The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-10-10
And 1000 are Missing in
the Northwestern Country
FEW TOWNS WIPED OUT
Total Loss in Lumber and Private Prop
erty Is Now Estimated at s2,ooo,-
ooo-Physicians Being Hur-
ried to the Scene.

Rainy River, Ont, Oct. l0With for.
est fires still raging in the north towns
Of Beaudette, Spooner and Pitt, sixty
charred corpses have been recovered.
Seventy five are known to be dead and
two thousand are missing, and urgent
calls for aid were sent out to-day The
total number of dead is estimated at
from two to five hundred The towns
Of Warroad and Sprague, Mimi, are
threatened. Both are directly in the
path Of the flames, which reached this
morning within seven miles of Sprague
and twenty Of warroad.
The total loss is already over $2,000,-
600 in lumber and private property
There are more than one hundred yet
missing from Beaudette alone, Physi-
clans are being hurried from hundreds Of
miles around Whole families have been
burned to death and hundreds are suf-
fering from burns which will be fatal
unless medical aid reaches them quick
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Warroad, Mimi, Oct Beaudette,
Spooner Pitt and Fraction. Mimi, have
been wiped of the map Of Minnesota by
the most terrible forest fire ever ex-
perienced BY Minnesota settlers. The
bodies OF 75 settlers have been found
and it is expected the death roll among
the settlers win be upwards Of 800.
Wagon loads of dead bodies are being
brought into the railway station at
Beaudette constantly. 1t is reported
that many settlers crazed with grief at
the loss of families and property are
roaming the woods and searching parties
are constantly going out after the in
iured, the dead and demented. One fam
lily Of nine, one OF seven and one OF FIVE
were wiped out on Friday night
At $3.50 o'clock Saturday evening
cyclone of fire struck Beaudette and
Spooner and within three minutes after
the frat alarm every building was ablaze
and within an hour they were heaps Of
ashes. The people of these towns had
just sufficient time 70 get out Of their
homes with what they had on their
backs, taking nothing else with them.
They boarded passenger train that was
standing at the depot and were taken
across to Rainy River, Ontario. to safety.
The whole country east Of here is on
fire. All the women and children are
being rapidly removed TO places Of
safety The Canadian Northern railway
has stationed trains at every station at
the service Of the people and is doing
everything in its power to relieve the sit
uation.
The people of Beaudette and Spooner
and the settlers through the north cen
trail part of the state have lost every
thing Five thousand are homeless and
the greater part Of them destitute Help
must reach them in the next day or two,
and that in substantial way, as the
greater part of them are but half clad
and cold weather is likely to set in at
any time.
1t viii be impossible to estimate the
damage of casualties until later
Sunday morning, this town was on fire
from the international bridge to Sixth
street, a distance Of half a mile In
cluded in the burned area are the Rat
Portage Lumber company's mill and lum-
Der yard. containing lo,000000 feet Of
lumber, the Western Canadian Flour
Mills company and surrounding build
ings.
Fifty houses are burned and scores OF
people are homeless.
The wind has shifted and is now car
rying the flames away from Roosevelt.
Unless the wind changes again the town
will be saved
The Canadian Northern railway trains
have been stalled here since Friday night,
when a freight train went through a.
bridge near Pitt. The crew was saved
and walked in TO Beaudette. The con-
ductor reports that town destroyed only
a watertank, the school house walls and
the depot standing. Many settlers took
to the woods and have not been heard
from since A mother and five children
are known to have been burned
Calls are coming in TO help settlers
IL miles south. Wire are down and news
is obtainable only as refugees come in.