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Show they are liable to be overcome by tha Are. In Wallace, however, the death list may grow. The fire swept that town with such terrible swiftness that It Is feared there will be more bones found In tho ruins as tho search progresses. The fiercest forest fires In this district dis-trict this morning are those In Sanders San-ders county, between Thompson and the Idaho lino. These fires . extend along In an unbroken line for more than fifty mlloa, and arc In such dense timber that they are extremely destructive. de-structive. There are peroral towns In this district, built In the very midst of the timber, and It Is likely that they will suffer. There la no telegraphic communication communica-tion with the west, owing to the fire's destruction of wire lines, and nothing has been heard here from Thompson since midnight, Tho story of today will depend upon the correctness of the weather forecast. Go Up From Every Corner Cor-ner of Western Montana Mon-tana and Idaho Missoula. Mout.. Aug. 22. -From every corner of western Montana aud Idaho this morning there are prayers that the weather forecast has hit it right In the forecast for showers for today. Nothing but rain ran save the situation. The hundreds of weary men who for days have battled with the flames In the forests ar s'.agcgr-lng s'.agcgr-lng to safety with bloodshot eyes and aching limbs. immeii-Ii? themselves in streams or burying their faces in mud for protection from the resistless, resist-less, when endurable, maddening hcut of their conqnoiiug foe. The only improvement In the situation situ-ation is at Wallace, where the remnant rem-nant of the town that Is left seems to be safe from the fire, and ut Mullan. where the town, threatened all day yesterday, is believed to bo safe. It in reported that Saltcse. In western Montana, is ai'o out of danger, but this may prose to be a bit of ocr-confidence. ocr-confidence. The towns of Taft. Do Borgia. Henderson Hen-derson and the old part of St. Regis are In ,-uhes . The old placer town of Murray in Idaho is In danger. The flames have the upper hand of the situation sit-uation jn scores of places. Rain Is the only salvctlon of hundreds of miles of timber and of many camps and small towns. Men have fought the flames the limit of human endurance en-durance and are withdrawing from the contest in many places. Especially Is the situation serious In the densely timbered country along the lines of the Milwaukee western extension; ex-tension; here the mil way has suffert-d tremendous loss from fire In the very region where suowslides wrought havoc ;ill last winter. Bridges have been burned and little stations wiped off the map. Wherever possible the railway company has brought the men to safety in special trains, as there has been no effort spared to make the rescue complete. This morning morn-ing then.- are two rescue trains on the Milwaukee.' speeding toward Missoula Mis-soula with about 500 people aboard. There is another on the Northern Pacific's Pa-cific's Coeur d'Alene branch with 250 Women and children, taken from Uio turned town of St. Regis. There will be a second Northern Pacific train before be-fore noon. Unless there are more men lu isolated iso-lated positlous in the woods than is believed to be the case, the loss of life In this section will not be great The men in the forest service- gangs are In charge of experienced woodsmen woods-men and they knew how to tnk care of themselves. It Is only where they have utterly exhausted themselves in their battle with the flMPies or hHve sustained disabling accidents that |