TERRIBLE FOREST FIRES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 903, 24 August 1910, Page 5

TERRIBLE FOREST FIRES.

HUNDRED LIVES LOST. A SOLID WALL OF FIRE SIXTy MILES LONG. MANY TOWNS ATTACKED. By Telegraph—rress Association-Copyright. New York, August 23. Tho forest fires in Idaho and Montana are still raging, and a hundred square miles of country is ablaze. One hundred persons are reported to have perished in Idaho, and thirty perEons were burned to, death in tho township of Wallace alone. It is expected that the number of fatalities will be greatly augmented. One hundred and eighty men engaged in tho Government forestry service are missing. Four towns, including Taft, are in flames and have been deserted. Half the town of Wallace is standing. A solid wall of fire sixty miles in length, extending from Thompson to the Idaho boundary, attacked Belknap, White Pine, Noxon, and Heron. , ' In the Western Montana the fires are destroying many isolated settlements. Hundreds of persons were overtaken while in their beds, and are reaching the towns scantily clad. , There are one thousand refugees in the town of Missoula, Montana. The Forest - Service reports that , there is positive evidence that many fires in Oregon were started by incendiaries.

TWO HUNDRED PERSONS, INJURED. (Rec. August 24, 0.30 a.m.) New York August 23. The fires in Idaho, Eastern Washington, and Montana are still raging. The damage'exceeds .£300,000. Two hundred persons have been injured, and many are missing.