Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1908 — Tow at Fernie Is $2,000,000. [ARTICLE]

Tow at Fernie Is $2,000,000.

Toronto, tint.. Aug. 7—J. O. S. Lindsey, president o.f the Crow's NestCoal company, summarizes the north west fire situation thus in a dispatch received here: "The fire area is about thirty miles long and from two to ten wide, and is still burning In many places at the outskirts, but Michel is safe, except in the ense of high wind, and may lie even then. Hosiner Is quite safe and Coal Creek may be said to be almost certaiily safe.” He says the loss at Fernie will total $2,000,000.