FOREST FIRE TRAGEDY
Workers Trapped in Fight With c Conflagration. I TWELVE DEAD; 48 BURNED. (Received 9.30 a.m.) j CODY (Wyoming), August 23. \ Twelve workers are dead and 48 are -' suffering from burns, 22 of them in I hospital, through being entrapped on a - J ledge of rock when fighting a fire in the C Shoshoni national forest. • The outbreak was due to the explosion * of over-heated trees. There are 500 fire' * fighters, who are expected to control J the flames by the morning. After gruelling trips with stretcher and ambulances from mountains 5000 to 9000 ft high, where the fire originated, the leader of the trapped group said: "The wind suddenly whipped the flames to the tops of "the trees and encircled our party faster than we could run. "I herded the men on the ledge and ordered them to lie prone. Several of! the younger men, terrified by the approach of the flames, tore from the grasp of comrades, ran off the ledge and , perished." •
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 200, 24 August 1937, Page 7
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