The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-08-27
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Great Fires Still Raging-P inchot Says
That the Loss Of Life and
Property Was I'M
necessary.

change IN the forest fire situation.
! A dispatch from San Francisco, Cal.
says that owing 70 conflicting reports
from Missoula and Spokane, the total
number Of dead in the northwestern for.
est fires was in doubt yesterday, but
the latest information tends to substan-
tiate the spokane estimate Of 100 as
the total for three states
The Spokane count includes 100 United
States forest employees In Idaho and
Montana, so settlers and firehghters in
the St. Joe valley, Idaho, with the re.
naming 10 distributed among the three
states.
The Missoula forestry Office list Of 70
forest employees does not account for
in killed at the Bullion mine, Montana
and on the Big Fork Of the Occur
dAlene.
The town Of Flora, o., has been de-
stroyed, according to reports which
reached Asoten, WASH Thursday night
and which were transmitted TO Portland,
Ore.
The flames came from the forests on
the south side Of the Blue mountains.
The town is in ruins and 400 inhabitants
are homeless. Communication is cut
Oh.
The fire situation yesterday morning
was one Of uurelaxing vigilance.
It is estimated that in Clark and
covlitz counties, Washington, s2,OoO00o
represents the aggregate loss. Eight
hundred persons have been rendered
homeless and 1000 men have been
thrown out Of work.
Seattle, Wash, says that within the
last "A hours forest fires Of serious pro-
portions have broken ont in al sections
Of western Washington. Famed BY
strong northwest wind, the frea have
spread with alarming rapidity and the
state rangers and the patrols Of the
association have been inn
pressing all available men to fight the
flames.
Following is a revised list Of the mum
Der killed in the Idaho, Montana and
forest fires last Saturday
and sunday, issued at Spokane Wash
ington;
United States forest employees, Idaho
and Montana, 100.
Settlers and FIRE fighters, st. Joe val.
ley, Idaho, 80
settlers at Newport, Wash, 1.
At Wallace Idaho, 3.
At Mullan and Spokane, 3.
Total 100.
Missing: Negro soldiers near Avery, |
Idaho, 4; ranger Halm's party, head
waters Of ST. Joe, IS.
Forest employees in st. Joe valley, 25.
Reports received yesterday by super
visor Weigle at Wallace, concerning the
lumber Of dead forest employees did not
lgree with those obtained AZ Anssoula.
Latest estimates at spokane Of the
oss Of life in the forest fires, place the
number dead at more than 200. The
italians and Austrians in the st. Joe
ALLEY, Of whom many persisted, were
Employed in logging camps. The list
# government rangers dead, now 100,
sin probably be enlightened.
4 message received from Ponderay,
IDAHO, Gays.
The bodies Of 20 men and five living
nen are at a ranch house on the oppo-
lite side Of the river at Tusear, Mont.
The five men are burned severely and
10 doctor is obtainable. There are 20
r more bodies still in the woods.
Clifford Pinchot Of the National Con
evation association and former head
+ the government forest service, in a
tatement issued at Washington yester-
ay, holds that the loss Of property and
ife in the recent and present forest
res was unnecessary.
The disastrous results, he says, are
raceable to the appropriateness to deal
18th the fire situation He scores mem
ers Of Congress who have opposed ap.
ropriations for proper equipment for
orest rangers and in that connection
ames Senator Hepburn Of idaho, whose
ONE town, Wallace, Idaho, suffered SCI !
Gus loss; Senator Carter Of Montana
nd Representative Mondell Of Wyoming.
The statement in part follows:
IF forest Is equipped with roads,
-ails, telephone lines and reasonable
lmber Of men for patrol, there ii no
ore likelihood that great fires win be
bic to get started than there is that 2
eat confaeration like the Chicago fire
i'll get started in city with modern
e department Under rare circum-
ances they may, but the chances are 5
yainst it. The men in Congress like
eyburn, Carter and Mondell, who have
ade light Of the efforts Of the forest 81
rvice to prepare itself to prevent just al
ch a calamity as this, have in effect b
en- fighting against the general well s
re. Ii even a small fraction Of the 81
S from the present fires had been 3
ent in additional patrol and proven "
'e equipment, some, or PER haps nearly N
I, Of the loss could have been avoid te
p,