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Show Men Die in Forest Fire, Others Crawl Into Mine Tunnels Butte, Mont., Aug. 22. A . spoclal from Wallace, ' Idaho to the Miner says: J. G Boyd, former Northern Pacific agent at Wallace, met death in a vain endeavor to save his poll parrot. His son. Fire Captain Boyd, had forced the members of the family to flee from home on the hillside when the flames drew near. The fnther happened hap-pened t tli.nk he had fo'rgot teri the parrot and started back to get tho bird. He was not missed for fifteen minutes, and wbeu a search was Instituted In-stituted he was found lying face down In tho rond, 10Q yards from the boose. He had been overcome by the heat and smoke, but was not burned. Tho parrot was found dead in Its cage beside be-side him. In the mlos of the Michigan house two skulls, presumably of men, were found. Six men are known to have died In an attempt to reach Wallace from Big creek of the St. Joe country. coun-try. Some of those saved assert that six more are lost. The names of only three of the lost are known They are William I-earraouth, Joseph Fern and Harry Hanson, the latter of Ra-clno. Ra-clno. Wis. The two were hired in Spokane through an agency. Ranger Pulaski and forty-one men were forced to leave Big creek nnd attempted to comer the ten miles to Wallace. Three miles from town thev were forced by a wall of flames to crawl Into mine tunnels nearby and remain ten hours. Two men broke through the fire and staggered into Wallace.' They reached here at 4 o'clock yesterday morning and gave the alarm and a party of rescuers with a physician hastened to the War Eagle mine, where th men were. One of the forty-one was found burned to a crisp on the trail. Five of those In the tunnel were suffocated suf-focated and dead, and a dozen others were so near dead that it whs necessary' neces-sary' to work over them for an hour. Three men are known to be dead on Pine creek. Ranger BolJ had 23 men under Mm there. All were caught. Three were killed, three others were bjinded for life and five had their legs broken by falling trees. Three more men were killed yesterday yes-terday afternoon. They and twenty others were trapped in a fire on Boulder Boul-der creek near Mullan. Four managed man-aged to walk to tho train to como here. The other known dead man was killed on' Placed creek; a mile from Wallace. He and a companion were penned in by flames. They took refuge In the creek and kept each other wet by throwing water with their hands. Whllo thus engaged a j flying tree struck one of thero on the head and killed him instantly. His lrlend was able to escapo to Wallace, but had all his clothes burned off him. He was stopped at the city limits by a policeman, who obtained clothes for the man before be would permit him to enter- tho city for treatment. Harry Chamberlain was engaged In I bnrylDg two trunka in the yard of bis home in East Wallace, when the flames swept around the corner of the houRC and burned hltu from head to foot. I The devastated area In 'Wallace lies east of the court house, north of hotel street, north of High street and south of the Northern Pacific depot. The fire situation U still bad. all the hills around the town being filled with burning timber. ' Tho wind was blowing blow-ing strongly at times. FL-lly a third of the population has left town. |