| Show 0 s r i ij id d f M lfF S j F 14 0 m 3 arc 3 t e t tx 1 x x i o r t r i x k i e 1 I I r y T M Mr 1 r il 3 Photo Ph to CD by Barnards Barnard a Studio Wallace Idaho BIRDSEYE VIEW OF OP WALLACE IDAHO LOOKING NORTHWEST WHICH IS HARASSED BY FOREST FIRES the Shoshone county court house S the Samuels hotel Main residence sec section section c C shows new Cross on building at left center shows Sunset brewery tion in the background All buildings in foreground destroyed mineral laden hills hilla of the yet romantic Coeur guarded from summers heat h t b by mighty Cozily Cosily nestled in the verdant lap of the ponderous of miniature universe e hidden deep dee in ia the and blessed ble ed with the wealth a a fot forests protected from winters cold by the prepossessing ing walls walla of nature bowels of the earth this a few days daya ago was Wail the carefree city of Wallace Ida and trees mark the spot where wh but charred remnants of homes that were overcast with the stifling dark gray smoke of blazing biasing b firs pine ll Today with cheerful kindly hand Though the Wallace of yesterday ye was not the Wallace the glaring money life and happiness reigned yesterday hope western frontier town of years ago yet It wee was wa a 8 prosperous beautiful city the typical all that to make up mad ad home of miners gamblers ga thieves and go If city cU it may be called of about people at ate g slept side lido its ita hills with but three narrow winding canyons cam one leading dh g to the t outer Miter world w the people by giant Hemmed in on every overy labors labor Wallace Walla wax was seven blocks long and end three blocks bleak wide y knew their rewards of the and waited malted for the miners to bring them precious everybody else elite and everybody lived as one big happy family FIRE MEET DEATH AT THEIR POSTS Courageous Men Who Sought to Save Wallace From the Flames Sacrifice Their Lives in the Perilous Effort KNOWN TO HAVE SUCCUMBED eve Men Suffer In InI Injuries I juries junes More or Less Lass Serious Seri Serio ws us and tind Ten in Addition Aa Ago A Blinded by Excessive Heat LOSSES ARE VERY HEAVY ALLACE Idaho Id o Aug 21 WALLACE W Daylight t this awning showed I I that imminent danger of the de destruction had pawed palled tat but it brought also confirmation of which were wera only rumored and suspected during the conflagration of the night At least two died in the Ute city fire Are John Joh JohnJ J Boyd a 3 pioneer of the Coeur dAlene and former Oregon Dragon Railroad Navigation company agent and an lU unknown man or woman who was ii in ill incinerated td in is the Michigan Mic ipa hotel Only the skull of the latter was WU found la in lathe inthe the ruing this t is morning moraine Of the firefighting forces ar u al 1 t curate eurate toll of ot the tha dead and aDd i j i ila it la unavailable but the known knowli a i 1 number lumber 24 U the total injured m in i ditto to U le blinded It was wu the v iv a 1 of oC the city fire tire department m i of ot the UIe infantry cuip colre col uret i yot and the fr rc goon alone one that saved AN Wallace allce from i t h The conflagration in J n i t L Lt j east t end en was waa stayed shortly aft t and backfiring ou uta hili hills to the west we t and aDd ta i 1 new fires in IB those directions It Ic 3 estimated that the loss Jo in the city uty cit Y 13 about 1100 The entire fa ea OL t to m Ii section from frOID Seventh street i to tiu Cah ton is fa destroyed with throe three terra i a of residences on the Tn T a principal buildings burned and Dd the tie es estimated losses 10 follow The Lo Coeur dAlene duene Hardware compa cum warehouse Sunset Bread Brewr it hotel notel hotel and lid Annex E tj v MM s1 Coeur dAlene Iron Works Si ov Oregon Railroad ft k Navigation d i i 01 Times Printing company compan I MO Worsted Furniture conn CUllIl a H 6 About residences ar a i strayed and many other smaller bu buness buo nUll new places Providence hospital and the Foe F Fedr t I 1 big mills m mils lII are aN the only l bu u i ings saved in the east t end The f fur r t supervisor reports the entire coun Conn COLi II J 1 between Wallace and the St J Jd t a river is swept practically clean clan ai aLl a L the loss of ot timber it hi i stupendous Fires Pires between Burke and Mul Mt 1 threaten both towns today and n 1111 i t women wOlDen and children are being bains ra t away A relief expedition will b t r Or r to go IrO to Placer and Big Cr r where the firefighters camps are ar Bated These men have bave been i 1 over the country driven hither bither thither by the flames flame At War L 1 i tunnel three miles mn from Wallace 0 y dead were found and two were ba Laj burned Five of the dead in the tuc m 14 t Continued C tram teem Page Two To c The privy council of ot Japan today I was summoned to meet at 1030 10 30 tomorrow tomor ow and this is regarded by well informed persons as practically the signal to complete the negotiations between General the Japanese Japa Japanese Japanese I nese resident general in Korea and the emperor of ot Korea Kore and his hili cabinet which have continued a week While the negotiations are shrouded in absolute official silence there no DO longer can be bl any doubt that the Ko Korean Korean Korean rean emperor has agreed to sign a con convention convention by which in view of the un UR untenable untenable tenable conditions obtaining he and his government and people consent to the absolute control of Korea by the emperor and government of Japan Pact Inet Already Tonight extra editions of the newspapers news newspapers newspapers papers say the convention already has haa been signed but whether or not thisbe this thisbe thisbe be so some announcement is expected shortly after the meeting tomorrow of the privy council This probably will include the official u I in n of the conclusion of ot the convention of ot annexation unless all aU the L of art arc iu u n correct The Yi dynasty in Korea has an last anfor 1 for BIS US years yea Seven branches of t u e family remain and the heads of ti tI will be given Iven rank as at prince prine a number of 0 other offu officials i will be lit t t rated to the Japanese not Throughout negotiations neg the mas ma 1 f the Koreans Kore have hae been kept kel t in ta rUl t ignorance of what 1 has as been trans tran n ning lag InK The new newspaper paper s 9 I complete and Japanese have not no been permitted i t be s id ja is i jaI Korea I It Is not no t belie believed belied e i 1 Lv OA dr tr r that an annexation by bv Jia Japan wai j vol voli dh tui banies in ali in in 11 i of ot KOI Kul is thoroughly thol i i t Certain y tl the tle 0 court lied and i d cal 1 i c t t r lain in T peninsula i are aie cu uit t 1 T f tt tl tL I i Of ot K n oc realize reaUze that thai u t lu iu their air o d try tr will be improved and it will t l possible tor the malcontents U 1 i 3 t i tent lent f Z ling cling to t create reate iu i a arl rl rising g a FIRE FIGHTERS MEET DEATH AT THEIR POSTS Continued From Pace Faire One nel had sought refuge They lay with their faces down in the water covered with wet rags and blankets and had died partly from the fire and partly from suffocation by smoke The in injured InJured injured were relieved with olive oil and brought to the hospitals ehe Dead At Big Creek 12 deed dead were recovered two injured and three unfortunates who were completely blinded One fighter was found fOURd dead near Mullan and 16 who were more or less seriously burned At t Pine Creek three are dead five tho blinded and aDd five otherwise Injured It is impossible to the names of the dead most moat of whom came In from Spokane and other points at the call of the forestry service The bodies are being burled buried wherever they are found Days and weeks may elapse before anything like a complete esti estimate estimate estimate mate of the fatalities Is available Fires Pires are still burning burnings around the city but most of the hillsides facing the town are now burned off and un unless unless unless less the wind rises it is believed to be comparatively safe Many homeless Two TO or three hundred people are loft left homeless homel In Wallace many ninny having lost loat their belongings A thick pall of smoke still hangs bang over the city and a watch is III being kept at points of danger The water supply is good The lighting plant which was disabled dl last night has resumed operations |
