Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1910-10-13

ia ls1ted by the
IS in its His tory
to hurry to the depot and catch the
train which it had been arranged was
to carry them across to Rainy River
But the signal and fire came almost
silnult
Had Little Warning.
Beaudette and Spooner were burned
almost without warning. Half all
hour before both towns were all
aaame the fire appeared to be five
miles away, and owing to the thick
smoke little could be seen of it. Then
the terrible roar of the approaching
flames was heard, and the people
rushed from their homes to the steel
bridge that spans the Rainy river to
the city Of Rainy River. Many rush
ed to the banks of the river and saw
ed themselves by Wading into the wa
ter neck deep, holding babies in their:
arms, or clutching the arms Of chill.
dren. But it was at the depot that
1.-THE most heart-rending scenes were
enacted. Frank Watson, a carpen-
ter, who was among those who got
away on the train, thus tells Of the
terrible stampede to safety:
ct is impossible to describe it,
| he said Everything was confusion,
families became separated in the mad
rush. Women shrieked and children
lcried. It was for the most part every
body for himself and the rush for q
place of safety was like stampede
! of wild cattle. People ceased to be
/ human. Others we're more than human
under the circumstances. Women with
babies in their arms sank to the
ground to be trampled under foot;
some held out their babies and asked
that they be taken to a place of safe
t., knowing that they were uneq ual to
| the task OF going further and resign
| ing themselves tos their fate that the
fire would bring. 1.s.ss
Men Crazed with Grief
stMen, wild eyed and driven half
crazy by the fact that a part Of, in
some cases, their whole family had
been lost, ran wildly about asking Of
1.-THE. newcomers Of the dear ones. Ev-
cry now and then some man on whom
the terrible disaster worked harder
1 than others would drive back to the
turning district swearing to save his
family or perish with them, It was
necessary to hold a great number OF
the men and the holding only made
them the fercer.'''ss
Mosen Describes Flight.
Charles G.. ,Mosen, head millwright
Iof the shevlin-M thieu mill at Spoon,
er, gives the following account of the
destruction connection with the con.
fagration at Spooner and Beaudette
my wife mad been i'll with typhoid
! fever and was just recovering. At s
o'clock Friday night I was waiting up
on her when a man yelling at the toy
Of his voice came to our house and
said the forest fire was entering the
!, village.
4 called to the three other children
fgrabbed up the baby and pulled my
sick wife from the bed and left the
house, the children practically naked
and was not much better off myself
! We were three-q quarters Of a mile
from the station and hurried my
folks along the best:I could, carrying
]. the baby under one8arm and draggins
/ my wife with the other.
At the station we found severa
i hundred persons waiting for a train
land we clambered aboard train o1
box cars and were pulled out Of dan
ger
4 Laborer ellis Of Escape.
Ole Ungstad, an employee of thu
lumber mill in Beaude cite, also had hil
u home destroyed. He says:
i e had "a terrible experience will
Z the fire. / have a wife and four small
4 children. When the flames approach
led we made for the station, but hat
4 not gone far when my wife was over
! come BY fear and exhaustion and sanl
4 to the sidewalk, exclaiming S. can
4 go any further. We are all lost. ",
I are going to be burned. cheeret
! her up the best could and We man
LACED TO make the depot, where Y,
4 found hundreds of people waiting %
,Irelief, with the flames closing i
/ around US. !,
Nothing Left Of Pitt.
The village of vas swept ~
I [compl etely from the map As though
II sTyam uac torn IA haI dnna f3,a v5nTk