TWO TOWNS SWEPT BY MONTANA FLOOD; Big Boston Smelter at Great Falls Is Saved by Blowing Up a Dam. SEVERAL LIVES ARE LOST Breaking of Hauser Lake Dam Sent Torrents Down Missouri River -- Couriers ...

HELENA, Mont. — The pilot of an Air Tractor 802 plane, loaned to the U.S. Forest Service from Idaho to fight the Horse Gulch Fire, died Wednesday after crashing into Hauser Lake. The pontoon ...