| Show FORES OREST FIRE FIE I j RELIEF HE TRAIN 4 One Bound for Metz Mich to Aid Sufferers Was Burned Bu ned Up i SEVENTEEN PERSONS DEAD T Sixteen Skeletons Found in f Burned Wreck of a It Gondola Car I Details Arc nto longer h and lay Iy Have 1 II ele f 10 or on I 1 00 OO on I I Train il Mich Oct Or Iff Nearly ii it 1 tt of oC refugees from the tile i village of oC Motz letz 2 mies north of this city on tho Detroit rall 1111 m wu are known Ino to it have been heen burned burnell to death leath between Mob tet et and anel tine the tie village r f I of or last Jact when Ihl relict train wac 1 by hy l a 1 i burned out lOt cut cul culvert nl I ji vert elt eit Delaware Detal nue anti and alt reports uru PO CoOling in HI fly 1 slowly us lie lS a 1 result of f tine the destruction of or wires plies poles by I tho Ow n fI f Jt tires Ils hint but lut nc it I wui WU tl t known k lown from at ut noon that t 1 15 1 burned skulls have hat been In lu Inthe hI 1 the tilt ruins of id 01 the ul cd Cd lolief tian and that the tine wn IH horned burned to toden t death den tin In iii thin Iho vator tank of oJ his hl lIve Ile hu he h hud hind taken refU 3 It Is I nut nol defInitely known many l l 15 ero Ie C aboard the relief train when It night nut t i IC t er ci 11 tiny any an of oC tile thu th except tho the 1 who have arrived at tnt Posen with Ith their thel liVes les The Information tion 1 from flOI hll ut tt noon lold folt only olly that the th skulls had 1111 been I found In II II tine the wreck and that Conductor It n nod and 1 nd Engineer Foster Fu te escaped ll from loin lom thoi tle I he 1 nun In lag teal ii by hy erasi tog along along tho on 01 their hands IU s and with the tho tl on Ott 01 either side I I Og Is la reported to tl be he blind from his hilt hl burns hUn hut hilt Posit Foster or is i understood to io iobe he be not a a t seriously se elloul injured In ii ii ul U leti d f i Ii THE TilE FOREST FOil 1 FI ES j There are arc vague Iague rumors also that others escaped with wih thu tue two tw trainmen t hut hi up to noon they Cpu can 11 neither n I bu be i t confirmed COt I ed nor denied 1 i The fires Ire above ahoo in iii f Pre Isle daInty county d enly t again yesterday utter eel it was its thought tho that tIne the heavy h ay rains early earl l r I in the mouth month had hInd extinguished th PV lf They Thoy spread shrOud rapidly nod and were Iere soon f U menacing a number of towns along tilt thu th lints Int o of the tho th Detroit Mackinac railway r l The rhe ln o of Met Mett with inhabit was one of ot thorn th l Its I It situation r lC 1 l I ge u Mist night i l rue t fd i sent t f In a I relief relt train aln of box hox bo cars carp carr House Hotin Household P hold goods and stoid tOe stock wore were wore lonii ioel loa ed in II some sonic of oC the cars Cals and people ft f j flied filled tl d the others How many were tak tal taken en Il ii aboard Is not lInt known mown nor O Is hi It i 11 i f P known whether city any of the th I front from outlying points had come como into I Metz refuge from the tho Hames Hame i 1 Jf Jr f this til is I the tile case cuse thOrn there may have havo hem i 1 more 10 people p ope on tho tilo wrecked relief twin it than the tIle inhabitants of oC the th little village could have luave furnished TRAIN PULLS I OUT 1 ll its load loa of uC frightened men 1100 Z women and Pad children the tho th train trin pulled j I unit out of tetz about midnight It is un on understood I and started l for tor the tile north There here lames Humus along the track on K both sideband ldes eS and the tilO of tho woods wood roso above the sound of oC the en on engine J gine The train trin proceeded toward the tue north porth as far til as 05 Hawks about half way a between lIetz letz and I le rg There Thoe r 1 1 the tho ames were lere sweeping across tho thu J track so o fiercely l as ao ti to inake malie further progress in that direction f The train was immediately headed to toward ward Id the th south and Alpena TIne Tho ho feces Jj sity It for fou returning again into the tile flame lall J I ridden section front from which they the haul had t Leon bC n fleeing feeing increased cc the tile terror terrO of f t the aboard tho tine 1 fa t l II i extemporized relief train trin As 1 thoy M f were rushing tho the fire fre and Ld Lilt 1 smoke the train struck a culvert which 1 hud been heen bullIed through It I left loft the th N I hils rails mule mid an piled pled into the the ti ditch accord tog n to tD the meager mcger reports received i through the two trainmen who WIlO escaped p SCENES OP OF OF HORROR f of or horror must moat have h hf followed f foli ll il wd d vl en the tho n 1 f U 1 themselves th ls ls amid the fri tire from froni which had been beo Den 1 f are pot pet yet ct known from thu tho 1 lips 11 vC df f any aily alY survivor Conductor Condu tO Kin 1 rIhl 10 and nd I Poster Foster managed to crawl Into Pose Posen early this morning on Oil their hands and knees both badly haly I I burned Is I reported to I k blinded by b his hums burns No Xo story sto has Ji boon been obtained from them yet yet owing to lack of af f wires Irus Only the to bare report that they are He alive alle and amt in the thc village Ilage 11 has lInus come out JI 1 n From Fr l about noon camo rI tile the first positive confirmation of the tho fato fute of at least part par of tile thu trains p pa t It I was waR but hut a n brief statement I j It said alt that 15 H l burned skulls had har been t found Cound In tho ruins of a gondola gondola car mr which made mad up U port pt of the th train trin and if that the tilt body bod of Fireman Lee L had won Iwen 1 found round in the water tank of of the thc engine f ho had sought refuge and had tl P perished perish ell The he repot also 1110 said ald that Mrs t 1 Cicero of ot Metz and throe tn of her how chili m dren were among the dead That is alt all t j 1 which the anxious newspaper mon menu and n 1 railroad officials ablo able Mu were to get iet j added add grimly that most mo t of the tl skulI skulls were thought to bo b those of oC f t r I l women lomen and children iii PATE FATE I ij J JIres Wires Ires are down In many loamy places 5 through the th country and It may be set sev several se J eral hours before beCot anything additional tail Ian be learned from rom Noth Nothing oth ii ing has yet yOt t come from the north as a to i itlie the fato fiuta of ot the village of or Metz retz It is 0 j thought to be more mOle than possible that there hone was wa loss ios of oC life liCe there titer If 11 th 1 flames have hae completed the tho worK of de do destruction j which hind had begun when the thelast II last report was received It Is in thought It possible that thoro tony may ma have havO been only women and aud children and helpless per 11 f t Hons aboard the train 1 which met such a tL fate fato and A that some a lIno at lit least of tho the strong men of oJ 11 the hamlet may ma hll stayed behind to fight for their homes f JI THE rilE LOSS OF LIFE 1 Detroit Oct IB 16 A report received re in lit f tills till city ell aL at 11 a 1 Ill m says it Is report reported lif ed d at East Ell t Taw l that tho tb loss of o lire life n by Iy b the tile burning of or the etz relief olief train may ma reach j jA A dispatch to the Journal from MI II about 30 O 0 miles north ot ret states that hat 17 I people were burned to tn 1 death d ci with thu Meth relief train and amt t I toil c been Ji ij in II the tJi J burned b d wreck wr ck of ot 1 Jt gondola sol lol par ar Which v leh mad up pact Iatt p tt of thc relief r ll train j dispatcher d i g oj ot o the tho Detroit it b i t tl l Ii i iI I r I if jr |
