The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1910-09-01
FIRES DYING DOWN
BELIEVED THAT 300 FIRE FlGH =
Frs Persisted IN THE
IDAHO FORESTS.
MONTANA TOWNS ARE SAT- {
All Settlers Rescued From PerlIous
Positions and No Further Loss OF
Life Is Expected. Scores Return.
ing to Their Homes.

Spokane. It is believed that
more than 200 persons, nearly all
fire fighters, persisted in the Idaho
/ forest fires.
Supt Weigle of the Couer d'Alene
national forest, after receiving many
reports Of disaster TO various parties
of his 600 employees, posted a bull
letin in his office at Wallace announc-
ing the death of ia Of the men, and
also stated his grave concern for the
safety of Ranger Joseph b. Hahn and
seyenty-four men who We're surround
ed by fire in the forest on the big
fork of the Couer d'Alene river near
where another party lost fourteen
men Hahn was for fourteen years
the best athlete of the Pullman, re-
nowned football and baseball player
The charred bodies Of fifteen fire
fighters were found on Setter creek
in the ST. Joe country Two Japa-
ucse dragged themselves 10 Avery,
Idaho, and told Of the death Of ten
Of their companions. The twelve
men. employees Of the Chicago, Mil
waukee and Puget Sound railroad,
had gone out 10 fight fire and had
bcgn surrounded by flames and only
two men escaped death.
The rangers missing in the IhOmp-
son Falls country of Montana were
not heard from here.
The number Of deaths in the state
of Washington was reduced to three,
all in the pend d'Orcille valley near
Newport one of these victims, Mrs.
Ernest Deinehardt wife of ranch
er, was the only woman known to
have been burned 20 death i'll any OF
the fires
The wholesale loss of life in Idaho
occurred when great bodies Of men
were striving to check the flames.
The names of many of the dead
will never be known The rangers
employed all the able-bodied men
whom they could press into the serv-
ice. When the groups of fire fight
ers were overwhelmed, the camps
were also destroyed, the clothes were
burned off the bodies of the men and
the dead were often so charred that
scarChers stepped on them, think
ing they We're pieces Of burned logs.
The fire obliterated the trails and the
burned country is difficult to go
through because of fallen trees
Developments In the
forest fire situation in Montana have
been encouraging. For the first time
in several DAYS the sun shOne
through the pail Of smoke that has
hung over Missoula, and hopeful re-
ports came in from all directions.
Men reported as missing are being
found. The intensity Of the flames
is greatly reduced by the snow and
rain, and all towns In the fire dis
trict are now out of danger.
From the mass Of sensational re-
ports sent out early in the week
there are only nine known cases of
death in Montana. These included
eight miners at the RulliOn mine
near BoraX and one death at Taft A
few are still included among the
missing, but the list Of these is grad
ually diminishing as communication
is being restored. The day also
brought a denial OF report that
Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound
train was hcmmed in by fire in north
crn Idaho
With assurances that the storm
had materially lessened the danger,
scores Of refugees started from this
city to return TO their deserted homes
along the Occur dAlone line Of the
Northern Pacific. Those returning
hOmeward were principally people
living between Saltese and Iron
Mountain. Some Of them have lost
their homes, while others who never
expected TO see them again will find
them unchanged The refugees are
being carried to their homes by the
Nnrthnrn pariilc free of rhnrge