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Show LisiMBe im Nocoti Pari: FOREST FIRES HAVE LAID WASTE - TO FIFTY MIES OF UMBER BELT , Within an Area of Hundreds of Square Miles, the Woods Have Been a Solid Mass of Fire and Settlers Caught in the Trap Could Not Have Escaped I towns consisted of only a few small buildings. There were buudn-ds of homes destroyed de-stroyed In the territory and, as therr are no roads In the district save for the trails through the bush, It Is feared fear-ed that many lives have been lost that will not be reported for weeks The state of Minnesota Is sparing no expense to check the fire. Tho state first warden is mustering eve y man he con procure and he Is Instruct cd to use every iKolbl means :.t his command regardless of cost. Kv-ery Kv-ery man available Is fighting the fire3 but because of the moss which coers the ground for a der.th of from on to two feet, it seems utmost Impossible Impossi-ble to do anything. If the blazy is fanned a brcez. all efforts to check It Is futile and It Is only whore It is creepln? along the ground that any attempt is made to head It cff. To do this It Is necessary neces-sary 10 dig wide and deep trenches, j Last nlgM the fires were almost on the boundary of Munltoba, Bum-j lng over the Sprague Lumber company's com-pany's timber limits uround ' Sprague, I Minn., the fires are making steady Progress toward the wooded district f southern Manitoba. From the north fli Is coming to Join it. j Late yesterday a special relief train j i arrived at International Falls from f Uemldj'. bearing ptovlsions destined , I for Rainy River and the r.emldjl com-1 pany of Minnesota National (luiid, which will take charge of the distribution distrib-ution of supplies ami the preservation of order. The burned district will j lie placed under martial law. I There are three typnold fever cases among the refugees at International 1 Falls, six men badly burned, and !t seems that everwy family of settl?i" I has from two to ten children. Almost I without exception, they are absolutelv I destitute. The wonu-n have borne upj l under the terrible att ain with wonder-1 ! ful fortitude and all stories from the i fire district are that the women and 1 not the men were the heroes. Yester- day when the refuges fled In panic for the freight ttaln that bore them from Rainy River to International FalU, the men brushed down women j and children, and. In spite of the fact that the ears were choked so that standing room was at a premium, they InsUted on cramming themselves In. M'ss Myra Hurt, a prominent young woman of IJeaudette, stationed herself at the door of one car, kicked every I man In the face wttii her pointed kIioo who attempted to board the car and herself reached out and took bate Ic-s from the arms of m- thers when the train Parted. There were flo babies aboard whose mother' weie b ft behind. Thcv ore being cared for In the hospital here. YVarroad. ML N. XV., Oct. 10. Men who have just returned from Ilau- dette on a railway motor, eav that the list of dead In that district back from the track will reach 150. The mayor of llaudette states that 73 bodh-H aJrcadv have been found and refugees coming In every hour report re-port seeing many bodies In the roads. Winnipeg, Man., OcL 11. It may je that the death list attending the forest for-est fires aloDg tho border will reach l.oOO persons. Probably thin Is too high an estimate, but there la not one familiar with the situation that does Cot place the figure at 20ft and it may reach 500. Kvery sottler in the district hounded hound-ed by the Rainy river and the Ivike of the Woods on the north, to 25 miles south of Fort Raccrf, OnL, and from Spooner and Ftaudette, Minn., on the cast, to Warroad, Minn., on the west, j who Is not accounted for la certain to 1 le dead, a there waa no escape. For & distance of 00 miles from iUudetto and Kalny river west to Durroad, tho woods was a solid mas of fire Sunday. li.iudotte la only a charred remnant. rem-nant. Spooner Is wiped out. Cedar Spur, (iraceton, Pitt, Swift and Roosc- 1 elt were hamlets destroyed . 1 List of Dead. j The known dead are: Julius Bratten. homesteader, wife j and Jl ie children. George eaver, a thomesteadcr. Burbeau, wife nnd six chil- i ci.eu. j Charles Baker. Hy Cllfm. homesteader, wife and five children. Tom Barr, homesteader, living near I Pitt. Mc Cumber, wife and sJ chll- j dien. I Matthew Brcnnan, who lhed near j Rapid River. John Colvin, wife and three chll- j d re u I J. C. O'.Wil. wife and seven chll-Jlell. chll-Jlell. I'ejirl Brown's infant child: Mrs. Brown badly burned Jullii.i Bord, wife and children. C;:rl Lorenzeo, homesteader. V, nlier Fc rbuson. Kdward Rulln, wife and seven children. chil-dren. Nine bodies were seen on the Canadian Cana-dian North'-rn tracks by two men Iik 'it d on horses. I Four unidentified dead In the Root hoiise. west of Pitt. Including an old ' man. two women and a baby. Heroiim of the Women. W'arroad. Minn.. o t. Id. Kstlmate, '( the hiss of life in the forest fires, which started Friday, w ;ped out se-ral se-ral small towns, and are still raging, runt;. all the way fro:n fifty 10 two hundred. The property los will mount well Into the millions. , The fire zone covers an area of V inlb-s In length, from the Gravel P t pur. weKt of W'arroa.l. to Stra-ton. the founh t.itlon east of Rainy Rler ind In width about thirty miles, cov-'rtnc cov-'rtnc all the territory be'ween Red l-o;e and the Lake f the Woods. The l.rtH ulped out the villages of Binl.tt( Spooner. (irace'on. Pitt. Mr.n and Malcolm. The laM tw named places are nuall ceflements In Beltrami county, south of War-road. War-road. The greatest propeitv los occurred at Beaudotte and Spooner. which are practically one communltv, b.inK separate! sep-arate! by x narroW rlier. The othr |