The Panhandle Lumber Company loses a vast pile of cut logs along the track, and two families — including Mrs. Parker and her daughters — watch their homes burn.
“Mrs. Parker and daughters were unable to save most of the contents of their home.”
Jesse Shepherd was away when fire took his house; his wife escaped with the children but not a single household good, and cold weather was already on the doorstep.
“She barely escaped with her life from the burning building.”