Show SCORES LOSE LIVES IN FOREST FIRES FLAMES RAGE IN N RICH LUMBER REGION OF MINNESOTA three towns destroyed white while fleeing ng settlers are aie caught in literal furnace of fire thousands of settlers made homeless carroad warroad War road the greatest catastrophe ta that minnesota ban bag experienced in fifteen years took place friday night and saturday when the whole hole minnesota manitoba boundary country was swept b by y fire the death list is a long one and constantly growing while thousands are homeless and the monetary loss la is heavy the he number of deaths la is estimated from to almost entirely among settlers around the towns of De Benu audette dette pitt roosevelt and graceton this estimate may be too small the flames still rage unchecked ind and scenes 0 ol 01 honor borror are reported from every point crowds of able bodied men mostly workmen with no one to care for ran pell avil to board the waiting train at Deau beaudette detto to the exclusion of 0 women and children and refused positively to assist in saving property an eastbound east eat bound freight train went through a burned culvert near pitt and blocked the line the towns of pitt spooner wa and beaudette were burned friday night the fire was heralded by a shower of sparks and burning brands which swept across the beaudette audette De river and tile the inhabitants had barely time to reach the special train that was waiting before both towns owns were on fire at all places the property los loss in rainy river beaudette and spooner alone include ng the rat portage lumber com coin banys plant and yard at rainy and the yard of the shevlin mathieu lumber company at spooner will total about one and a halt million dollars it will be some time the loss 1089 of life Is known even approximately wagon loads of human bodies aro are being brought into the railway station at De beaudette audette it Is reported that many settlers crazed with grief at the loss of daml lies kea and property are roaming tho the and searching parti whre look ing for the injured the dead and tho the demented one family of nine one of seven and one of five perished on friday night at B p m saturday a tornado of fire struck beaudette Beau detto and spooner and within three minutes after the first alarm every building was ablaze within half an hour they were neaps heaps of ashes the people of these two towns had just enough time to get out of their homes with what they had on an their backs they were loaded on a passenger train that was standing at the depot and taken to rainy river ont it Is feared that many settlers in isolated districts were caught in the tha flames and perished no news can be had of 0 many settlers and it Is probable that only the charred bodies of hundreds will be found |