The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-08-26

NHISSOULA, Mont, Aug. 26.-The
NJ district forestry office here
succeeded tonight in compiling
returns from all points included In the
Montana and Idaho forest fires, show
ing the total number of dead and
While the returns are not complete
from the Occur d,AIene and Pend
d'Oreiile districts, IL is thought that
the final figures Will make no material
change. The result of the compilation
given out tonight places the known
dead at seVenty-nine. SeVenty-three of
these died In the Occur d'AIene forest,
four In the Cabinet forest at TuscOr,
and two In the Pend d'Oreille.
These totals were the result of a day
of searching. The name of each man
recruited by the service for fire fight
ing duty was systematically traced up
and the Wherea bouts of every man
definitely established. In the Occur
d'Alene forest some men are still mis-
sing and the reports are not all in
from the Pend dOreille.
So far as the local office is aware,
the only men now unaccOunted for in
the government service are Ranger
Joseph b. Hahn and party of fifteen
men. According TO report from Wal
lace, Ida, this party contains eighty
four men, but this number is said to
be Inaccurate by District Forester
Greeley, who says the number should
be fifteen. This is the party originally
in charge OF Ranger Haines, which was
last heard of in the country near the
headwaters of the st. Joe. Late re-
ports give ground for the belief that
the men are still safe.
No Definite Report.
so far as we know, these are the
only men unaccOunted for" said As
sOciate District Forester Silcox 1--WE
have no definite reports from the
country about Wallace, the only men
whom We know to be dead in this Vi
cinity being six men on Placer creek
and two more on Pine creek. I am
going there tonight and. once we get
the men in that country accounted for.
We will be Strengthened out"
The detailed losses TO date are:
Eighteen unidentified men on Big
creek.
Thirty identified men on Big creek.
Seventeen unidentified men on Setter
creek.
-Four men at Tuseor
Two men on the Pend d'Oreille.
Six men on Placer creek.
Two on Pine creek.
According to an unconfirmed report.
three settlers are missing in the Bull
river valley Bull river is small
stream in the northern part of the
Cabinet forest.
The homes of fifty settlers along the
Clarks Fork were burned, but no lives
We're lost
Thompson Falls according to Ranger
Bushnell is safe unless another cyclone
such as that OF Sunday recurs.
The fires in the Nez Perez forest are
still serious
sheep Burned ON Range.
A telegram from Grangeville tonight
brought word that the flames are
wreaking havoc all along the Salmon
river. Five hundred sheep have been
killed in the fires along this valley,
and the flames are now threatening ali
of the settlements along the river, the
range and the stock.
District Forester r. a Sherman of
District No. 4. with headquarters at Og-
den, today offered the services of fifty
rangers from his territory. These men
were gladly accepted, and will be sta
toned on the northwestern group OF
forests-the Konixu, the Kootenai, the
Pend d'Oreille, the Occur dAlene, the
Clearwater and the Cabinet.