| Show E ATH E ET COMPLETED CO STORIES TH THAT AT CAME FROM FIRE REGIONS WERE NOT 1 forestry officials soy they do not kit know 0 w how many lives have been T A lost but list Is a long ii t i H one t B spokane wash tho the death list as A 4 result oi of tho the fearful forest fires in montana and idaho has not yot been beeh completed and it Is n not ot known deft bitely how bow lives were lost in fact it inay never be known how bow great ereal was tho the toll exacted by the tire demon persons from the burned country say that there theio has been no exaggeration in tho the newspaper re ports ot of the loss of life and destruction of property the forest service is to check up its men and to say positively how mani many are missing K on saturday afternoon august 20 thera there were forc forestry itry men mea 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 the lists of employees wages are due tho the men andia and if they dont call for them it will be assumed that the men aro ar e dead For restry officials who dont wish to be quoted directly say aey dont know how many men have been lost that ahen the rangers go out to c at ut trails and survey the losses of timber they will find many skeletons tho the y I 1 lost men were nearly all labor laborers era picked up by the employment agencies of spokane and missoula soula none of the graduates of the yalo yale forestry school was ws killed or injured the eight men killed in the bullion mine and the thirteen killed on the big fork of the coeur dalene were forest service employees though not included in the lists of the district dist officers at missoula soula while supervisor weigle at wallace z r was gathering information concerning his missing rangers he received reports ports ot others than forest men killed and the list hat of theae to more y than these reports were unofficial and unverified but tho the agree with tales brought to spokane by refugees it was reported to wallace that a number of japanese employees of the milwaukee railroad were killed and that numerous settlers loggers and miners perished when the mining s and logging companies check up their 1 payrolls they will find many employ i ees missing it is believed tho the laud land s ff ice is in touch with the settlers and will be able to give a list of those who have vanished hed the dead bodies where fire has swept directly over them adem to bo be burned to charcoal fingers ears cars and i even arms drop off when the bodies were touched and it la Is best to bury them where found the men buffo 7 bated in tunnels are recognizable cognisable re and some ot of those roasted in creek beds are not carbonized an entirely new government government survey of the coeur dalene country must be made the old boundaries were fixed by landmark trees that tha have been removed and the settlers rs 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 from lung trouble half the patients 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 all bo be ared |
