Show DEATH leath r u AND RUIN w U IN BY D 1 rk 1 Y rt FORREST fak FIRES raging torrents of fire drive residents of wallace ida to places of safety t fiat dead in and around wallace iila ida property loss 1000 00 mullan probably pro bibly ably safe afe but ilia tired fires elk city reported still unburned cd four or more dead in fires neal neat N newport 0 o r I 1 W wash ash one hundred and eighty men in th tho evio e forestry r service are mi mis ing in the st joe country taft mont has been burned salte maltese saltese c is surrounded by fire firt do borgia and st regia regis are seriously threatened II flaugh aughan nii mont ia is reported reported ted destroyed regor solid d line of ire fire from thompson falls mont for fifty if ty miles to idaho line with portion port ioni of belknap white pine noxon and he ron burning conflagration u rage in gallatin laUn forest montana 4 Thom thompson pRon falls is in peril anatone asutin county washington is threatened with det 4 st ruction 4 amir it C is in danger ft aiom om fires which are burning in the 4 bush other fired are gaining headway hea dwity in that region and the 4 situation is alarming armine al avery iila ida destroyed and people hock flock to tekoa hurt mont is rt ported to be burning 4 4 4 4 4 4 t MISSOULA MONT AUK aug 21 fire i r res I 1 stab 10 e and 4 overwhelming swept pt over the 4 mountain wall about wallace idaho last night along which witch more than a thousand wen men have fought despe desperately ratel for 4 ten days and in an set get 4 at naught all human ent endeavor leavor A high wind drove the flames flumes through the line of fighters s sweeping bepin 0 oer mr the feeble bar r bieri aeri ieri which h had been prepared 4 in an effort to chck ch ck the spread 4 of forest fire tire toward the threat 4 ened town 4 with a roar tha that 1 lode 4 4 the fire swept up the 4 4 south and west slope or of the 4 hill and rushed down the walt lace side of the range in a few minutes there were sever al buildings buil dingi along the edge of the city ablaze in another minute the city was showered with blazing embers from froin the forest and these light ng upon 4 roofs started more than fifty fi fires res at midnight many buildings had been destroyed and the last message from the stricken c city ity before communication 4 was cut ott off was that there 4 seemed to be no hope for uni aril 4 I 1 of the structures SPOKANE WASH AUK aug 22 twentythree Twenty three portions persons are known to have perished and between 76 75 and are missing in tle forest fort 41 fires raging in the panhandle of idaho in the coeur dalene ialene district never inthe in the history of idaho has the baptism of august fire reached suan widespread proportions or created ich universal damage like a rapidly vi denini dening inflamed sore the angry flames lick up virgin forest homesteads mine buildings and humin lives homesteaders wild animals and the fowls of the air shoulder one another in the common objective the tile rush for safety women with suitcases suit cases filled with thousands of dollars do lars worth of value bles were ere on board the crowded wallace train which reached ane ne last night the stampede to reach safety haa has strained the facilities of the oregon railroad and navigation company and the passenger trains are made up of day coaches conches and bov bo cara cars people from sick beds cri cripples prIes and other unfortunates ore are loaded iliSH on the trains to be taken to har rison coeur dalene ialene and spokane DUTTE BUTTE MONT aug 23 al 21 A dispatch to the intermountain from helena that julius barney of that city who returned from thompson falls this noon on the first train out of that country brings most discouraging cou raging newa of the situation there nothing but rain cai caa stop the fire says barney six hundred men have been gon gor four days during which nothing has been heard from them and forest supervisor bushnell of the cabinet r reserve who is at thompson fears all are dead they could scarcely hive obtained food and as none have returned it is presumed they were cut off bv the fire when I 1 left thompson thu this morning the wind was blowing a gale and a wall of fire hundreds of feet in height was sweeping in n from the west the people of thompson numbering about seven hundred had packed all their effects and were preparing to flee to plains benty v five miles east |