Show DEATH LIST NOT NO VET TET COMPLETE STORIES THAT CAME FROM FIRE REGIONS WERE NOT exaggerated forestry officials they do not know how many lives have been lost but list is a long one spokane wash the death list as a result of the fearful forest fires in montana NIon tana and idaho has not yet been completed and it Is not known definitely how many lives were lost in fact it may never be known how great was the toll exacted by the ire fire do demon non persons returning return lne from the burned country say that there has been no exaggeration in the newspaper reports of the loss of life and destrie tion of property the forest service Is unable to check up tip its men and to say positively how many are missing on oil saturday afternoon august 20 there were forestry men in tho the field there was a record of their names when they were engaged but some of the timekeepers time keepers have been burned to death and with them tho the lists of employees wages are due the men and it if they dont call for them it will be assumed that the men are dead For restry officials who dont wish to be quoted directly say they dont know how many men have been lost that when the rangers go out to cut trails and survey the losses of umber timber they will find many skeletons the lost men were nearly all laborers picked up by the employment agencies of spokane and missoula soula none of the graduates of the yale forestry school was killed or injured the eight men killed in the bullion mine and the thirteen killed on the dig big fork of the coeur dalene were forest service employees though not included in the lists of the district officers at missoula Alls soula while supervisor weigle at wallace was gathering information concerning his missing rangers he received reports of others than forest men killed hilled and the list of these to more than these reports were unofficial and unverified but alie th 0 agree with tales brought to spokane by refugees it was reported to wallace that a number ot japanese employees of the milwaukee railroad were killed and an d that numerous settlers loggers and miners perished when the mining and logging bogging companies check up their payrolls they will find many employees missing it is believed the land off office ice Is in touch with the settlers and will bo be able to give a list of those who have vanished the dead bodies where fire has swept directly over them seem to bo be burned to charcoal fingers ears and even arms drop off when the bodies were touched and it Is best to bury them where found the men suffocated in tunnels are recognizable and some of those roasted in creek beds are not carbonized an entirely new government survey of the coeur dalene country must be made the old boundaries were fixed by landmark trees that have been removed and the settlers have no way of exactly locating their land of the fifty injured men in wallace hospitals all will bear scars or other marks to the grave those who inhaled smoke are suffering front from lung trouble halt the patients s sustained broken legs or arms many have pitifully seared faces the number of injured in the whole fire country runs into hundreds and while all are said to be recovering from their injuries in most cases they will a fill 11 ll be tired |