The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-22

low Taft, has been abandoned by its
inhabitants and is known to be sur
rounded by FIRE. De Borgia is seriously
threatened and one man Is missing, AT
ST. Regis the fire has crossed the river
and threatens outlying buildings, though
no fears are entertained for the town.
IIaughau is reported to be destroyed; !;
the last word from there is that the
fire is dangerously near, and the tele
phone operator was preparing to fee.
The area covered is. roughly, n hun
drcd miles square, most of it in the
mountains and sparsely settled 1t Is
difficult to obtain information from any
Of the points and impossible to reach
some of the isolated places at all.
Serious Loss of Life.
There is probability that there has
been serious loss of life. as there are
prospectors, camping parties and lum-
bermen all through the mountains, and
the fire may have come upon them while
they slept last night. or they may have
wakened this morning to find them.
selves cut off
George Walbillig, a packer, and two
companions reached Missoula tonight
from Adair, Il station on the Milwau-
kee west of Missoula about 100 miles,
having left there yesterday morning.
| riding horseback. One horse was rid.
den to death, but the men got over the
range, They say a car of dynamite
camp near Adair exploded soon after
they left. The fire was spreading rap
idly and Walbillig believes that the
construction camp was destroyed. There
were twenty-five men there.
Towns in Danger.
Camas Prairie, farming valley in
the Blackfoot country, surrounded en-,
tirely by hills, is the scene of a serious
contlagration tonight, A courier ar
rived here tonight from there with an
appeal for aid, From Bonner, fifty men
were sent to help the farmers, and fifty
more are going from Missoula The fire
came out of the timber and is sweeping
across the valley. Grain and hay are
being destroyed
Three more rescue trains reached
Missoula tonight from the west, The
Milwaukee ran in two Of them and the
Northern Pacific another. There were
about 500 persons On the trains, but
none of them is in the distress that
marked the earlier arrivals.
i The last Northern Pacific train
brought information that the town OF
Saltese, reported earlier to be threat
ened, had caught fire before this train
left st. Regis.
From all directions come reports OF
dePths in the flames. but they are not
authenticated and 1T is not believed that
there have been many fatalities, Two
unknown men were overcome by smoke
today in the forest near Iron Mountain
Half Of Wallace Safe.
The latest word from Wallace con
, firms the earlier report that half Tho
city is safe: the fires are yet raging il
, the hills, but the situation in the city
, is believed to be more satisfactory thar
at any time within two days.
J A telephone message from ST. Regis
received in Missoula at 10 o'clock to
] night, says that the fire swept dowr
, Mullau gulch tonight and cut off th'
towns of De Borgia and Henderson Th'
( Mann Lumber company ran its loggiu!
;. train down from Henderson. bringinI
the men and their families, after nj
g valuables had been buried. These town
will doubtless buru
The old town of st. Regis is, at II
T 'clock, threatened; the fire is in n can
: Won and is only mile from town, ap
e preaching rapidly. The last eGuipmcn
o of the Northern Pacific in that section
@ is being uscd to bring away the womel
Y and children from st. Regis, Most o
the men of the town were at De Borgia
o seven miles above. fighting fire there
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