Show FIRES b 0 its wa oft n a fa MINE A 2 DEATH A N 0 no WHOLE CITY AND VAST AREAS SWEPT BY BLAZING STORM LIFE AND PROPERTY LOSS ENORMOUS party of one hundred and eighty caught in seething zone and alarm is fe fet at for their safety missoula soula mont Alerci mercilessly lessly and relentlessly elent lessly the forest fires in montana and idaho are sweeping over i vast area driving hundreds of fugitives before them destroying small settlements and wiping out of existence millions of dollars worth of property wo perty the situation sunday night is more serious than it was in the early morning except as to wallace idaho where it is believed that nearly halt half of the city will be saved communication with wallace to the west has been beem possible at intervals sunday but eastward it is entirely cut off it is known that the entire east half of the town above seventh street has been burned west of that a hard fight is being made and with an improvement in the water supply there is more chance that the flames may be driven back for a few minutes sunday afternoon a reporter at wallace had a W wire ire he summarized the situation as af f follows thirteen lives lost property one million fire still threatening ap pp refugees reach missoura Miss ouia about a thousand refugees have been brought into Mia bula sunday there is much distress among them their wants are being sui supplied plied by missoula people and they have been given temporary homes three more rescue trains reached Alis missoula soula sunday night from the west the milwaukee ran in two of them and the northern pacific another there were about persons on the trains but none of them Is ia in the distress that marked the earlier arrivals the last northern pacific train brought information that the town of baltest Sal test reported earlier to bo be threatened had caught fire before this train leit st regis from all directions come reports of d deaths in the flames but they are not mot authenticated and it is not believed that there have been many fatalities two unknown men were overcome by smoke in the forest near iron mountain |