Show ES 8 RECEDE fROM TOWNS s BUT SPREAD V IN N fORESTS r It JANE NE Wash Wah Au AUR Aug 24 News News News owes mes l from rom the burning forests forests of Montana and Washington ton in inthe in in- inthe V the seriousness of the situation i is as the destruction of the mn ni its fees It 50 i concerned but re reduces uces the theLa theof te La of lo loss q of life Only four fifty I are known to have o h perished of national for forest st rangers esterday were reported y dead ded have C not all 31 turned turne L e but man many nanY of them thorn have Tho The Thorent rent ept pt countrY countr contains s man many lakes and by bv reams reactS of water taking in these the skilful ran rangers nil ill b bt be tote safe fron from froni the fire fre where i except in in the tho nei neighbor ol 01 the towns the fires fres are ne still Jine Many Man companies of United i Jand COd and troops are arc re on the wa way WIY 0 red battlefield battefeld hoping hopin to out out- iver ver re an enemy that cannot be cot cot- con I li by by A front attack The Tho best 11 of tic the e threatened forest forests for dece denee de de- nee ee ce however is is in the sky Rain Rainow now ow have fa fallen len in Montana and andrain andrain rain 10 n in Idaho and the season of JI rains is 18 near at nt hand Stories and burning burnine of fire fre t fight ficht- ht fa n V made it it difficult to obtain men mento cities to co to o into tho the blazing injured men from the tho Big D creek rere brou brought h to the Wallace ho hos hos- nt lt night They were W. 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N Ward San Fran Fran- Fan I Chris hris hris Hanson White fields Joe Murray Ida and William Williamen en Spokane rand fand and Bruised ae more snore or less so erol severely burned m e me tie are arc badly bruised ed b by falling None hone will l die Marko an Italian 18 is one of at o tho the most seriously I Throe men arc from tho the Bell Del whom if whom ton were killed More Marc eg brought from Wallace from imp up toda today Word from A Avery yer very LIB that arm surgeons are car car- r ritho h injured in that nei neighbor neighbor- following dispatches hes received last torn om em Lewiston and Stites in the hc Ur r country countr of Idaho aro are the e news pews that Is received from fromi fromin i points in northern norther Idaho test iut fr fire smoldering since sinco Sat Sat- ai atho tho timber six miles south of son on Craig Cri mountain Tuesday on In burned tho the school school- id nd d a number of ranchers' ranchers cabins t Tho The fire destroyed 1000 acres of timber but but is now now dl ml from the forest fires fres on tho the Tork ork and in in the Elk Ek City Cit re to kt t te that tbt the wind blew a gale le ler i j y r and the tho ground rou gained b by and volunteers dur during n the lr the tempest Monday Monda night has hah st. st Major ajor x Penn Fenn enn who is is m in 1 com corn t. t men considers the situa situa- sperate and although the al- al hau ted fire fre t fighters hers are work work- h ii renewed energy he has little making any headway How How- low 0 o wind ha ba fallen and the tho flames fames less les rapidly ont ant nt of or Twenty five Miles Mie d a fires tres at Eldorado and Old creek have havo a an tin unbroken frOnt sty five miles mies extending from taT y ay iv f W the nd cut cut- the th th ool only over which rein and can bo be sent to ter endeavoring to t. t surround s. s Nearly men who were the Ithe o of the rangers locality a week ago have been to get et through Snyder's Snyders pack for the twenty twenty ran rang rang- camp beyond Old Od Mans Man's creek beleaguered at Rocky Rid Ridge c lumber of volunteers from Spa id McDaniels McDaniel's train is surround surroundS Eldorado Eldordo creek creck The Tho men were d to hurriedly bury buy tho the load L 1 saddles and pack equipment st st. st The men and horses nar nar- by making a desperate the line lne of f tire fire fre in a brief bricf ic Je wind The horses homes had hd their and tais tails sin singed cd off of and set sose sos sev- se t e e. e men were ere badly hadly scorched r d no serious erious injury m were surrounded ded by hy the tho thoan an 0 he the Solway Seway river Tuesday ile lle in camp camp but c escaped ed eding i in ing The iho rock rook wall al of the can can- hey her threw threw their tools into the but had no n time to bury their their and supplies f S Sit it tt Elk City t f City district the situation lily liy growing worse The Tho town dered safe but the surrounding ill be devastated The Tho Camp Camp- azwell I Hawkinson and Rich Rich- RichtIe tIe ranches east cast of Elk are re I tte hurn burning n and the the plants plant of the tho Own rown Providence and Winners Winner's l aro said id to have havo been def de de- f h h started twelve miles mies Elk Monday is rapidly up- up rig the the town to n. It I reached the tho theer er rangers rangers' camp amp Tuesday morn morn- i IF II tho men Den were Compelled to toh toh h ii nothing but their cothin clothing American river district Is ablaze uth luth to source fifteen mIles mies and cs Lea have havo crossed both Little and crooks crocks There are re s several seral eo crl largo large Jaso on both streams and these ed to have o ho been burned Tho The has Ir spread ad rapidly rapid r extends to tho the Middle Fork Forie vc ve miles mies Campbell gulch Ich Is ablaze for tor or number I of ot quartz mills have roved troyed and the tIres fires frs on Buffalo zilch ilch were supposed to be bo out nut active The smoke In Elk dense that that that there there is little between aten midnight and noon non are are kept burning buring contInuous contInuous- es tole and dwellings |