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Show One Hundred Eighty, five Foresters Now Unaccounted for Spokane. Wash., Aug 25 Thero are 185 men In the two forest ranger parties now missing In tho country, at lhj headwaters of the St. Joe river. Eighty-live men aro In the party beaded bead-ed by Joseph P. Halra and the expedition expe-dition uuder F. A. Fern contains 100 men. Deputy Rangers Fisher and Hol-comb Hol-comb ha, e left Wallace at the head of relief expeditions to Ihe St. Joe. They will try to penetrate the forest by way of the Clearwater divide, carrying car-rying inedlclue-s and condensed ra-. Hons. A special to the Spokesman-Review from Wallace says; 'i, ! Forest Supervisor Weigle said there we re no other large parties than those of Halm and Fern nilasliig In the Coeur D'Alene forest although thuro might bo loss of life Iu Isolated districts. dis-tricts. Halm and his men are In the densest part of the forest. Fern and his crew are 30 miles from safety. safe-ty. Conditions 011 the St. Joe are very bad. Absence of uews is discouraging, discourag-ing, but the leaders are skillful and experienced and hope has not been abandoned. |