hundred lives lost and
list of fatalities growing.
Seven towns, Fernie, Michel,
Coal Creek, Hosmer, Elko,
Frank, and Morrissey, wiped out
and several other towns partial
ly destroyed.
Coal mines of district may be
caught by flames.
One-half million tons of coal
and coke burning at Fernie.
Six thousand homeless people
are threatened by fire and star
vation.
One hundred square miles en
veloped by red peril.
WINNIPEG, Man.—(2 a. m.)—At
least 350 lives have been lost in the
bush fire which has been raging in
the Crow's Nest district of the Koote
nay. valley in British Columbia for
two days and two nights.
Property loss of $10,000,000 has
been sustained, and the towns of
Fernie, Coal Creek, Hosmer, Michel,
Elko, Frank and Morrissey wiped out.
Sparwood, Crows's Nest, Cranbrook,
and Olson, have been partially des
troyed.
Thousands of settlers are homeless
and still in dire danger from the
flames and starvation. Relief Is be
ing sent to the district as rapidly as
possible, and the railroadß are bring
ing, the refugees to Winnipeg and
near-by towns by train loads
At midnight late arrivals from Fee
nie, B. C., estimate the number of
dead there at 200. Refugees from
Frank say that forty bodies were
counted along the track from Michel
In one lumber camp eighty dead are
reported. It is impossible accurately
to estimate the loss of life and report*
from the settlements outside of ths
burned towns may bring the total to
a much large figure.
The whole of the country between
Cranbrook and Michael has been
placed under martial law and the Ca
nadian government has taken charge
of the work of relief and rescue.
There is no abatement of the
flames end an area of 100 square
miles is still enveloped by the red
sheet and black smoke of the holo
caust.
REFUGEES
FACE STARVATION.
In addition to the dead scores have
been injured and it is estimated that
six thousand people are homeless. Of
these nearly all are camped within
valleys either inside of or at the out
skirts of the flame-swept section, and
are in constant danger of death.
Starvation faces the refugees.
Seventy-eight men and two women
were burn< d to death in No. 4 logging
camp of the Elk I.umber company.
The camp was surrounded by Are and
not a single person escaped.
The properties of the Canadian Pa
cific and Great Northern railways
within the district have been disas
trously damaged, many of their
bridges and much rolling stock burn
ed, and it is next to impossible to
either enter or leave the burning
area.
For the last month forest fires have
been horning in the mountains of the
Elk river valley country, but they had
net been considered seriously. Sat
ur4hy morning a heavy wind sprang
up from the west, and early in the
afternoon flames appeared over the
crest of the mountains to the west of
Fertile.
They ran down the mountainside,
and, before a fire guard could be or
ganised entered the town. Within
an hour the town was doomed and (he
Inhabitant* sought safety in flight,
leaving all their property behind
them All sight and the exodus con
tinued, the destination being a smad
prairie Ip the valley, three miles
routh of the town.
Three thousand people are camped
there :n the open, their only protec
tion being shelters built of brush or
blankets while a constant shower of
sparks from the burning area keeps
tailing through the pill of smoke by
wfcjeh they are surrounded
For a date communication with th<-
towns to the east was kept open, but
with *he burning of the bridges across
the Elk river this was closed
If EATING UP
VALLEY TOWNS.
The Are spread with great rapidity,
and It is feared tha' several parties
that tried to gal through <h<- rg a
have been cut off m
One hundred cars of coke, the prop.
crn» of the Great Northern, are gone,
and the stock piles of coal and coke.
THE AUGUSTA HERALD
aiding about half a million tons are
i flames.
The fire is following the crest of
, mountain chain above Sparwood
it present, eating down into th<» val
eys on either side. It ts traveling
;t a tremendous rate and unless
here is a change of wind, will cross
he boundary into Montana within the
text 12 hours.
Fire-fighting apparatus is of no
tvail, for the air is filled “with frag
ments of burning wood and bark. Tho
heat is intense and many of the fire
ighters have gone down before it.
Four bodies of men who lost their
lives trying to save the Great North
ern bridge across Elk river were
iound.
Fire is not the only danger the peo
ple of the burning area have to taco.
Hunger has been added to the ter
ror. When the people left their homes
tor the protection camps, little or no
provisions were taken and now there
are many thousands on the prairies
with nothing to eat.
The mayor of Fernie has sent out
a call for assistance which is being
readily responded to.
A large number of homeless have
been sent on to Cranbrook and will
be distributed among the towns in
the tow'ns in the vicinity.
Mr. and Mrs. Forester and 25 men
have arrived at Campbell’s Siding,
having been forced to give up their
tight to save the Sparwood Mill. Five
members of the original party suc
cumbed and the others escaped only
by the greatest difficulty. They tra
velled all night -by the light of the
burning bushes, making their way in
piaces along the bed of the creek,
where the water protected them in
part from the terrible heat.
W. Carswell, assitant superitend
ent of the Great Northern, has ar
rived in Cranshrook from Fernie, hav
ing made his way out at great risk.
Part of the trip was made on a hand
car, and the rest on foot. Every
stick of timber along the railway line
is gone, and not a living thing is left.
TOWN OF FERNIE
IS WIPED OUT.
WINNIPEG.—Latest reports of the
number of dead in the Elk river dis
trict as the result of the forest Are
which has been raging for months
from Michel to Fernie place the vie
j tims at 150 persons. The property
; loss is $5,000,000 in Fernie, and six
thousand of that city's inhabitants
are homeless. They have been taken
by trains to places of safety and are
destitute. Thousands of dollars were
sent by Western Canadian cities this
morning for the relief of the suffer
ers. Medical supplies are greatly
' needed.
Fernie, with its lumber mills and
1 railway terminals, is wiped out. The
I fier Is still raging around Hosmer and
Sparwood. but Michel is safe, the
wind dying out at midnight. If a
gale should spring up, that city Will
be in danger again. Seventy men in
the camps of the Elk River company
•perished.
Ten cottages, two coal offices, the
Western Canada Grocery and the coal
company’s new ware house are all
that remains of Fernie. Saturday af
ternoon the Fort Steele Brewery, the
first large building to catch fire, was
burned. Houses in the neighborhood
■soon caught and though the people
turned out immediately to fight the
fire, the flames spread and the whole
I place was soon burning. Old Wowri,
where most of the miners resided,
soon was burned, and then the busi
ness section caught fire. The resi
dence section came last, after the
mills of the Elk River Lumber com
pany had been destroyed.
Special trains were waiting to con
i ve.v the people to Michel, but the run
• could not be made because the bridge
between Hosmer and Michel had been
burned.
Saturday night was a frightful one.
It was spent In getting many of the
'women and children on the trains and
starting them for Cranbrook. Dur
ing the night the wind went down and
j Sunday morning many of the men
and their wives cam e In from the
hills to which they had fled to view
the smoking remains of the city.
Many harrowing tales were told One
; woman of West Fernie had Just
emerged from her home, which was
on Are, wnen she fell dead of heart
ullsease. The neighbors buried her In
her garden and then ran for their
I lives.
In another part of the city an aged
woman, an invalid, was carried s
short distance, but tho heat became
too great and she begged to ho left
i to her fate, while her relatives wore
, helping her In wet blanket*.
CLOUDBURST DOES
DAMAGE IN NEVADA
One Life Wag Lost, and
Scores of Cattle and Live
Stock Were Swept Away.
RENO, Nev.—Telephone message
from Verdi, Navada, says that a de
structive cloudburst visited that sec
| tlon yesterday In which one life wa
■ lost. Scores of live stock and cabins
| and a great quantity of logs were
i swept away.
A cloudburst near 8 team boa ’
Ifiprlng* yesterday caught several
persons in the rush of waters, but af
ter battling desperntolv they Anally
saved themselves.
Jamttt< Burk and McM. Ross wore
' severely hurt. Much live stock and
timber aud a ranch ware destroyed
Forecast for Augusta and Vicinity—Fair tonight and Tuesday.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 3, 1908.
PARIS BUSINESS
PARALYZED N
STRIKE
PARlS.—Paris today is gripped in
an industrial strike which is paralyz
ing business and the manufacturing
center of the nation. It is estimated
100,000 men are directly affected, and
many more indirectly.
Riots are threatened and the au
thorities are bending all their efforts
to prevent a panic. The labor lead
ers who called the strike took this
drastic means of protesting against
the action of the government for suit
pressing the strikers in their demon
stration at Vienneanuve-Saint Georges
last week.
The police force has been augment
ed to its greatest number in the his
tory of the city, and 25.000 troops are
confined to the barracks about the
city, held subject to an instant call.
The authorities think they have the
situation well in hand. At least tin/'
said so today, but the situation is so
precarious that they fear a single
outbreak will deluge the city in blood
Order has been preserved so far with
little difficulty, but knots of men are
gathering at every street corner; Im
passioned addresses are made, and
there Is a sullen undercurrent of un
rest which bodes ill.
Newspeapers have been crippled
and today many of them tailed to ap
pear ihrough the inability of the
management to issue. These were
the Gil Bias, the Siecle, the Radical
Petit Republique, and the Libre Pa
role. However, many of the work
men who had been called upon to
strike, failed to do so. The leaders
threaten dire consequences to these
men, and they may yet be intimated
into walking out.
The infantry are grouped in the
most central barracks, and are kept
in readiness for an instant call The
labor leaders planned to Inconven
ience the public to the greatest ex
tent and particular stress was laid
upon the strike call Issued to elec
tricians, railway employes, newspaper
employes, bankers and others sup
plying the necessites of every-day
life. It was thought that if the baker*
khould strike the public would be
starved into a sympathetic feeling;
that if the electrician* should quit- the
Inconvenience would make the public
consider the strength of the labor ele
ment; and flna'ly, if the peojfle were
compelled to W'alk instead of ride, the
feeling of strength of the laboring
classes would be strengthened
The revolutionary organization
hoped to further its political ambi
tions and snow its strength by this
strike and it has succeeded in shoe
ing it is very powerful, although It
Is not gaining much popular sym
pahty.
The Rappel, the Peunle Francals,
Autorlte, Action Republique, the Ke
lalr and Humanlts, all daily journals,
announced their Inability today of
continuing publication so long as the
strike is In progress.
The strikers became diplomatic to
day. In instances where men had
failed to respond to the call to strike
emissaries were sent out from the
headquarters of the federation. These
were usually accompuuled by police
to see that they did not wilfully
damage.
The call to the electricians fell
short of the expectations of the
leaders. Pataud. general secretary
ot the electricians organization, who
fled from Paris when the authorities
began to look for him, returned to
day and began to use every means
in his power to persuudo the fnllhtu!
among the workers to join the
strikers.
MAE WOOD’S CASE
COMES UP FOR TRIAL
! She Has Been in the
Toombs Since Her Sensa
tional Divorce Suit
Against Senator Platt.
NEW YORK On the calendar for
trial (oday in the court of general no*
dons Is tho case of Mae Woods,
| charged with perjurj and forgery In
: the third degree The Indictments
i are the result of allegations made
by her in her suit for divorce from
Senator Thomas C. Platt which carne'
to an abrupt termination in the su
preme cou r t several months ago,
when Judge O’Gorman committed hoi
to the tombs before the <-s»e reached
'he Jury.
Unable to obtain bail she lias ever
1 since been Incarcerated, The Indict
ments were handed down by the
grand Jury.
TWO PA93ENGER3 INJURED
EL PASO. Tex- The Golden Hlate
j Limited, west-bound over the Rock
I island ratlrond, which left, here at
16: 115 .Sunday night, was ditched at I
a. m., today, four mile* west of Wil
cox, Artz Two passengers are re
ported Injured.
PARTIES TO RECENT BRITISH NAVAL ROW
Sir Percy Scott, the British rear idmlral, who had trouble with Lord Charles Beresford. He is the fig
ure In the middle foreground. Admiral Scott has just been appointed to the command of a special small
squadron to vist South Africa in the fall.
TEST OF ARM I
BALLOON TODAY
Captain Baldwin Makes
Test Flight in Dirigible
Ballon Built For Army
Signal Corps.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Captain
Thomas S. Baldwin will make his
first flight at Fort Mver, In the new
dirigible balloon he has built for tho
army signal corps, about half past
five or srtx o'olock this evening, If
there are no high winds or other evi
dences of storm
Mr. Glenn Curtis put the finishing
touches on the lining up of the engine
and propellers yesterday and Captain
Baldwin expressed himself ns per
fectly satisfied with the prospects.
The offleors of the signal cotps are
also enthusiastic with the progress
on the big arshlp.
While the experts are all aparently
of one opinion, there are many visi
tors who think the machine Is sure to
fail One man told Captain Baldwin
his propeller was not of the proper
kind, and another wanted him to take
a parachute up with him.
"1 get slo,odo from the government
If 1 go 24 miles," Captain Ylaldwlh
said. “That Is, with the bonus of
$4,000 —a thousand dollars a mile —I
am to recilve If 1 make the extra four
miles above tho 20 miles specified
Wait a minute. I will pay $3,000 for
a propeller that will do more than
this one. And I shall then still be
a thousand dollars In pocket. T have
no fear of the outcome. Its all over
except the shouting, I think."
The Wright, brothers' (lying nia
chine Is already on Its way to Fort
Mver and the Herring aeroplane l«
due In about ten days, so that sum-
Interesting exhibitions before the sig
nal corps officers are expected during
the present month
THIEF GULLS
WITH DEATH
Woman Assists With Fun
eral Rites and Then Rob
bed the Homes. Under
Arrest.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—Accused of
lobbing home*, where depth had Ino
u visitor, Mrs. Dtlla Calmage Is be
ing held by the police until they can
investigate Iter past. Hhe was yes
terday committed to prison by Magis
trate Heaton In default of SSOO hall
tor a further hearing next Friday.
Several women appeared against
Mrs. Caimag" They testified that
she had visited various houses where
there had been a dcaih, and making
friends with the family, had robbed
the house during the funeral service-..
BKOOTS SWEETHEART
FOR DANCING WITH
RIVAL
LA CROSSE, Wl».—llecausn tils
sweetheart, Arbetle Miller, daughu
of a grot , crons farm' r, had gone to j
a datiC' with William Holder, his rl j
val, John Newherg, a young farm' r, i
waylaid 'be two at a bridge over th •
La Ct >es» river and probably fnv It
wounded tho girl and s-rlo'isly It.
jurod young fielder. A purge war,
soon in pursuit, but up to a late hour
no trace of Newberg bad been found
Harriman Thinks More Of His
Fellowman, So Wall Street Trembles
HI FLEW
six mm FEET
Airship Actually Rose As
High As Twenty Feet and
Alighted Without Kill
ing Aviator.
NEW YORK. Henry. Fnrmnn steer
ed his aeroplane 000 yards, from one
end of the Brighton Benc h race track
oval to tho other yesterday, riding
comfortably at an elevation of about
twenty feet.
The flight of the queer-shaped bird
of lath and canvas —it looks a good
deal ilk* fourteen feet of covered side
walk with a laundry wagon for a tall
hugely delighted 3,000 people, who
yelled enthunlastirHlly. The wind was
just about right, constant In direr
tlon and steady and unvarying in its
force.
The aeroplane was wheeled to k
level bit of green at the head of the
stretch. The derkhnnds engineered
and patted the canvas wings, the rud
der, and the frail frame work Just
to make sure that no holts or "guys’
had fetched loose. Mr. Farman toss
< d away the butt ot his cigarette
climbed into the scat of the fly ahum,
and started the motor.
There was a furious whirring, splut
t« ring and cracking as the eight, cyl
inder petrol motor began to get .until
tlous and the flying machine lunged
forward.
For a few yards It kept the earth,
shooting over tho green sod. Then
its great canvas planes got a grip
on the wind, which was blowing
steadily against It, and the aeroplane
srceding about fifty feet, every hoc
ond, arose smoothly, without a |erk or
a Jar, to a height of twenty feet.
I hen Mr. Farman touched a Bny
metal lever and bold bis a -'chine *• t
that distance from the earth while It
soared toward the w-at end of ths
oval at a 35-tnlle an hour clip.
An Mr Farman neared the west end
of the oval he shut off the power and
permitted his well-bshaved bird to
glide gently to the ground.
lie had made a perfect (light.
Thor" was a rush to shake hands
with the aviator
Farman explained, ns he fled, that
lie did not, want, to be made a hero
of, that In had accomplished whnt he
considered only an ordinary flight,
and that he expectsd to do bigger
things before he left town.
POLICE GIVE SUSPECTS
THE THIRD DEGREE
Snspertk Ejraminetl in the
Green Point Murder Case
Give Unsatisfactory
Stories To Officer*.
NFW YORK With new fiictu In
their png sear pm In arltig or tie mys
terious mu dared won,an whore body
was found wr-oped In an (.'I s'-alted
mattress and art a re on the Green
Point, dumps tint fa,lice today begun
a "third degree 1 ' iociilsltloi of the two
suspects under m i, Ju"vi Kurlns
kl end Wailetit ■■ IJorkor V
The poor HV not IlSflfd with
th rt stories to hi by i!.- Iv.o men to
account for their p - tit the
dump on ''"rlday H.id for their whore
i shouts on the night of the murder,
! Kuril)ski I v been Identified I f; M r
Julia Jimbroska, of ,No. 107 Dupont
i *r< -1 . hi I’u ■ -t, ii- a friend of
I her missing cousin, Mrs Mamie Mos
| kovitch, and her husband.
DAILY AND SUN DAY. $«.00 PER YEAR.
NEW YORK E. 11. Harrlman's
statemnt in Chicago that ns he grows
older he Is beginning to think more
of his fellowiv.'ui made all Wall street
nervous today. If the tilings he has
done to his business enemies In the
pnst have been executed with only
a passing thought old stagors In the
street are wondering what the result
will be now that "the little wizard"
has determined to apply Ills mind to
it.
Inoidsntnlly, tho fact is noted that
Harriman is to have a conliqeuce
with the Chicago subway financiers
today, and as he Is reputed to lie
I"a practical man,” they are wonder
ing if today's interview Is In the na
ture of a little salt for the tall of
some Chicago bird of finance.
GARLAND BRICK
STABLES BURNED
THIS MORNING
All Live Stock with Excep
tion of a Horse and Mule
Watt Saved. About Two
Thousand Loss.
lIARNBBVILLB, Ga The Garlnnd's
brlek atahlea burned at 1 o'clock this
morning All the live stork was saved
except one mule and a horse. The
contents of th'* building destroyed
amounts to a loss of $2,000; no In
surance. The building was owned
by Mrs. .1. W. Adams, and was In
sured for $2,500. The origin of the
fire Is unknown.
Mrs. Nicholas Long worth Beats Papa
When It Comes To Settling a Strike
DENVHR, Goln. Mrs. Alice Uing
worth beat her father’s record In set |
tllhg a strike while on her recent tour
of the Yellowstone Park, but It cun
her husband several (loti bo eagles
Bln- did not appoint arbitrator* ner
ord'-r out Commissioner Nelli. Hho
simply paid the strikers to resiim"
atid paid them well.
The Longwortii party went to Hie
Yellowstone from the Denver eonven
tlon. They found the park crowdejl
with tourists, ami t*!e hotel servants
so overworked that there were mitt
ti lings of revolt. At last tin revolt
lame, and tne servants went out on
a strike, intorly refusing to cook a
Kentucky Society Organizes Cavalry
Troop To l ight Night Riders
LEXINGTON, Ky. fjcvh-iy men
fii' to fiKht. the rilfrbi ild<» A cav
airy troop, cd of young bunt
nvhn 4 id iur n, h»i Im « m or
hini/.tul hn<\ hnl It Irt w-f ’d to
I,;i.v' rlof.il. Into t.||4
tnJdr;l of the light rider. and lutlmi
U;i‘f* h in Jji ■<, allowimt tin ".rowing
crop s’s tobacco to bo hous'd and mar
Thoro I about ona-flftfi of tho iihiijil
tobn"o nr p Muk miH'"l and whll»
It Ii in ft !• d thru- Jh little duller
but u H'/on j>. tilt- planter* u rid art alt*
Mary and Her iMmb
Tlu world has very many lambs, whosi owners’ mimes are hid.
And yot these lambs grew wool uu white us Mary’s ever did.
Of course the fame of Mary's lamb Is not at all surprising,
'less brought about by out-and-out persistent advertising.
—The Ad-Man.
Read The Herald
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COMMISSION HAS
REDUCED RATES
DECISION RENDERED BY IN
TER-STATE COMMERCE
COMMISSION IN SUIT
AGAINST A. C- L
RAILROAD
NEW RATES BY SEPTEMBER 15
Rail and Water Rates
From Floriad Points not
Unreasonable, But
All Rail Rates on
Fruits, Etc.,
Must Be
Lowered
WASHINGTON. The Inter-state
commerce commission today, In an
opinion rendered by Commissioner
Primly, announced Its derision In the
rase of the Florida Fruit and Veg
etable Shippers' Protective associa
tion against, the Atlantic Coast Lino
Railroad company and others.
The commission found the all-rail
rate on oranges and pineapples from
shipping points In Florida to the Flor
ida base points not unreasonable, but
the carload rates on suoh articles
from the bass points to the north
eastern cities ure unreasonable. Cer
tt ain maximum rales l hereon wer*
established and ordered to be put in
force September 15 next. Tho rail
utut water rates on these commodities
betweon such points were not found
unreasonable and lit*' commission de
clined to establish carload rates by
rail and water.
The present rail and wator rates
ott vegetables from Florida base
points to the northeastern cities were
lound to be excessive, and lower max
Imurn rales were established and or
dered to be put in force. Whether
lower carload rates should be estab
lished uiion vegetables to eastern
: markets was left unsettled.
The commission further derided
tliui the minimum carload weight es
tablished for the transportation of
strawberries from Starke and Law
fey. Fla., to New York city, and to
other points at present taking the
New York rate should bo reduced
from 200 crates per ear to 175 crates
j per car, and the rate should not ex
j reed SI.HO per crate, Including refrig
I eratlon.
The refrigeration charges on frultii
and vegetables from Florida to North
ern markets were not found to he ex-
I eesslve,
BRITISH WARSHIP
BREAKS SPEED RECORD
LONDON The British battleship
! cruiser Indomitable is expected to
anchor off the coast of Cowes Ibis af
ternoon about sundown, with the
Prince of Wales and Ills royal party
on host'd after one of the fastest runs
ever made by a warship. British of
ficers have watched the marvelous
run of the Indomitable with a great
deal of Interest. Wireless shows the
progress of the ship huu been at an
average of 2(1 knots.
meal, make a lied, or wall on a tabic.
The proprietor pleaded and threat
i tied, tint there was no yielding.
Then Mrs. Longwortth took a hand.
She wi-ru to tho proprietor and said:
"I think If you auk the girls to ge
buck lo work iih a perimnal favor to
me, they will do It. And, besides,
I'll give them ff> each a day while we
are In-re,”
The servants went hack and Mrs.
Longworth fooled the bills.
Ernest Ruffen, a delegate to a re
cent convention of the Kappa Sigma
fraternity In Deliver, told the story
today, having Just returned from the
park.
lo hoii" It, II Is expected the night
riders will attempt to burn It up The
cavalry troop will he depended upon
to prevont this.
One of lh" members is a son of Ad
jutant General I’, 11. Johnson, nnoth
<r, who will he the chaplain, is D.
T. Gapers, dean of Christ church and
a brother of United states Internal
Revenue Coininls loner Gapers. Tho
men are to be mounted on thorough
breds. K. W, MrliCtn, who served In
tin war with Spain, is at I lie head of
Ihe I roop.