The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-07-19
ENTIRE TOWNS RAZED By
THE FIRE DEMON IN BE.
No Sign of Habitation Left of Little Town OF White
water and Ymr and Salmo Are in the Center of the
Fire Zone Moyie Has Loss Approximately 100000
Canadian Pacific Road is Blocked

Spokane, July ia special to
the Chronicle from Nelson, B. c.,
est fires which on Saturday were
believed to be under control, have
regained life and with terrible fero-
city are causing death and enormous
damage to property. Kaslo is the
center of the most serious damage
The town of Whitewater has been
swept clean as the floor Not YES
tage of habitatlon remains.
Refugees are fleeing to KaslO
where many overcome are being
cared for at the Victoria hospital
All women and children from San
don were brought down to New Den
Yer Monday as precautionary
measure. There are great ly eXag-
gerated stories of Nelson and San
don being close to the fire zone, but
an investigation shows this to be
untrue.
The fire wardens report large
tracts of Canadian Pacific timber at
Samoa burning. In some places the
Canadian Pacific tracks are twisted
into masses of steel and the bridges
are burned. Extensive bush fires
near Moyie have caused a loss Of
100000.
Bush and range fires are raging
in all directions in the vicinity of
Ymir, Salmo and Sheep Creek dis
trict and another disastrous fire is
reported at Clarkson's, spreading in
the direction of Nelson.
Wallace, Idaho, July 19.-Checked
on the north and east, but sweeping
onward with undated fury on the
south side, the great Pine Creek for
est fire Monday night burned more
fiercely than ever, and all hope for
it's control has been abandoned, at
least for the time being.
with frontage estimated at from
five to seven miles in length, and
with from 40 to so fire fighters on
the scene, the only possible chance
to check the flames lies in heavy
rain. There were showers, but Mon
day night, except for vast pail OF
smoke from the burning timber, the
sky was clear and unpromising as
ever.
Weird tales of incinerated families,
of men demented by heat and rush
ing headlong into the flames, are
percolating through to Wallace and
kellogg, but all of these have proven
unfounded.
The fire is now headed toward cop
per creek from the west fork of Pine
creek, and directly in its course lie
the Nabob, Surprise, Highland Chief,
Sidney and many other promising
mining properties. Steps are being
taken to protect these.
Mondays force of 25 men was
sent to the scene by the local for
estry bureau, and 25 more came from
Spokane Urgent calls are still be-
ing sent to both Wallace and Kellogg
for additional fighters. So far it is
estimated that about so square miles
of timber have been destroyed. No
exact estimate of the value OF this
has been made as yet, but all return
ing from the scene place their figures
high in the hundreds of thousands Of
dollars.
On Graham creek, on the north
fork of the Occur d'Alene river Sec
ton, the great fire of last week has
broken forth with redoubled fury,
and with a front of seven miles is
sweeping all before it.
A hurried call for fighters at this
point brought a small force of men
to the hopeless task. For some time
Monday, attempts were made to stop
the fire, but here hope has been
abandoned. Men have been drawn
back into the highlands in last eff
fort to quell the flames as they reach
the top of the mountains.
Reports from the outbreak at this
point, together with the damage
done previous, makes the Graham
creek fire even more disastrous than
that of Pine creek, with the excep-
ton of the fact that on Graham creek
no homesteads are destroyed.
Bossburg, Wash, July 19.-One
of the most disastrous forest fires
ever experienced in this section OF
Stevens county has been raging since
Saturday morning, and accompanied
by the high wind of Sunday the
flames spread over the vast territory
and destroyed large amount of tim
Der and imperiled the lives and
homes of many persons in the vici-
nifty of Bossburg. The line OF IRE