The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-23
lone Hundred are Known to be Dead and Over
Four Hundred are Missing, With Best Pros
poets That They Have Perished.
many TOWNS HAVE been DESTROYED
Heat and Smoke Overcome the Men Who are
Battling Desperately Against the Cyclone of
Flame Which is Rushing Onward

/ Of 750 fire fighters among whom are
1 $50 more regular soldiers from
American Lake, Wash, who arrived
yesterday afternoon.
In the vicinity of Medford, Ore, the
fires are less menacing, only because
there is no wind. In both these places
/ all the men obtainable have been
! drafted into service to back-fire and
! trench.
The fires in Southern Oregan, in
many cases. are of incendiary origin.
This has been a matter of general
4 gossip in Medford for several days.
! No hope of rain is yet given by the
weather bureau. The forecast for to-
day is fair throughout Washing
ton, Oregon and Idaho.
H AT least five are dead now at New
| port, Wash. The known dead are:
George Zeigler, rancher, Usk; Mrs.
Ernest Reinhart. George R. Campbell,
Thomas Carri and rancher named
Il Cady
Several persons were rendered in
sane. Mrs. Reinhardt broke from her
rescuers after they had borne her
from her burning home and rushed
hack into the flames.
Fire Is stflI threatening Newport
Because Of the scarcity of water,
beer is being used at Wallace. Idaho,
for drinking purposes.
Many Deaths In coeur d'Alene.
Twenty-three persons are known to
have perished and between seventy
Ave and one hundred are missing in
the forest fires raging in the Pan
handle of Idaho in the Occur d'Alene
district.
The dead are: j. G. Boyd of Wal
lace, suffocated bysSmoke.
Mrs. Charles Smith and | year old
baby, drowned in well into which
4 lthey jumped to avoid flames.
Miss Amelia Ward, stenographer
suffocated by smoke.
Twelve unidentified fire fighters IN
4 crew of Ranger Bell, burned or suf-
focated
4 Six unidentified fire fighters from a
!, crew of Ranger Edward Pulaski.
One unidentified fire fighter from
the crew Of Ranger Danielson.
Three families of homesteaders
comprising fifteen persons, are beliey-
Z ed to have perished in La Tour Creek,
4 near Catoldo. Idaho. They are John
Andreas. wife and five children; B. A
! Smith. wife and two children, and
] ~ 70 ND
Thirty Men Perish.
. Thirty men out of crew OF forty
seven of Ranger Lee Hollingshead, are
!. missing and are believed to have
s. perished Saturday night when their
camp on Big Creek. a tributary OF the
ST Joe river, sixteen miles from
Avery, Idaho, was swept by flames.
The seriously injured, mostly fire
4 fighters, will number according to the
) statement of w R. Weigle: forester
:. srperintendent of the Occur d'Alene
more than 100. Many of them have
; been stricken blind and others have
! broken limbs.
Never in the history of Idaho has
! the baptism of the August fire reached
: such widespread proportions or Great
. ed such universal damage.
! Homesteaders. wild animals ane
! the fowls of the air SHELTER one anoth
J er in the common objective-the rusf
for safety The stampede to safety
has strained the facilities of the
railroad and the passenger trains arr
made up of day coaches and box cars
|, Smoke and Heat Dangerous.
The smoke and heat are as dan
gerous as the flames themselves. II
: the vicinity of the mines many ar
: seeking refuge in the deepest tunnel
to escape being smothered. Seyera
parties in the mines have been In
prisoned by waves of flames whic
sweep over the mouths OF the shafts
: The tide of fire sweeps over mour
!. tain tops and jumps gulches befor
! the forty-mile gale which, withou
ceasing, Is entering upon it's third day
The wind is the greatest menace a
I present.
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