The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1910-08-26
SEARCH FOR DEAD
IN FOREST FIRES
Scores Of Bodies Have Been
Found in Ashes.
1000 FIGHTERS ARE MISSING
Flames Rage Unchecked In Five
states-Women Save a Town-Many
Villages Still Threatened.

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states-Women Save a Town-Many
Villages Still Threatened.
Nearly the whole panhandle OF
Idaho timbered mountain country, is
On fire. and il is possible that 400 per
sons may have persisted.
United States Forest Supervisor w.
+. Weigle has not heard from 300 of
his men who were in the burning
woods. and he fears they may have
persisted.
He sent Ranger A. f. Holcomb TO
open up the old Mullan road leading
10 the Bullion mine, where eight bod
les are buried.
The known dead now number so.
Three towns are in ashes They ara
Taft. Deborgia and Henderson. Thd
old part OF ST. Regis has been del
stroyed. and half OF Wallace, Idaho,
where forty.fye lost their lives, lies
in ruins.
A crowd was sent out to the big
fork Of the Occur d'Alene, where
twelve bodies are buried under The
ruins. This will necessitate the clear
ing OF thirty miles of road to Wallace.
Besides the twelve dead at Big Fork,
three men suffered broken legs and
three others were totally blinded.
Heavy clouds are hanging over the
district and rain is expected
Six hundred fire fighters who left
Thompson Falls. in Montana. four days
ago. ae reported lost and Forest SUI
peryisor Bushnell. of the Cabinet re-
serve. who is at Thompson, fears all
may have persisted.
The fires nave swept past Walla0te.
The towns of Occur d'Alene district
have passed the first stage OF wild. un-
reasoning panic and have settled down
with more or less composure to wait
for the list OF dead.
Forty men are dead north Of Muir
ray Idaho. along independence creek
where the fires we're the fiercest
The list is constantly growing. as
the forest rangers, with red eyes ana
blackened faces. penetrate the rails
now choked with fallen logs and bring
word of fire fighting crews cut on,
camps wiped out, ranchers and home
steaders caught in the path OF the
flames and mountain towns left IN
ashes.
Hardly a bridge in the whole coun-
try around Wallace is left and the
Oregon Railroad & Navigation. North
ern Pacific and Chicago, Milwaukee g.
Puget Sound lines are crippled to some
extent The burned district in Mon
tana. generally speaking, extends east
to Missoula. north TO the headwaters
of the ST. Jose and in other directions,
nobody knows how far. From the top
of the hills everything as far as the
eve can see is swept bare.
II is said that insurance on the
buildings destroyed in Wallace Will
total $950O00. Losses are still estl
mated about $1,O00,000.
That Elk City, Wash, is still on the
map is due solely to the heroism OF
the women OF the town, who. while the
male population was fighting the ad-
vance Of the confagration, guarded
their homes and business houses, ex-
tinguishing flames wherever they ap-
peared.
The town is out of danger. but the
conditions in the surrounding regions
are growing worse. The wind has
again risen % a gale and the adjacent
mountains are a seething mass Of
flames.
The entire Iron mountain is again
ablaze and the fire on Squaw creek is
burning with renewed fury
The American river district is a gi-
gantic furnace for miles A number Of
outlying settlements from which thu
inhabitants have fed, are certain of
destruction.
Forest Ranger Porter wires Assist
ant Ranger Brown, at Grangeyille, as
follows:
Situation desperate. Whole country
ablaze. Must have help TO save prop,
erty."
The fire in the Clearwater reserve.
according 10 advices is absolutely be
yond control and all hopes Of subduing
the flames until il rains have been
abandoned.
Stranded 10 Death plavino on Swim.