Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1904 — Danger from Forest Fire. [ARTICLE]

Danger from Forest Fire.

Monongahela, Pa., Nov. 23.—A forest fire which started by a railroad engine spark last Sunday on the hillside opposite here lias broken out afresh, and the flames now menace not only the tipple of the Morigah mine and farm houses which lie in the path of the fire, but the whole village of Axleton. Hptreme danger threatens farm houses and crops on the level land at the top of the hill. Here men are now racing against the flames in an endeavor to plow up enough earth to stay their course. A stretch of a mile along the high hillside has already been swept by the flames,