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Show V-.. -. i i , . . ... - iii. . Over 600 Discovered and Many Hundreds Missing. RESCUES TOO LATE Many Deaths Among .Indians-Some Take Refuge in Lake. DULUTH, Minn., OcL 15 More than 600 bodies of victims of the forest for-est fires that raged in this vicinity Saturday and Sunday hSve been recovered. re-covered. It is the opinion of rescue parties that other hundreds are yet to be found. The search of the ruins started today to-day from Moose Lake, Cloquet and Duluth. before daybreak. During the night thoe detailed to clear the roads and rebuild bridges covered miles of territory which has been untouched be rescue workers and searching parties and sent to relief re-lief 'stations many truckloads of badly burned, half starved settlers who were found wandering aimlessly. Many of the bodies brought in today bore indication that death was caused by exposure and lack of food, rather than from burns. Many bodies were! found in the outlying districts with heads and hands swathed in rude ban dages, indicating tnat tneir lives might have been saved had help reached them soon after the fire passed. The first rescue party into the Fond du lac Indian reservation brought reports re-ports of many deaths among the In-diaus. In-diaus. Some, however, saved themselves them-selves by taking refuge in lakes and streams until the fire passed. In the opinion of Adjutant-General W. F. Rhino, who is directing the rescue res-cue work, it will be at least two and possibly four more days before the work of locating and bringing in bodies bod-ies is complete. Parties of veterinarians wore sent from hero today in an effort to save some- of the livestock which is wandering wan-dering through the burned districts. So far as the forest fire is concerned there is little likelihood of further damage. Pockets are reported to be burning today in isolated districts. If the wind holds from the south, fire fighters say, immediate danger is passed but a soaking rain will be required re-quired before the menace is entirely removed. ' Insurance Companies Lose- Heavily CHICAGO, Oct. 15 Property dam-uge dam-uge caused by the forest fires in Minnesota Min-nesota amounts to $75,000,000 and the Insurance losses will total $25,000,000 according to computations made by insurance in-surance men here, it was announced today. Their estimate does not include in-clude the standing timber and the uninsured un-insured property. It' is the consensus In insurance circles that the losses to insurance companies is tho heaviest since the San Francisco fire. oo |
