Show DEATH HIS LIST NOT YET ET COWL TEO STORIES THAT CAME FROM FIRE REGIONS WERE NOT Forestry Officials Say They Do Not Know How Many Lives Have Been Lost But List Is a Long One Spokane Wash The The d death ath list as asa asa a lI result of the fearful forest fires In Montana and Idaho has not yet been completed and it is not known definitely deli deli- how many lives were lost In Intact fact tact it may never be known how great was the toll exacted by the fire demon Persons returning from fromm rom the burned country say that there has been no exaggeration in the newspaper reports reports reports re re- re- re ports of the loss of life Ufe and destruction destruction destruction tion of property The forest service is unable to check checkup up Its men and to say positively how many are missing On Saturday afternoon August 20 there were forestry men in the field There was a record of their names when they were engaged but some Borne of the timekeepers have been burned to death and with them the tha lists of employees Wages are due themen themen the themen men and if it if they dont don't c call for them It will be assumed that the men are dead officials who dont don't wish to be quoted directly say they dont don't know how many men have been lost that when the rangers go out to cut trails and survey the losses of timber they will find many malY skeletons The lost men were nearly all laborers picked up by the employment agencies of Spokane and Missoula None of the graduates of the Yale forestry school was killed or injured The eight men killed in the Bullion Bumon mine nine and the thirteen killed on the Big Fork of the Coeur dAlene were forest orest service employees though not I included in the lists of the district officers at Missoula While Supervisor Weigle at Wallace was vas gathering information concerning his us missing rangers he received reports reports re re- re- re ports orts of others than forest men killed and the list of these totalled more than han These reports were unofficial and unverified but the agree with tales brought nought to Spokane by refugees It was reported to Wallace that a number lumber of Japanese employees of the Milwaukee railroad were killed and that hat numerous settlers loggers and miners perished When the mining and end logging companies check up their payrolls they will find many employees employ employ- ees es missing it Is believed The land office is In touch with the settlers and will be able to give a list of those I who have vanished The dead bodies where fire has swept directly over them seem to be bo burned to charcoal Fingers ears and even ven arms drop of off when the bodies were vere touched and It is best to bury hem where found The men sated in tunnels are recognizable and some ome of those roasted in IJ creek beds are re not carbonized An entirely new government survey of sf the Coeur dAlene country must be made nade The old boundaries were fixed by ry landmark trees that have been r re removed moved noved and the settlers have no way of rf exactly locating their land O Of the fifty injured men In Wallace Vallace hospitals all will bear scars or other marks narks to the grave Those who inhaled in haled sled smoke are suffering from lung trouble rouble Half the patients sustained broken legs or arms Many have piti piti- fully seared faces The numb number r of injured in in the whole fire country runs into hundreds and while all are said to be recovering from their injuries in most cases they will all be |