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Show FIRES USE lESTHfiNO RUIN WHOLE CITY AND VAST AREAS SWEPT BY BLAZING STORM. LIFE AND PROPERTY LOSS 1 ENORMOUS. Party of One Hundred and Eighty Caught In Seething Zone and Alarm Is FeH for Their Safety. Missoula, Mont. Mercilessly nnd relentlessly the forest fires In western Montana nnd Idaho are sweeping over a vaBt area, driving hundreds of fugitives fugi-tives before them, destroying small sfettlements and wiping out of existence exist-ence millions of dollars' worth of property. The situation Sunday night is more sorious than It was In the early morning,, morn-ing,, except as to Wallace, Idaho, -where It Is believed that nearly hnlf of the city will be saved. Communication Communi-cation with Wal'.aco to tho west has been possible at Intervals Sunday, but eastward It Is entirely cut- off. It is known that tho entire east half of the town, above Seventh street, has been burned. West of that a hard flghfis bglng made, and with an Improvement In tho water supply there Is more chance that the flames may bo driven back. For a few minutes Sunday afternoon af-ternoon a reporter at Wallace had a wire. Ho summarized tho situation as follows: "Thirteen lives lost; property loss one million; fire still threatening." Refugees Reach Missoula. About a thousand refugees have been brought Into Missoula Sunday. There Is much distress among them. Their wants are being supplied by Missoula people, and they have been given temporary homes. Three more rescue trains reached Missoula Sunday night from the west. The Milwaukee ran in two of them and the Northern Pacific another. There wero about BOO persons on the trains, but none of them Is In tho distress dis-tress that marked tho earlier arrivals. The last Northern Pacific train brought information that the town of Saltest, reported earlier to be threatened, threat-ened, had caught fire before this train leit St. Regis. From all directions come reports of deaths in the flames, but-thoy are not authenticated and It is not believed that there have- been many fatalities. Two unknown ,men wero overcome by smoke in the forest near Iron Moun tain. |