The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1910-09-02
DEATH LIST NOT
YET COMPLETED
STORIES THAT CAME FROM FIRE
REGIONS WERE NOT ENAo.
oERATED.
Forestry officials Say r,ey % Not
Know How Many Lives Have Been
Lost But List is a Long
One.

Spokane wash The death lIst az
result OF the fearful forest fires in
Montana and Idaho has not YET been
completed. and if rs not known def
nltely how many lives we're lost In
fact. ~ may never be known how
great was the toll oNactod boy tho lro
demon Persons returning from the
burned country say that there has been
no o2aggorailon In the newspaper r..
ports Of the loss of life and doslruc
iIon Of property
The forest service IN unable 10 check
up M men and 10 say positively how
many are missing
on Saturday afternoon. August 20
ihcrc were $50 forestry men In the
field There was record Of their
names when they we're engaged. but
some Of the timekeepora have been
burned to death and with them the
lists 81 employees. Wages are due the
mon. and II they don't call for them u
will be assumed that the mon are
| dead
Forestry officials who don't wish
70 be quoted directly say they dom
know how many men have 9esn lost
that when the rangers 80 oN TO cut
trails and survey tho losses Of timber
they will ind many skeletons The
/ lost men were nearly all laborers
picked up by the employment agencies
Of Spokane and Mlssoua.
None Of the graduates of the Yale
/ forestry school was killed or Injured
/ Tho eight men killed In the Bullion
mine and the thirteen killed on the
mig Fork Of the Occur d'Alenc were
forest service employees, though not
included In the lists Of the district
officers at Mlssoula.
While Supervisor Wolglo a. Wallace
was gathering information concerning
his missing rangers. he received re-
ports OF others than forest men killed
and the lat Of these totallcd more
than 100.
These reports we're unofficial and
unycrinod. but the agree with tales
brought to Spokane by refugees.
II was reported TO Wallace that
number OF Japanese employees Of the
Milwaukee railroad were killed, ant
that numerous settlers. loggcrs ant
miners perlshcd. when the miniui
and logging companies check up thei
pnNIolls they will hnd many employ
cos missing Il Is believed The Ian,
Office is In touch with the settlers an,
viii be- able to give u list Of thos'
who have vanished
The dead bodies where Are hu
swept directly over them, seem to b
burned to charcoal Fingers. ears am
even arms drop on when the hodlc
were touched and II In best to bur
them where found The men sumo
Gated In tunnels are recognizable an
some OF those roasted In creek bed
are not carbonized.
An entirely new government surye
e ot the Occur d'Alene country must b
= made Tho old boundaries were IKE
! by landmark trees that have been -
moved aud the settlers have no wa
, Of exactly locating their land
, OF the hfty injured men In Wallac
hospitals. all will bear scars or othc
marks 10 the grave Those who II
hailed smoke are suffering from mn
b trouble. Half tho patients sustnlne
broken legs or arms, Many have pit
! fully scared faces, Tho number Of II
, jured In the whole ilrc country run
into hundreds, and, while all nre sal
10 be recovering from their lnjurie
in most cases they will all be disn
ured.