Show 1 t tx tI x I 1 art I FES REACH ACH TH TE TOWN D PD PEOPLE l FLEE Grew Great fames Surround the ithe Idaho dho lf Towi own and nd People Rush P Pc mk to o Depot to o I Board Wig If s of Near Nearby Nearby by r owns aAre Are ng to o Leave Their H mes loss of Proper f S l F ty Is r c e em 4 1 m Aug tit 20 Idaho is doomed and at 1035 10 the whole town was on fire The fhe flames were first com communicated communicated communicated to the south end of the town from the forest fires files The Thelast Thelast last word of the telephone operator ol was that fire was within 15 feet of him and that he had to inn mm for his life Women and anal children 11 were w 1 rushed out on special trams trains and it t is thought no lives have hove been lost at nt this hour hourAt hourAt hourAt At 1115 11 15 p m in communication with Aith Wallace is impossible as telegraph and telephone operators have left their posts Tho The North Noth Northern Nothern ern Pacific division officials official at fit Missoula oula have a n wire wire to Wallace but butare are aie unable to learn details Both the Oregon Railway and Navigation find and Northern Pacific are rushing people out of town in in the direction of Kellogg and Wardner ae fast as possible and there is is no danger so IW far as s the lives of the people lire are concerned The forestry officials here are arc still in in ignorance j as to the cause canso or extent Cx t of the I fire T The LI latest l t bulletin in issued by the JOc local 1 office o was e town was wa safe This was timed 8 0 1 The flee Postal Telegraph Company ordered its operator r when t he h e eleft left fl his hip office at Wallace to cut in in farther f down the line Hue and antI report I from him is expected momentarily Shortly after 11 31 the district officials of o the forestry service were notified that the little town of Libby in Northern Mon Montana Montana tana tann was in imminent danger At 11 O p m in the following bulletin on the Wallace fire situa situation tion fion was received over 01 the Northern cs lone lent wire wire w re which is the I only means menns of communication the stricken city has ha with the outside world and nud which is is liable to go RO down at any moment I Every Eer hill around town is is a mass s of flames and find the whole place lace I looks like a adeath death trap No o connections can be he had u with ith outside towns Men ifen women and aud children chil ren are hysterical h in in the streets and andare I are arc nr endeavoring to leave town l by every possible conveyance convey nce Trains Grains are being made up of box Lox cars Entire east side of town in flames including the new building the lire Times building Michigan hotel both old and new Oregon Railway and Navigation depots Pa Pacific Pacific Pacific and Coeur Dr hotels and many other buildings Dynamite is being used rued in an attempt to check the progress of the flames names The scene at nt the depot in is a wild one but no deaths have been reported thus far the confusion on is such however that no ac nc accurate curate information is obtainable C AH fAll electric are out and telephone wires arc are down Sunset Sun Sunset set firt Brewery and many man neighboring houses and places of o or f business have hae been consumed St Elmo r hotel store Turner Music store at Jre are aie rc also in flames The rue Shoshone county court house honse i and Samuels hotel are arc thought to be he doomed Flames Flam s now threat threatening threatening ening Wallace fire station st tion l MISSOULA Mont Aug 21 Fire I Irresistible Irre and overwhelming swept t tover over tho the mountain wall OIl about Wal Wallace Wal lace lace Idaho along which than f moro more 3 a 3 1 ii thousand man m n havo fought dell pc rate ly Iy for or 10 days and In an nn sot Jot it at naught all human endeavor A high end nd drove tho flames flameD through the fine fino of fighters sweeping over the feeble which had been pre pared In tho the effort to check the spread of o forest fore t fire toward the threatened town With a l roar that Is Indescribable the tho fire swept up the tooth and west wert of the hill and rushed down the thc Wallace aide olde of f tho the thoi i range ange In a I few minutes there were everal ever ll along alona the edge of ot the city were ablaze In another min 1 ute the city was wan showered blar blaz blarIng biazI ling I Ing embers from rom the forest oret and these lighting upon roofs started darted more thi than tho n fifty fires In the tho city At midnight many of the principal 1 buildings had been boon destroyed and nd the mat lant message from the tho stricken city cay before communication cOItion wac Wite cut off of was that there seemed Deemed to be no hope for any of o the structures Wallace miles west of la Pa is densely built n a small cup shaped basin surrounded on all sides by mountains mount the anly exits exit being r I three narrow can canyons canOns ons These are now noVi hemmed In bv by fire I A courier was Wao ao dispatched on horse hone horseback back from Mullan six nix miles from I Wallace at It but he In an hour saying he could not reach re within two miles of the burning burn ng city as ls the canyon c was W 1 a I soothing scathing fui furnace nace The Northern Pacific and O 0 R RN RN RN N railroads have turned over all their cars care and motive power to the refugees refu rofu refugees gees eG allowing none to take t any bag baggage baggage gage J ge as room is limited Two arc coming toward As com communication is Ie cut cutoff off It o 0 to tell toll how many arc going west to Spokane but It I Is understood that at least two train loads of fugitives are fleeing in in that tho direction The last word from Wallace at 1 this Sunday J morning came camo over the train wire of the tile Northern Pacific was to the effect that the flames were spreading rapidly It Is impossible to of possible 1 t h is ri not much alarm Jl rm on this score as hun hundreds r fled from the thc city during the tho day Mullan Idaho Id ho Is threatened an on throe three sides by approaching flames at this thle hour A train with men and tools has haa been sent from St Regie and another Is now starting from rom MIssoula Mis Missoula rill soula GOula under the direction of the may mayor mayor or Wallace Wall has a population of about SPOKANE Wash Aug dug 20 The Spokesman Reviews Wallace corres cor res I save sn e Driven bv by b a heavy gale bale the forest fires tires that have bavo surrounded Wallace allace for fo weeks swept over the tape of the into the ast end of r the town Twenty or thirty dwellings on tho I hi i h into flames about 9 3 o oil f lr pv k and the tho blaze caught a Il few tew minutes later la In wooden warehouses aid m hotels east cast of ot street Every Evory available man In town working work working ing under orders from Mayor Mavor Walter Walte Henson Hanson under the tho th glare of flames on the tho surrounding hills bills with a pall of oC smoke overhead nt ot 11 to hold the Ore fire east of Sev Sov Seventh oath street Rough Roush estimates of oC the loss at that hour were wore placed from Crom to The Tho largest loss 1058 was as In Inthe InI inthe the warehouse of oi tho Coeur DAleno Hardware company C which supplies I raining mining materials to large tributary territory placed nt fit l Tho ThoI plant of ot tho Brewing r company Compau valued ut at was also burning I The Oregon Railway and Navigation N depot recently completed at It a cost coat costI of oC was waR burned as ns was also alno tho I chI eld wooden At 11 the only building I east 1St of or Seventh street still Ul standing Tres T is the county count court house houseA I A distrIct approximately five blocks long and naJ Ilvo blocks wide was in InI n but tho the danger of 0 Its spreading abated I The Pacific hotel botel tho DAl DAI DAlone DAlone one olle lodging house houw both poth two story frame buildings wore among the I to go goI Early I In the afternoon when It was wai WJ first realized that thaL tho the danger was Imminent the nearest blazes blares I wore those up UI Placer Cr Creek ck which wore considered d to have beon be on brought un under under under der control by b the two companies of negro troops from Fort George Georgo Wright and one on the hills across tho the Coeur DAleno DIena river toward al Ince lace Tho The blaze to Placer r Crook Creek leaped the and b back ick fired spaces l aces and began burning down tho the west wel t side sillo of Placer Creek cam canyon on where the flume earning carrying tho the city water wa water water ter supply runs The Tho pall of smoke moke overhanging tho the town was so 30 dense denle that tho electric lights were turned on at 3 in the UI afternoon nt A Ae soon Ins as dusk fell the flames on every eyer side rids turned turner I the tho sky Ik a dull red d |