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Show LINE OF SOLID FIRE FIFTY MILES IN LENGTH BUTTE, Mont.. Aug. 21. A special from Thompson Falls, Mont., says: Tho fire situation Is alarming. Thompson Falls is threatened by forest fires, A portion of Belknap, White Pine, Noxon and Heron arc burning; there Is ono solid line of fire from here to the Montana-Idaho boundary line, a distance of fifty miles. Senator Donlan's lumber yards, twenty miles west of Thompson, and saw mills and yards at Cedar Spur were totally destroyed de-stroyed by fire last night. The forest service has approximately GOO men In the field fighting fires, but there Is no communication com-munication with them, all wires being down. |