Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1910-08-25
FIERCE FOREST FIRES.
Tremendous Confiasraton Is Raging in the HEAVILY
''"oered Regions OF the Rocky Mountains Causing
Great Loss Of Life and Property
More Than Two Thousand United States Soldiers and
Vast Array Of Civilians Are Engaged in a Desperate
But Losing Fight With the Flames

Last Sunday was one Of those Snlo.
Ky, hazy days that are common dur
ing the Indian summer, but unusual
al this time of year IN tins latitude
The daily newspapers had for seN eral
days been giving accounts Of the in-
mense forest fires farther west. 50
the cause of the hay atmosphere
was a matter of common knowledge.
However. when Linton people
arose Monday morning they saw.
something which theN bad never
seen before, and which 1t is hoped!
there Will never be a cause for them
TO see again. The sun was obscured
as by a total eclipse. 1t Was nearly
as dark at 5 a. m. As II had been
during the night In stores and
offices the lamps We're lighted. and
1t was not until late in the afternoon
that there was an Improvement IN
the matter of "daylight and then
there was not a sufficient change
To make artificial hight unnecessary.
And up tn this time the sun has not
appeared.
Ii was certainly a strange happens
ing, and had it occurred fifty Years
ago. before telegraphs, telephones
and the daily press penetrated even
remote regions, the cause would not
have been generally known. and
there would have been much alarm
manifested by the superstitious, who
were wont to see in all abnormal
manifestations of nature a sure sign
that the world was about 10 come 10
AN end.
Dispatches state that all through
the northwest the same condition Of
smoke-iilled air and an ohsclfed sun
prevail.
Following is the latest account of
the terrible situation of affairs in
those sections of the country where,
the forests are being destroyed hN
fire
Wallace, Idaho, Aug - The loss
of life in the forest fires that swept
over Occur d'Alene Saturday and
Sunday is now reported here at
eighty, and the number is lncreas-
ing hourly. Forestry officials re
ceived word that thirty four fire
fighters had burned to death on Big
creek and thirty had met death on
Superior lake Sin men were killed,
in the Placer creek FIRE, three miles
from Wallace; three near Mullan,
and three at Wallace.
Spokane, Wash, Aug. - spc
cials to the Spokane Review Tonight
Indicate that the number Of fatal.
ties is hourly Increasing. New s
from Wardncr, Idaho, is that S NJ
Redel. Of Kellogg, foreman Of a
crew of seventy men working on
the Big creek fire. was brought there
Hast night almost blind The crcW
were working on the east sidcsof the
fire in the Big creek basin Their
position becoming untenable, under
the leadership of the rangers they
scrambled to the crest OF the ridge.
expecting to pass over Placer creek
and out by way Of Wallace On
gaining the top If the divide they
were confronted by another fire ON
the Placer side. Seeing their posi-
tion practically hopeless, the men
broke into wild stampede for the
creek bottom below l5edell and
seven other men reached the creek
and continued down the stream.
They sought refuge in the tunnel
and six of them were sufliocated.
Butte, Mont. Aug. % With
every town and station deserted in
the firc-swcpt district west of Mis-
soula, the Chicago, Milwaukee &
Puget Sound officials here have only