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Show town of Burke is In flames and certain cer-tain of destruction The fire, rangers In that territory are so exhausted that ; no effective battle against the flames tan be made. The .100 residents of the town are In flight toward Wallace. The negro soldiers of the 25th regl inent, who have done heroic service, j and Raved many lives and much property prop-erty In the vicinity of Wallace are now resting, having been engaged In continuous battle ngaltist flames from 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon until early today. Forest Ranger Gulask reports to Supervisor Su-pervisor Welglo that six of his men arc dead, five have been smothered In the War Fugle tunnel, where the entire crew took refuge. Ranger Doll reports twelvo dead, three permanently blinded and thirteen thir-teen with broken legs. FOREST RANGERS DIE FIGHTING FIRE Spokane, Auc. 22. A special from Wallace says that nine sisters and two patients from the Province hospital hos-pital at Wallace, who were en route to Missoula ou a special train on the Northern P-eific. last night. have been burned to death. Railroad ofli-clals ofli-clals at Wallace announce that tho train Is lost and that all on board have probably perlshed. From Wallace come reports that the |