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Show Forest Rangers Bring Word of Death and 1 Great Destruction Spokane, Wash., Aug. 23. The firea have swept past Wallace, the towns of the Coeur d'Alenes have passod the first stage of wild, unreasoning panic ami the people have settled down with more ov lesn composure to wait for the list bf dead The list Is constantly growing as the forest rangers with rc-d-rliuniod eyes and blackened faces penetrate the trails i.ow choked with fallen loss and burning word of fire-fighting crews cut off. camps wined out, ranches and homesteaders caught In the path of tbo flames and mountain towns left In ashes. Since the report of the Bullion mine, tragedy no new deaths have I een recorded Forest Supervisor V.'eigle ha heard from practically all of his forest rangers and expresses ; no alarm excepting . for the isolated , gangs of fire-fighter cut off from communication. He also worried about Ranger Nevltt, fighting fire with a large ere at on Independence creek, from whom ho has not heard for several days. In Wallace the people have largely recovered from the shock of their narrow escape Saturday, A force of ! men has started to clear the ruins of the Coeur d'Alene foundry, working in ashes still hot and the erection of a new building will be under way In c few days. Notices have been posted that mines at Burke and along the canyon will start tomorrow and miners min-ers are being called back to work. Before the week Is over work will have been started on the reconstruction reconstruc-tion of half the buildings wiped out Saturday night. As fast as they can be assembled bridge-building crews will be rushed to work. Hardly a 1 ridge In the whole country around Wallace la left" audi the Oregon Roll-way Roll-way & Navigation. Northern Pacifi: and Milwaukee lines nre to some extent ex-tent crippled. It Is impossible to glvo any accurate or even approximate Idea of the extern of the fires In tbe Couer d'Alenes. The burned district, dis-trict, generally shaking, extends net to Missoula, north to the headwaters head-waters of the St. Joe and In other oth-er directions nobody knows how far. From the tops of tJi-,' hills everything as far as the eye can see Is swept bare. Until the forest rangers now out report at headquarters here, there will be no accuracy in estimates of the fire's ravages. Fear of contamination In Wallace water supply has caused the water company to send men up Placer creek and all Its feeders clearing the htrcams of dead fish and charred logs. There has been no Illness from use of the water as yet It Is said that Insurance on the buildings de-fi de-fi roved here will total $350.noo.Ono. losses are still estimated at about $ 1,000.0ml. The Wallace City council last night appointed a committee to consider the relief of the homeless people. Offers of assistance have Ken received from many sources, but none has been accepted. Fires are reported all around Murray, but the town Is si 111 safe. |