The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-08-26
FOREST SERVICE REPORTS SEW
ENTY. NINE GOVERNMENT
employees BURNED
SOME MEN ARE MISSING
Complete Reports Have Not Yet Been
Received From the Cocur d'hlcnc For
est-Haim's Party Of Fifteen Men
Only Ono Known by Local Officials
10 30 Missing--Situasion improves.

Seventy niue men WHO were IN the
employ uf the government were re-
ported dead hy District Forester Gree
ley and his staff yesterday Seventy
three Of these died on the Occur
d'Alanc forest, four on the Cabinet
forest al Tuscur and two on tile Pend
nOrcillc These totals were the result
of day Of searching, The name of
each man recruited by the service Tor
fire Fighting duty Ii being system
atically traced up and the whereabouts
Of every man liz being definitely es-
tablished, These figures. while they
are official today, are by no means
the total. On the Occur dAlenc forest
some men are still missing and the
reports arc not all In from tile Pend
d'Orcillc. but the four men reported
dead by Ranger Bushnell at Thompson
are all that were missing.
One Party Lost.
So far as the local offices are aware
the only men now unaccountcd for in
the government service are Ranger
Joseph b. Hahn and party of Is
men, This Is the party originally in
charge of Ranger Haincs which was
last heard Of In the country near the
hcadwatcrs of the st. Joe. Late ra-
ports give ground to the belief that the
men are still safe.
$50 far ak we know these are tho
only men unaccounted for" said AS
sociate District Forester Silcpx last
night, we have no definite reports
for the country about Wallace the
only men whom we know to be dead
In that vicinity being six men on
Placer creek and two more on Pine
creek. am going there tonight and
once we get the men In that country
accounted for we viii be Strengthened
out
Ths Losses.
lhe detailed losses to date are Is
unidentified men on Big creek. 30 un-
Identified men on Big creek, IL un-
Identified men on Setter creek four
men ut Tuseor two men on the Pend
dOreille. six men on Placer drcck
and two on Pine creek
The list OF men identified among the
fs found on Big creek follows.
Ed Miller. Frank Sanders. J. I'M, ID
Cary, l.. Schwartz. Oscar Wcigart
at Missoula,
Tho names OF those whose booking
place is unknown follow:
+. Goosan. l.. Tstcllo, Frank Mas
tcrson, j. Rusick. George Queere James
Kerr. George Smith, Jack lIill, Frank
- Snrck. James u. kcurncy, Patrick
Kelley. o. Bing, W. Poke. Harry Jack
son, q. Ellefson. Ed Dunn, X. Eckhoen.
NJ. Thuisen. jim Doneliuc, Ed Murphy,
W. Norton. l.. $. Swarlz, Frank
Skctchcll. james Riley. NJ Dillo ana
William Casey.
Two Found at Tuscor.
The two men missing from Mr..
Bnshnclfs crew were found dead yes
tcrday. a. NJ. Barratt and u. Williams
were identified "Wednesday and their
two companions wore yesterday idcn-
titled as George Strong and George
Fease.
IT Is reported that three settlers arc
missing in the Bull river valley. This
report Is unconfirmed Bull river is II
small stream In the northern part of
the Cabinet forest The homes of 5D
settlers along the cprl.s fork were
burned, but no lives were lost
Thompson Falls, Mr.. Bushnell states,
Is safe unless another cyclone such
as that Of Sunday rises.
Nex perce Fires.
The fires In the Ncz pcrre forest
arc still serious a telegram from
Grangevile last night brought word
that the flames are wrpaking havoc all
along the Salmon river. Five hundred
sheep have been killed in the fires
along this valley and the flames arr
now threatening the range and stock
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