The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-09-10
The SUN osscuREo ONCE MORE.
Growing Number of Dead in Pine
County May Yet Reach 500
The 6overnar OF Wisconsin, Condemned
for Belittifng ths pistres.-Meney Is
Urgently Needed "a Rebuild the
Hemes Of the Baraed out People.

/ today .and The smousdsring forest fires were
quickly famed into furious blaze which
for time threatened Mora ana Ground
House The Wind. hoNever, mas since
gone down and for the present the
danger is believed TO he over
train crew Is being held SO Ground
House 10 help 20 tight the danes
should they break out again, and
10 take the people to place OF
safety if the fTes get beyond control The
sawniiii and lumber yard AZ Saulcs, which
Is south of Miiaca, were destroyed, not
wiihstanding the desperate efforts OF the
IRE lighters. and the loss viii be heavy.
The last report from Mora in this city was
that the town was In no immediate danger.
DuLUrH. Mimi. Sept 9.-The forest fires
were renewed again today in this region
by heavy southwest gale which steadily
increased in force. The sun was shut out,
and the horizon has again taken on the
siekly yellow cast of the fatal Saturday a
week ago. There wss great excitement
here. and the alarm was intensified by
the breaking out of forest fires in the city
limits. The ire crept around in the
undergrcwth at oneasa and caased some
apprehension. Then an alarm came in
from Duluth Heights. a suburb sur
rounded by timber. The ire department
sent up detachment, " hich little later
sent for an engine. Then the excitement
WAS at fever heat. for news had
been coming in of the sidetraeking
OF ST. Paul & Duluth passenger train
because of fires on all sides of
II. and Mora, on the Eastern Minnesota
road. was reported on fire. At Kerrick
the inhabitants put in the afternoon
lighting the FIRE. but In the evening the
danger was over. Barnnm had q narrow
escape all afternoon. At Kimberly. on
the Northern Pacific, large gang OF rail-
way ia0orers saved the town. There was
a state of terror among the refugees at
Pine City. for IL was feared another
cyclone of fire was at hand At o'clock
the wind shifted from southwest 10 north
west. thus driving back the flames, and at
IL O'Clock they had almost entirely died
away. There is no danger now, unless
the wind springs ND again.
HIscKLEY, MIMI, Sept. 9.-This has
been a quiet and gloomy Sunday. Tho
searchers after the bodies Of the victims OF
the great forest fires are resting. but will
resume their work in the morning. Coro-
ner Cowan and party went 10 Sandstone
todsy, where they buried eighty bodies.
day. no clergyman being present, and q
number of the people went TO Pine City 10
attend the memorial services in that city.
Five bodies were found last night In a
cellar on a hill just north of the Kettle
river. and were buried where found. 1t is
believed here that the death list in Pine
county will exceed 500, as something like
100 are still unaccounted for. according TO
Coroner Cowan.
DULUTH. Sept. 9.-~At o'clock this after
noon the operator at Mora, on the Eastern
Mlnnesots. while chatting with the oper-
ator Mt Duluth about the danger Of fire,
suddenly broke the conversation. saying:
1T is getting awful hot down here. The
people have nearly all taken refuge in the
Snake river, aud I'll have to follow unless
there is let-up" Just a few minutes
passed, and he said; ''I fiy; 30" Tests
Of the wires q lew minutes later proved
that they had gone up. and II has been
impossible 20 raise Mora since. The pco-
pie took warning in time and are bell ieyed
20 be safe.
The operator at Mahtowa this afternoon
reported fire all around him and choking
smoke. AT Sturgeon lake and Moose lake
the fires also caused uneasiness to the
residents. but no positive reports OF disas-
ter have been received up to a late hour
tonight. The norfh-bonnd limited train
arrived at DuIuth at 10 O'Clock tonight.
The passengers reported much tire along
the outside of Tie district swept q week
ago Ar Ross City the residents became
so frightened that they boarded freight
train standing on the track, so az to be
ready for departure.
ST. PAUL, sept 9.--Mora, Mimi. 10 re-
ported destroyed by forest fres. and the
little station OF Ground House. near Mora,
is in danger. The wind Was blowing q
gale at those points az Eundown, and the
worst is feared. The Duluth fire depart
ment 10 lighting fires in the outskirts Of
the city. Carlton and HInckley also seem
10 be again in trouble
The state relief committee appointed BY
GOV Nelson 70 Investigate and set on foot
the best measures for the relief of the suf-
ferers by the forest fires az and around
Hinckisy made a formal statement. 1t
recites the first work OF relief done at the
various points, and states:
AS far as the immediate reilei Is con-
ceTned, il has been splendidiy taken care
OF and most effective organization estab-
liShed TO carry Oh the woFk. This leaves
little for the state commission 20 DO in the
way OF temporary relief. but hun
dreds OF people have been left abb
solusely destitute. Their homes and
every article OF theirs sers absolutely
destroyed. To re-estabIish these people as
far a. possible ia their old homes and,
when practicable. to locate them else
where under such conditions IS wall en-
! able them to support themselves Will be
I the endeayor Of the commission. The
sufferers BY this FIRE are sn eKeelieat class
/ % people, and they represent fairly the
p~oule OF the state. Their requests are
moderate, bat the commission finds that
very large amount OF money, building
mAtsraal and supplies wili be needed.
While contributions are acceptable. the
commission would remind tbs people Of
tAs state thai money i the most portable
and useful contribution possible Most Of
the people ant 70 be re-estabiished
in their homes, and for this money Is
needed"
wEsr sUrKagoE. Wis. Sept. e.-Mayor
Wood ward and T. l.. Beixnap returned
from New York today, and this afternoon
a meeting Of the general relief committee
I for IRE sufferers was held. One OF the
I chief features Of the fnsesang was the dis
/ eu~sson Of Goy Peek's manifesto 10 the
/ effect that no outside help Is required f0F
/ ire sufferers. 80 FAR IS Wisconsin is con-
/ eerne3 The general relief COMMITTEES Of
/ this city. which Is acttng without stats
| Ilaes criticised the action OF the governor