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Show ANSWER T9 HULL CALL All but One in Forest Service Ser-vice of Coucr D'AIene District Accounted for Wallace, Ida., Aug. 24. When the roll of tho Coeur d'Alene national forest for-est employes was called In tho office of Supervisor W. R. Wclgle today, all of the men wero accounted for except Joseph H Halm of Wallace, a deputy ranger, who had performed excellent work and was last seen w,th bis crew of men Vorth of the Big fork of the Coour d'Alene river. In a district that was burned over Saturday Dlght. Grave fears for the safety ofthe crew arc felt. J A part yof rangers are opening a road from the Bullion mine to Wallace, Wal-lace, In order that the bodies of the eight men who perished in the mine I may be brought here for "burial. Deputy Ranger, Edward ('. Piilask?, of Wallace, whose " jioiije has 1 een I mentioned frequently In the fire lls- patches for his bravery." 1I'S on a cot In the Hope hospital blinded In one ; eye and severely burned on the face and bands. J When the twenty four men who j were Imprisoned in the Bullion mine j tunnel abandoned hope of escape they prepared to die manfully. They changed shifts, mi ttiHt some might hold a blanket over the tiTIne hub? while the others , prayed for forgiveness forgive-ness of their tJns and wrote farewell messages on scraps of paper to loved ones All prayed, though some had not done so since Infancy. The letters written by the nun who succumbed will be sent to the jxt suns to whom they are addressed. The notes written 'by the survivors have been returned to them. The party wis In charge of Edward F, Hale, who wrote a pathetic good bye message to his mother, Mr. C. W. Hale of Kimball avenue, Chicago, but who was saved. Joseph B. Halm, the missing deputy depu-ty ranger, was a famous all-around athlete at the Washington slate college col-lege at Pullman, Washington, a few years ago. He excelled In running, and was also a noted baseball pitcher. |
