The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-26
PARTY OF FIFTY SEVEN
FIGHTERS ARE MISSING

MIsSoULA. Mont. Aug. 25.-of the
sixty men under Ranger HolIinGsworth
only fourteen have been accounted for,
These arc dead. II is possible that some
OF HolllngSWorth's men are in the hoSpi-
tai the names having not been identified.
Ranger Hollingsworth, who was reported
lost has returned unharmed TO camp.
On Setter creek fourteen bodies were
found. These were part of the sixty
six men sent into that district under
Ranger Debblt. Positive identification of
They are G. A. BIodgett and Patrick
Grogan. both residents of Butte
The ranger is not, positive Of the iden-
,ity Of George ;so Smth and L. IL usfeIio; re
whoes name appears in the Identified
list, is believed TO be from Havre. Harry
Jackson is thought TO be from Tacoma.
Frank Sanders, 1t is believed. came from
Milwaukee. There is extreme doubt con-
cerning the accuracy of the spelling OF
the names. but the officials have at
tempted to give them correctly.
Supposed Dead Alive.
George Carrick, who was reported dead
near Adair. Idaho, and whose body was
Identified by an escaping party on. the
train, reported at Missoula today. He is
unharmed. He passed the body supposed
TO be his but was not able TO Identify,
e E. Ward. cook for Ranger Friday. says
the party. who was believed 70 be burned
on Cedar creek. is here today unframed.
He took a short trail out Of Big Meadow
crew going over the old trail. Forestry
men returning from the Lolo hot springs
district today report no fires within. over
four miles OF the place. Many Of the
residents OF the place who flew when
the flames threatened on Monday have
returned. The fire fighting forces have
flames back from the village and ranch
property. Last Sunday thirty men were
hemmed in on Packer creek but the fire
broke 10 the west and all escaped In
Long Line of Flames.
At present the flames are moving east
and west The Sally and Brush creek
fires have come together, and the Brush
and Fisher Creek Junction and the Packer
ers making a fire line of ten miles In
length to the north On the south there
is line Of flames eight miles in length
due east and west. Fire is also burning
a range from mile post 243 to 24s on the
state line. Men are In the Clearwater
country clearing trail 10 reach the more
remote fires. AT Johnson's hot springs
fifty miles south OF I.olo Hot Springs, an
extensive stretch OF flame is reported and
a big force has been gathered to check
the advance.
Three fires are reported in Packer
meadows covering An area of about hf-
sagare to % ss bs are being
place. The rains Of yesterday did not
reach as far south as the Clearwater.
but a light snow aided the lighters slight
~. Supervisor Ellers kooch returned
from Stregis and furnished the informa-
ton that everything west OF Deborgia to
the summit had been burned over. The
separate fires swept down the Stregls
river valley on Sunday night doing inn
mense damage. The fire around Hender-
son was caused by sparks from an en-
CINE. The total loss in the Lolo forest is
figured at $1,000, 900. All the men. en-
ployed as fire fighters in the Lolo forest
have been accounted for; All camps have
been destroyed except BoraX and Bath.
that place now hemmed In by fires A
company OF soldiers and sixty civilians
are located at Borax unable to leave on
account OF fires and burned bridges.
Traffic on the Northern Pacific main
line is practically normal today. Thirteen
fruit trains and two stock trains have
been moved In two days and this morn
| ing a Chicago Milwaukee Puget Sound
fast freight train was accepted for trans
portation to the west. Passenger traffic
is nearly on time on the Occur d Alene
branch and the track will be brought TO
| the Dorsey tunnel tonight The tunnel
| is still on fire and has caved.