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Show jWALUCE IS Blazing Embers From Forest Fires Enter Idaho Town Spokane. Aug. 12. Blazing embers carried by the wind from the burnlug i forests on tho mountain sides were j Ijilllnlg in Wallace. Idaho, today. Tho dense smoke niaJe it impossible to I koc objects 200 yards away. A hu'.i- dred families packed up their .posses?-! .posses?-! slons and lied to Spokane or other j towns. Should the .wind becomo si longer, it is believed nothing cau ravo the town. Forest fires in the Placer Creek district, five miles from Wallace, Lave destroyed the compressor buildings, build-ings, boiler plants, blacksmith shops and cabins owned by the Wentwortn company and the Vienna nationl mining company, the Arctic,, the Smuggler and the Golden State com-laules. com-laules. , On account of the denne smoke and falling embers, it is Impossible to get into the camp to estimate the dam-Mullan, dam-Mullan, Murray and other camps rrc in danger. At Mullau. firemen p.nd citizens are keeping the roofs soaked to catch the sparks Near Murray two men spent the night in n tunnel with their heads covered v.Jth wet blankets. Timber on Kellogg oeak. close to Wardner, is blazing but the town 1 , believed lo bo safe. |