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Show HUNDREDS MEET. DEATH F IN RACING EOilEST FIRES ooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooo o o O KAINV WW Y.. Ontario. Sept The known dead: I O Six unidentified residents of Pitt. Minn. O I 'nidentified woman anil boy, homesteaders, unir Till. O Seven uni'lf-nl iCml settlers, on Irack west of Pitt. V O Two entire families, one of eig-ht members, anil one of s.-v- O O ,-n; lived len miles east of Pitt, recently arrived from (Jrafton. O O North Dakota. O JOHN' TTKMiV and live members of his family, recently O O arrived from Fullertoti. Neb.; burnel to death west of O O Spooner. j O One servant of Albert Here of Xpooner. I O Four land speculators from Davenport, la., recently nr- O rived from Heaudette; eatipht by flames while out for home- O O steads on south side of lJ. audette river. O O JOHN SIMMONS of Red Onk. la., timber ranprer; eatipht C O by flames on railroad track while trying to escape t Rainy O O Hiver. O O MATSON BKRfi and five members of his family, burned O O to death on outskirts of Spooner when bouse was destroyed. O O They attempted to weather the sea of flames in a hip stone O O cellar and were suffocated. O O JOHN ROLIN and familv of eipht. from Pitt. O O SKVERT IIAOEN. CEORdF WKAVKIi. CHARLES O O BAKER and PATRICK O'.MARA of Arlington. Minn. O O The missinp include some 2.O0O residents of Beandcltr. O O Spooner and Pitt, some of whom are dead, but 'the most of O O them are safe in Rainy River and the adjacent towns on the O O Canadian side of the line. O O Many homesleadcrs and fanners mv in the brush for a O O distance of 101) miles east and 2) miles south. Of the,c noth- O O jnp can be learned for some time, as searching parties dare O O not penetrate the srnokinp forests. O O O uuuuuuuuvuuuou'-'uu WARROAO. Minn., Oct. 9. rw-au-dette. Sp,,c,r",r. Fitt nnd Gracetown, Minn . were wiped off the map by a forest fire at 9 o'clock this morning Th- bodies of '7, settlors have been located and It Is thought the death rate will be upward of 30". Wagon loads rf bumnn bodies are being brought into the railway station sta-tion at Peaudet'e. It Is reported that many settlers, crazed with grief at the loss of families fam-ilies and property, are roaming the woods and searchlns parties are looking look-ing for the Injured, the dead and the demented One family of nine. ,,ne of seven and one of five, perished on Kri-day Kri-day night. Tornado of Fire At R:H0 p m. Saturday a tornado of fire struck Peandette and Spooner and within three mlnutes after the first I alarm, every building was ablaze j Within half an hour fhey were heaps , of ashes The people of these two town bad Just enough time 10 get , out of their hemes with what they had on their hacks. They were loaded on a passenger train that was slnndlng at the depot nnd taken to Ilalny River. Riv-er. Ontario. The wholo country east of here Is on lire, rtoosevelt. Swift. Williams and Cedar Spur are In great danger All the women and children are being rapidly removed to places of safety. The ' Canadian Northern lion of the holocaust was given by James Ramsey of Spooner. He said: "I wits several miles south of Pcati-dot Pcati-dot to w hen I first heard the roar rf the flames. I started to run fr the town but the fire was coming fast and was very cIosp. I caught up with a man who w-as accompanied by a woman and a baby. They were exhausted ex-hausted and I grabhf-d the baby and fled. Ther was a wall of flames ahead of 11s but the wind shifted and we passed through. I cannot understand under-stand how any of the homesteaders of that section escnped " The flames struct Pitt early In the afternoon and ever thing was destroyed. des-troyed. Previously Beaudettc and Spooner had burned and the people fled across to Rainy River. Many were overtaken as they fled from 1 1 tt and perished The work of the relief carried n by tbe Canadian Northern railroads saved thousands of lives including practically all the Inhabitants of Spooner, Benudette and 1 1tt who escaped es-caped by the special tralus thai the company provided The people here become ho accustomed to the haze In tho sky caused by the burning limber that they could not be made to realize that the situation was becoming be-coming dangerous. The Canadian Northern railway has been running relief trains In ev- railway has stationed trains at every station and Is d"ipg everything in Its , power to relieve the situation. The people of Beaudet'o nnd Spooner and ) the settlers all tliron;h the north central pnrt of the state have lost everything Five thousnnd made homeless and the greater part of them absolutely destitute. Help must reach them in the next day or twn and that In a substantial way as a greater part of them are about half clad. It will be Impossible to get details and the names of the dead and injured injur-ed before tomorrow and some 01" the dead will not be found until spring. It will be impossible to estimate the damace or casualty's until later, but the pioneers of northern Minnesota must have help. The wind shifted tonight and carried car-ried the flames away from Roosevelt and unless it changes acaln tho town will be saved. Cnnadlan Northern trains have been j stalled here since Friday n'ght when a freight train went through a bridge I near Pitt. The crew wns saved and Conductor Monahao walked Into Beaudettc Beau-dettc which he reported as destroyed j only tbe water tank, the school house , walls and the depot standing. Mona-han Mona-han says he walked over dead bodies on the way, but could not say how 1 many. Many settlers look t the woods and have not been beard from since. A mother and live children are known to have been burned. The fires are still ratrntf and the smoke Is dense. Saloons at Roosevelt were closed by the mayor. Dead as far as known are: K AT HER INK JASPER, aged :". domestic for Albert Bcrir. Beaudette. JOHN GOLVIN. aged 4.V homesteader, homestead-er, four miles from Iteaubette. wife and three small children, two girls and a bov. KATHERINE JASPER, fought her would- be rescuers off with a butcher 1 knife and perished in the home of her employer. j RAINY RIVER, Ont. Oct. 9. j While a wind Is sweeping a sea of fire eastward on the south side of the Rainy river at a velocity of fifty will be some fine brfere the los of life Is known even approximately. perl mell to board the waiting train , at Beaudette. to the exclusion of women wo-men and children and refused positively posi-tively to assist in saving property. Au oastbound freicht train went through a burned culvert near Pitt and blocked block-ed the l'ne. The ion us of P!t. Spooner. Wis., and Beondette, were burned Friday night. The fire was heralded by a shower of sparks and burning brands, which swent across the Beaudette river, and the inhabitants had barely time to reach the special train tb it j was wa'tlng before both towns were : on fire at all places. j Sick people, apparently by the score, were carried or assisted to points of j safety. There were five patients lu I Carrlgan's hospital w hich were burned One woman who had given birth to a child at : o'clock the same evening I had to be carried to the office of the , Shevlin Mathieu I umber company; In ' which many people t ok refuge. The bulk of the popul itlon of the towns j of Beaudette and Spooner are housed in Rainy River, and a speclalftraln Is waiting to take the people to some I other point ont in case the fire should get a fresh start. j The town is not yet entirely free from dancer. N The buildings of th.j Shevlin .Math-leu .Math-leu Lumber companv are practically the only structures standing In Spooner. Spoon-er. not a tree, a fence or a foot of sidewalk bring left. j There are not even the heaps of d"- 1 bris that usuallv rerooins after a fire. The prow:rty los In Rainy River, j rteandetfe and Suooner alone includ nig the rat Portage Lumber company's j plant nnd yard at Rainy River and the vard of Ibe Shevlin Mathieu Lumber company nl Spooner. will total about one and one-balf million dollars. It ery direction, stopping ut every olnt where franfJc people were to be found along the track. Several trains have been run through suffocating smoke and over burning bridges, regardless re-gardless of danger to the crews Among the most dramatic incidents was the escape of 2,Ki0 fugitives In a long train of box cars. The throjg of men, women and children awaited the train while their homes burned. Tho first train load steamed across to Rainy River with men bangtug to the sides and to the trucks. Many of those left started running down the tracks and perished. Others s'xvid their grounds and were rescued by a second train. On this side of the river there seemed no danger until late In the afternoon when a small lire which bad been smouldering for several days was fanned to a flame. It was near tbe big Rat Portage Lumber company com-pany mills and the plant and great piles of lumber were roaring In an Instant. Again the terror stricken fugitives fu-gitives lecnn to leave, since It boked as If Rainy River must go the way of Beaudette. Trainmaster Nelson through whose courage hundreds were saved, prepared pre-pared a long line of box cars and tho fugitive scrambled aboard. Many Rainy River citizens prepared to desert de-sert their homes and the train started start-ed east, but the wind turned around and tbe flames on this shlosubsl led At Spo.nor the heaviest property loss is that of the Shvlln Mathfen Lumber Lum-ber cornpanv. Beside the mill they lost fifty billion fee: of mill s'oek valued at twenty dollars per thousand. In Spooner the only houses left standing stand-ing were those around the station and half n dozen on the river. The I problem of carlnc for the refugee Is I a serious one. Eirht hundred were taken to Internat'onal Falls It Is said relief will he supplied bv the t'nlted States in a few hours. In the meantime the Canudian people are feeding them. The women and children chil-dren have found shelier with the families of Canad ans. but a host of men are In box cars. Most of tbe people have lost everything they possessed, pos-sessed, many being almost naked. Tents are badly needed. The most conservative estimates are that at least K'.l people have perished in the WfWids of whom there s no record and possibly never will b. Two thousand thou-sand people are homeless. WINNIPEG. Man.. Oct. 9 War-road. War-road. Minn., Is in great danper from forest fires, which nre praduallv approaching ap-proaching that town. Two special trains left here at f, o'clock over the Canadian Northern railroad with fire I apparatus and hose. Roosevelt Is snfe after an all dav flcht, but the town crowded with refnuee. Tonleht Warrond Is crowd ed w'lh a thousand refugees and fir" is burning nil around It. The fire Is spreading this way and is now only seven miles from Spracue. Man, which Is twenty miles northeat of Warread. A fire also Is coming down from the norh of Snrague. The present forest ronfbfrratlcn the greatest sine the Hlnklev. Minn., horror. 15 years aco. In the confusion It Is hard to estimate tho mlaslng. but an exchange of messages between ref-iipn ref-iipn centers show that over set-, (tiers, principally from around rteau- I de'te, have not been report-d. I General Superintendent CamTnn of the Canadian Northern ra'ld. wire from Ralnv River that bis t!mnte of ! the number of dend i? forty, but iiilfs this number mm be exceeded. Crowds of abl" hrdted men. m tlr ! ,rf,rl- n- r.n v.-in- f. eT tr. rT-f for r 1 miles an hour, the great body of flames passed this section. revenig a calamity that already reaches the proportion of aJi International dis-ju-ter. Sixty corpses have been found In the r,h of the flames and a vast area Is yet to be searcto-d for dead white the towns of Spooner. Beaudette and Pitt have been totally I destroyed with great property loss. With the exception of the destruction destruc-tion of the mills and stork of the Rat j Port.'igo Lumber compjtny at Ralnr River, the principal loss Is confined to tho smith side of th- river and chiefly sustained along the American border. Railroad and Telegraph Cut Off. Railroad uid w ire connections from the west were cut off by a burned district extending AO miles from War-road, War-road, Minn., on .he Canadian Northern North-ern railroad Through this district tho last trains passed last night The road Is open to the south and t-at. however, and relief i u-ing afforded from Fort William. The fire hav been smouldering In that district for months and were started anew by a terrific wind that bgan two days ko. The wind la-crcHed la-crcHed In velocity until It bore a we of flame 1 foot high and u half ml wide. Many settlers to.,lc the railroad trade but most of the wore burned a crisp as the fire leaped this barrier of some ri'.O ards along the clearing: A derrtp |