Yaksum Canyon Fire Entrapment Fatalities 1929

According to the Cashmere Valley Record, Cashmere, Washington:

"William Doelle was one of the fire wardens for this community and when the word was out that there was a fire up Yaksum Canyon, he immediately started with several men for the scene of action, getting to the scene of the fire at 11:30. He immediately went into action to control it when the accident occurred. Doelle, [David] Coon and Jack Peck, state fire warden, were returning from having been on the ridge with the fire under control and seeing it again roaring up the canyon. Doelle and Coon started down evidently with some plan in mind to check its advance. Peck called to them that it was foolish to enter such a furnace and to turn back. Mr. Coon's son, Manuel, who was with them turned back and ran for his life. Peck who was on horseback and who was unable to take the horse up the steep incline, rode around and was caught in the fire before getting to safety. He could not tell just where the men had disappeared to but was sure something must have happened them as they were in a sheet of flames which a quick change of the wind had trapped them into. This was in a section of grass and greasewood, not timber, and this burned like gasoline, fanned by a 35-mile wind so that the men did not have a chance after getting into the path of the fire. The charred remains [of Doelle and Coon] were brought to Cashmere at 5 o'clock Tuesday evening [July 2]."