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and head. His son was also badly
burned.
United Calls for Help.
ST. PAUL. MINI, Sept. s.--Gov. Mel
MAYOR Eustis, Of Minneapolis, have all
issued proclama tons calling on the peo-
pie for help. Anything in the line OF
acceptable. as the need IS Very "" great It
All the churches In this city, as the re.
lief societies. have been throwing open
their places for contributions. and sew.
eral responses have been made.
Fears for st. Paul sportsmcn
1t is feared that many well-known res
idents Of st. Paul have perished in the
forest fires Of Hinckley and vicinity
81 st%rasy ha nh lett rss u Ws
the last ten days to hunt prairie chick.
ems near Hinckiey. Mora, Sandstone and
other points in that vicinity, and few OF
irna a. have Ss,s escaped the fierce iames
tory, and IL these sportsmen were In the
forests, no power on earth could save
them unless they were close to some
large body Of water
uneasy. fearing the worst has happened
to their loved ones who went ginning
last week. President George Freeman,
of the Minnesota Shoe Company, and
dent of saltwater. went hunting In the
forests near Hinckley last Friday.
Mrs. Freeman said last night that her
husbands address was Mora, Mimi,
about twenty-five miles this side OF
man Is safe, though nothing has been
heard from him.
Fighting Fire at Grantsburr.
GRANTsBURG, Wis. Sept s.-The
fires that have been burning here for the
past month broke out afresh yesterday
morning. and the entire male force OF the
place was called out to prevent them
from burning the village.
The usual Sunday services were dis.
pepsed with. and church members fought
fire like demons. The Council had taken
precautions and hired a crew of men tc
watch the fire.
Heavy fires ragged west of the st. Crois
River Saturday night and destroyed mill
Ions OF feet OF standing pine. Logging
outfits and hundreds OF oxen have beer
destroyed by the forest fires. The hay
CROP is almost entirely destroyed.
Refugees at Duluth.
DULUTH, Mimi. Sept. 3.-This city ID
the refuge for hundreds of survivors OF
the great forest fires. A train bearing
nearly 600, who escaped from Hinckley
At 2.45 yesterday morning. the first re-
lief train sent down the line by the st.
Paul and Duluth arrived with about 3ot
settlers and grSba9ly zoe more n, cane In In
lief train, which left mere at O'Clock
yesterday morning. and returned at l2.8C
in the afternoon.
The refugees presented most pitifu,
the men had hats or coats, and the
women were not more fully clad.
Women with babies In arms were there
tSs BY ana ve eSeees
for charitable public. Many Of the
women were without their husbands. as
the latter remained to see II somethins
covered crowd were many children With.
out parents.
A SPARKS Work ut washburn, Wis
ASHLAND, wis. Sept. s..At Wash
burn a spark from q forest fire south O.
the town SoeH on nd Of so .ns pp
a mass Of flames. The flames spread tc
Biselow's four docks and leaped from
OF racehorse; me nremen 10 ,m nawinc
Bigelow's mammoth mill In spite OF
their good work, however, the losses
will be very heavy.
Many Places in Danger.
MARQUETTE. Mich, Sept; s.aThe
Western Division OF the Duluth. South
Shore and Atlantic road is crippled by
the loss of bridges in forest hres. Sew:
eral other roads have suffered serious
between Nestoria and the Wisconsin
State line are that all are safe so far
but that many are fighting fire danger
ouss rn,, manu- naonIe have loaded
their effects on a train which the South
Shore officials are keeping ready tc
move out II necessary. Some buildingt
n the outskirts have been burned: Tht
smoke is still heavy and the fog whistles
are sounding.
Barronett, Wis.,, Destroyed.
sPooNER, Wis. Sept. 3.-Ths de-
lone building is LEFT of a city n, Of 700 ~, IN
' Shell Lake has fifty-two DWELLING
burned, with a total 'oss Of 1900: Tnre.
and many are without a dollar OF In
Deeds of heroism are plentiful; en-,
widow dragged her typhoid-sick sor
t thene 'p pro neas him from the asmei
while the rest Of the inhabitants Det
In terror.
The fires are now dndSr controt ii
this vicinity.
Rain at Hinckley To-day.
HINCKLEY, Mimi, Sept. "a sentl'
rain is falling to-day and quenching TN
burning embers of the immense fores
fires that did SO much damage In TIL!
city Saturday afternoon and night, TIL,
blackened ruins Of two or three bricl
buildings are all that remain standing o.
the once prosperous town OF Hinckley
with its 900 people and It's busy railroad
and numbering interests.
This Is to-day a place OF mourning
and the burial Of the charred and un
recognizable bodies of the hundreds o.
victims has saddened the survivors ever
more than the disaster itself.
City yesterday for food and shelter
and the women and children are still
there, but many of the men have re
turned to their ruined homes to see 4
by any possibility anything remains.
The telegraph operator here, OH
Green. remained at his post until all blu
three buildings in Hinckley had BEEF
burned. When the depot took fire h
ran to the safe and took therefron
s., 900 in greenbacks and fed to the river
He remained IN the river several hours
their trip to Pine City.
Heroism of a Train Crew.
The limited train that left Duluth at
o'clock Saturday afternoon had an ex
Its entire train crew on the roll o
The train came to within a mil
and half of this place through