The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-22

tlat Lne nre is dangerously near ana |
the telephone operator was preparing
to flee.
Two Hundred Miles Burned.
The area covered is about 200 miles
square, most of 1t 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
There is a probability there y
been serious loss OF life, as there are
camping parties and lumbermen oil
through the mountains and the fire
may have come upon them as they
slept, or they may have been awak-
ened to find themselves hemmed in.
George Wallbillig, packer and
two companions, reached Missoula
from Adair, station on the Milwau-
kee road west about 200 miles west Of
| Missoula. They left Adair on horse
back. One horse was ridden to death,
but the men got over the range.
4 They say a car Of dynamite and g
car of oil at construction camp
near Adair exploded soon after they
left, the fire rapidly spreading, and
i Wallbillig believed the camp was de-
stroyed. There were twenty-five men
| there.
i More Men Needed
4 SPOKANE, WASH, Aug. 22.-Prob-
ably 40 people have been burned to
thn &C
is at least one million dollars includ-
ing the town of Wallace, Idaho. 1I5
forest rangers engaged in fighting the
i fire in st. Joe county are unaccounted
for and may have perished.
i The towns of Taft, Belknap, Heron
were burned at last reports.
The fire is still raging and althoug b
all the federal troops in Idaho and
Washington are fighting fire, more
men are needed.
70 Reported Dead.
SPOKANE, Wash. Aug 22.-Witn
: two-thirds of the city of Wallace, a
mass of smoking ruins; ST. Regis,
Taft, and Avery destroyed, and up
wards of seventy persons dead, the
: forest FIRE situation throughout Idaho.
( Montana and Washington today as
sumed a graver aspect than ever.
Thousands of refugees crowd all
the hotels and rooming houses OF
Spokane and Missoula and hundreds
: more are arriving hourly The hospi
: tails of the two cities are crowded.
!, The horrors of the fire which
swept through Wallace like whirl
wind, were increased when communi
9 cation was re-established today. The
s fire fighters say that SO persons per
: ished there.
Q Seven blackened bodies were re
s covered. Other cities report 35 per
d sons dead.
n In the chaos which has followed
J. the destruction of the city 1t viii
d probably be many days before 1t cal
e be ascertained how many were burn
ed.
a. The missing rangers have not We
m been heard from. A rescue party ha
10 been battling with the flames for l
r. hours endeavoring to reach the mer
hut thus far have failed
IN No effort is being made to est
0, mate the property loss, 1t is so grea
v. Two thousand refugees arrive
here today on trains. With their arr
val. the same special trains keI
III their steam up and several score
it nurses and doctors started back I
X the fira Zppe
i'd Appeals are constantly reachin
of Spokane for more fire fighters. 1t
Ig believed that only heavy rain ia
or a vast increase in the fightir
40 forces can save many small settl
re ments from destruction.
At Missoula, 1000 refugees are b
en- ing quartered and 1t will be almo
is impossible to accommodate NOR
Their condition is pitiable, A SEQ
ed have had their eye-sight destroy
by the heat and smoke and reach'
ed Missoula almost nude. More medic
ng supplies are being sent there fro
sr- Butte and Spokane, the suppl
having run out.