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Show NORTHERN TRAFFIC TIED 0PBY FiliE BUTTE, Mont., Aug. 21. A special ' from Thompson Falls, Monr., says: Practically fifty mile of the Clark ' and Fork Valley from Thompson i Falls west is ablaze with a Btrong wind blowing, carrying the fires up the small numerous tributaries and , sweeping everything In Its path. .Set- i i tiers whose places have been de- i ctroyed by the fire have been flock- ! ! lng Into Thompson Falls on every available train today, citizens hero ' taking care of these refugees as fast as they come in and making prepar- j I ations for hundreds more whose ; places seem doomed. Senator Don- Jan's sawmill and lumber yard, twenty twen-ty miles west of here, was totally de-Ftroyed, de-Ftroyed, the horses being burned In the barn, Thomas Dolan, brother of the senator, who was In charge of tbe tillL barely escaped with his family. Owing to a landslide and the burning burn-ing of a trestle two miles west of Tuscor all westbound trains are tied up here and all eastbound trains nre tied up at Noxon and Heron. One train ran to Tuscor today, returning re-turning to Paradise tonight and bringing In several families of wet-tiers wet-tiers whose homes were burned In the vicinity of Tu9cor. Passengers on this train report that the section house and station were on flro as the train left that place. At Tuscor the fire jumped the Clark and Fork nver and Is now sweeping the north side at the mouth of Swamp Creek. There are numerous settlers living In the territory which is being swept ty this fire. It is rumored that Senator Sen-ator Donlan's lumber yard at Cedar : Spur has also been destroyed and 1 that the town of Heron la In great 1 danger, but as all telegraph and telephone tel-ephone lines are down west of White Pine, this rumor could not be confirmed. con-firmed. The forest service has ap- , proximately 6.000 men In the field j in view of the wind which has been j blowing a gale for the last two days , It has been Impossible to check the , flames. In several cases tho flro ! fighters have lost their bedding, j camp equipment and tools, barely es- j mplng with their lives. It Is believed j that several crews of from twenty to jslxty men each, who have not beu ; beard from for two days, will he able to save themselves by getting into the burnt over areas. Roads and trails are being cut off by the fires and It is impossible to : get even provisions to tho fire light- , crs In the mountains, and tbe local , forestry ofllco reports that It Is only ; a mutter of n day or two until the Arc fighters In tho mountains will bo |