Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-23
Northern Pacific and Milwaukee
Lines Stop at Missoula.
BLAZE CREEps UP IN THE NIGHT

SPOKANE, Wash, Aug. 22.-Twenty
three persons are known TO have persisted
and between seventy-five and one hundred
are missing in the forest fires raging In
the Panhandle Of Idaho. in the Occur
d d'Alene district.
Thirty men out of a crew of forty-seven
fire fighters In charge of Forest Ranger
Lee Hollingshead are missing aud are be-
lieved to have perished Saturday night
when their camp on Big Creek tributary
to the St Joseph river, sixteen miles from
Avery, Idaho, was swept by flames.
Ten fire fighters are said to have been
trapped and burned 70 death at Avery,
Mont. on the line OF the ci,ieaso, Milwau-
kee & Puget Sound railroad
The fire situation at Wallace is consid-
erably improved and reports Indicate that
danger of further destruction in that town
Is past
The dead
smoke.
MRS. CHARLES SMITH and one year
old baby drowned in we'll into which
they jumped to avoid the flaves.
MISS AMELIA WARD. stenographer,
suffocated by smoke.
Twelve unidentified fire fighters in a
crew OF rangers burned or suffocated.
six unidentified fire fighters from a
crew of Ranger Edward Pulaski.
One Unidentified fighter from the crew OF
Ranger Danielson.
The seriously injured, mostly fire fight
ers, will number, according to w. II. Wei
gel, forester, superintendent Of the Occur
d'Alene more than 100. Many Of them
have been stricken blind and others have
broken limbs. Other probable losses of life
also are reported Three families Of home-
steaders, comprising fifteen persons, ara
believed to have pershd in La Tour Creek,
near Catoldo, Idaho, In the forest fires.
They are John Andrease, wife and five
children; B. A. Smith, wife and two chill
dren and James Osborne, wife and family.
Never in tho history Of Idaho has the
baptism OF August fire reached such wide-
spread proportions, or created such univer-
sal damage.
The flames have consumed virgin forests.
| homesteads, mine buildings and human
lives.
The stampede of safety has strained the
facilities of the railroad and the passenger
trains are made up OF day coaches and box
cars.
People from sick beds. cripples and other
unfortunates are loaded on the trains TO
ne TAKEN 10 t1dIElSOli1 CuehI u Altu6 anu
Spokane.
FOrty-Three Men IL emmed I'm,
The latest figures from Wallace are that
| forty fire fighters probably have perlshed
| in the hills near Sand Point. Idaho. Forest
Ranger Van Dyck and crow of slxty-fve
enlisted in Spokane are reported sur
rounded by flames. A woman and her
daughter perished at Cabinet, Idaho. Five
7
Wash, in an attempt 10 reach the town
All along the Great Northern and the
Northern Pacific tracks between Spokane
and Helena numberless nrea are raging.
but definite reports cannot be obtained as
the telegraph and telephone wires are down.
Before communication with Libby, Mont,
ended it was reported that every male resi-
dent OF the town was working with 200 paid
fire fighters 20 divert Flower creek TO the
south of the village as protection against
the flames driving up from that direction.
In the Clearwater forest reserve, In the
hills east Of Lewiston. Idaho. new fires
create no excitement, as the settlers have
fled and Forest Supervisor Fem has re-
fused 70 send any more fire fighters in
unless he can get pack trains TO aid in
getting supplies to them. train OF
twenty-five horses was yesterday afternoon
turned back in an attempt to reach sixty
five men near Peck. who are known to
have but one days rations.
Five fires are burning on the shores OF
Couer d'Alens lake. one Was threatening
the village OF Sunnyside, three miles from
the town OF Couer dAlene, at midnight.
Many summer homes on the beach have
been destroyed.
Refugees from burning districts poured
into spokane last night. Seven hundred
from wallace crossed Lake Couer dAlene
by boat and came 10 Spokane by electric
line.
Fresh Fears for wallace.
MIssOULA. Mont. Aug. 22--The general
fire situation In this district. as far as
early reports show, is sim disoouraging
No word can be obtained from any points