Asheville, April 22—Two big fires continued to spread through valuable timber lands in this section of the state late today, while many small blazes were reported to the office of District Forester T.W. Alexander. After an all night battle against the flames in Swain county, Alexander reported that fire had burned over 900 acres of timber and was threatening the land of the Champion Fibre company in that section. In order to relieve the exhausted flame fighters, calls for additional assistance were sent to the fibre company’s plant at Canton.
The second big fire, which late yesterday and last night was threatening homes in the Presbyterian assembly grounds at Montreat, today spread back into the hills between Big Piney hill and Graybeard.
C.M. Meas, forest warden for Buncombe county, who with 17 men from Asheville, went to the scene late yesterday, this morning recruited additional volunteers in Back Mountain to relieve the 200 men at Montreat who were exhausted after a 24-hour battle.
From page 4 of The Concord Daily Tribune, Friday, April 24, 1926
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