People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1895 — IN SERIOUS DANGER. [ARTICLE]

IN SERIOUS DANGER.

Idaho Town Surrounded by Forest Fire* —Aid Asked For. Wallace, Idaho, Aug. 29. —Osborn is surrounded by immense forest fIrQS, and is momentarily threatened with destruction. In response to a telephone message the fire department, with the entire apparatus, was loaded aboard a special train, and has left to assist the neighboring town. Osborn is situated like all the towns in the Coeur d’Alene district, in a deep canyon with mountains on both sides, heavily timbered, and with this dense forest ablaze on both sides it is more than likely that the town is doomed. Fears are strengthened .by the fact that no communication can be had with the threatened town, either by ’phone or telegraph.