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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 28, 1910)
n - THE SUNDAY OKEGOXIAX. TO RTLAXP. AUGUST 28. 1910. ' i - . 7 ' MOKE FOREST FIRE SCENES FROM SOUTHERN OREGON. TO ST. JOE DISTRICT Serious Fires Threaten Idaho Town and Militiamen Sent to Aid. OUTBREAK NEAR DAYTON li. : - IR00PS MOVED i Rain Come lo Itrlief of MrkrWeu Montana rbrrMs rtlmtr or Number ot IX-ad lmx.lllc at Thl" Tlntc. SIVKANL. Alt. While the early minx have quenched the fires arouna Wlton and l-ol" Hoi Spring. Mont., and t-rtain part of Idaho, new out break have been reported from M. Joe. Idaho, and Ix-lton. W ash.. nere sitatlnn the hurried removal of - Idaho militiamen from the camp at coeur d Alene to the St. Joe district this afternoon. The flames threaten to destroy the loan of tit. Joe and the people are In arave peril. The Oovernment. It In reported. Is not aiding In the nirlit atil the lire of that vicinity. Three nre are ras-lna within a ra dius of 29 mile of Iwyton. Wash, tine of th la apToarhln near the town, hut the destruction of the place I not frared. a. fraln fields Intervene. Many acttlrra In the Hlue Mountal i district have left their homes to nahl the naimn Another nre la burnlnn Its way toward the Oreaon line, about 10 mile south. The fire on Maloney Mountain Is mil. Old weather ha set In near Ielton. Mont., the headquarters of the 11th lnfntry. and many of the soldier, who are clad In the llieht uniform worn In the military maneuver from which they a ere suddenly withdrawn, are eufferlnc. With the drop In tempera ture baa roine a steady fall of rain and snow, which has helped In aubdulnu the fire. The need for troops there lull parsed. Captain Mullack report from Iolo Hot Pprlnv that the ttrea there have been checked by rain whlcn has fallen on the" hlaher peaks. It Is estimated" that nearly 100.000 acres of ranae and tlmberland were burned over In the Pryor Mountain of Montana. The conflagration la now extinct. - Ituiiroad Men Help. On the Bovine branch of the Milwau kee Itallroad :00 men are flKhtlnn a very larxe lire that la moving north. The nrc on Marble t'reek. outh of the St. Joe. are alao alarmina. fowl ha to be packed 40 miles to the fire Uzhtrra. A dispatch from St. Marie. Idaho. today says that there Is no wind, ana the fires are being brought under con trol. It will be much eaier two months from today to compile a list of the per sons killed than It Is today. The forestrr service Is unable to rheck up It men. n Saturday after noon. August !0. there, were .". for estry men In the field. There was a record of their names when they were engaged, but some of the timekeeper have been burned to death, and alth them the lists of employes. vVapres are due to the men. and If they do not call for them It will be assumed that the men are dead. The lost men were nearly all laborer picked up by the employment agencies of Spokane and Missoula. None of the graduates of the Vale forestry school was killed or Injured. While Supervisor Welgle. at Wallace, was gathering Information concerning his missing rangers he received report of other than forest men killed, anil the list of these totaled more than too. Tt was reported to Wallace that a num ber of Japanese employes of the Mil waukee Railroad were killed and that numerous settlers, log-ers and miners perished. When the mining and log ging companies check up their payrolls they wtll find many employes missing. It Is believed. The land office Is In touch wltk the settlers and will be able to give a list of those who have van ished. Llia.Hilr IIiiIds Fount!. The i-ad bodies where fire has swept directly over them seem to have been burned to charcoal. Klngers. ears and even arm drop off when the bod ies are touched and It Is best to bury them where found. The men suffocated In tunnels are recognisable and some ef those roasted In creek beds a re not carbonised. Their hair Is burned off. also thetr clothes and their blistered bodies present a horrible appearance. Where large numbers of dead men are found together they were seeking ref uge In mining tunnels' or were lying in creeks. v hen no shelter offered, the men fled, each for himself, and tlieir bodies are found widely scattered. How poor a protection Uie creeks afford is shown by the fact all creeks are carrying vast numbers of boiled trout. Supervisor Welgle says that If there had been trails through the National forest the ftrrs would not have broken away from control and the loss of life would hate been averted. The first work that should be undertaken Is trallmaktnc. be says. An entirely new Government aurvey of the Coeur d Alene country must be made. The old boundaries were fixed by landmark trees that have been removed, and the settlers have jio way of exactly locat ing their land. Soldlrn to l'atrol lorrsls. Senator Wesley 1. Jones, of Washing ton, today expressed entire disagree ment with tieneral l-eonrd Wood opinion tiiat the propositi to use I'nited States soldiers' to patrol the National forests was wholly impracticable. He said that he would favor legislation to authorise auch use if the troops. Of the is Intured men In Wallace hospitals all will bear scars or other marks to the gruve. Those who Inhaled smoke are suffering from lung trouble. Half the patients sustained broken leg or arms Many have pitifully seared faces. The number of Injured In the whole fire country run Into hundreds, and while all are said to be recovering, their injuries In most cases will result la disfigurement. In ttssclsn Veterinary t'ellege. Students are' admitted between the ages of 1! and IS. Tn new reinforced voncrete building of this Institution gives Increased facilities for labora tory, dissection and clinical Instruction In all branches of veterinary s. lence. Young men desiring to take up the atody of "veterinary medicine should make Immediate application In person, r by mal'.. to the president. I'r. Charles Keane. el Market street. San Kran ctaco. Next aesslon will begin Septem ber li, Islu. ff coffee, the t'nltsd States Is the wnrM's I tsrfest ennsumer. tisrmany. Net herlands. ' Fma.-e. Belum and Autr:aHainsar- be I Ins next in trie erder earned. or tee, the j t'nited Kluft-'SS Is the world's larcesf rn : eerner. Hussla selag second, tb InUsd, a ts tbtfl if '-V - ' . tit fee.: - IT:- " " &. iV2CT TJfEr FIRE .X.ZSy. BULL RUN IS SAFE Portland's Water Supply Not in Any Danger. MANY OF FIRES ARE MYTHS National t.usrd-nicn lo Fine Work In C'ontrulliiif; J lames in Mount . IIimhI Iltrlrt .Narrow K cuM Told by Crimper. Portland's aaler supply has never been entlanKcred from burning timber on tlie Hull luin n-utcrahd. Information re ceived from U'e fire zone authorised a statement from Forest Stipervleor 8her rard that none of the fires In the Mount iiood district ha crept Into the reserved dletrlct. which 1 protected for the pur pose of guaranteeing a pure supply of water to tle city. Ttte fire near to the Bull Run re stricted district was on the south side of Zic Zair Mountain, while the reported conflagrations on the sides of the Sugar 1 Loaf e ere found to he canards. The burned district, from which a pall of smoke hung over Portland most of the -week, lie in a triangular form, the point being to the went In the vicinity of Ssndy. and the base of the figure being a line drawn from a point two milee) south of Marmot postofflce south to Wild cat Mountain. A thorouch search of the district haa been made and It is found that all Port land families camping In the dlxrict or staying at Mauhllng's Hotel and Rhodo dendron Tavern have been accounted for. The only lives lost were those of an In dian squaw antl a papoose on Huckleber ry Mountain. The only ranches which were burned were the King place, or old Mclntire home, ami one cabin In that vicinity. The greatest losses were sufTered by the owner of timber. That will not be estimated until the fires are all out. Mount Jlood Fire Controlled. Forest Supervisor Tom Bherrard last night authorised the wtatement that all Ores between Portland and Mount Hood are under control through the Joint op- erjttlon of the Korea Service and the City of Portland. Patrols of the Bull Run watershed nre being maintained and Oompanies K H and C of the Oregon Notional Guard are turning back the fronts of the fire still burning. Company K. of the tlunrd. was returned to Port land yesterday. A large flr broke out esteraay after noon In the Columbia forest in I larg County. Washington. It le located north of tlie Castle Hill. Squad of men were sent forward. Fires on the Umatilla River were re ported In better condition yesterday and will In all probability be under control today. There were no reports from the Wallowa district last night, while at Rosehurg the fire brigades were still struggling sguirat a wind which kept the nre going along the Cmpqua. A new nre was reported last night from the Hood River dinrict. probably on Indian Mountain. Men were sent to Dee, where the mills ot the Oregon Lumber Company are located. Many Fire on Old Barns. Timber oaners around the loobies of the hist headquarters building; such as the Chamber of Commerce, were yeateroay in receipt of Information from outsldg pointai that the larges of the recent fires were tn etaohlrigs and on cut-over lands. In some sections tin? fire were almost wholly confined to old burns. It in be lieved that the largest loaws of green thither will be confined to Southern Ore gon, east of Medford ami Ashland. Among the campers who began drifting hack to Portland yeatcrcjty tale of nar row escapes and the grandeur of the tire pyrotechnics were frequent. Mr. and Mro. H I. Vaughan. of s Kast Nineteenth street, lay on a large rock along the we. hank o the L-wis River, tn Wash ington, a lU tire went past. In the party were Rev. Mr. Howard, wife and dnughter. of Vancouver, and Mrs. II. F. Lee. ot Portland. "It appeared as If two-thirds of Clark Courtly was on lire at the same time Wednrlay night' and Thursday." said Mr. Vaughan last night. "We camped on tlie lwie River. Tlie Are started near Yaeort. from a careleaaly burned slash ing, and was at our -Overall Camp' five mile1 na ay before bight. We xnoved .loan to the eilce of the water and se cured a position on the end of a long rock, where ae were safe except for the smoke and rlndens The HreWwent down past our pordilon WdnestWty night on the cast side of the river, and came back on the west side about 2 o'clock in the morn ing. Narrow JKscapc Told. "Thursday morning we walked to Heis son aud found that the train had left us because they thought we were dead. Our party then walked to Battleground, five mllew a-ny. wlre a train came for us Friday morning. On tlas trip to Battle- .1 . fif . i mm ",H"-N ground we were surrounded by fire, and would have turned back, but tlie rear view was more terrifying than the front, and by the women wetting handkerchiefs and keeping them over their faces the party got through. "Every mill in that section of Clark County Is In ashes except two. Allen 4 Wright's camp of one mill and -W cabins burned In a moment. They saved 40 chickens. Three farm house at Heiswon and three houses and a oiiurch at Battle ground were also consumed. The coun try Is littered with the carcasses of dead aiilmalsi "A peculiarity about the fires that I observed is the fact that every time the flames reached green timber they stopped. The flames were largely confined to burns and cleared lands. But among the haxlebruah and down timber the fires roared at very high speed. The sparks from burning snags would be thrown as much as four miles. ' COMPANY K DOKS FIXE WOUR Militiamen Back After Four Iaj on Fire Mnn Three Lives Saved. . Stained by smoke and dirt and nearly exhausted after four days of hard work practically without sleep, BS men of Company K. Third Infantry, Oregon National Guard, in command -of Cap tain R. O. Scott, returned last night from the fire belt about Boring. The company was dismissed for fhe night, but will report for duty again this morning and may be . dispatched to Eastern Oregon to cope with Urea now raging In Wallowa County. KfTectlve work was done by the com pany and at least three live were saved. Friday night information reached Captain Scott that a farm house near Hogan was surrounded by fire. He sent Lieutenant Sever with a small detachment and this force found Mrs. John Allspaw and two children huddled In a small hut with the Are approaching rapidly. Mrs. Allspaw had been 111 and was too weak to walk. A stretcher was Improvised and the wom an was carried to a safe point nearly two miles away, the children walking. Before returning with his company. Captain Scott went through the Bull Run district yesterday afternoon and reported that the situation there was much Improved. The Area had died down and were well In control of the three National Guard companies now there. Only high wind can bring about . further danger, he said. Despite their severe service about Boring and Hogan's the men of Com pany K are anxious to take the Held again today. All are working K a financial loss to themselves, as their pay as guardsmen while on active duty Is but II.2& per duy. while their civil , vocations yield much more than that j a: tount. i SITUATION MICH IMPROVED lensc lo Fx! I tor of Tiinbcniian Say Wind Has Subsided. George M. Cornwall, editor of the ; Tlmberman. said last night he had re- : celved personal messaa-es from nearly all the timber diKtrlcyi in Ore pin and part of Washing-ton during the afternoon and that the fire situation, on the whole. , had greatly improved. He paid that : there was little rhanga in the Crater National Park district. At Austin, the terminus of the Sump- I ter Valley Railroad, the fire had about burned out and the firefighters there are ' returning to .their homes. At Frowns- j vllle conditions have Improved and lS men. who were sent into that district , by the Iortland Lumber Company, have been called In. In the Cottaite Grove district the fires are still burning, but : with less rapidity, as the winds have . subsided. In the vicinity of Kerriston. Wash., i there Is still danger from the fires -and firefighters have been sent for to assist the forces in protecting the town. Ulavis Slashings in Danger. WHITE SALMON, Wash., Aug:. 57- (Special.! Ffre from slashings on the Mills. Kath and Knapp tracts was swept by a high wind this morning across the road Into the Lindsay quarter section and for a few hours the new buildings of L R Glavls were In danger, for they are In the midst of 209 acres of slash ings. By the calling out of every available man on the mountain and with the aid of partleW from White Salmon, a more destructive fir was averted. " J tj T ' e- 1 1 Xe - fdl . If) x .v - . P - j, j! T rzs ? arm u j i ir-raLK SA : r. , -' BENEFIT IS SEEN Little Damage to Green Tim ber, Says King. FLAMES UNDER CONTROL Assistant District Forester Buck "Ex pects to Have Situation Well in Hand Today If High Winds ' Ho Not Blow Vp Again. Now that the forest fires in Southern Oregon are dying out, the extent of damage is found to be far less than the early estimates. On the contrary, the fires have been a benefit, according to George K. King, owner of extensive timber areas in Jackson County. Mr. Kln says the hres In many instances have burned only the underbrush, which permits a growth of grass end leaves the forests in less danger of sub sequent tires. Assistant District Forester Buck stated last evening at Medford that all Southern Oregon forest tires burning would be under control within the next 48 hours, if no high winds arise. By this morning Mr. Buck expects to have all fires south of Ashland well in hand. The fire west of Prospect between the Middle and South forks of the Rogue Klver has been the most destructive in Southern Oregon. Over $1,000,000 worth of the finest pine timber in Jackson County was destroyed. This heavy loss was due to the heavy wind, which car ried the blase through the tops of the trees. Sold If rs Render Efficient Service. The soldiers has four, camps along the Middle Fork of the Kogue Klver and are making a valiant and success ful tight to keep the flames from cross ing to the side on which Prospect is located. Ranger Neff and a party of 12 or more may be cut off from their pro visions by the Cat Hill fire, which Is burning down on the east side of the Cascades. However. . no reports have been sent to the Medford forestry of fice ot any lives being actually en dangered. There is a bad fire on the headwaters of Cow Creek. More men are being called Into the Dead Indian country to tight the Elk Prairie fire. There are X6 men of the Forestry De partment and 3.-50 soliiiers of the First Infuntry fighting tires in Southern Ore gon. The tires of the district are costing tlie Government iVM a day. Calls Tor Help Are Sent. Many calls have been sent to the Med ford forestry office for help outside of the forests, nnd men have- been sent in answer when possible. The Jackson Creek tire. In which several ranchers lost their homes, is said to be under control. S. Crosby and Arthur French, two men employed by the Forest Service, were ar rested in Jackson County yesterday on the charge of setting forest fires while fighting the flames. The charges were sworn to hy John E. Cribble, fourth nfth-cr. but the men were released for lak of evidence. B. F- Mulkey. District Attorney, has asked the County Court of Jackson Coun ty to ofTer a reward for the apprehension of some of the alleged Incendiaries, and the grand jury of Jackson County which convenes Meriday will consider evidence which he will present.. I,os in I.ane County Light. On the .Mohawk, McKenzie and Upper Willamette the fires are not considered dangerous. Investigations strengthen the belief that the timber losw Is ,not heavy. Conditions in -the forest reserve In Lane County are reported better, but all men are held to prevent the spread of Ore. Scores of people are returning dally to Kuaene from the mountain resorts. At Bellknap 8prings. George Croner. the propri-tor. ordered his guet&ts to leave. Frocn Foley Springs and McKenzie Bridge l I 1 I I ri - Dill I -e rSSSS WJr t f II 1 1 II I i'lJ Jirwyrn w LATEST MODELS GHESTE R FIE LP CLOTHES Now on Exhibition at Our Specialty Shop for Men The correct modes are observed in the building of Chesterfield Clothes. Newest fabrics, latest shade effects, artistically de signed, thoroughly well tailored. Suits Priced $25.00 to $55.00 Overcoats $25 to $65 A PLEASURE TO SHOW YOU NEW STYLES R. M 273-275 people are leaving because of the heavy smoke. Firefighters have the situation well in hand about Mount McLaughlin. At Clover Creek the flames are under con trol on the north, west and south, but on the east side they are still taxing the efforts of the rangers. Fire In Coos Under Control. The forest fires In Coos County are all under control, and so far no damage of any extent has been done to the val uable timber. The fires are confined to the smaller timber and underbrush, and are being watched by firefighters. The MCDonald-Vaughan Logging Camp lost several buildings. The forest fires that have been raging this week In the Calapoola timber belt are under control, but 200 men are still lighting the flames, among whom are the State Guard from Albany. George F. King, who has 10.000 acres of timber In the flame-swept district between Mount McLoughlln and Butte Falls, returned to Medford yesterday with the report that his holdings have been damaged little if at all by the fires which swept through them. "To those who have ndt been through forest fires it looks as if the woods are being burned up." sold Mr. King. "But close examination shows that In most districts the fire has done no dam age to the grown timber. 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