Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-08-26
PERISH IN FLAMES
FOREST. FIRES CLAIM MANY VIC
TlMs-LosE LIVES FIGHTING
DEADLY FOE.
SETTLERS FLEE FOR SAFETY
More Than so Persons Are Known to
Be Dead-About 100 Missing, 200
Injured-Loss Already Reaches
$25, ooo, 900.

Injured-Loss Already Reaches
$25, 10000
Spokane, Wash.-One hundred fire
fighters are reported dead in the flood
ed canyon near Wallace, Idaho, and
five citizens were burned to death in
their homes as a result of forest fires
which for sixty days have terrified
the Occur d'Alene country and which
spread to the town of Wallace, the
metropolis of the mining district.
More than a third of Wallace is
burned The Pacific, Michigan and
Occur d'Alene hotels, two o. r. & N.
depots, big hardware warehouse and
$50 to 200 residences are destroyed.
The town is almost dark by day and
the heavens and surrounding coun-
try seething mass by night.
Ashes fill the air and the heat is
tremendous. Telegraphic communica-
ton is cut off for a time, but the
fighters believe they have the fire in
the city under control.
Newport, Wash, a town of 1000. is
burning, but the loss of life is as
yet unknown. Cries for help are be-
ing answered as rapidly as relief par
ties can be made up. All available
soldiers in this part of the country
are pressed into services.
Spokane, Wash.-In the Occur
d'Alene district of Idaho more than
fifty persons are known to be dead,
and nearly 100 are missing as result
OF the forest fires
The seriously injured, mostly fire
filters. will number, according to the
statement made Monday by W. r.
Weigle, forest superintendent of the
Occur d'Alenes. more than 200. Many
Of them have been stricken blind and
others have broken limbs.
Three families of homesteaders,
comprising Is persons, are believed
to have persisted in La Tour creek,
near Catoldo. Idaho, in the forest fires.
At many points hundreds are
hemmed in by a narrowing wall of
flames and 1t is impossible TO reach
them with help.
From Wallace came reports that the
town of Burke is in flames aud certain
of destruction. The fire rangers in
that territory are so exhausted that
no effective battle against the flames
can be made. The 300 residents of
the town are in flight toward Wallace
Forest Ranger Pulaski reports to
Superintendent WE'LL that six of his
men are dead. five having been smoth
cred in the War Eagle tunnel, where
the entire crew took refuge.
Ranger Bell reports IL dead, three
permanently blinded and 13 suffering
from broken legs.
In the hills near Sand Point, Idaho
Forest Ranger Van Dycke and a crew
of Go enlisted In Spokane are report.
ed surrounded by flames.
A woman and her daughter per.
ished at Cabinet. Idaho.
Five and perhaps more are known
to have died near Newport, Wash, in
an attempt to reach the town.
All along the Great Northern and
Northern Pacific tracks between Spo
kbne and Helena numberless fires are
known to be raging fiercely, but def
mite reports cannot be secured, as the
telegraph and telephone wires are all
down.
Before communication with Libby
Mont, ended it was reported that
every male resident of the town was
working, with 200 paid fire fighters, to
divert Flower creek to the south side
OF the village as a protection against
the flames driving up from that direc-
ton.
Helena, Mont.-Reports received
here from every fire district in Mon
tana indicate that the situation is by
long odds the worst in the history oil
the state. Despite the large number
of troops, civilians and railroad EN-
ployes that have been put into the
field, the flames are absolute masters
of the situation, and there is only one
salvation-general rain, but for which
there is no prospect.
Washington.--Alre the forest
fires raging in the Missoula, Mont.
and northern Idaho districts have con
sumed timber and property valued a
more than $25.Oo0000. This, accord
ing to an official of the forest burea,
NJ nday, is a conservative estimate
tt zee days more at the present rate
vi ! more than equal the total loss IL
tn Baltimore fire in 1904, The los.
tn are was estimated at $4,000, 900.