Show LOSES luika LIFE IN inra liu rahe I 1 BRITISH COLUMBIA BLAZE EXACTS TOLL MONTANA AND IDAHO SWEPT high winds again an abild of 0 fire control lines widely broken and many new acres are arc burning calgary alberta an aged woods worker named landstrum died with his axa in hla his hand fighting a forest fire near donald B C dispatches reporting this listed hated losses of board feet of cut logs bogs valued at 11 1 camps bridges and cu lverts on a logging railway stores tools and machi machinery nory the flames were pro bounced under tinder control despite strong winds and extreme drought land strums body was found at a camp of the columbia river lumber company missoula soula mont high winds whipping through the blazing forests of montana and idaho have fanned tho the flames to renewed fury reports to forestry hoad headquarters quarters hero here stated from the flathead blackfoot Black teet and pend oreille forests came word of fires driven beyond control and sweeping forward into large stands of timber on tho the flathead acres acrea are now a mass of flames with the fires rushing on a wide front in spite of the efforts of a large number of fight era rn two fires oh the kootenai Koo tenal were eating through crown timber while another blaze was threatening to cross into the kootenai Koo tenal from the pend orell le some line was hold held on the coeur dalene although many of the fires were raging out of control reports from tho the reserve alvo alo indicated that difficulty was being encountered in holding the flames in that region several now new fires broke out wednesday night in private timber the most moot serious being a short distance stanco dl east cast of missoula soula |