Show FIRES CAUSE DEATH AND RUIN WHOLE CITY AND VAST AREAS SWEPT BY BLAZING STORM LIFE AND PROPERTY LOSS ENORMOUS party of one hundred and eighty caught in seething zone and alarm Is act fe at for their safety missoula Alls soula mont mercilessly and relentlessly elent lessly the forest fires in western montana and idaho are arc sweeping over i vast area driving hundreds of fugitives before them destroying small settlements s ettle ments and wiping out of existence millions of dollars worth ol of property the situation sunday night Is more serious than it was in the early morning except as to wallace idaho where it la is believed that nearly halt of the city will be saved communication with balaco wal ace to the west has been possible at intervals sunday but eastward it Is entirely ct at off it Is known that the entire east cast half of the town above seventh street has been burned west of that a hard fight Is being made and with an improvement in the water supply there la Is more chance that the flames may be driven back for a few minutes sunday afternoon a reporter at wallace had a wire lie ile summarized tho the i as follows thirteen lives lost property losa one million lire fire still threatening refugees reach missoula soula about a thousand refugees have been brought into missoula soula sunday there is much distress among the them 11 1 their wants are being supplied by missoula people and they have been given temporary homes three more rescue trains reached missoula soula sunday night from the west the milwaukee ran in two of them and the northern pacific another there were about persons on the trains but none of them is in tile the distress that marked the earlier arrivals the last northern pacific train brought information that the town of baltest Sal test reported earlier to be threatened had caught fire before this train I 1 leit st R ragis qed sj from an 46 directions I 1 rec ti on a come reports of deaths in the names flames but they are not authenticated and it la is not believed 0 there have been many fatalities unknown men were overcome by arau e in the forest near iron moun tain talal |