The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-10
Nearly Three Hundred Dead Are Reported In the
 Burned District
WAGON LOADS OF BODIES
 FOUND IN THE WOODS
pnou.ands of Settlers Have Been Driven From Their Homes and Destruc- ton of Property in the
 Towns Is Enormous

warroad, Minn, October 9.-Beaudette, spooner, Hit and Graceton were wiped off the map by forest fire. The bodies of 75 settlers have been located and 1t is thought the death rate among the settlers will be upwards of 300.
 Wagonloads of human bodies are being brought into the railway station at Beau dette.
 It is reported that many settlers, crazed with grief at the loss of families and property, are roaming the woods and searching parties are constantly gong out looking for the injured, the dead and the demented. One family of nine, one of seven and one of five were destroyed on Friday night.
 At S:30 D. m. Saturday tornado of fire struck Beaudette and Spooner. and With in three minutes after the first alarm every building was ablaze, and within an hour they were heaps of ashes. The people of these two towns had just suffi- cient time to get out of their homes with what they had on their backs. They were loaned on to a passenger train that was standing at the depot and taken to Rainy River.
 The whole country east of here is on fire. Roosevelt, Swift. Williams and Ce- dar Spur are in great danger. All the women and children are being rapidly removed to places of safety. The Ca- nadian Northern railway has stationed trains at every station at the service of the people, and is doing everything in Its power to relieve the situation.
 The people of Beaudette and Spooner and the settlers all through the north central part of the state have lost every thing. Five thousand are homeless and the greater part of them absolutely desti- tute 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. twill be impossible to get details and names Of the dead and fn- 1ured before tomorrow, and some of the dead will not te found until spring. It will be impossible to estimate the dam ages or casualties until later, but the pioneers of northern Minnesota must have help.
 The wind shifted and carried the flames away from Roosevelt. Canadian North ern railway trains have been stalled here since last night when freight train went through a bridge near Pitt. The crew was saved and Conductor Monahan walked into Beaudette, which town he re- ported as destroyed. only the water tank, schoolhouse walls and the depot stand ing Monahan says he walked over hu- man bodies on the way but could not say how many.
 Many settlers took to the woods and have not been heard from since. A mother and five children are known to have been burned.
 The fires are still raging and the smoke is dense. Men from Warroad helped to save Roosevelt Calls are coming in tc help settlers twelve miles south. Wires are down and news is obtainable only as refugees come in.
 Destruction Ky the Fires
 Rainy River, Ont, October 9.-This town was on fire today from the interna- tional bridge to Sixth street, distance of a half mile. Included in the burned area are the Rat Portage Lumber com pany's mill and lumber yard, containing iO,0o0000 feet of lumber; the Western Can ada Flouring Mills company and sur rounding buildings.
 Fifty houses were destroyed and scores of people are homeless.
 Fire Is raging in the woods as far as can be seen along the south bank Of Rainy river. If the wind remains in the north 1t is possible the rest of Rainy River will be saved Most of Old Beau dette,. situated in Minnesota, and the in ternational bridge, have so far escaped the fire, as well as the building of the ghevlen-Mathieu Lumber company at gpooner. through the activity of the Ca- nadian Railroad company.
 Most of the women and children or these towns have been taken on special trains to points east, and many more are on steamers ready to leave should the wind change and the fire spread.
 The fire, driven by furious northwest wind. is beyond control and must burn itself out.
 Accord of the Dead
 The known dead:
 Six unidentified residents of Pitt, Minn.
 Unknown woman and boy, homes at Leader, near Pitt.
 Seven unknown settlers on track west Of Pitt
 Two entire families. one of eight mem bers and one of seven, residents ten miles east of Pitt, recently arrived from Grafton, N. D.
 John Pulley and five members of his family. recently arrived from Fullerton, Neb., burned to death west of Spooner.
 One servant of Albert Berg of Spooner.
 Four land spectators from Davenport, Ia, recent arrivals at Beaudette, caught hy flames while out for homesteads on oouth side of Beaudette river.
 John Simmons of Red Oak, 1a.. timber vanger, caught by flames on railroad track while trying to escape to Rainy River
 Mattson Berg and five members of his 1Amily burned to death on outskirts of epooner when house was destroyed. They attempted to weather the sea of flames in q big stone cellar and were suffocated.
 John Bolin and family of eight, Pitt.
 eevert Hagen, George Wevar Charles Baker and Patrick Omera of Arlington. Ninn.
 Two Thousand Missing
 The missing include some 2000 residents Of Beaudette, Spooner and Pitt, some ot whom arc dead. but the most of whom are safe in Rainy River and the adjacent towns on the Canadian side of the line. The most serious aspect of the missing includes the homesteaders and farmers in the bush for a distance of 100 miles east and 20 miles south. of whom absolutely nothing can be learned for some time, as aearching parties do not dare penetrate AAe still smoking forests.
 While a wind is sweeping a sea of fire
 
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