People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1893 — LIVES LOST IN FOREST FIRES. [ARTICLE]

LIVES LOST IN FOREST FIRES.

Several Goat Herders Said to Have Perished in the Flames. MONTEREY, Mex., March 20.—Forest fires have been raging for several days past in the Sierra mountains, southeast of the city of Saltillo. Thousands of acres of timber have been destroyed and many families made homeless by the flames. Several goat herders have been reported as perishing. There has been no rain in that section for many months and the entire country is as dry as parchment. The flames spread with remarkable rapidity and all efforts to get them under control have proved futile.