| Show IDAHO FOREST FIRE AND MAN RUN RACE RAGE AND MAN IS LOSER Rancher Collapses In InSight InSight InSight Sight of Stream Stream Near Sand Point TRAIN TRAI GETS GETS HOT Northern Idaho and West Vest Western ern Montana Situation Seri us MISSOULA Mont Aug 5 5 ByThe Tho Associated Press Forest fire conditions In western Montana and northern Idaho continue to grow more serious as IUS high winds scatter the flames and make the work of hundreds of fighters fu- fu futile fu futile U- U Utile tile Reports re received at forest headquarters show that the tho ma ma- majority of the fires tires are gaining head head- headway headway way and that new fires tires are aro start start- starting ins ing Reports of ot two new fires on Dig Big Salmon creek west veSt ot of th the lake lako ranger station were received yesterday Both Doth were believed to have c started from from lightning and high winds scattered them over a large lare area Another new fire was reported on Beaver Deaver crl creek k In the Snow mountaIns It started from a farmers farmer's brush tire fIre and gaIned headway and Is burning over a apart apart part of ot two ranches Unless other circumstances prevent it the tho sol aol soldiers sol soldiers diers from Fort MIssoula who ho have been on the Hay Creek fire tire will be called colled back to their post It was an- an announced an announced noun ed by Major James r M Lock Lock- Lockett Lockett Lock Lock-ett ett after he ho had conferred with forest officials It was ivas said that nothing further could be accomplished without rain ADVANTAGE A GE LOST Fires on the Pend forest were reported to have wiped out the work of of scores of firo tiro when heavy winds push pushed d the flames over protective lines The blaze now has covered acre acres and the Meadow creek blaze acres A acre blaze on the Flathead forest was given additional Impetus yesterday by y high winds ls and was reported as rapidly Additional fire firefighters fighters were sent out from Kalis ails ais- pel I Reports from froni the orest were that the flames were making grea great headway and that the ho fighters could make little progress progress ress ess Charles Charlea Charles EI superintendent of the he Indian agency has announced an additional closed area irea to hunters campers and fish fishermen ermen to protect forest areas In that hat region Another human life has been claImed by forest tires fires burning In Inthe Inho Inthe the ho Pacific coast region It PERISHES The victim of the flames was orran Hutchinson 60 a rancher who rho lived In Hoodoo valley near Sand land Point Ida His Ills badly charted charred yesterday body ody was found late lato yesterday be- be beside be beside side a n stream near his ranc ranch lie if e apparently had fallen n lust Just before ho he reached water Fires continue to burn from northern California to BritIsh British Co- Co Columbia Co Columbia lumbia A few blazes were re- re reported re reported ported during the last 24 hours A large stand of timber was when Cana Canadian lan and Amen Ameri American can an fighters operated co-operated to put out outa outa la a menacing blaze that broke out outI between Sum mas and Blaine Wash I A train pulled Into Salmon B D C so iO hot that It was forced to stop atop t ero to cool In California the tho fire tire situation was va not regarded as serious al- al although al although though bough two stubborn s blazes were burning one near and the he other near AUberry Fresno county 00 oo- oo |
