Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-08-22
FIRE FIGHTERS LOSE
LIVES IN BURNING WOOD
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Intervals today but eastward Il is en-
tireiy cut or and II is known that the
entire east half Of the town. above
seventh street has been burned. West
Of that q hard fight Is being made ana
with an Improvement IN the water
supply there Is more chance that the
flames may be driven back. For a
few minutes this afternoon the Daily
MissOulian' g reporter at Wallace had a
wire. he snssAav me situation as
follows;
Thirteen live 8. property loss
81. 600, O0Os fire tt4l threatening
Elsewhere in the fire zone the Sit
uation has gone from bad % worse
today. The most serious incident is
reported late this afternoon from the
ST, Coe country whore $50 men enRng-
ga ~ the forestry service are missing
ana IL n feared they have been burned
10 death. When the fire approached
the camp where there were 2eh men,
two ~ the fighters took q horse aud.
riding the animal to death. reached
another camp and ordered "a rescue
party. which penetrated the fire to-
Bird Greek. Eighteen Of the men we're
found in the water whore they had
gone for safety and they were un,
harmed. or the remaining $50 mem
no word had been received The for-I
estry service has organized a relief
train well equipped with pack anil
mails. carrying provisions II hospital
supplies and win endeavor TO getl
through the fire.
About q thousand refugees havel
been brought into Missonla today
There rs much distress among Them.
wants are being supplied by
NissouIa people and they nave BEEN
given temporary homes, The first or
the trains came in over the Northern
pacific's Occur D'Alene branch, bring
ing the patients who had been IN the
SISTERS hospital al Wallace and as
refugees az could find place on
The small train. There were $50 on
This train ana q second train at noon
aa many more. These people
came from the small towns along the
line between here and Wallace, Many
of them had been reused from theirl
sleep by the people on the train whose
summons had been the first Intimate
ion that the fire was near there had
been no sign Of II when the people,
went 10 bed Saturday night. In most
instances these people escaped only
scantily clothed. A woman who had
fled from her home Mt midnight gave
birth 10 a child Ia n hox car INST after
arrival Of the first train at Mis-
souia. Another train with 800 people
on board IL expected tonight over the
road.
a dense pall Of smoke hangs over
an western Montana. Ia Missoula II
was ~ dark as midnight at 5 o'clock
The dense smoke being given a lurid
hue which had all the semhlanee OF
The glow Of fire but which was prob
ably due 70 the sun.
The town Of Taft. near the Idaho
line. wins entirely destroyed before
daylight this morning. Saitez. just
below Taft. has been abandoned by ,
ts inhabitants and is known 10 be
surrounded BY fire. Deborgia is seri-
insly threatened aud ono man Is miss
At 81. Regis the fire has cross
ID the river and threatens outlying
buildings, though no fears are enter
for the town.
HauKhan Is reported 10 be deserted
Ihe last word from there II that the
~ dangerously near and the tele-
phone operator was preparing to flee.
rho area covered is. roughly esti-
q hundred miles square, most
VI IL in the mountains and sparsely