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Show IF0U8TEEN ' Bodiesof Forest Rangers Identified Balance Unaccounted for i Missoula, Aug. 2o. Of the sixty men under Rai.ger Hlllngswoit h, only on-ly fourteen have been accounted for. These are dead and tho bodies Identified Iden-tified unu are Included in the list of dead. It Is possible that some of Holltngs worth's men are In tbo hospital, hos-pital, their names not having been learned. Ranger Hollinghcad, who wa.s reported re-ported lost, has returned unharmed U camp. On 'Seizor Creek, 2l bodies were found. These were a part of the CO men sent Into that district under Rancor Ran-cor Dehbltt Positive Identification of only two men has been made. They are O. A. Elodgett and Patrick Cro-gau. Cro-gau. both residents of Butte. The ranter Is not positive of the i Identity of C.eorge Smith and L. I's-lello. I's-lello. reported from Missoula. Jim Donohue. whoso name appears In the Identified list. Is bellwved to be from Havre. Harry Jackson Is thought to bo from Tacoma. Frank Sandors, It Is believed, came from Milwaukee. Ther Is extreme doubt concerning the nccuracy of tho spelling of the names, but the officials have attempted to give them correctly. George Carrlck, who wn3 reported dead near AdxJr, Idaho, and whose hody was Identified by an escaping party on tbo trail, reported re-ported at Missoula today. Ho 1 unharmed. un-harmed. He passed the body supposed sup-posed to be his, but was not able to Identify It. F. E. Wood, cook for Ranger Friday's Fri-day's pnty. who was believed to be burned on Cedar Creek, Is here today unharmed. He took a short trail out of Big Meadows, and came out alone, the rest of hls crew going the old trail. 1 Forest men retvmlng from the Ilo ! Hot Springs district today report no fires within four rnlW of the place. I Map.y of the residents of the place, v ho fled w hen the flames threatened them on Monday, are preparing to return re-turn tfiday. At present the flames aro moving east and west The Sally and Brash creel; fires have come together, and the Brush and Fisher creek Junction, the Packer creek flames, amalgamated with tho others, making a fire line ten miles In length to the norih. On tho south there Is a line of flame eight mile6 In i length and four miles wide This fire Is heading duo east and west. Fire is also burning on a range from mile post 242 to 248 on the state line. Men are in the Clenrwater country clearing trails to reach the mere remote re-mote fires. At Johnson's Hot Springs, r.o miles south of Iolo Hot Springs,' an extensive stretch of flame Is reported, re-ported, and a b R force has been gathered gath-ered to check the advance. Threo flres rue reported In Packer's meadows, covering an area of about fifteen square miles. Laborers nre being organ l7ed to assM the soldier? at that place. The rains of yesterday dlil not reach as far south as tho Clearwater, but a light snow aided the fghtors llphtly. Supervisor FJers KJrrh has returned fvrn St Regis and furnishes the Information In-formation tJiat every thine wou of De-borgla De-borgla to the summit had been burned over. Two separate fires swept down the St. Repls river valley on Sunday nlrht, doing Immense damage. The fire around Henderson was caused by sparks from an engine. The total b ss in the Lolo forest Is figured at $l,0i),0oo to timber alono. All of the men emploved as fire fighters fight-ers In the Lolo forest have heen accounted ac-counted for. All camps have leen destroyed except Borax, and that place Is now hemmed In b fires. A company of soldiers and Co civilians, are located at Borax, unable to leave I m account of fires and burned bridges. |