The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1910-08-25
FOR AID
IN SAVING HUMAN
LIVES POURING IN
That Incendiaries Are at Work
Is Official Report Made to
the Department at
Washington.

Spokane, Wash, Art 24.-Twetq-
khree persons are known TO have per-
shed and between rs aid 100 are miss
ina In the forest fires raging in the
Pan Handle Of Idaho, in the Occur
DiAlene district.
The dead:
j. @. BOYD, Of Wallace, suffoeated
MRs. cHAs. SMITH and 1-year-oId
baby. drowned in q we'll into which
Ehey jumped to avoid flames.
MISS AMELIA WARD, stenographer,
kuffocated by smoke.
Nineteen Unidentified fire fighters.
The seriously Injured, mostly FIRE
ststsment Of W. r. WeiuIe, forester
,uperintendent of the Couer D'Alene,
100. Many Of them have been
stricken blind and others have broken
limbs. Other probable losses Of life
also are reported.
Three families Of homestesders com
prisine is persons, are believed to have
e e.,sisos H., ia IA I .Ss f srs:k' t ssss
they are John Andreas, wife and five
children; q. A. Smith, wife and two
children, and James Osborne, wife and
family.
Washington, Aug. 24s-Tith forests
fdHCLlcc anu lOWiS Ill lIc III tDc
west, appeals for help from the federal
government, not to protect the forests,
but to save human lives, poured into
Washington today. AS q result, every
means at the disposal Of the officials
was bent toward bringing aid and the
bituation was laid before President Taft
by telegraph with a view of necessary
Executive action.
The matter was taken up at a con-
ference at the war department between
Associate Forester Potter. of the for
Est service, Major General Leonard
Wood, chief of staff Of the army, and
Adjutant General Ainsworth. The i'm
mediate result was the ordering into
service OF the last five companies avail
able in the stricken regions for fire
lighting duty n sending pack trains.
carrying medical supplies and army
surgeons, to the immediate relief Of the
sufferers.
Incendiaries at Work.
Positive evidence that many of n
forest fires In Oregon are of ~incendiary
origin has been discovered by govern
ment agents, according to a telegram
received at the offices OF the forest
beryice here today from Associate Dis
krict Forester Cecil. of Portland.
MI. Cecil SAYS in his dispatch that
there Is no doubt that the fires In the
Crater national forest and at Medford
resulted from incendiarism, and that
new fires are being set constantly. He
reports that he has started Is men on
scout duty in an effort to catch the
culprits.
Fires In the Crater national forest
a southern Oregon and at Medford,
Ore. are proving more serious every
hour. There are 800 men there now un-
der the forest service, the war depart
bnent already having an hundred SOL
diers detailed in this district and has
Drderoi ESQ more from American lake.
Assistant District Forester Buck has
conc from Portland to take present
charge of the situation. He says that
the troops will be used to protect lite
and property. and it is hard to extin-
guish the fires without the aid of rain.
Efforts will be made to protect the best
timber.
Government surveyors have telc-
graphed that fires are raging n miles
south of Republic, Wash, on the Col
Vile Indian reservation. A telegram
was received at the Indian office from
Superintendent Webster at Spokane
saying that forest guards are engaged
n combating firas elsewhere. but that
Forest Supervisor Reid had reported
that fires al Republic are available for
work there.