Show CAUGHT IN PATH OF ROARING FlAMES Settlers on St Joe River Un Unable Unable Unable able to Flee From Home in Time to Escape WENAHA FIRE CONTROLLED HIGH WINDS IN ELK ELE CITY DIS DISTRICT TRIOT REDOUBLE DANGER Mont Aug 14 Forestry officials official are worried orrl d over oer the predicament ament of a n relief expedition sent to tc the firefighters In the r na national national forest foret across ucros the divide In Idaho It Is I known that twenty pack packhorses packhorses horses and ten men meu are lire marooned somewhere In the and amid there In Is I no uc wa way of determining just t where here the outfit Is Iii although It In Is admitted to be lost loat Spokane Wash Aug 14 Settlers on the tho big creek of ot the St Joe river in the Coeur dAlene district Idaho are reported to have been driven from their homes by the ravages of or forest fires and Joseph Burzinsky arid and wife are missing ing The settlers who escaped say sa that the Burzinsky ky home was one of the first in the path of the flames flame and the fact tact that the have not since been seen of heard from leads to the belief bellet they were caught and have perished The greater part of tile the Big Creek settlement has been wiped out Information comes from Dayton Daton Wash that the forest fires in the Wenaha reserve are under control The fires there have raged for tor ten days and burned burne l over a large area destroying several feet of ot timber It Is isId said Id to be the most serious that has hns occurred in the Blue mountains for a number of years Word comes tonight that the fires in the St Jos district have llave been fanned to redoubled fury tury by high winds and that nothing but raIn can check them themA A special from Stites Ida tonight says sa s the situation In the Elk Ilc City dis district district district is the worst in the history of that region Under the influence of the high winds prevailing in the moun mountains mountains for the last two days da B and nights the forest fires are burning with re redoubled redoubled redoubled doubled fury tun The whole country In Inthe inthe inthe the vicinity of Elk City is ablaze The town is cut off from communication communication communication cation with the outside world and sur surrounded surrounded surrounded rounded by fires The fires on Ton Ten Miles were supposed to have been burned out were tanned fanned f into ac ae activity activity again Major Fenn reports three new fires on the Selway Selwny and on Eldorado creek Both are in dense tImber limber and are sweeping through the forests faster fater than a man can walk No word has been received today from Continued on Page c Two Twe CAUGHT IN PATH OF ROARING ES Continued Prom From Page One Ont the fifty men who went to the rescue of ot the settlers setters on Squaw creek Forest fires tires are reported raging on the west shore of ot Lake Chelan on the theLke Lake Chelan forest foret reserve Washington Aug 14 A call cal for tor additional help to fight forest fires in inthe Inthe inthe the Rocky mountains reached the for forestry forestry estry estr department today The assistant forester at Portland Ore tele telegraphed telegraphed graphed graphe to Washington that the sit situation si situation in the Colville Colvie national forest in northern Washington on the Ca Canadian Canadian Canadian nadian border brer had grown very bad Additional assistance Istance was urgently re requested re requested quested General Generl Wood chief of ot staff of the thear army ar last lt night ordered order d troops troop to pro proceed proceed ce to Republic a town within easy esy reach rech ot of the th reserve r and It I Is hoped hope that they will wi be able to meet the th sit alt situation si It I is estimated that the gov government government eminent now has men fighting forest foret fires tire More Soldiers Solder Dispatched Butte Bute Mont Mont August 14 Advices to the Miner Iner from western Montana say Besides Beside the two companies of ot soldiers from Fort Wright sent to Wallace Walace Idaho two more will wUl report to Super Supervisor Supervisor Supervisor visor Bunker of ot the Flathead National forest one to be b stationed at Gary Gao and the other at Paola Paola The coming of ot the will relieve relee the situation nil apr It tt Is I thought here and con herel at Wallace are no n longer be believed believed to be dangerous A fire tire was reported today from the Crazy mountain portion of ot the Ab roka forest The situation there ther Is not serious but on the Cabinet for forest to est eat conditions are grave gro That twenty horses and a force torce of ot otmen men are ue marooned marne somewhere in the Clearwater country is a statement given out today toay by the forestry of The exact location of ot the ex ox expedition cannot be ascertained and it is not known whether or not there is any danger of ot its Is being wiped wipe out From the Kootenai forest comes the report that this preserve Is threatened by a fire tire from the Cabinet forest foret the blaze having a a twelvemile front frontA A new force torce of ot men was sent seat set today toay to the Bitter Biter Root forest where a bad fire has broken out out That the state militia mita may be called cale out if the situa situation tion ton grows more acute was intimated today SIlcox tody by b Associate District Forester |