The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-08-25

Whole Towns Swept Away.
Fifty Lives Loaf, and Nil
lions of Feet of Ium-
Der Destroyed.

Der Destroyed.
u. S. TROOPS FIGHT FIRE
Forest F1re~ Sweeping Portions of
Idaho and Montana - Town 81
Wallace Dessroy-i-<sould. Aon-
tana. Surrounded hy F1ame~-
Train Has Thrilling Eseape-Ioss
Almost InealculabIe-r. =. Gov
ernment To the Rescue.
Washington. ID. C. Aug. 22.-With
more than fifty persons known tn BE-
dead and more than 100 missing. goo
injured. half Of Wallace burned and
TWO or three villages obiiterated. for
est fires tonight continue TO threat
en- death and destruction over a
large territory in Northern idaho.
Eastern Washington and Western
Montana Half a dozen villages are
seriously threatened by the flames
and their inhabitants by hundreds
are hurrying TO places Of safety.
The situation Is most acute I'm the
Occur d'Alene region OF Northern
Idaho.
Devastation in Idaho.
Wallace, Idaho, August 22.-The
loss of life in the forest fires that
swept over the Occur d'Alene region
Saturday and Sunday. is tonight
placed at so persons. Forestry OH
cials received word that thirty-four
( fre-fighters had burned 10 death on
+ Big Creek, and thirty had met death
on Superior Lake.
/ Word came to-day that I06 men
near Avery, on the ST. Joe River. had
I been burned, but later report said
| that all but four came out safely
/ Six men were killed in the PlacieI
Creek fire, three miles from Wallace
three near Mullan, and three a
Wallace.
The whole country from here tc
the st. Joe River, 25 miles, has beer
burned over.
The loss at Wallace still stands al
$1,000,000. One hundred buildings
were destroyed. The hospitals are
full of wounded, a number OF them
being blind.
Spokane, Wash, Aug. 22.-News
of the loss of the men at Bear Greek
was brought to Spokane to-day By
w. D. Mcclellan, a newspaper pho
tographer Mcclellan was one of the
relief party which made the trip te
Big Creek on Sunday to rescue sur
vivors. The heat was so intense
that the party was unable to ap
proach the spot where the camp had
stood. According to the II survivor:
who reached Avery, the fire came or
them while they were sleeping, and
they were surrounded by flames. The
men scattered and ran for safety
Little hope is entertained by the Il
that their companions survived.
at Newport, Washington.
Several persons were rendered
temporarily insane.
Gould, II miles from Helena, Ii
entirely surrounded by fires. VIII.
burus, just over the mountain from
Gould, is also threatened, and the
| Inhabitants are leaving.
correspondent gives the follow.
+ ing account of the journey of a
Northern Pacific special relief train
''All the way from Mullan TO St
Z Regis, the Northern Pacific ran two
walls of burning timbers. The re-
lief train got as far as Borax and
was compelled to turn back on ac-
count of burning bridges.
Getting back to Saltese, il was
found that the bridge east had been
burned. 1t was impossible to move
either way. The train was compelled
to stay at Saltese and that fact saved
the town. which soon began to burn.
| There were $50 men on the train.
Bucket brigades were formed and
men were set at work with shoyels.
Fear 600 Are Lost.
Butte, Mont, Aug, 23.-Six hum
dred fire fighters who left Thompson
Falls four days ago were reported
lost and Forest Supervisor Bushnell
of the Cabinet Reserves at Thomp-
son, may have perished. The wind
is blowing furiously toward Thomp-
SON to-day and it is feared the town
crowded with refugees, will be
swept by the fire before night.
The report was brought by Julius
Barney, who reached Helena to-day
from Thompson
''The six hundred men," said Bar.
ney. had been gone four days, dur.
/ ing which time nothing had beer
heard from them and Forest Super.
visor Bushnell, of the Cabinet re
serve, who is at Thompson, feared