People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1894 — FOREST FIRES IN PENNSYL VANIA [ARTICLE]

FOREST FIRES IN PENNSYL VANIA

Flames Sweep Over a Thousand Acres of Valuable Timber. Meadville, Pa., Aug. 15.—Disastrous forest fires are raging in various sections of Crawford and adjoining counties. In Randolph and Troy townships a broad expanse of woods have taken fire and fires are sweeping over more than 1,000 acres of this great forest. All efforts to save the bark, logs, shingles, etc., corded in the woods have been abandoned, the people turning their attention to saving their homes and families. Great damage is threatened.