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and head. His son was also badly
burned.
United Calls for Help.
ST. PAUL Mimi. Sept 3.--Gov. Mel
son. Mayor Smith. of ST.. Paul and
Mavor Eustis, of Minneapolis, nave all
issued proclamations calling on the peo--
pie for help. Anything in the line OF
provisions, clothing or money will be
acceptable, as the need Is very great.
Al 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 sportsmen
1t is feared that many well-known res
ldents of st. Paul have persisted in the
forest fires of Hinckley and vicinity
since Saturday night. Large numbers
OF sportsmen have left st. Paul within
ems near Hinckiey, Mora, Sandstone and
other points In that vicinity, and few of
these have escaped the fierce flames.
The fire covers wide stretch of terri
tory, and II 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 cunning
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, MINI.
Hinckley, so, In all probability, Free
man is safe, though nothing has been
heard from him.
Fighting Fire at Grnntsburg.
.GRANTSBURG. Wis. Sept. 3.-The
fires that have been burning here for the
past month broke out afresh yesterday
morning. and the entire male force of the
from turning the village.
The usual Sunday services were dis
p per ,,fi With. and church members fought
precautions and hired a crew OF men to
watch the fire.
Heavy fires ragged west OF the St Croix
River Saturday. night and destroyed mill
ions Of feet OF standing pine. Logging
outfits and hundreds Of oxen have been
destroyed by the forest fires. The hay
crou Is almost entirely destroyed.
Refugees ut Duluth.
DULUTH. Mimi. Sept. s.-This city is
the refuge for hundreds of survivors of
the great forest fires. train bearing
near ly 600. who escaped from Hinckley,
reached Duluth at $40 o'clock last night.
lief train sent down the line by the st.
Paul and Duluth arrived with about 800
settlers, and probably 200 more came In
on the second St. Paul and Duluth re-
lief train. which left mere at 5 o'clock
yesterday morning. and returned at 1870
In the afternoon.
sight All We're poor people. Few OF
the men had hats or coats. and the
women were not more fully clad.
Women with babies in arms were there,
~ v,a cd ~
tots, homeless and friendless, except
for a charitable public. Many of the
women were without their husbands, as
could not be saved. In the grimy, SCOT
covered crowd were many children with
out parents.
A Sparks Work at Washburn. Wis.
burn a spark from a forest fire south Of
the town alighted in one of the piles of
lumber on the dock: and soon all was
mass Of flames The flames Pdeafq 1o to
one dock to the other with the rapidly
ately directed their attention to saving
Bigelow's mammoth mill. In, spite OF
will be very heavy
Many Places in Danger.
MARQUETTE, Mich. Sept. 3.-The
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
loss Reports from all the lumber towns
between Nestoria and the Wisconsin
State line are that all are safe SO far.
but that many are fighting fire danger
Al Even many people have loaded
their effects on a train which the South
Shore officials are keeping ready to
move out II necessary. Some buildlngs
Iii. ht1r hn
smoke is still heavy and the fog whistles
are sounding.
BarrOnett, Wis, Destroyed.
struction of Barronett was comple.e. One
lone building Is left of city of 700 in
habitants. Ono man was burned. The
total loss Is quarter or million,
burned. with a total 'oss Of I,oGG. rnree
hundred and sixty people are homeless,
and many are without dollar OF In
surance.
DEEDS of heroism are plentiful; Che
widow dragged her typhoiG-sick sop
from the house into potato patch AMI
there protected him from the flames
while the rest Of the inhabitants fed
The fires are now Under oontro, in
this vicinity.
Rnin at Hinckley To-day.
HINCKLEY, Mimi, Sept. "A gentle
rain is falling to-day and quenching the
burning embers of the immense forest
fires that did so much damage In this
city Saturday afternoon and night. The
blackened ruins of two or three brick
buildings are all that remain standing OF
the once prosperous town of Hinckley:
with its 900 people and its 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 Of
victims has saddened the survivors even
more than the disaster itself
Most OF the survivors went to Pine
City yesterday for food and shelter
and the women and children are still
there, but many of the men have are
| turned to their ruined homes to see II
by any possibility anything remains.
The telegraph operator here. Otis
| Green. remained at his post until all but
| three buildings in Hinckley had been
| burned. When the depot took fire he
| ran to the safe and took therefrom
| s.. 900 in greenbacks and fed to the river.
| He remained in the river several hours,
| when he Joined a number of refugees in
| their trip to Pine City.
Heroism of n Train Crew.
The limited train that left Duluth at |
o'clock Saturday afternoon had an eN.
perlence north of here that will place
| It's entire train crew on the roll OF