Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-08-14 | Page 2 | Forest Fires Take 3 Lives

FOREST FIRES TAKE 3 LIVES Conflagration Worst Experienced Experienced Experienced in Idaho in 24 Years By Bi Associated SPOKANE Wash Au Aug 14 Roar 14 Roar Roaring ing forest fires killed three C C C CI workers as spreading ding flames drove back exhausted crews in Idaho and California The worst northern Idaho fire since since the 1910 1010 conflagration that wiped out entire towns took the lives ot of two young men identified as Leroy McGinnis MeGinnis Mc Me- Ginnis of ot Kewanee lIt Ill and Lester Johnson of Galesburg Ill Willia WilliaA Mattison 21 Los Lo Angeles was k while fighting flames Nevada City CaL j Falling snags charred and weakened weak weakened ened by fire lire crushed each of ot the trio Theirs were the first deaths in either cither state this year in flames which lave have raged through western forests and drawn heavily on C C C camps for lor fire tire fighters Smoke Routs Rouls Fliers FUer McGinnis and Johnson were wece killed In the Selway national forest lorest center of ot the swept flame northern Idaho area where men fought futilely to control four major blazes and innumerable innumerable in in- numerable spot fires Smoke was so dense that aerial surveys be became ame impossible impossible im im- im possible and attempts to move men and supplies into isolated fire Lire centers centers cen cen- by plane were abandoned Areas burned over by major Idaho fires tires were A new blaze In the Clearwater forest nea covered about 1500 acres on Pot moun lain tain Elsewhere in the west with the exception exception ex ex- of British Columbia where foresters abandoned their efforts and Let Let fires ires eat their way through valuable valuable able timber stands blazes were reported reported re reo re- re ported under control or of negligible proportions U. U u S. S Sends Assistance Where British Columbia fire fronts advanced toward the boundary Americans were sent across the line to keep flames names out of ot United states Stales timber S JACKSON Wyo Aug 14 One P One JP-One One of the largest forest fires of ot the season season season sea sea- son in J Hole is raging 15 miles west of here near the Wyoming Idaho line foI p The fire was started apparently by lightning over the week weekend The path of the fire leads over Teton Teton Te- Te ton pass which Is the mail route into Jackson from from Victor Idaho No estimate of the territory covered cov coy ered cred by the blaze was immediately I available I