Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-09-20
FIRES BURN AGAIN.
The Smoldering Embers Famed
Into Life by a Gale.
Princeton, Barnum, Mora and Other Points
In Minnesota Surrounded by Flames
"A Serious Charge Against a
Wisconsin Man.
TOWNS IN DANGER.

ST. PAUL, Mimi. Sept 10.-Alarm-
ing rumors have been coming in here
70 the effect that forest fires are
sweeping several counties of north
eastern Minnesota. The wires are
already in a state of decentralization,
and south-bound trains due here Sun
day evening are delayed somewhere
between Hinckley and Duluth
Bulletins from ST. Cloud and Brain
erd say that the town of Princeton. a
village of 500 inhabitants in Mile
Laos county, is in great danger and
that Barnum, Carleton county, is sur
rounded by fire which is swept by
such terrific wind that the place has
no chance of escape. Mora, Mile Laos
county, was surrounded by fire during
the afternoon and people ran for their
lives. The wind changed suddenly,
however, at nightfall and drove the
flames in another direction. II the
wind changes again nothing can
save the place. Soule's sawmill
and lumber yard between Milica
and Princeton were totally de-
stroyed. The little station of Ground
House, near Mora, is in great danger.
The wind was blowing gale at this
point at shutdown and the worst is
feared. The Duluth fire department
is fighting fires in the outskirts Of that
city. Hinckley also seems TO be again
In trouble.
At Kerrick the inhabitants put in
the afternoon fighting the fires, but
thought in the evening the danger wa
over At Kimberly, on the Northern
Pacific, only large gang of railway
laborers saved the town. There was
a state OF terror among the refugees
at Pine City when the St. Paul & Du-
luth limited passed through, for IL was
feared another cyclone of fire was at
hand.
Eighty Bodies Buried at Sand zone.
HNcKLEY, Mimi, Sept. lO.-Coroner
Cowan and party went TO Sandstone
Sunday, where they buried eighty
bodies. There were no religious
services here Sunday. no clergymen
being present, and number of the
people went TO Pine City to attend the
memorial services in that city.
Five bodies were found Saturday
night in cellar on a hill just north OF
the Kettle river. and were buried
where found. IL 10 believed here that
the death list in Pine county will ex-
coed 500 as something like 100 are still
unaccounted for, according to Coroner
Cowan's official statement.
His Life in Danger.
ASHLAND, Wis, Sept iO.-Settlers
arouDd Marapno .vhfab rIaoa ,.o. Il
stroyed by the recent fires, have
caused the arrest of Mike Roepler.
charging him with having set the for
est fire which swept over that region
last Saturday, destroying Marengo and
Agnew, with loss of eight lives The
prisoner was hustled of to Ashland
and has been placed in the county jail
here for safe keeping, as the feeling
against him among the homesteaders
is very bitter Roepler came up for
preliminary hearing late Saturday
afternoon and was bound over to the
circuit court by Judge Foster
Ashland In Danger
ASHLAND, Wis. Sept l1-Strong
winds have famed up the forest fires
in this vicinity and they are burning
fiercely in nearly every direction.
They crossed what is known as the
Cemetery road south of Ashland Mon
day, and the Ashland Driving Park as
ISOLATION, whose buildings are located
miles cut from Ashland, are In dan
ger Of burning. The fire is also quite
close to Mount Hope cemetery, with
the strong wind constantly bringing it
nearer, Washburn has been enveloped |
In cloud OF smoke ALI day