Show I CAUGHT IN fiRETRAP AND BURNED TO DEA DEATH Tit TitI Awful AllI il Fate of of Refugees on Relief Train sent to Carry Th Bern m to Place PIc of Safety Santy When len hn Surrounded b by and AU All Escape sc CutOff Cut Off Scenes of Suffering S I 1 Z s 10 I BULLETIN v The known dead are axe r 5 FIREMAN ARTHUR LEE BRAKEMAN WILLIAM BARRETT Alpena MRS ms GEORGE CICERO of at Met Metz and three o children MRS JOHN of 01 Metz Mets and thre children MRS WARD VARD HARRIS of Metz Matz and three children c MR AND MRS JOHN JR Many of ot the tho passengers wore were badly bruised and cut Thoy They are are re straggling straggling gling n into tho the village of Posen Fosen between here and the e scene of ot the toY today to to- day Y ALPENA Mich l Oct 16 According According to reports coming coniing com om oming ing into Alpena today from the north there has been heavy loss of life in the forest fires fires' which yesterday and last last- night llight swept over Isle county The most serious report is to the effect that the relief train went to the village of Metz la last t night from Hawks had bad been beeh burn burned d with a number of tie the re refugees It is impossible as yet to secure either co confirmation or di or d de denial nial of this latter report Wires s north o are all down as a a result of the fires and it is impossible to raise No v sta station io near where the train is reported to l have ave left leftt the e rails and to have been destroyed The reports received d here say y that after the relief train had been loaded with people and goods at Metr Mett it started north narth but was unable to get et further than Hawks Then the train tram was waa h headed ded south for for- Alpena The report report re reo re- re port says that at station the tho fire firc had burned through a number of af railroad tics tic's weakening tho the track and that the rails spread derailing the relief re reo re- re li lief f train which was then destroyed by fire It is not nat yet positively known what became of if the tho people reported to tobe tobe be on an the tho train but the reports which have filtered in here say they are be be- lived to hav hay ben burned to death Engineer En En- Foster and Fireman Lee took I refu refuge c in a water ater tank where they stayed until tho the water beam so 50 hot bot that they had to leave lea the tho tank and run for far their lives They are arc r reported ported badly but not seriously burned Atrain A A. train left hero bero earl early this m morning carrine car carrying carrying car car- rine physicians bound hound for the north narth The fires in the immediate immediato neighborhood neighborhood neighbor neighbor- hood of af Alpena have havo receded today taday and I this city is is' is isnow now out aut of af danger It is is feared that there has been much loss losso lossI o of af life in outlying o. o hamlets and farms I throughout P Isle c country |