Show THREES ITES USE LOSE mm y AIRPLANE SURVEY REVEALS A relentless GAIN ON FIRE FIHE FIGHTERS 0 northern idaho montana and washington count thousands of devastated va acres largo large force are on guard mont tho independence crook fire burning in tho the coer daleno and pond oreille national forests ests broke through nil all lines again on tuesday and gained tho the top of the ridge between tho the two forests where thousands of acres of valuable timber across its path advices advises from glacier national park late tuesday told of a fire tn in tho the vt A cikity of the many glacier hotel that threatened to destroy it and adjacent structures A hastily recruited force of civo volunteers successfully fought tho the blazo blaze with the aid of three power pumps and caved the hotel All asoula mont with tho the entire divide between darks clarks ford river on the west went and the priest river on the east cast a rolling mass of flames tiro fire tuesday was sweeping the forest on u fifteen milo front fire chief howard flint reported after an airplane trip over the conflagrations raging in the forest of idaho wash ington and montana large forces of men fighting the fires have made little headway in establishing tab lishing control lines and now are centering their efforts on the tongues of flame shooting from the rapidly moving wall in to check the side spread district forester fred morrell es ea timaton that acres acrea already have boon been devastated A third of 0 this area in the kanitsu and the rest in the pend oreille orvllle Orel lle blackfoot Elack toot and coeur I Alono forests fire sp spreading on the coeur dalene forest destroyed feet of white pine logs loga scattered scat erod ered over 1500 acres of timberland between paradise and plains on the cabinet forest and for a time throat threatened ened the priest river experiment station the abo coeur dalone region has been closed to camping without permit and the leinberg district to all entry |