Show HUNDREDS PERISH IN FOREST FIRES FLAMES RAGE UNCKECKED IN RICH LUMBER REGION OF MINNESOTA Three Towns Destroyed While Fleeing Flee-ing Settlers Are Caught In Literal Furnace of Fire Thousands of Settlers Made Homeless Washington Forester Graves on Tuesday received the following telegraphic tele-graphic report from Supervisor Mar hall ot the forest service at Cass Lake concerning tho forest fire sit uatlon tin Minnesota Reports today give 1000 burned and missing The area burned Is estimated esti-mated jo be 2500 square miles Fire till burning Warroad MInnThe greatest catastrophe tastrophe that Minnesota has experienced experi-enced in fifteen years took place Fri dal night and Saturday when tho whole MinnesotaManitoba boundary country was swept by fire The death list Is a long one and constantly rowing while thousands are homeless home-less and tho monetary loss Is heavy The towns of Pitt Spooner Wis end Beaudette were burned Friday night The fire was heralded by a aticfwer of sparks and burning brands which swept across the Beaudette river and the Inhabitants had barely time to reach the special train that was waiting before both towns were on fire at all places The property loss In Rainy River Beaudette and Spooner alone Includ ng the Rat Portage Lumber com panys plant and yard at Rainy River and the yard of the Shevlln Mathieu Lumber company at Spooner will total to-tal about one and a half million dollars dol-lars It wlj btf some time before the lossof llfA fsT known even approxt m m tiro Itfs reported UfaT riianysettlers crazed with grief at the loss of faml lies and property are roaming the woods and searching parties are look ng for the Injured the dead and the demented One family of cine one of seven and one of five perished on Friday Fri-day night Several Rapid River homesteaders got into root cellars and saved their Ilves The Soronson family of nine remained in the center of their big clearing and escaped Swan Olson wife and three children escaped in a rpothouse as did the family of Theodore Theo-dore Stebakken The burned area is at least thirty six miles wide and many of the set tiers are new to tho country Much of this land was thrown open to homestead home-stead entry this summer and many of the settlers have gone In far beyond the roads where they had only a path to reach their place It may be months before they are discovered and genie I of them may never be found |