Ogden Daily Standard | 1910-05-13 | Page 1 | Saved from the Fires

SAVED ' Members of a Family Surrounded by a Burning Forest Grand Marais. Mini , May 13. John B. Klving and his wile, together with their month-old baby and their six other children, the eldest of whom U fifteen yours old. reached here hist nii;ht in an almost famished condition lifter a thirty-mile trip through the forest between here and Upper Brule lake. It took them five days to cover the distance and they were alternaie-lv alternaie-lv almost burned a 'id frozen to death Two of the smaller children were saved from drowning iu the swift current cur-rent f.f Brule river by the family's Newfoundland dog. When Klving and his family wero routed from their beds Sunday morning morn-ing by advancing fotest Hies, they heat a hasty retreat with a small stock of provisions. After tramping for three days In an effort to escape from the burning timber, they found themselves entirely surrounded by firetr Klving, with his liaiidax cut Hmb3 of the trees on the bank of the Brule river, sought a favorable place In ' the stream and stationed himself and his family neck deep in water, underneath un-derneath a wet screen of underbrush. , which they saturated from tim to j time to time until the tire burned out.