Show HOT ROCKS ROll DOWN HILL AND MENACE FOLKS UPON HIGHWAY I I Tenth Life Claimed Dy By B F Forest Fires In Ini In- In Northwest i WORST VORST IN YEARS lit it Troops Called Out In III Missoula to lI lp i Stem Stein Blazes SEATTLE Wash July fly Dy H Dy Press Although The Associated 41 orest ret fires continued to devastate l valuable Pacific northwest limber reports at oLain of rain were ero roo re- ro rt eLved ed from western Canada and the States weather bureau pre pre pre- pre l today loday theta that a It rising humidity l Improve c conditions J 5 Th The Tha tenth lire life to be taken h I and fires of ot the Pacific cst within a II week was as re- re rePorted re reported ported yesterday v when hen Se Dal Dat- Dat Dal Ira pra a blacksmith of Nelson r n 13 C waa as killed by hy a falling tree tres while fighting flames near Hall hail B 13 C t Spokane Wash Vash Wl sh told of ot three homes omes at Whit White Whito Prairie near there burned by a brush fire lire In- In Inhabitants In Inhabitants habitants fled tied the tho district S AT CITY'S EJ Gc f At Port Orchard near Seattle 1 i rushIng rushIng- tire fIre was as stopped at the th city's Itys Ity's edge by bl Other new blazes near Seattle wro wrea at Granite l Nails alla Clear L 1 Lake c Alpine Alpine- and Sno- Sno Sno Ish t Spots Sots In Alberta SaSkatchewan nd nd British Columbia In ported ported rain and dominion pro prognosticators nos Indicated IL its lla continuance t Montana's plight continued se se Electrical to storms ms set new dres fires and the Blackfoot and Pend Coeur and St St Sf Joe forests foreste were dc do- do scribed 0 as flame covered co Officials of or the Kanisky forest declared de- de dared the situation there the worst since 1910 1110 SI Six thousand acres seres are burred burned near f 1 Mont font and the flames flame were pre d to be bo spread spread- spread lAg I g uncontrollably fast nOT HOT HOCKS HOLD fOLD Two thousand acres were afire fear Gr Grouse lIso creek In the Pend forn forest and flames roared over o 1000 acres ot of timber on John John- ny Long Lont mountain At Caribou creek blazes biases which covered covered 2000 acres burned a fire fighters camp Near Nelson B D C In the Sale Sal Salmon mon valley y two 11 mills were burned with a loss oss and another was threatened Large Lare fires tirES northeast ot of White C Court urt In Alberta were controlled Other blazes along the Athabasca river continued undiminIshed undiminished Oregon fires firos were ere worst on Dooley mountain near Baker Daker In Inthe inthe Inthe the eastern castern part of ot the slate state whet where r hot rocks rolled down don hillsides a and d menaced 1 i travelers tra Oh Monger creek of th tho l mountains ot of otI I southern Oregon a strong Ind prevented fIre firefighters fighters from fromcheck from check check- check In ing a serious blaze Fifty Fitly tires fires spotted near Ore and GOO Coo acres of or standing grain were destroyed by flames flames flames- TROOPS moors s C OUT DE Cob Colo July 16 lly 16 ByTho The Tho Associated Prese Press With the I garrison at Fort Missoula Mont Mont called called upon for tor the first time In IG years to reinforce civilians In bat bat- battling bat bat Lung flames lames sweeping over o a wIde area In the tho forests ot of northwestern Montana and northern Idaho the situation today was declared by district forestry officials to be bethe bethe bethe the worst in seven years cara In com corn compliance compliance wit wit-h the request Major James P Lockett post command command- commander er Cr will send Bend a- a detachment ot or SO 80 mn hastily recalled lIed from target practice to 10 the Blackfoot river reo re- re glon today where a tire I ire ha has defied all efforts of large ot or fighters The T le conflagrations conflagration In the Koo Koo tenD tenet I Blackfoot Fend Pend Oreille Coeur dAlene and Sf St Joe forests are re reported orter to be out ot of control and spreading rapidly Crews fighting the Hay May creek fire west of Glacier national park hark ark which alre already dy has hns covered conred an area of or acres h have ve been forced to retreat several tw s due IC to the intense heat |