The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-26
Effort to be Made In the West to
I Lure the Water Out Of the Clouds
And Stop The
Fires.
REVISED DEATH LIST
Forestry Officials Believe Tha. the
Northwestern Fires Will Prove
to Have Been Greatest in
History.

ed LaDulatlon or the known dead in
the forest fires brings the total to
203 The known dead include Sc Unit
ed States fire fighters in and near
Idaho, 13 in Montana, 3 at New
Port, Wash, at Wallace, Idaho; Al
near Avery, Idaho; at Mullen, Idaho
" on Big Bear Creek, in Idaho and /
In Spokane.
With eighty-six employees of the
/ forest service known to be dead and
grave fears felt for number of 9TH
ers who are missing, headquarters of
the Couer d'Alene forest at Wallace,
Idaho, lis anxiously awaiting news
from the relief expedition sent to
rescue Ranger Joseph B. Hahn and
eighty-four men, who have not been
/ heard from since Saturday.
Warden Simons has telcgraphed to
the Navy and War departments, ask
ing that the forts and warships on
Puget Sound fire all their big guns
at eight o'clock this morning, in the
hope that the detonation will start a
general rainfall over western Wash
ington.
With the opening of the Chicago,
Milwaukee and Puget Sound Railroad
into the st. Joe Valley, discouraging
news is beginning to come out.
It appears that 500 men were at
q work on Big Greek, tributary of the
n ~ Zoe, last Saturday, when the wind
blew the flames through the canyon.
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loss Of forty-seyen OF the men were
received. These deaths should not be
confused with the losses reported
from Avery.
IT the stories of men who returned
from the st. Joe country of Idaho
are to be believed, the loss CT life
\ along Big Creek, tributary of the
St Joe River, was appalling, and the
dead in idaho alone will number
more than 200. even If Ranger
Joseph B. Hahn and his eighty-foul
men turn up, of which the forest off
Ger in Wallace is not hopeful. All es
Inmates of the financial loss place i
at over s20,O00,pO0, mostly in timber
Warden Simons received the fol
lowing telegram from Ranger G. A
Stone at Moncon, on the main line 0
the Milwaukee,:
THE fire here is from one to thre,
miles wide. Need all the help l cal
get Can not keep fire back. Loss t,
personal property great and possibl,
some lives lost
Greatest Loss in History.
WASHINGTON, Aug. Washing
ton officials believe the forest fire
In the west have about burned oul
ReassHring advices were receive,
from various points in the fire zone
This years fires have proved to b
the most appalling in the history 0
the forest service. They extend owe
an area of $4,000 600 acres. Railroad
and other corporations, as well as th
government, have sustained heav
property losses. Just how many live
have been lost will not be known unit
the fire region has been travelled by tn
government rangers. According to
statement made public today, the fir
burned over large tracts Of timber |
fourteen reserves located in fou
ltates as follows:
The Clearwater, Occur d'Alen,
Kaniksu and Pend Oreille, in Idaho
The Beartooth, Bitter Root, Blackfee
Flathead, Galiotin, Helena, Kooten'
and Lolo in Montana; the Crater an
Wallowa, in Oregon; and the Co
vile reserve, In Washington.
California Situation.
SACRAMENTO. Aug 26. Repor
today show that the fire crisis hi
passed in California. A new fire
Santa Cruz mountain Is now the mo
serious now raging. 1t has work'
havoc in the redwood forest and Sc
eral hundred settlers are fleeing
panic.
All other California sires are und
control.