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Show 'gradually thinning as the trains are currying them rust and south. Five doctors, tlfteen deputy sheriffs sher-iffs and thirty men of the state militia mi-litia are here. ST. FRANCIS. Ontario. Oct. !. Foret fires threaten International Falls. Several fires have been burning burn-ing near the town tor lit, hours, and a high wind, might sweep them Into the city. Fifty run worked all lat night but were unable to extinguish the fires. This morning Mayor Herg wired the. governor of Minnesota for military aid. ooooooooooooooo o o O THE DEAD; ' O O O O RAINY RIVER. Oct. 1 A re- O O vlned list i.f dead around Mean- O O detie follows: .0 O Edward Roulien, wife and set- O C en children. O O Droten family, seven children, O O father and mother. O O Sidney G.iflln and family, moth- O O er, father and three children. O O Sarah Inrn, child aged about O O H. found In school yard near O O Spooner. O O Mathieu Herge. wife and five O O children. o O Kate Jasmer, domestic lor AI- O O bert Herg. o O Alex Wattx. nephew of Judge O O Wutfs of Crookston. O O Mark Warman. married. O O O ooooooooooooooooo o SURVIVOR TELLS STORY. O o o O Dl'LlTII. -Minn.. Oct. 10. After l.eintr licnnn.-.I in by lire O O on nearly every siile, ami finally making his esenpe from the O railway station with an unconscious woman suf ferine; from O O typhoid fever in his anus, Frank Watson of lieatulclte lives O to tell the story. He arrived here late today, hringiiif: the O O typhoid patieut with him. O "Everything was confusion." he said. O O "Families heeaine separated in the rush. Women shrieked O O jtrnl children cried. It was every body for himself, and the O O mad rush for a place of safety was like a stampede. O O ''Women with babies in their arms sank to the pronnd and 'O O were trampled under foot. Some held out their babies and O C asked that they be taken to u place of safety, knowing they O O were unequal to the task and' resisnin themselves to the O O fate the fire would biinjr. O O "Men, driven half crazy by the knowledge that their fam- O O ilies have been lost, ran wildly about, asking for their rela- O O lives. Now and then some one would o back to the burning O C district, swearing lo save his family or perish. O O "Men tryinp to et back to the flames fought back those O O who tried to restrain Ihein. " O O "Those who pot away wenl into the billows of the tire and O C are numbered union"; the dead.' O C O owners at the approach of the flames fled to safety. Accompanying the horses were hundreds hun-dreds of deer, caribou and moose, and in truth the cattle fearlessly lay down with the bears, wildcats and timber wolves. They-Tvere all flying from a common enemy. Stood Five Hours in River. Oscar Johnson, his wife and three ; children stood five hours In the Beau-dette Beau-dette river durking their heads when the heat became too Intense They .say the water In the river was lieat-t lieat-t ed to an uncomfortable temperature, and that steam rose from the surface. sur-face. I When they escaped it was as through a furnace of dying ronls, with here and there a blaze nachrbg out for what It might destroy. Mrs. K. C. Kagson, aged , a pioneer, pio-neer, who stood in a freight car with her granddaughter in her arms, says she couuted nine bodies along the railway. WAItROAD, Minn., Oct. 10 War-road War-road has been saved from destruction destruc-tion after three days and nights of tirelesi el fort. With the assistance of two Hie engines from Winnipeg and by backfiring the threatening flames were subdued. A train load of refugees from Long-worth Long-worth arrived tonight and reported that town threatened with destruction. destruc-tion. It has bec.i definitely established establish-ed that lu!i persons perished near Spooner and Iteaudettc, and that many bodies have been recovered. About C'.M) rctugoes are now here. The situation here is not serious The people or Warroad will be able lo take care of the refugees for at at least a week. Both the Canadian Northern and the Great Northern have given free transportation out of the lire .one to all who have applied, ap-plied, j A timber dealer named Russell arrived ar-rived tonight from Cedar Spur with the news that that town and Williams, Wil-liams, as well as Kooscveit, had been saved and as far as he could learn there was no loss of lite in that vicinity. vi-cinity. Ifussell stated that the wholrv country coun-try south of tlu- border to the large. Muskeg. II miles below, had been swept clean, but th,j spread of the flames south between Warroad and Giateton had been slow and the settlers set-tlers were able to .-scape. Mayoi Moodv this afternoon was r:o:lord that SPmiiiij had been raised by the business men of Crookston to aid the refugees. A telegram was received re-ceived lroiu Chisholm sending 500 lelief uioiiev. Ma yor Moodv says no relief Is nec- I essary here At 7 o'clock tonight the lelief train sent to Salol on the Great Northern reached Warroad with about 2'mi refugees. They lind to lly on such short notice that they had little but the clothes on their backs. The train came in through fire th.it burned rlbt up to the track on both sides and in some cases the train passed over blazing ties. ooooogoococcoooo o o O 200 REPORTED DEAD. O o o C BEAU DETTE, Minn., Oct. 10 O O Two cars of provisions have ar- O C rived and a relief committee has O O been organized The towns of O O Roosevelt and Williams are xlill O O In danger, but Warroad is safe. O O There is ived of provisions, C O clothing and money. O O As many as 1 Ono refugees Ttave O O been taken south. It is estimated O O thai the dend may reach 2un. O Great alarm is felt here because O O of the new settlers arriving at O O the burned district south of here. O O O ooooocooooocoooo WINNIPEG, Oct. in The latest re-ports re-ports touighl increased the horrors of Ihe situation. Estimates of the number of persons killed range from 75 to -JOtl tonight. Many conservative men place the death at more than 100. But the greater concern for the present is the rescue of the helpless and the relief of thousands of homeless home-less men. women and children. Wild Animals Fleeing With People. Stories of wild animals, fleeing for safety s'de by side with human beings: be-ings: of mothers burned to death with hr.b'es on their breasts, and of men cremated while endeavoring to shield thcii children were among the tales of horror brought In today. The Duluth Expiess, when it arrived arriv-ed here today, frought many refugees refu-gees from the scene of the conflagration. conflagra-tion. Engineer's Story. The engineer of the train thus described de-scribed the situation: "If the fire keeps on the way it Is goin-z there will be mighty little left of the population ,,f mat part of Minnesota. Min-nesota. "For miles around Beaudctte and Spooner. wis , where there were large tracts of brush. It Is now swept clean "There have been forests in that part of the country for such a long time that the earth ! praeticnlly peat and when a tree fell it set fire even to the roots of the earth around. Country All Burned Out. j "From my engine if appeared that every timber mill in the country had been burned except that of the 'Shev-1 lin Ma'.tieu company, which is safe.! All Iho lumber In the yards however.' burned like a flash. When we passed 1 through, all the territory near the liaci: had been burned over and was stdl smouldering j "AM the ties of the roml have been ' (barred We stopped every rule ! while to take on people, hut most of j them got off Just outside tlu- danger zone so i hey could go bad; to what was h-fi of their homes after the fire dies down." Relates Thrilling Experience. One of the most thrilling stories "f the siiuation is given by Mrs. Town-se-id, of Warroad. a refugee on the Duluth train. She said: "Two tralnloads of people left War-read War-read last night after midnight, but we do not know whether they reached a place of safety. Tn town of Beau dette is wholly deserted. 'Fvery one in Warroad who had a revolver is oarrylny It. The survivors are desperate and a rreat deal of vandalism van-dalism Is abioad Men are robbing women of their jewels. "If a high wind arose nothing could save the town of W arroad. When w.; passed through Sprague. Man., we saw j that the lire had run right up to the I Canadian Northern stalion." , ' Mrs. Tovvnsend vva accompanied in I her flight by Mrs. Smith, her child and by Mrs. Taft. wife of Ihe immigration agent at thai point. May Save Rainy River Town. j. F. Foster of Ilos'on. Mass.. came lhrouL-h on the Duluth special If the wind drops. Ra'uy River will be savcu but otherwise the town is in great danger," he said "Trunks and valise full of valuables valu-ables are piled along the railway Hack in a vain endeavor to save them. Vandals arc lurking arouud and stealing the property of the dead are defenseless." Other refugees tell how wild animals ani-mals raced wildly about the edge or the foe and then turned and plugged into the Ka'ny river and swam ncro" to safety Thev followed !he human flight and cattle releused by their RAINY RIVKR. Ontario. Oct. 10 The country between Warroad and Peaudeite is strewn with the corpses of victims of the lorest Tires. Hundreds Hun-dreds of well known settlers and their families have not been heard lrom. Four entire families were discovered dis-covered dead near Peaudette. Fifty men are eut investigating, but the ground is so hot It is impossible, impossi-ble, travel over it. Only H bodies have been brought to Reaudette and Pi Indies were s;-en along the Rapid river. One hundred and ninety typhoid fever fe-ver patients arrived from old Reaudette Reau-dette to shacks in new Reaudette are sintering for necessities and it is feared many will die The towns of Roosevelt and Williams are threatened threaten-ed agaiu tonight, as the wind is rising. ris-ing. " One thousand refugees from Pitt, Spooner and Iteandetie have been taken ta-ken to InternatLnul Falls, Ranier, Virginia, Vir-ginia, Duluth and Rainy River. Fully j.oiio are homeless Rainy River is comparatively quiet tonight, the danger threatening with a south wind hating at least temporarily disappeared. dis-appeared. 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