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Show - i 1 '"'"-- - . . l ' ' ll! HELP TO ItSI N . NO RlflWEST Long Dispatch Sent to Beverly More ' Pack Trains, Medical Supplies and Array Sur geons to Be Rushed to Devastated RegionBridges Burned pioperty on tho west side of the liver, but has assumed no alarinlog proportions. At Woodslde a large portion of the forest on Sweeny creek was destroyed yesterday and six men were badly Injured. Thepe men are now In ati Improvised hospital at Woodslde A fire Is moving down I.nst Horse canyon toward (he city of Hamilton Ironi the southwest, but Is still some M stance from the town. At Darby there h another big fire reported on JJck Creek covering tho entire sura-n.it sura-n.it of the range. Fire Has Twenty-Mlle Front. Ranger Beatty tool, a larg;? force of men to Miller Creek about 14 miles south of Missoula This fire has a 20 mile front and Is swinging Into the east side of the Bitter Root valley. This force will 'be used to srfVa the towns and not to fight fires . ci! the forest reserves, the latter policy pol-icy haviug been abandoned where, vi;;agei an threatened. The two liiilroads can handle 2,000 people with the equipment now on the lines between be-tween here and the stricken territory. terri-tory. Refugees are still pouring Into In-to this city with talcs of distress and ij.any children aro reported separated separat-ed from their parents. A report was received by .Manager Pavey of the Rocky 'Mountain Boll Telephone company at 11 o'clock this morning from St. Regis, advising that the wind was blowing a gale directly from the fire zone to the tovvn. The report declares there Is little chance for the old town now, as the flames are Circling and vvill soon come in from ot least two sides. A small forco Is engaged in carrying out the railroad rail-road company's books from tho office to a place of safety. The mill officials declare they will fight to tho last effort, but the attempts at-tempts seem to be fruitless. A late ' report from Hamilton received re-ceived by the Bell Telephone company com-pany tells of a big fire with a wide frontage, which is raging seven miles west of the town, and men aro beinr secured to fight the oncoming torrent of flame. The Northern Pac.flc officials aro making a despeite effort to push the trains through as far as possible and will send passengers as far west as Plains. Special News Arrives. The Mlssoulan has this from Its fpeclal correspondent who is with the Northern Pacific relief train which is cut off by fire at Saltez. be having pumped a handcar through 2 miles of tire to reach a telephone at St. Regis: "All the way from Mullan to SL Regis, the Northern Pacific runs through two walls of burning timber. The scene Is indescribable. The relief re-lief train got as far up the Idaho divide di-vide as Borax and was compelled to return on account of the burning of bridges. Getting back to Saltez. it was found that the bridges east bad been burued and that it would be Impossible Im-possible to mov either way The train was compelled to stoo at Saltez Sal-tez and that fact saved that llttlo bill-locked town. Snuperlntendent Fowler has 150 men with him and a well equipped train. Bucket brigades were formed and men were set nt work with shovels. The train was Just half an hour ahead of the fire and only six pmall bouses on the west end of town were burned. "At the Bullion mine Hght men have been burned to death, two are probably fatally injured and nine are known to bo safe. "William McKay, one of two men left to watch some property at Taft, was so badly burned that he died this morning at Saltez where he had been taken. The local forestry officials aro impressing im-pressing every man available Into the service, and where these can he used to combat flann s they will be divided Into relief expeditions to search out lo.st employes. There is no possible means of knowing the fate of tne companies com-panies of soldiers and fire fighting men who have nt beeu heard from, but It Is now believed that the loss of life Is appalling. Mlssojla Is crowded with persons I made destitute bv the holacast which has swept the Coeur d'Alene district during the past 18 hours, and desperate desper-ate measures are being taken to provide pro-vide for these poverty stricken people. I Washington. Aug. 22. With forests, ranches nnd towns on fire In the p.-irthwcs-'t, appeals for help from the federal government, not to protect the lorests but to save human lives, jKiurci into Washington today. As a result, every menns at the disposal of the officials was bont toward rendering rend-ering aid and the situation laM before be-fore President Taft by telegraph with p. lew to necessary executive action. The matter was taken up at a conference con-ference at tho war department be-tv be-tv een Associate Forester Potter, Major Ma-jor General Leonard Wood, and Adjutant Ad-jutant General Alnsworth. The immediate im-mediate result was the ordering into serice of the last five companies i vallable in the stricken reglcus for lue fighting and sending pack train-? for the purpose of carrying meJlcal 1 si pplles and army surgeons to the imniedlato sufferers. Mr. Potter laid before the army of flcials his latest Information from tho P.re regions His advices were that h'gh winds prevailed on Sunday. At Wallace. Idaho, one quarter of the area of the town had been burned: burn-ed: Newport, Washington, was said io bc threatened and Libby and Troy, Montana. In grave danger anJ each, town asking for 230 troops. Twenty-five fire lighters had been k'lled. according to the forestry re-lort re-lort and Mr. Potter was inclined to believe that tbesr- had all been In the employ of the forest service His u-ports mentioned only tho loss of 'I wo men at Wallace. " - Fires were reported to be raring to- i wards Mullan and Burke-. Idaho, not j.r from Wallace, and the west end o' Ido. another I'lUho towu, was td to be blazing. All of tho Inhabitants In the St Regis valley were reported to have been taken out on a special train Two hundred forest ranges wero reported to bo in grave danger on the Idaho ide of the East Fork of St. Joo nver in Bitter Root mountains. Flros on or n'-ar the Bitter Root, Missoula and Cabinet forests were beyond control. con-trol. The war department has already thirty companies in the field. If oth-r oth-r federal troops are to be ordered to rbc threatened reglous they must come from distant forts and emergency emer-gency funds must be provided for tiiflr transportation. Government surveyors have telegraphed tele-graphed that fires are raging 21 miles south of Republic. Washington on the Colville Indian reservation. A telegram was received at the Indian office from Superlutendent Weber at Spokane, saying that forest guards were engaged in combating fires else-vltere, else-vltere, but that Forest Supervisor Held bad reported that soldiers now at Republic were available for work there. Towns Abandoned. Missoula. Aug. 22. The Northern Pacific special train Is still at Saltez but cannot bo moved as the bridges I are burned ou either side. Telegraph and communication to that place is cut. St. Regis old town has been abandoned by the women, children and disabled, only a force of able bodied bod-ied fire fighters being retained under Supervisor Koch to make a stand against the forest Area which aru steadily creeping on the place. Tho wind died down early this morning thus saving the old town from destruction. destruc-tion. Since daylight, however, the wind has risen and little hope is felt of 6alng the place. Tho breeze has veer. d slightly and is moving toward the city from east and it ia probable the new town will fall QrsL Towns of Rivulet. Superior and Iron Mountain have been abandoned this morning and the Iron Mountain tunnel companies mining property located lo-cated near Iron Mountain caught fin early today and was completely destroyed. de-stroyed. Some minor personal casualties cas-ualties ore reported. Relief Train Starts. A relief train starts from Saltez ftvtr the Milwaukee this morning for Borax, carrying a large searching party which will attempt to find a M eompany of soldiers unaccounted for tlnco Saturday morning. Tho forestry officials this morning import the country east of the Potomac the scene of a big fire which Is covering cov-ering both forests and ranches. LarB Forces of Men Enroute. A large force of men were started I 'ul !' the Kig Blacltfoot milling company com-pany lust night for Potomac and this morning, Joo more .men leave tbis ity for the Campas country. In the Hifon district of the Missoula Tor-"t Tor-"t ten men are unaccounted for. Th.s fore was engaged fighting fires jt the head of Swartz Gulch. A r-l r-l ei expedition was started out of Clinton to seek for the lost men.' In thj Hitter Root valley from Woodslde to Darby, a distance of 20 Miles on the west side of the Bitter Hoot valley, 23 fire broke out yes-ti-rday and lat night, destroying a number of foothill ranches. At H'evensvllle the fire on Kootenai ueek la moving toward the railroad |