Tremendous forest fires are sweeping over the mountain regions of Oregon, Idaho, Washington, Nevada, California, and Montana. Men who have fought the flames to save cities have gone down in death. Refugees by thousands are fleeing from the great stretches of flame into the large cities. Half of the town of Wallace, Idaho, of six thousand population, is destroyed at this writing, and the whole may be unless the wind should prove unfavorable to the fire. One hundred and eighty men are reported missing from St. Joe County, Idaho. Whole flocks of sheep and herds of cattle have been wiped out. The safety of several passenger-trains is feared for. Taft and Haugan, Montana, are reported destroyed, and Neihart and Saltese are said to be doomed. Deborgia and St. Regis are threatened. Newport, Washington, is nearly surrounded. Fires are under control in the Walla Walla district, but that is all that can be said. Loyalton, California, is threatened by forest fires. The worst of all is, it is said that these fires are of incendiary origin. What motives can possibly possess persons to set fires in that way it is hard to understand. It would seem as tho such persons were under absolute control of the spirit of the bottomless pit. LATER: The fire continues in the Coeur d'Alene section in Northern Idaho, in unabated fierceness; fifty square miles of white pine forest, said to be the choicest in the United States, is in flames, loss to Federal Government estimated at $10,000,000. One hundred dead are reported to August 24, and the death of 200 more of 300 missing is feared. Federal troops are fighting fire in Northern California. Private property loss is estimated all the way from $20,000,000 to $50,000,000. Nearly 2,000 ranchers are burned out. Lake Tahoe region in California is reported in flames. But from Montana, thank God, comes the news of heavy rains. The loss, terrible as it is, may not be as great as reported. It is difficult to be calm and conservative in sight of, between, and among fires racing along from forty to seventy miles an hour.