Show DEATH U LIST NOT YET COMPLETED STORIES THAT CAME FROM FIRE REGIONS WERE NOT EXAGGERATED EXAG-GERATED Forestry Officials Say They Do Not Know How Many Lives Have Been Lost But List Is a Long One Spokane Wash The death list asa as-a result of the fearful forest fires In Montana and Idaho has not yet been completed and it Is not known definitely I defi-nitely how many lives were lost In fact It may never be known how great was the toll exacted by the fire demon Persons returning from the burned country say that there has been no exaggeration In the newspaper reports re-ports of the loss of life and destruction destruc-tion of property Tho forest service Is unable to checkup check-up its men and to say positively how many arc missing On Saturday afternoon August 20 there were 850 forestry men in the field There was a record of their names when they were engaged but some of the timekeepers have been burned to death and with them the lists of employees Wages are due the men and If they dont call for them It will be assumed that the men are dead None of the graduates of the Yale forestry school was killed or Injured The eight men killed In tho million mine and the thirteen killed on the Big Fork of tho Coeur dAleno were forest service employees though not Included in the lists of the district officers at Missoula While Supervisor Wclgle at Wallace was gathering information concerning his missing rangers he received reports re-ports of others than forest men killed and the list of these totalled more than 100 These reports were unofficial and unverified but the agree with tales brought to Spokane by refugees I |