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VAST AMOUNT OF WOOD LOST.The lumbermen and chemical factories lost heavily, thousands of cords of cut wood beiug burned in addition to the destruction *of valuable timber tracts. The heaviest lasers are as followers: Jdhn Bartley, near Bingham,5.000 cords: K. J. Gates at Marshbnrg,7.000 cords: GreeneWald Co., 7,000 cords: Lewis Kan Maunfactanng Co., ;i,000 cords; Lafayettta Chemical Co.,2.000 cords; W. Lynch, 1,000 cords; VV. A Percival, 4,000 cords; W. W. Smith and Nusbaum Co., 5,000 cords. Small jobbers in various parts of the county lost their entne output of chemical wood. The Gates and Percival lumber camps in the Marshbnrg district were compl*-tely destroyed and the employes and their families were compelled to seek refuge at Marshburg and liazeltou's mill, the tlight being so sodden that but little of their personal belongings or household furnishings were saved from the llames.The school building and the residence of George Gillette, at Bingham, and two small dwellings near Simpson, owned by men named Ward and Johnson, were also wiped out by the tire, the loss being entire.
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Bradford Era
Bradford, Pennsylvania, US
Fri, May 01, 1903
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