Show THREES SUITES STATES OSE LOSE mm AIRPLANE SURVEY REVEALS A relentless GAIN ON FIRE FIGHTERS northern idaho montana and wash ington count thousands of devastated va acres large force are on guard soula mont tho the independence creek tire fire burning in ill tho the coeur d dalene alene and pend ai orvllle beille national forests ats broke through all lines again on tuesday and gained the top of the ridge between the two forests where thousands of acres of valuable timber stretch across its path advices advises from glacier national park late tuesday told of a tiro fire in tho the vl cikity of tile tho many glacier hotel that threatened threaten etl to destroy it and adjacent structures A hastily recruited force of seventy five volunteers successfully fought the blaze with avith the aid of three power pumps and saved the hotel missoula soula mont with the entire di 31 vide between darks clarks ford river on the west and the priest river on the east a rolling mass of flames fire tuesday was sweeping the ICa nikau forest on a fifteen milo mile front fire chief howard flint reported after an airplane trip over the conflagrations raging in the forest of idaho washington and montana largo large forces of men fighting tho the tires fires have made little headway in establishing tab lishing control lines and now are centering their efforts on oil the tongues of flamo shooting from the rapidly moving wall in attempts to check chech the side spread district forester pred fred morrell estimated that acres already have been devastated A third of this area in the and the rest in the pend oreille Orel lle blackfoot and coeur abalene forests fire spreading on the coeur dalene forest destroyed feet of white pino pine logs scattered scat ered over 1500 acres of timberland between paradise and plains on the cabinet forest and 4 for a time threatened the priest river experiment station the coeur daleno region has been closed to camping without permit and the leinberg d district s to all entry |