The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-10-11
Sends Message Preus; Secretary of the Central Commit
tee That He Will Remain for Week-Cancels
"& All Dates;
TRAIN IS PACKED WITH SUPPLIES FROM BEMIDJI
Fires are Raging Near Keher Puposky and Other Gen.
trail Villages. Relief Trains are Rushing to
Give Assistance.

With brisk winds still blowing in
the district huddled by hundreds OF
hungry homeless humans toward
which relief trains, the governor
and militia are rushing with all the
speed of express engines, the new
and disheartening danger presents
itself today with the renewed life of
the fires by threatening to melt from
existence the trains of mercy once
they reach within the greedy grasp
of. the flames. g.. g.
Even before the ash heaped ruins
of the district can be reached a
period of peril faces at least the
train on which Governor Eberhart,
militia and three cars of provisions
are being whizzed northward.
Governor Eberhart's special train
arrived in Bemidji at 11:45 this
morning and proceeded with as little
delay as possible, being required,
however, to lose ten minu es time
here in order to pick up the second
car of provisions to be sent from Be.
midi, the remaining members of the
militia company, twenty-eight men.
The remainder of Company K has
been on the fire scence Monday
moEnipg. esssssss s-s.,..=... -. ....z.s.
i shall spend not, less than a
weeks time in the devastated dis.
trict," said Governor Eberhart. II
have cancelled all of my political en-.
gagements because I feel that as
chief executive of the state I should
devote my entire time to the needs
and relief of my sorely stricken
people.
minnesota has undergone a
CHASTITY lesson The loss of life
simply apPalls one, while as a
lesson of finance the property loss,
the destruction wrought in our
forests will stand as a convincing
argument when the Legislature
assemblies next January.
E"The loss sustained in the dis.
aster is more than enough to have
insured proper fire protection for
the entire state of Minnesota for
the next fifteen years. H..
In addition to the militia going
aboard the train here, a car of pro-
visions loaded by the Northern
Grocery Co. was attached to the
train. This Car contained the
following.
One hundred fifty bushels Of
potatoes, fifty bushels of onions
sixty boxes soda crackers, thousand
pounds bacon, thirty cases salmon
five hundred pound sugar, thirty
cases one pound salmon. thirty cases
corned beef, fifteen cases Clipped
beef, FIVE hundred pounds rice, five
hundred pounds Coffee, eighty
pounds tea, 500 candles, three big
boxes matches, four boxes soap,
twenty-five cases condensed milk, one
barrel table salt, three hundred
pounds ham, two hundred pound.
roast beef, two hundred pounds
canned Vienna sausage.
Refugees are now focking into
Bemidji and the Armory opera house
has been secured as headquarter.
for the destitute who are penniless
and IN many instances but scantlly
clothed. They are being cared fol
in the building, both eating and
sleeping there. Many of the re-
fuRee do not stop here but 60 on to
relatives or friends to points south.
Mayor John G. Parker has
issued proclamation, calling
upon citizens here to give aid a,
once, and the women of Bemidj
under the leadership Of Mrs. A. p
White are making systemati.
canvass for clothing. The com.
mercial club has been notified t
ASSEMBLE At three o'clock this after
moon and devise means whereby
the peoble who would stsrve Blu