FOREST FIRES.
A TOWN TI.-LRE ATENED. MANY SOLDIERS MISSING. ll'it-ss A sts'(icialinn--]iy Teleuraph-Cf>py right XKW YORK, -23. Flames threaten to destroy Thompson, Montana. Six hundred .soldiers, who left Thompson Kalis on Saturday to the tire, are missing, and also ttUO more who are in the white pine forests of Northern Idaho. FLAMES STILL SPREADING. TRAIN CAUGHT IN THE FIRE. NEW YORK. August 23. The flumes nre travelling a mile an hour, and the wind is blowing: a gale. Four hundred and five persons are now missing. They are mostly firelighters and volunteers carrying supplies to tile forest, camps. A Northern Pacific train carrying 42 patients and nineteen Sisters of Charity fleeing irom Wallace was caught in the hurtling forest and the passengers are believed to have perished. It is believed that tlie ineendaries are men who hope the Government will engage them at big wages to fight the flames.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14283, 25 August 1910, Page 5
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149FOREST FIRES. Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14283, 25 August 1910, Page 5
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