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T LOST LIKELY DEAF DEAD Two Towns Wiped Out Scores of o Farmhouses Farm Farm- arm I houses Burned Millions of o T r Dollars Damage r RELIEF TRAIN IS 18 DESTROYED BY DY Y FLAMES FLAMES r. r t Many Unfortunates in Northern Michigan F Forest crest Fires Struggle Struggle f gle Into Neighboring Villages Clothing Torn From l Their Backs Their Bo Bodies dies Seared and Blackened Blackened Blackened Black- Black ened and Lungs Choked With Smoke at Detroit Mich Oct Twenty one 16 Twenty one known dead with n scores of others missing and snit probably dead a dozen dozell more N l ho escaped with life but were badly burned two small towns I 1 wiped out others in imminent many luany Ill danger scores of fart farm n de- de houses burned Mullions millions of dollars worth of property destroyed de de- i. i all aB all this is is t today's days record of the forest fires flies in northern north north- 1 ern ciu Michigan t J That greater destruction of property will follow and that j many more lives undoubtedly have been lost is practically j certain Those who were known to be dead were all an residents of Metz etz township Presque Island county in In the northeastern I part of the lower peninsula Fifteen of them were were burned to death when a relief train carrying currying refugees from the village villager r ff f Metz was derailed right i in the ho center of the tho hell boll of tho the JIo dames warnes n n J if Total J lp l I Nelz-aie Nelz tz wave Ave de Th ore are John John and his ita wife an aged couple whoso 7 homo home was within w a n few rods rolls of ot tho spot where tho Ill fated relict relief train became a t holocaust and Henry Kempf his wife wite and andI their chil dren Another son Is missing and probably was In Incinerated also though his bones were not found with tho those o oot of ot his parents and brother and sister II Fight ht Hard for Life I That many more moro of tho the Inha Inhabitants of ot Metz Dietz died In the hopeless endeavor to light fight their WR way through the roaring flames and denso smoke which surrounded surrounded sur sur- rounded them on ever every side seems sure surd Some of those who managed to tonet net get ct through say the tho fi c cars of ot tho the relief train were filled with men men women women wo WOe wo- wo men and children and their household goods Fifteen bodies were found in tho the charred remnants of or tho the burned cars Perhaps a score of ot the men have o straggled sled Into Posen a village a n few tew miles mUes awa away the clothing burned from their backs their bodies seared scared and antI blackened th their lr lungs luns choked with smoke Engineer Fosters Foster's face taco was waa wasso I so o terribly burned In tho awful flight through tho the fire that ho was blinded literally burned bunted out and Conductor Conductor Con Con- his c eyes eves cs ductor Is In little better h shape l he to save sate The anxiety of tho the villagers magers their household hou goods probably cost number tho the lives of many of or their three box cars the relief train and two steel gondola cars reached Metz last night If It th the villagers ha had clambered a aboard at once they mIght havo have o gotten out Dut But many man of them their possessions pos pos- Insisted on saving some ome of Qt sessions and tho train tram was delayed lUgh 11 Walls o of Two miles mlles south of Metz Dieu Engineer Fo Foster ter saw hl high h walls of ot flame on l both oth sides 5 of ot the track A crossing there lumber yard had harl been utilized as aa a and cedar trees had been piled In Jn thousands near the track Thc These c were all al The on fire only hope n was a 9 a bold old dash as and d tho the throttle the engineer and ho Jerked train rocked forward open In tho the center of or the roaring J But ut right the tho heat flames tho the rails loosened loo ened b by apart and tho the train Jolted ov over r rth Jhc pread and then came to a stop th the roadbed Continued on e. e SCORES OF OTHERS I LOST LIKELY DEAD 1 Irom In One Inc In an ill Im Instant tant the train was on lire fire Men There Thereas was as no thought of 01 rescue r. r anti and an leaped from the tho blazing cars shielding their t dashed up the track faces tram from the blaze Some of oC them others did Ull not got through Many lany who failed to Of Or the fifteen en children anti anil three the cars eight were vere Konieczny hi lib his John were yere women wom n. n wife le It noel and three children the y l' l n. n to together ether in that died ears three years only L Hordie Emma r mma horrible trap trap- Mrs 1 and her three children the tho oldest 9 months month q tit eight youngest th the years cars ars and so 80 did suffered buffered the same fate two I L Cicero an and her two Mrs Geor George e I babies bable c In lii Water Tank Fireman Arthur Leo Lee sought sO refuge locomotive water tank of the thc In the found there Ills His body bod Ills JIll body bo was had been boiled holled alive Brakeman n Barrett was burned to death eath City traveling tray trav n a Bear R. 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S Richardson of or those who escaped es es- es- es was one cling eling man lie He said saul When the train i horror an and shriek of oC left the track a from from tho poor women up and ond fear wept children Hemmed In by tin th I many of the tho husbands S left loft b behind behind be be- hind lames flames ut at Metz Mets to fight the flames tin tin- li I of them tried to Some were ere trapped I of them though seemed seemed seem seem- ct out Most 1 get stupefied by the terror of ot it i an-i I Ithe ec ed niovi moving the cars the they sat l t In to roast them flames llames and allowed the u. u I 1 did not wait walt to see Z c me tue un rest resi Boston Doston another man and m m- m e Geor George the down together self seU started out track running crawling walking sometimes warding or off ciT the flames that licked out at nt us Wo Vo finally anally reached reache Posen in safety though h we wo were all allmore I Imon more mon or less burned Several other I Imen men started out at the same sam time Ume wo WI of or them reached reache Posen did but few I only con con- What became of or them can jecture I A relief train sent out from Alpena this morning brought the charred bodies of or the victims back to Alpena They were 1 recognizable only b by trinkets they wore Family Gorb Gots to I t th The Kempf family fatally went to death after aCter n a gallant tallant tight fight to save tin Ir homo All day yesterday they fought the flames flame man many times beating thom then brick back but Jut at last the barn born taught raught tire fire nr then tho the house Hemmed In as aM a athey t fires there the was th they were b by tho tore forest of the father rather bodies no ei cap A The B and ll mother mothr and ond two children worn were I found today Tho The third child ChiM Is m los n ing Sixty people on nn n a south bound Jound train from rom spent n a n night of horror at All AU nl night ht they watched the flames roaring all around th thorn them m. but by morning the time track was aIS aI'S doOr clear and th they escaped The Th forest fires s orf nrc growing wor worse e enil nil all over Northern Michigan an Seven oven ven of or Sault aull Ste te villages In th the Marie battled all day da with the th names name and anti lh their lr rate I is still undecided The fire reached the city eU limits limit of ot Sault Ste Morie today but so Co o tar far It has haM not notI I leaped aped that boundary a Tlc licit l V U. U Navigation a on In n the th upper lake lalu Is ts practically U tied d up Dense clouds of ot blow blowout out over O the water and rear four to attempt to make malte a way tray through the smoke The Tho copper district In th the tue Upper per Peninsula Is all ablaze Forest Foret tires tire 31 are roaring marine all aU through that region and It Is ore co covered by Jy a pall of or smoke I J sO 10 o thick that at tI It noun nuon n could t n i I see objects a n few yards u v u WY i threatened and lIH Many 1 villages ar lIES are calls for help hel have b been n coming into int F. F canabo Hughlon M nominee and other large lace towns town tO for or two days Most ln t tot of those towns town of ot the fire apparatus ha has holl been sent to th hc al aid of thes vII vII- In the copper inges Mining camps country and lumber camps In tn the timber tim tim- her ber regions ar are arc b by scores l' List ur of Heart n dead In wreck William ViI Wil I List of known liam Itam Barrett Arthur Left Lee fireman Alp Alpena na Jon Jo-in wife Hirer children Mr Mrs tr Kr nl r ny George Cicero two IWO children Mr Mrs Emma Hardies three lbs children children- one nn UK- UK unidentified II man all these except trainmen residents of Mett Metz John wife Henry l Kempf wire wife w Ife two tw o children t farmerS farmer near hear Mel Mel- |