| Summary: | Wallace Blaze Boils Up Smoke: City Safe From Forest Fire, But District To North Is Endangered. Wallace Blaze Boils Up Smoke: City Safe From Forest Fire, But District To North Is Endangered. WALLACE, Idaho, Aug. 10.—Starting along the road in Nine Mile canyon a mile north of Wallace and half mile south of the city's cemetery, a forest blaze tonight raced several miles to the ridge on the west side of the canyon within half an hour. It gave Wallace its worst fire scare since the disastrous conflagration of 1910. At 9 o'clock tonight the fire burning along the ridge but making little progress. It was being battled by a crew of nearly 100 men. Fifty CCC enrollees were rushed to Wallace from a camp 20 miles north. Others are in readiness for duty in the morning, if needed. Huge pillars of smoke were still pouring over the hillside north of Wallace at 10 o'clock tonight and the sky showed a bright red glow. Foresters said there is little danger to Wallace as the adjacent hillside has little heavy timber but that the blaze is a real menace to the Nine Mile canyon district, should a high wind arise. It is in heavy timber. Highway patrolmen are turning all cars away from the fire zone to avoid interference with the work of fire fighters and prevent traffic congestion. MERRITT FIRE HELD. WENATCHEE, Wash., Aug. 10.-After losing a half mile of fire trench when the Round mountain fire near Merritt crowned over their heads yesterday, more than 400 fire fighters had the blaze under control again today. Supervisor Gilbert D. Brown of the Wenatchee national forest, reporting from the fire line, declared that danger still existed because of wind and low humidity. He estimated the area burned at 300 acres. The fire was man-caused, possibly of incendiary origin, he said. CLEARWATER FLAMES FOUGHT. MISSOULA, Mont., Aug. 10.-Eight hundred fifty men were battling a backwoods forest fire that had covered more than 700 acres of private timber lands in the white pine belt in Clearwater county in northern Idaho, today. It was burning at the head of Beaver creek, north of the Oxford ranger station, mostly on Clearwater Timber Protective association lands. RESERVATION WOODS SOAKED. WILBUR, Wash., Aug. 10.-A dust storn hit this district this afternoon, but rain fell on the Indian reservation today, soaking timber, underbrush and grass. PROTECTIVE AREA CLOSED. SANDPOINT, Idaho, Aug. 10.-Because of excessive dryness, Warden M. Van Dyke of the Pend Oreille Timber Protective association said today that all areas supervised by the association had been closed to all entry. A. N. Cochrell, assistant supervisor of the Kaniksu national forest, said that the forest service would not close its areas unless fires were started by carelessness of persons. MAN SEARED BY FLAMES. ST. JOHN, Wash., Aug. 10.-A field fire is raging six miles west of here, which has consumed a combine harvester and undetermined acres of wheat in the sack and standing. Dwight Meader was severely burned trying to save a harvester.
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