The evening world., 1894-09-06
FIRES YET THREATEN.
Fresh Disasters May Come from
Blazing Northwestern Forests.
Many Small Towns Surrounded and
Calling for Aid.
Latest Estimates Give Minnesota 81 j
to 100 Dead.

| d. LtTH. Mimi, Sept 6-Barnum, a
| lumber town, thirty-five miles down the
| -. PAU and Duluth road Is surrounded
| ny fJrest fires, and the inhabitants are
| anxious. Carlton and Kerrick are also
reported still in danger.
The relief partey which left here in
| charge Of W. r. Bailey and George Ash
to search the eastern line. sent word
| that near Sandstone 1t found eighteen
dead bodies in one dug-out, into which
the victims had rushed hoping to escape
with their lives. only to find that they
had Jumped into IA veritable furnace.
CHIPPEWA FALLS. Wis, Sept. O.
Fisher Meadow. near Estelia a small
settlement. was wiped out yesterday.
John Paul and James Mitchell, two
loggers of this city, lost both of their
logging outfits and camps and a large
quantity of logs. Warren Flint, of
Estella. lost 200 tons of hay.
Daniel ARRANGE lost his house. barn and
crops. The Buchanan mill was also de-
stroyed. The Grand Rapids school-house
vas burned.
The fire Is said to be running toward
Murray, where danger Is apprehended.
Mayor Hines. OF Cumberland. has tele-
graphel that the small towns in that
vicinity are in ashes.
,H,AkmION, MINI, Sept. 6;;,-Every-
the schoolhouse. The fire came without
warning. and the people saved their
i've, lives by ~ getting into the lake. Wood
W SHry Wht,sR M H. p Rufy George
lost everything 1t is feared that many
settlers lost their lives. Relief trains
were sent from here at once and brought
the people, down. A relief committee
was organized and the sufferers cared
for. Even the ties of the railroad were
burned.
No lives are reported lost in this vicin-
ity. The fires are still smoulderng, and
another wind would cause still further
disaster.
PINE CITY. Mimi. Sept. 6.-The lat
est corrected figures are of character
calculated to lower rather than raise
been an increase over previous esti-
mates in Hinckley. but the prospect of
any considerable number remaining still
IN me her, woods Is decreasins There are
perhaps dozen, more buried at other
points in the vicinity. increasing the
total to about go; but the additional
number here may be safely taken away
from the liberal estimate of those vet
unbound, leaving the tota' between S75
and 400, where the Pioneer Press put il
yesterday morning.
Mr., Norton, Of Indianapolis. who went
over TO Mora. has reported at Hinckley
that the total dead at that place was
twcnty-three, and that all the missing
OF but two at that point. No changes
wara reported elsewhere.
Word has been received from II. II.
Hart that Gov. Nelson will visit the
days exercises, II possible
About 800 in cash has been received,
nearly all from the small towns.
to the relief fund, President }. j. Hill, Of
the Great Northern road, has given 5, 900
acres acres or good agricultural land for the
valued at IS per acre, or $40. 900 in the
aggregate. and will be given TO the
people for homes.
MlLACA, Mimi. Sept. Slater devel-
In this vicinity are entirely destitute. A
mass-meeting was held last night and
relief committees appointed, who will go
to the cities to-day for aid. The County
commissioners appropriated $500. The
fires are stll burning and great ex-
citement prevails;
River on both sides for the whole length.
excepting ten miles at the South. is one
huge mass OF flames. The Minnesota
Woods where there are but few set
the fires were so fierce, that they Jumped
across the river, setting the Canadian
woods on fire. The Canadian side is we'll
settled and the settlers are losing
Or, Saturday. Mrs. Gamsby and five
children, living on Grassy River, were
burned, excepting one boy, who took
refuge In well A daughter, aged
eighteen years, had her head and feet
burned off. Her father. who was some
and face badly burned
George Wallis building was burned
and the family saved with great diff
Guilty. All settlers back from Rainey
River, have been burned out, losing
everything. Mrs. William Barley, OF
Fort F'yancis. is dead, and Arthur
Wright, settler of Rainey River, was
found nm Sunday lauI II, ha1