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Show iiingmis wiped but by jilejf fire No Lire Reported Lost, ' but Property Damage Will Reach $1,500,000; Hecla Co. Heary Loser RED CROSS RUSHES SUPPLIES TO AREA Flames Sweeping Along Canyon Burn Tiss . on Railroad Track; Mace and Burke Left in Ruins WALLACE. Maria. July 14 (Sy A. .) Flra that wpt up Burke eanyon yoatarday and laat night, elsstroying tho llttla mining town of Mao and all except tha eaetern rseideno eaotlon ef Burke, Idaho, brought under control at SiM av m. today aftor having wrought damage eetimated at li00,00a The homeleee, eetimated at up. wards f 400 pereene, were content- rlating the mine of their town, hankful that no Uvea either of theoe who fought the flamee above ground or aeveral hundred miner who battled their wey to aafety from the depth of tho Hecla mine, had been claimed. Two pereona were burned, neither seriously. WALLACE, Ida, July 14 (By A. P.) Mtaery eteJka today in the little lit-tle towna of Burke and Mace, ml-, ml-, nine centara aoven mllae eoat of here, following a devastating fire . starting about 1 o'clock yeaterday afternoon -and - swseptng Ita way through nearlyga mile and a half A of homes, etorea and mining work. r At midnight laat night no doathe had been reported. . The entire buel-mm buel-mm section of Burke la deetroyed and virtually every home la In ruins. The loea la put at fl.e04.00n. Mace, adjoining Burke on the west, la only partly deetroyed. the fin met having been fanned by a wt wind away from the confla-. confla-. , gi-ation'e erartlng place, . - About 1000 pereona are aald to be homeless. They were drlvea ahead ' of the fire toward Thompaon Palls. fc ... 11. women snrj oniiuren mn nigni were frsntlcslly trying to save their v belongings from the onrush of the flames. Many have lost all they poessd.- HEAVY MINING LOSS. It was announced by officials or the Hercules Mining company that th Heel aurfac work were entirely en-tirely destroyed, though th Hercules Her-cules plnt bad been saved. Loss to th Hecla company la eetimated by local mining men at between 1710,000 and 41.000 000. The elec- - trio hotat ot th Hecla, on of th largest tn th world, waa burned. Th fir wa checked at ths Tiber hotel and the Hercules work. Fir fighters rcrulled from th mo of th towna, eupplementsd by ths apparatus from Wallace, are etay- Ing the flemss' advanc. though th whol hlUald la a mass of fir Ana moke. Red Cross officials from Wallace have been rushed to Burk with food and clothing for th homel. It I atd that It will take ssv-eral ssv-eral daya to quench the fire, aa tba , huge pllea of timber cribbing under un-der the Hecla. nearly a quarter of a mile In length, are a mass of flames. RAILROAD TRACK DAMAGED. Railway ssrvloe to Burk Is disrupted, dis-rupted, th flames shooting over th track and burning th tie. ' Th origin of th fir I still unknown, un-known, though many bllv that It wa started from a spark from a looomotlv that paad through Burk ahortly before tha fir began. be-gan. . Th mayor and board of trad of Wallac have appointed a relief , committee to care for all persona that are In need of assistance. The hsavlest loea was suffered by - the Hecla Mining company, which had all of Ita surface buildings destroyed. de-stroyed. Th loaa I largely covered cov-ered by Inaurano. It la estimated that about forty horn, with their contents, were destroyed, entailing a loss of 1100.000. about It per cent covered by Insurance, other losses total approximately 171.00s). PREVIOUS FIRE CLAIMED OVER 200 LIVES. SPOKANHL Wash, July u. Yeaterday ftre In th Coeur d'Alen lead-allver mining district brings to tnind the fire which in August, 110, raged for weak, coating coat-ing th lives of shout 10 persons and causing property loss ot a mll- lion dollar. In Wallace, Ida, alon. Driven by high wtada, th flames frequently traveled with Incredible wirtn, and burning ambers, whirled high by ascending column . of superheated air, .- were carried long distances to fire other section of th forest. Th ki were palled by day and lurid by night, and glgaatto amok, bank swept croa th Rocky mountins and. spread ovr th Dakota plalna, Twp thousand refugee, many of 1 them having lost all their possea-ion possea-ion and narrowly escaping with their Uvea, fled to Spokane. Several Sev-eral thou aand fire fighters tolled desperately to check the flames, and In many caeca detachment of th fighter were cut off by encircling encir-cling flame and were burned to death In the woods. Another tragedy to the two towns was suffered the night of February 27 of th una year, when now-r now-r slides la ths district took a toll ef twsnty-ons Uvea. Twelve of the war at Mac and flv at Burk. g V |