| Show Forest Fires Claim Two More Dore Lives In Wind Northwest Northwest Wind and Hail Hit Crops SAN BAN SA FRA FRANCISCO CISCO Aug t G-B G The Associated Wind Press Press Wind hall halland haland and rain united with fire tire to bring I I destruction to crops and other I property In the northwest yester Iday day I Five to per cent of the crops In Its path were destroyed by a han hail storm that swept a wide area of southern Saskatchewan Canada Buildings Building were unroofed and the th countryside was littered JIttered with debris Hundreds of ot windows were broken by hailstones hailstone In Regina Saskatchewan an Cellars streets and basements were flooded The Tho storm broke over Regina from the WIt west and extended to Manitoba doIng damage In some sections but bone bene- fitting bene-fitting fitting parched grain In the eastern an and southern districts The forest fire tire situation took a 0 turn for tor the worse In several die dis dis- dis districts districts Fanned by high winds flames In Mount Baker national forest SO 80 miles east of In western estern Washington were de declared dared uncontrollable without the aid of rain The blaze blue a already has hils burned acres neres of ot timber Umber It ItIs Itis ItIs Is being opposed by 00 men only at critical points KILLED nr DY WEE TREE Unchecked flames are nrc sweeping the forest on Bacon Dacon creek tie tie river and Silesia creek Another death resulted from the fight against the ho flames Jefferson of Yuma Fume Ariz was killed near Bonner Bonners Bonner's Ferr Ferry Ida when struck by a falling tree TOWN TOW DESTROYED One town tell fell prey o Eo the be sweep ot of the flames The old minIng town of ot priest Cal Ca Caon on the he Big HII Oak Flat road to the val val- valley val valley ley was wa as wiped out and fifty per per- per persons sons SODS were made homeless The fIre also threatened for tor a time the town ot of Big Oak Flat and was burning uncontrolled earl early today opposed by fire tire fighters Four big fires also are burning In northern California national for for- for forest est eeL Weather eather conditions are adverse ad- ad adverse ad adverse verse and thus tar far the flames have not been controlled PERIS PERISHES ES L IN rIRE rillE MISSOULA Mont Aug By 6 6 ByThe The Associated Press Little headway Is being made against the forest fires tires In the northwest t and the tho flames continue to spread leav leav- leavIng leaving leaving ing desolation behind them An Another An- An Another other life lite was claimed yesterday when an aged named Landstrum died while fighting tire fire near Donald B C On tho the previous day Hutchinson CO GO a rancher perished In the flames near Sand Point Ida The high wind winds which spread the lames flames over numerous forests early In the week have ha subsided It Is reported reo re- re reported ported to forest headquarters here The flames on the Dla the Flathead and the Pend Oreille for for- forest for tor est este were scattered over wide areas by the gale Scant reports from the Pend Oreille In Indicate a great spread of ot the Caribou and Meadow Creek tire tires fires on the tho timbered drain drain- drainage age ago areas IMMENSE SE DAMAGE Forest headquarters hero reports that already this year the flames have burned over acres In Inthe the district comprising western Montana and northern Idaho This la Is nearly four times time as much as ns the total area burned In 1924 and 1926 1025 During the tho last ten days of ot Jul July acres or more than halt ot of the total area this season burned Ot Of the tho acres acres were within the national forests and the remainder was privately owned land to national for for- forest est eat areas No estimate Is fa available of the tho privately owned land burned lying some distance from the na- na national na national forests |
