Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1889 — A MONTANA CAMP BURNED. [ARTICLE]

A MONTANA CAMP BURNED.

Barker Nearly Destroyed—Several Dives Thought to Have Been Dost. Great Falls (M. T.) dispatch: The mining camp of Barker was almost destroyed by fire yesterday. The fire started in a miner’s camp, three doors below Zeigler’s house, and swept from there up the valley, burning all the eastern portion of the camp. It is supposed that Ellis, bis wife, and four children all lost their lives. There are also three men missing. Mr. Heibles lost seventy tons of hay, farm tools, and everything but his household goods. Barker is the business center of the entire Barker district and is about sixty-five miles southeast of Great Falls. The mineral deposits are on both the east and west sides of the camp, the burned portion being on the east side of the creek, where most of the business was done. The place will be at once rebuilt.