Show FOII1S11 T FIRE AR A RAGiNG 1tj 11 Homes Abandoned a Take Refuge in Marshes HUNDREDS ANXIOU AWAITING EVERY REASON TO EEL DEATHS HAVE RES heat and SnioUe Unliearr Ilaees Many Miles Aw DurniitK Towns Bnu Standstill People Pa and Fear Destmctloi thins Railway Train Loss Can Not Ye Gnesaed At St Paul Sept IBut m have thus fa been recer forest fires in northern M Wisconsin but enough i state that the fires are furiously than at any jj i this year t The wires between here went down at 3 p in am ful whether any wire wil night There is one verj railroad wire still working it 1 has yet come oyer it widespread At Duluth and Superb smoke was so dense that work difficult while th < scarcely endurable Railroad men reported t to see as fa a a liundre business Is at a standstill Wild reports of fires are i has been extremely dl tain any news that Is defi Along the Great Northt age is enormous A spec rying fire fighters was se Cloud this afternoon in i call for help from Milaca At Foley ten miles fro the fires were met the t vicinity burning furious country to the south i Sridgman station was 0 < high wind swept the fire pines crashing down in underbrush as the flames < The people are panic fear the destruction of evi St Cloud fire fighters sav over the Run river neai rver The large lumber mills Foley Brothers Cuthr soaked down with pumps that they may be saved deaf and dumb child of west of Bridgeman has bE < death August Jackson was si fires on the Bloomburg f death seems certain I is impossible for th reach Mflaca and people been driven from their hE < anxiously awaiting succo Kennet McLain a i Bridgeman lost all he pos of Pine City the fires art ously sweeping everything Settlers have abandoned and taken refuge in the the heat and smoke is su The St Paul Dulutl limited is laid up there v through to Duluth Sevei at work repairing burnec get trains through Ther nunication with Hinckle feared that town is in ir J1 R J11UllSLi 1UllSLi lid People the SLY J SUCCOR IEYE MA7VY iULTED ililc in Many ay From the mess at 11 nicStrlcUcn a of Every H JHoeUadcd t I Even Be eagre reports led from the tlnnesota and I is known to raging more irevious time tme and Duluth i i ds doubt 11 be had all r roundabout but no news rhe fires are r today the people foundS found-S heat wafe heir inability J si yards and current and flicult to ob nite rn the dam ial train carat car-at out of St response to a m S1 Cloud mber In that sly All the and east of 1 fire and a before i tall the burning ito into them le tricken and erything The ed the bridge r Bridgeman and yards of ie are being in the hope The young Mrs Ellison en burned to arrounded by arm and his e trains t i there have mes and are r farmer near sessed North i raging fun r before them their homes marshes and ffoca ting i northbound waiting to get ral crews are I culverts toe to-e Is no com nminent y and it dan is gerAt midnight the wind had died down at Pine City and hope has Increased I was learned at a late hour tonight from officials of the Omaha road that the town of Baronette Wis had been wiped out News from railroad sources Is very fragmentary and nothing more can be learned All wires from Duluth West Superior and the west in general are dow at 130 a m Sunday with little prospect of being patched up tonight to-night Bashaw Iltirncd Out Rice Lake Wis Sept 1 Terrible forest fires are raging in this vicinity I and the town of Bashaw fifteen miles north of here is entirely wiped out j Bridges are partially burned and telegraphic I tele-graphic connection is utterly cut off from the north The noon passenger train leaving here at 1030 reached > Bashaw but had to return picking up i what people they could find Some of I them were nearly overcome with the heat and smoke A party was sent out I from here by special train and found j one man half crazed wandering around t in search of his family I is thought I they are burned to death as no trace can be found A Village Buriiiiisr Boscobel Wis Sept 1The village of Muscoda Grant county is burning A special train with fire apparatus has left for the scene Lumber Yards Burned Chippewa Falls Wis Sep 1A report re-port reached this city tonight that Marengo Ashland county had been completely destroyed by fire rendering 200 families homeless The Spencer Lumber companys yards containing 3000000 feet of lumber lum-ber at Spencer were also burned this afternoon The forest fires have taken a fresh start and are dangerously danger-ously near this city Several towns within a radius of 100 miles are in imminent Im-minent danger of being wiped out The only fatality today is the burning burn-ing of Adolph Clotner while endeavoring endeavor-ing to save his home The devastating devastat-ing volume of flames that have been sweeping toward the town of Bashawa on the Chicago St Paul Minneapolis Omaha only forty miles from this city came up to the town limits this afternoon and reports are to the effect that this town is doomed despite the i efforts of the townspeople P Clou tier was cremed while trying to save his home md its contents Near Fitield aome of the people have become discouraged fighting the flames and left after burying their effects In holes in the ground The fires are reported re-ported to be within half a mile of the village of Cartwrlght and at Cadott ten miles distant from here the people peo-ple will not go to bed tonight as a change in the wind would drive the devastating flames through that town and wipe it out Ehht en Cars Burned Arcadia Wis Sep 1A bridge burn ed two miles above the city this evening even-ing A west bound freight ran into the bridge and eighteen cars were burned some loaded with stock Moire Sufferers Marquette Mich Sept 1Heayy forest fires are burning to the southwest south-west of Ishpeming around Republic and on towards Iron Mountains Many homesteaders are doubtless burned out Thore are reports that Sidnaw Is cleaned out and that Trout Creek and Ewing are in great danger These reports re-ports cannot now be verified as the wires aie down rlieil Out of Evtatciicc Cumberland Wis Sept 1Brrot with 500 population eight mhos north ofhere and Granite Lake a smali own four miles north of here were both completely wiped out of existence this afternoon by fire The people barely escaped with their lives Four fami > v lies are still missing and it is thought they may have perished in the flames Apiialin and Heartrending Pine City Minn Sept Hipckley Minn is burned to ashes Many people peo-ple lost their lives in the fire The balance bal-ance are homeless ahd destitute The little town of Mission Creek is entirely wiped out Engineer John Root is Engn probably fatally burned The situation situa-tion the extreme is appalling and heartrending in |