Fierce Flames

Helena, M. T., Sept 10.- Information has just been received here that one of the fiercest forest tires yet reported is raging in the St. Regis district in Missoula County, on the Cokely ranch. Cokely and the hostess of the ranch mounted horsei and barely eeeaped with thelr lives to the river, less than a quarter of a mile away, and reached the water after having the elothes nearly all burned from their bodiea A Swedish prospector and hls horse peri6hed in the Hames. J. C. Veeder, who has returned from the St. Regis country, Bays he feels certain that several men perished in the conflagration higher up in the mountaina