The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-09-06
FRESH FIRES SPRINGING UP.
No More Fatalities Have Been
Reported, However.
Several Towns iWere .Menaced by the
Flames But Strenuous Efforts Saved
Them-smoke.so Dense That Objects
Cannot be DistinR uished Across tho
Streets-Relieving the Destitute.

DULUTn, MINI, Sept. 5-Reports
still come in from towns to the south
ward reporting fresh fires springing up.
Early this morning it wa, reported from
the railway junction and saw mill town
OF Carlton, twenty miles south of here,
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 it is impossible to see clearly
twenty feet Even buildings are indis-
tinguishable across the street. The
smoke is so dense that the pain result
ing to the eyes is almost unbearable.
kERRICk, Sept. 5.-Fires are surround
ing the town, but there is no wind I
present, and 80 long as quiet continues
the town is safe. Most of the people
have left.
SOUTH SUPERIOR, Wis, Sept 5.-The
fires near this town last night were put
out. Rumors are current here that the
town of Iron River is burning, but they
are probably not correct. In this city
the smoke is more dense and pungsnt,
showing it to be from nearer fres than
at any Time yet. 1t Is utterly impossi-
BILE to distinguish even faint outlines OF
buildings 400 feet away. The appear
ance is that OF the densest fog, and the
vessels arriving from down the lake re-
port navigation very serious matter
and collisions are narrowly averted
This smoke is from fires in brush and
dead tim bers in the immediate vicinity
of Duluth.
In all about six hundred refugees are
now listed here by relief committees
and the lists are not complete as yet.
Nearly 200 people have already been
sent oack to Hinckley and Sandstone,
who are not included in the above lists.
More will be sent down to-day. The
temporary relief fund subscribed here
grows and now reaches over $4,000, of
which all but $500 comes from Duluth
people.
1t is estimated that not less than
$3.50 900 to $500, 900 will be required to
keep the people until they can get
some returns from their own labor ON
farms next summer. Many are going
to work here in this vicinity for rail-
roads and in the woods.
On the arrival OF q train over the Du-
luth. ST. Shore and Atlantic to day came
the Statement that at the village of
Marenfo, ninety miles east of Duluth,
the bodies OF six persons were found
who had been burned to death during
the night. Offers Of aid to the sufferers,
both in cash and goods. are coming in
from distant States. Tacoma, Wash,
telegraphed this morning, asking IL aid
was needed, but was answered by the
mayor that Minnesota would DO able to
care for all and to rehabilitate the liv-
ing
PINE CITY, MINI Sept 5.-A courier
rode into this city la,e yesterday after
noon with an urgent request that medi-
cal aid and supplies be forwarded at
once to Morca, q small town twenty
miles west of here. The messenger,
Henry Luther, said that a dozen refugees
from Pokegama wore dying for need of
medicine. call for volunteers was
made and Drs. Perkins and Allen and
Miss Maggie Mcleod, trained nurse
from Toronto, Canada, went TO admins
ter 10 the suffering.