New-York tribune., 1910-08-23
FOREST FIRE SITUATION
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account Of the journey Of d Northern
Pacific special relief train:
All the way from Mullan to st. Regis
the Northern Pacific ran through two
walls Of burning timbers. The relief
train got as far as BoraX, and was com
PEELED to turn back on account Of burn
ing bridges.
Getting back to Saltese, il was found
that the bridges east had been burned
Il vas impossible to move either way.
The train was compelled to stay at
SaItese. and that fact saved the town,
which soon began to burn. There were
$50 men on the train. Bucket brigades
were formed and men We're set at work
with shoveIs. The train was just half
an hour ahead of the fire and only six
small houses on the west end Of the
town were burned.
At the Bullion mine. eight men were
burned to death and two were proba bly,
fatally burned
Gave Life for His Parrot.
J II. Boyd. former Northern Pacific
agent at wallace. met death in an effort
10 save his parrot. His son, Fire Captain
Boyd. had forced the members OF the
family TO fee from their home on the
hillside when the flames drew near. The
father went back TO get the parrot and
was not missed for fifteen minutes
When q search was made he was found
living face downward IN the road, one
hundred yards from the house, He had
been overcome by the heat and smoke,
brt was not burned. The parrot was
dead in its cage beside him. In the
ruins Of one house TWO skulls presumably
Of men. were found.
At $40 o'clock yesterday morning the
first train from the Wallace district
pulled into Missoula- II carried most
ritiful crowd A thousand or more OF
the neople of Missoula, including many
women and the leading business men of
the CITY. were at the station to receive
and minister to the refugees Ambu-
Iances automobiles and public convey
ancas we're pressed into service. Among
-be first to get off one of the boxcars was
nurse. wearing uniform and cap ana
carving a tiny -day-old baby AT
bar heels was the mother. nervous, pale
and ,;naciated, trembling from head to
foot Following this trio came another
,,,rea with 4 nine day-old child and a
f-au frightened mother. From the car
.bead = desperately III and fearfuIly
,veak man was lifted. BY his side hob
hIed an old. wrinkled pioneer, travelling
OF crutches.
There were a half dozen other feeble
ones Workingmen, covered WITH CRIME
accompanied their families Mrs. otto
Grafenburg, bringing four children, was
weeping for her husband and an eight
vear-old son who missed the train. Two
of her little ones were in their night
clotbes The father ran back to try TO
save his home and was left.
George BRYAN came on the second res
c,,e train from the fire district. his
tougue was swollen. his rough shirt stlH
with blood. his beard matted with the
bIood from wounds on his head and face
and from streams that had flowed from
his nose and ears in the effort he put
forth 10 bring out of the fire his in
iured brother, whose charred body he
WAS at last forced TO leave in the blazing
forest above Mullan, where both had
been prospecting The two fed from the
flames and the brother fell breaking his
save him. Through smoke and fire
BRYAN stumbled on. but the fire gained
on him and al length overcame him,