Show Forest Blazes Take Big Toll Missoula WIth Mont Mont With a toll of one life tiCe a small settlement and numerous ranch properties wiped out and thou thou- thousands thousands thousands sands of acres of timber destroyed for for- forest for forest fires est est fires CIres in Montana and northern Idaho continued their devastating course Sunday with high winds ing Ing the lie efforts of ot large armies of fighters fight fight- fighters fighters ers The Fortine fire in the et forest which wiped out the little set set- settlement set settlement ment of ol C fifty ft buildings at Stryker Mont Is still out ot of control Inhabitants Inhabitants Inhabitants tants of ot Stryker all escaped Nets Nels Nelson a n railroad section foreman was burned to death near Turah when he was surrounded by flames against which he lie had been directing the lt The Hay court fre fire west of Glacier park in the forest was held fairly well despite the tho high winds wind FIres Fires in the forest on ott the Washington WashIngton Idaho northern border continued out of ot control The Caribou and Meadow creeks fires CIres in the Pend Oreme Oreille northern Idaho spread d badly Good progress was made is fa battling the Independence fire tire which has been burning tor for three weeks on the Coeur dAlene forest A heavy blaze has spread over 1500 acres la in lathe inthe lathe the East Selway forest in Idaho |