The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-24

DEAD ARE FOUND.
Bodies of Twenty Forest Rangers
Recovered.
Died Of Suffocation Where They
Fell.
PACK TRAIN SENT OUT.
VIII Care for Injured Victims
OF Flames.
Deer Lodge Is Reported to Be
in Flames.
PACK TRAIN SENT OUT.

Avery, Idaho. Aug. 24.-The bodies of
20 employees of the United States for
est service were found within a radius
of one mile on Setter creek yesterday,
by a searching party headed by Deputy
Sherin Charles X. Sullivan and Edward
Bassett. 1t is feared other bodies will
Re fouad when the trail is opened TO
avery so that a large number of search
ePs may be sent out.
1t was known that a party of forest
rangers and guards had been fighting
hfes On Setter creek and flying COL
umn of eight men was made up here
to see the missine men. The unfortu-
mates had died wher~ ''.e-= fell of suf-
foeation and the bodies were eharred
beyond recognition Only two bodies
could be Identified, those of Patrick
Groggan and G. A. Rlodgett, both of
Butte. The latter was identified by his
union card,
No traces remained of the rangers
camp. Even the fish in the creek had
: been killed by the heat.
TWO japanese railroad lab0rerS en-
erged from the woods near Avery last
night, severely burned and stated that
they were the orly survivors of a party
OF II who had been engaged in fighting
the forest fires in an effort to save the
property OF their employer, the Chicago
Milwaukee & Puget Sound railroad.
The. four negro soldiers of Company
NJ AWCilIy 4lltu ", WHO went into
the woods to fight fire last week and
have not since been heard from are be-
ieved also to have persisted.
the Milwaukee railroad has set 800
| bridge carpenters at work in the re-
construction of it's bridges.
Dead Number Fifty-four.
Spokane, Wash, Aug. 24-Fffty-feur
persons and no more are known to
have persisted in the forest fires in
Idaho, Montana and Washington. A
government crew working on the Big
Fork of the Occur d'Alene has been
lost. it is feared, and some government
rangers in Montana, brave and re-
soureeful men, are still in the woods.
There is no warrant whatever for re-
ports of loss of hundreds of lives.
Died Like Heroes.
wallace, Idaho, Aug. 24.-When the
"a men who were imprisoned in the
Bullion mine tunnel had abandoned
hope of escape they prepared to die
manfully. They changed shifts so some
might hold a blanket over the mine
hole, while the others prayed for for
giveness of their sins and wrote fare
we'll messages on scraps of paper to
loved ones. All prayed. though some
had not done so since infancy.
The letters written by the eight men
who succumbed will be sent to the per-
sons to whom they are addressed. The
notes written by the survivors have
been returned TO them Inc party was
in charge of Edward E. Hale, who
wrote a pathetic good bye message to
his mother Mrs. c. A. Hale of Kimball
| avenue, Chicago. but who was saved.
Joseph B. Hahn, the missing deputy
ranger, was a famous all around
athlete at the Washington State col
| lege at Pullman. Wash. a ew years
| ago He excelled in running, and was
| also a noted baseball pitcher.
The only report which reached the
| forest service this morning of the sit
| ration in the Northwest was from Dis.
| tries Forester Greedy at M!ssoula. Mr.
| Greedy urged on the bureau the neee
of more assistance to protect the towns
and settlements with the stricken dis
| trict.
| Although the situation on the Flat
| head Indian reservation, Montana. is
| considered serious, Superintendent Nor
| gan in a telegram to the Indian bureau
| this morning, says they are in better
| shape thar any of the surrounding
| country. He reports eight fires on tbs
| reservation not under control and tina
| the fires surrounding the reservation
are being driven towards it by hare
| winds.
| Much difficulty is being experienced
| by the reservation officials IN securing
any kind of labor to fight the flames
| The Indian bureau has been author.
| ICED to use the necessary money in hight
| ing the fires.
Two more companies of troops