Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1910 — FOREST FIRE LOSS IS HEAVY [ARTICLE]

FOREST FIRE LOSS IS HEAVY

Canadian Northern Railroad Reports Stations and Many Cars Gone. Winnipeg. .Man., July 4. — The Canadian Northern railway announced that its loss during the past week by bush fires in the Rainy river district was 125 bos cars, thirty stations, freight sheds water tanks and $500,000 worth of yard material. Elmo. Ont., is cut off from communiction and with Fort Frances is surrounded by fires. Farmers in all directions are abandoning their homes and are taking women and children to places of safety .Many settlers in the interior are believed to’have been shut off, owing to bad roads.