The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-08-26
THREE MORE TOWNS HAVE POS
sIBLY SUFFERED COMPLETE
ANNIhlLATlON.
LESS IS OVER A MILLION
Number of Fatalities Among Fire
Fighters Hourly Growing.-Flames
Somewhat Subdued, but Dan
ger Is Still Great.
Spokane, Wash. - The Pacific

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Northwest is facing the o terrible
forest fire situation in its history.
Over 100 persons are kAown to be
dead and 100 or more are missing.
The list Of injured will approximate
200. Half the town Of Wallace is
swept clean and there is a possibility
that two or three more towns in the
district have suffered complete de-
struCtiOn. Half a dozen small towns
and villages are seriously threatened,
and their inhabitants are hurrying to
places Of safety by the thousands.
The situation is most acute in the
Occur d'Alene district Of nOthern Ida
no. Reports from other parts OF the
Northwest are of less d~iscoIraging ma
ture.
Some of the fires have been con
trolled, others are less threatening in
the absence of wind, while in some
districts the fire fighters have diverted
the course of the flames from towns
that we're threatened.
In eastern Oregon, between Baker
City and Lagrande are several fires
which are doing serious damage to live
timber.
There are several fires in the Um-
qua valley in southern Oregon, but
so far they have not done any great
damage. The fires in the neighbor-
hood Of Grants Pass, Ore, are for the
time being under control. In the
vicinity of Medford and Ashland,
Wash, the fires are less menaCing
only because there is no wind. In
both of these places all the men OBJ
tainable have beer drafted into serv-
i've to backfTe and trench. That the
fires in southern Oregon, in many
cases, are of incendiary origin has
been a matter of general gossip in
Medford for several days.
so Fire Fighters Perlshed.
Thirty men out of a crew Of AZ
fire fighters in charge of Forest RAN
ger Lee HolIingshead are missing and
are believed to have persisted Satur-
day night when their camp on Big
Creek, a tributary of the st. Joe riv-
er, 16 miles from Avery, Idaho, was
swept by flames.
Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound
trains through the burned district,
which are carrying refugees, are being
furnished with guards Of colored SOL
diers. Train No. /, of the Northern
Pacific, west bound, reached Spo-
kane after an exciting run through
the flames at the Idaho-Montana bor-
der. Every car was badly scorched.
Flames are threatening Newman
lake, a summer resort 20 miles east
of Spokane. Ranches are being
burned and buildings are being con-
sumed.
Liberty lake, another summer re-
sort, 18 miles from Spokane, is ap-
preached by fire from two sides. Sew.
eral cottages have been burned.
The st. Joe and st. Marie valley,
in the heart of the richest timber
belt in the United States, is being
swept by flames, already 100 home
steaders having been burned out. Five
hundred men are fighting the blaze
and ST. Joe river steamboats, are kept
with steam up ready to take the peo-
pie to safety.
80 Now Dead In Wallace.
Wallace, Idaho. The loss Of life
in the forest fires t8lat swept over
Couer d'Alene Saturday and Sunday
is now reported here at 80. Forestry
officials received word that "a fire
fighters had burned to death on Big
V creek and 80 had met death on
Superior lake.
The whole country from here to
the st. Joe river, a distance of 25
miles, has been burned over. The
loss in Wallace is estimated at $1,000
600. One hundred buildings we're de-
stroyed. The hospitals are full Of
wounded, a number Of them being
blind.
The arrival of K. ID. Hale from the
fire fighting camp at the Bullion mine,
rs miles from Wallace, with news Of
the catastrophe Sunday night, brings
the total list of known dead here to
30. The danger has passed Wallace,
Burke and Mullan.