Show I i nAHO fOREST t AlARMING a Fresh Fire Fire Broke Bro e Out in the Antelope Valley ae East ass assi i of o Spencer enter Idaho and an Got of Beyond the Control of o the Fire ire Fighters r V RANC I RS ARE If Its It s imM HOMES S SIN 1 IN PARK s Idaho Militia Ordered to the St Sf t Joe River Country Governor Norris Morris orris of o Montana a Issues a al l Proclamation on the Situation t It I i According lt u to advices received by b District Forester Forestor I Sherman j ns ng well as private telephonic from St Si Anthony and Spencer Idaho last night fort st fire fir broke out lilt late yesterday after afternoon afternoon noon in n the Antelope valley miles east enst of Spencer anti and andis is iM no now nett sweeping everything before it towards the east and tho the thel l Island Park fire in the forest foreIt miles further cast east castA j A high wind arose about o 5 yesterday afternoon and the lire 1 got trot beyond be ond the control of ol the fire fighters who are in that valley Thus far no fatalities have been h ell reported x From 1 1 om various stations on the Yellowstone Y Park branch of the 1 7 Oregon Line tho the last night sent their families fam lies on oh o i a special train furnished by b the railroad company coni I to t o Idaho Falls FaUs and other uther towns out of the fire zone Throughout the afternoon fire firefighters firefighters fighters 4 under nude r Supervisor Barnett Burnett wore were engaged in in backfiring ng t to keep i the fire in n the forest from going tt down ih the t Snake River valley vall Additional fire fighters left Ogden Ogdon last night to join Supervisor Barnets ts force in the Island Park district this morning which will give him a force of about men including men mell furnished by the railroad company Fifty fire firc fighters left Spencer Idaho yesterday to join the force in 1 11 the Antelope valley r r t District Forester Sherman whose Jurisdiction extends over oer the southern part lart of Idaho received rece ved a fL message esterday from the supervisor of Iho tho forest thata fire of huge proportions had bad broken out near Id nd ml Park on the Yellowstone branch of tho the Oregon Short Line The Tim fire i spread rapidly through the dry grass grasson R iR on the tho edge of or the forest and soon Roon presented a fire lino line miles in extent working back into the heart of oC tho the ther r timber belt bell The railroad officials at Pocatello j on being notified d that the fire lire was 18 be beyond yond ond control and threatening their property ordered street steel gangs on the Iho thea a McCammon double track to proceed t immediately on a special train and andl l O men were hurriedly sent north to the scene of the conflagration contra atton to re reo reinforce reinforce men who have hac been drawn from the tho forest service of this district i The Thc first word received by District Forester Forestor E A Sherman from the fire zone one of the northern country yester yesterday yesterday ester day was waa that tho fires of or the Sal Salmon Salmon Salmon mon mon river country were gradually he be being heIng ing log controlled There Thero are arc now seyen f fires four of which are arc under the he ab all absolute absolute solute control of the fire fighters anti and two practically chocked Shortly after afler receiving the tho Halter flatter Haltering ing news from the tho Salmon country Mr tr Sherman received receded a telegram from Supervisor Dave Dae Barnett tt at St SU StAnthony StAnthony Anthony that a grass fire at Island Park along the llie Oregon Short Line Lino road leading to tho the National park had spread into tho the forest of I Idaho and that the Umber was on oni i lire fire The telegram stated that Mr Ir Barnett Bar Barnett Barnett nett had bud called firefighters to Sl St Anthony and that the railroad oad p company compan had bad called more Into py y requisition r and was speeding them to t tt tho the on an special spec Ial traina trains Every Eory Ever Y Yd d other moans means is being resort resorted er cd ed to by b Forester Fore Barnett and the tho i railroad company to save aavo the great d from devastation y Mr Barnott also alao stated in his tele telo telegram tel c gram nm to Mr S 6 arman that he thought he would be able to control and stop the tho fire firo with WillI mon moo if Ie he could ly roach reach the steno scene of the fire before It had gone gono too far into the large tim timber th d ber bolt bolta a Thomas E B Fitzgerald of or this city e owns a ranch near Island Park P rk a little station on tho Oregon Short Line Une and he Is IB somewhat worried over members of or his family fa miry at the ranch t He states slat s that the park is I a small plateau PI at eau in the midst of tho the I forest and that it Is a n orous place in which h to start a fire I He says saJA the salt grass ras there at this time timo t mo of or the year ar Is high hl 11 and very cry dry lr so so much so o that It will willburn willburn burn hurn like Under tinder if f started He sa says s she he thinks his wil wi be dw de d destroyed cd for fOI It Is In the path of any an gross grass rss firo that thal might start stait in to the park There arc are about eight hay ha I ranches on the plateau and not more than thirty people arc living In the little valley aUe His Ills great fear Is that the railroad company may mav ma not ho able to get a train Into the park and get back with the people living there The ranches there are seeded lo to timothy and red top grass that ought ough t tto to he be about ready rendy to lo cut and some of or orIl it Il may be dry at this time of or year which will greatly aid In feeding the tha lh fire Mr Ir Fitzgerald says the wind I usually blows In a northwesterly north di dl direction direction which would drive the fire firo Into tho the most mORt densely timbered section of oC the forest The Tar hee forest is one of the th lar st in is the state of Idaho and it is said by h those most familiar with that section of country countr that a fire in that lint bolt holt of timber would cost the country millions of dollars of money If IC it were to continue for an any length len th of time lime SPOKANE Wash Aug Mug 27 Per Persons sons ons who returned today from the burned country say any R that there thero has been heen no exaggeration e lu tho the news newspaper newspaper J paper aper reports of loss of life or dis of property proP In the Montana Idaho forest fires Tho The forest service is la unable to check up its men and a 1111 lo to say positively how many man are nrc miss missing missIng ing ingOn in On Saturday afternoon August 20 I there were ere forestry men In the field There was waHa a record of their names when they thc wore woren engaged but bill I pome sonto 1 of the time keepers have been t b to lo death and with them the I lists HaL of Wages Wn es are duo tho Une thomen thomen I men and If the they dont call for them It Jt will bo be assumed that thal the men are arc dead Forestry who dont wish to bo he quoted directly say ba ta they tho dont know lenow how many roan men have huc been bc n lost that when whon the rangers go out to lo cut raIls balls 1 and survey suno the tho losses of Um tim Umber timber ber her they will find runny man skeletons The lost loat men were nearly all nil labor laborers I ers ors picked pl ked up by bi tine the employment Continued on Page Five IDAHO FOREST FIRES BECOMING ALARMING A i Continued from rom Pago Pago One Ont Onta agencies a of o Spokane and anti None Nono of tho Uw graduates of tho Yale Yalo forestry school w ro killed or In lii jurod The Tue eight men killed In the I Cotter Conor VAleno wore forest service I though not Included In the I I lists of tho the district officers at al Mis lIs soula C 0 While S at al Wallace Ta laco wad hl au gathering Information concerning Ills his missing rangers he ho received re ro reports reports ports of ot others than forest men kill killed ed eti and the list o of totalled more moro than These reports were unofficial and but bitt they the agree with tale brought rought to Spokane by refugees refugee It IL was reported at Wallace that thal thata thala I a number num er of Japanese employeE of the lie Milwaukee road real were killed and that lint numerous settlers loggers and arid miners perished When the tho mining I and logging lugging companies check up lip their thell payrolls they the will find many man em om missing It IB Is believed lK Tho The Tholand Tholand Theland land office Is IE In touch with tho the set bot mrs and will lIe be nub able ahle to give a t list of those who have hac vanished The Tue dead elead bodies where whore lire fire has bas swept directly over oyer them seem to bo lie turned to charcoal Fingers ears cars and andeen andesen oven esen arms drop off when whon the tho bodies bodlos aro are touched and It is best to bury bur them whore where found Tho men mon suite suffocated In tunnels are recognized An entirely now new government survey sune of tho the lAlene country must be bo made The old boundaries were fixed by h landmark trees tree that have hae been een removed mood r and the tho settlers soWers have hae no noway noWay way of ot exactly locating their land The Tho Potlatch lumber compans vast ast track of timber north of Pot Potlatch Potlatch latch Idaho is 18 threatened with des tIes destruction destruction by forest fires and the tho com corn company pany panr pail Is mustering a ai crew of fire crews who will be shipped from Silo Spokane kane by b a 3 special train tomorrow morning Of the tho fifty fitt Inured men In Wallace hospitals all an will bear scars or other marks to 10 tho the grave grao Those Thol who In Inhaled Inhaled inhaled haled smoke arc are suffering from lung hung trouble Half the th patients ts sustained broken legs or arms Many have hare pit piti pitifully fully fun full seared scared faces The Thc number of In Injured In the tho whole shoie fire country runs Into Inlo hundreds and while all an are said to be recovering from their Injuries iu lu most cases they tho will be disfigured |