The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-06

Mora in Quest of Aida Man With
Both Eyes Burned Out Carrying
Another Whose Feet Were Gone.
Pine City, MINI, Sept. 5.-A courier
rode into this city late yesterday after
noon with an urgent request that
medical aid and supplies be forwarded at
once to Mora, a small town twenty miles
west of here. The messenger, Henry
Luther, said that dozen refugees from
Pokegama were dying for need of medi-
cines. y call for volunteers was made and
in ten minutes Doctors Norton, Perkins
and Allen and Miss Maggie Mcleod, a
trained nurse from Toronto, Canada, who
has been ministering to the suffering here,
announced that they were ready to go, A
team Of four horses was hitched to a farm
wagon, and at O'Clock the start was
made. AS the road was crossed by the
trail of fire, their way is extremely diff
cult, charred trunks blocking the way.
a TALE OF TERROR.
The story told by the messenger brings
to light hitherto unpublished horrors of
the devastation. Mora itself escaped de-
struction, and the human beings whose
lives are ebbing away in it's limits re-
ceived their injuries at Pokegama, nine
miles to the north. Late Sunday night
leaders of those who fed from there ar
rived at Mora. They were burned, but
not badly. Nevertheless, they kept the
only doctor in the neighborhood busy and
made serious inroads into his stock
of liniments and medicines. All
Monday they struggled, but Monday
night a band of fifteen half cooked
human beings stumbled into the village,
more dead than alive They had not
had a mouthful to eat since Saturday
afternoon, and in their reason
bereft condition, had lost their
way in the tangle of blackened stumps.
There was one man with an eye burned
out and the other nearly sightless who,
despite his agony, being the strongest of
the party, was carrying another
whose feet had been burned off
| A woman had taken off her skirt
| to keep the flies and mosquitoes
| from her bleeding head. DR.. Lewis did
! all he could to alleviate the agony of
these unfortunates, but his medicines
gave out, and finally he, after three days
! incessant work, succumbed and was una
BILE TO do more. Then the appeal for aid
was sent. The courier also said six more
bodies were found at Pokegama yester-
day. There were 113 inhabitants in Poke
gama. Twenty-Five bodies of the dead
have been found
MORE FIRES sPRINGING Up.
Duluth, MINI, Sept 5.-Reports still
come in from towns to the southwark re-
! porting fresh fires springing up. Early
! this morning it was reported from the
railway junction and saw-mill town of
! Carlton, twenty miles south of here, that
| fire menaced the town, but later, after
| strenuous work, it was beaten back
| Brief messages from surrounding towns
are as follows:
! Cloquet, 10 a. m.-The smoke is so
dense that 1t is impossible to see clearly
| twenty feet Even buildings are indis-
! guishable across the street. The smoke
is so dense that the pain resulting to the
| eyes is almost unbearable.
kerrick-tfreS surround the town, but
there is no wind at present, and as long
as quiet continues the town Is safe. Most
! of the people have left
South Superior-The fires near this
! town last night were ali put out. Rumors
are current here that Iron River, Wis, is
| burning, but they are probably not cor
| rect. In this city the smoke is more
| dense and pungent, showing it to be from
nearer fires than any time vet. IL is ut
terly impossible to distinguish even faint
! outlines of buildings 400 feet away. The
! appearance is that of the densest fog and
| vessels arriving from down the lake re-
| port navigation very serious matter, and
collisions narrowly avoided. This smoke
| is believed to be from fires
in the brush and dead timber in the i'm
mediate vicinity of Duluth. in all about
] vs.ffV H.
| committees and the lists are not com
plete as yet. Nearly 200 people have
already been sent back to Hinckley and
Sandstone, who are not included in the
above lists. More will be sent down to-
day The temporary relief fund sub
SCribed here grows, and now reaches over
$4,000, of which all bat 800 from Two
Harbors, little village near here, comes
from Duluth. 1t is estimated that not
less than S350,0O0, to S400 900 will be re-
qulred to keep the poor people until they
can get some returns from their own
labor on farms next summer. Many are
gong TO work here in this vicinity, in
railroads and in the woods and mills.
ON the arrival of a train over the Du-
luth, South Shore and Atlantic at noon
to-day came the statement that at the
village of MarengO, ninety miles east of
Duluth, the bodies of six persons were
| found, who had been burned to death dur
ing the night OnerS OF aid to sufferers
both in cash and goods, are coming in
from distant states. Tacoma, Washing
ton, telegraphed this morning asking II
aid was needed, but was answered by the
mayor that Minnesota would be able to
care for all and rehabitate the land.
DESTITUTE BROUGHT IN.
A message from Partridge on the East
ern Minnesota states that at o'clock
this evening a special train left there for
Duluth, bearing the party of thirty ex-
plores that left here two days ago under
the leadership Of w. T. Bailey 10 scour
the country on both sides Of the
track into which no one else had
penetrated. Bailey reports that they
discovered twenty-three bodies Of
settlers, scattered over a wide extent Of
country. Most of them were identified
They were all buried without even box.
Six children and two women, who were
in destitute condition, were found and
are being brought in. On the train are
also Mrs. Billedeaux and Mrs. Lefevbre.
each with two children, all Of whom were
picked up at Sandstone.
Nothing but a good wind is needed to
fan the forest fires around Carlton, a
place Of 1000 population twenty-five miles
west on the Northern Pacific, into blaze
that will destroy the town ~