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Show district All that Identifies the men ' 1b a roughly penciled card bearing the Inscription. "lyightoea men burled here." There were Scandln&Tl&ns and Americans In the party. There wero twenty-nlx men at the cabin under the Immediate nuper Ylfilon of Ed Maloney. Maloney, with Corbltt, E. FL Kendall, a man nsmed Allen, Tom Long and peter Pendleton, escaped. VICTIMS PERISHED IN THEIR CAMP SPOKANE. 'anh.. Aug 26. Ranger IxmU Fitting and a party of thirty-four, who went into the upper Clearwater bv way of Lost Horse pass, have not been heard from since the big fire on Saturday and Sunday, and rescue parties are searching for them. Supervisor Fenn reported today to-day that cond Hons on the Clearwater and Salmon rivers are much better. j Forest Ranger J. H. Halm is the only college i.an reported dead thus far. Guards Stewart and Robinson, Identified at Avery, were men of the regular estab'l'huv nt, but nearly all of tho dead were emergency men sent out by employment nencles In the cities. Stories told by the survfvors indicate that if the employes had been under dlfdpUne and had obeved orders or-ders the lo:s of life would have been miif h less. One ranker kept his men from stamped intr by threatening them with a rltte. Near Avery twenty men warned to lice Tor their lles started down the mo.;ntAn until they found a . clearing, went into camp and per- , ished. On Setter creek the twenty- i four men who riled had been warned -to leave, but they wero comfortable j in camp and decl.ned to move. ! On Setser creek also one man who I disobeyed orders was obliged to shoot himself to escape cremation, while hl3 eighty-nine obedient comrades wero only singed. The forest service did not emplov-the emplov-the thirteen men killed at the Dig fork of the Coeur d'Aleno. Kighteen fighters who served under Forest Runner Lee Holllngshesd aro buried at Dlttman's cabin, twelve miles from Pllo'a ranch, In the St. .Ton |