The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-10-11
Rainy River, With 1000 Resi-
dents and 5000 Refu.
gees, Barely Escapes.
TOWN AFIREIN MANY PLACES
Five Thousand Square Miles OF
Timber Burning More
Towns Menaced.

SahN irppNr No~Stay NnOuknt Nnoy NOulu
never So another sunrise.
They were the 1000 residents OF this
town and the 1900 or more refugees
qua rtered here.
AZ O'Clock the wind sprung up and
With a audiences that was appalling the
town started TO burn in a dozen or more
places.
The men, now organized into q corps
OF guards. rushed TO the flames. but the
velocity Of the wind increased and their
efforts. even with the recently installed
high pressure water system. proved Of no
avail.
The women screamed and groaned in
the streets. Children ran terrorstriekeu
/ TO their parents. while men who had no,
said prayer since they left their mothers
knees appealed 20 the Almighty for as.
sistance
Then with the same suddenness With
which u had risen the wind dropped %
calm The men gained heart and soon
the fires were again under control hut
tonight there is a charrsd line Of build
ings encircling the town. a mute tes'i-
mony 70 the ma rro~ escape !. M or more
people had from a terrible death
When the fire and wind werp raxiny
the scene on the streets one which
| will live long in the memory ~ the people
who were there, II was hell let lp1sa
with walls u blazing umb-r hundred
or more feet high a. stage setting.
and as the hames whirled up the giant
spruce burning bark and treetops were
carried before the wind 20 start other
fres. During the last four day. Riiny
River has had several narrow esoapn
from destruction. with it, people slrt
ia like rats in a trap
Hourly the situation pacoms. rn,-a
grave. This morning IL was thought
that the worst was over and that the ir',
were burning themselves OFT Late tIs
afternoon the wind rose again and ths fire.
broke into timber belts which had prov.
0'lsly escap-d. even burning over the land
which mad been ravishei by the n1nr,
IN the last few days
Tonight there - fully son s1l1-s
miles of timber On fire II not lar ye-
area Reports Of the finding Of bodies
are heing received every few minutes
That the dead will number Spl - the
general belief. hut General Superiniendsn.
Cameron Of the Canadian Northern Ru.-
way. who has spent three DAYS in the fire
districts says the estimate - far toS COZ
servatIvs In support 81 this s'atena q.
- the fact that although no syste nttir
search has bs-n made for bodies ths-s
are more than TO- IN the morRus at Bepi-
dette hal have l...n found IN the Vicinltv
Of that town.
Three days ago fire burned over the
ihicklV settled district between hs-e
and Stra'ipn. hut ~ far only handful
Of refugees nav" arrived from there and
the other inhabitants hav. not b.an
heard Of IN any ~ the other towns 20
which I,-Uul'. fi-.sf>rOr safety
IN" fnliuwiug towns and villages nav.
been burned B..audetts. Spooner,
Roosevelt Lrngwurth. swift. Pitt. Ripple,
solar. cedar spur. Gravel Pit Spur. Grace
~ aud Engl-
Partly burned Rainy River. Warroad.
Spragu" International Fails aud Pine
Muoi
In diug-r Nirattrn and Fort Francis.
Population IL area burned. over - OD
F-',mat"i dead. sO
Bpdi"- recovered, nearly 2O0
Homeless Stus
Property boss over SIO0 OOO.Gl
WINNIPEo. Oct 10 Brother. its halI
down there said Engineer George
smith who brought his train ia this after
noon after perilous trip through the
Are yon- from Duluth ~ she keeps on
the way she WAS going last night there -
gong To- be- mighty little left ~ the popu-
lation in that part Of Minnesota Early
to-day she quieted down a little hut Il
only needs little pun Of wind 20 turn
the whole 81 that country into a raging
hell II 10 indescribabla
There have been forests in tina, Part
81 the country for such long time that
the earth there 10 kind Of psaty. and whsn
q tree fell over with the force Of the wall
Of flames II began 10 burn even to the
roots and the earth around the roots.
From where We IN the engine were
IL seemed that every lumber mill IN the
had been burned exoept that 81
the shevIin- Matthiel Company. which
IL safe IL was only built this spring
and 10 one Of the finest mills IN America
All the lumber in the yard. however. was
burned like q fash.
when we passed through all the timber
near the track had burned down and was
merely smouldertng We came through
AZ 3 o'clock in the morning and the small
red flames from the smouldering piles Of
IoRs looked like q real picture OF the In
ierno through the clouds Of smoke which
rolled across the path Of the engine All
the ties Of the road have been ohaTrsd
and the country 10 level with the trace.
We stopped every little While 70 take
on soms people, but the most OF them
stopped OF just outside Of the danger
xons. 90 that they could Immediately
20 back 70 what was left OF their homes
aftsr everything had subsidized
If thsy can kill the flames before an