The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-10-10
Sixty Charrsd Bodies Found
In the Region
Burned Over.
THE SEARCH HARDLY BEGUN
Homesteaders and Families Cut
OFF From Rescue Known to
Have Peishe1.


Minnesota tonight Is passing through
the worst disaster in the history 81 the
State. even outshadowing the Huxley
horror 81 fifteen years ago
Tonight the wind is blowing a hurri-
cane and seems to he coming from all
dire, IONS a; once.
Burning en.hers are being carried be-
fore this vind 10 start other fires which.
A. they gain head~ay. are joined by the
parent body
steaders and settlers hAv. ssosped, and
II IL believed the dead will number over
two hundred
Already over forty bodies have been
recovered in this immediate vicinity.
Refugees from Beaudette tell harrow
ing tales of the horrors experienced
when that town caught fire Household
goods and vRhiables Of all descriptions,
even down 10 money. scattered the street..
while the people ran panic stricken hithsr
and thither.
Two men went mad and ran into the
burning hush and persisted, Women
tainted on the streets and were dragged
10 the relief trains by their friends
When the fire approached the house
Of Albert Berg his servant. Josephine
Jaspar. refused to leave. Several moi
tried to persuade her hut she attacked
them with butcher knife. wounded
one man and she was left To her fate an !
persisted
A temporary shelter for the homeless
is being erected here Whether this
town will stand tiIl morning Is not known.
everything depends ON the wind. Every
one il prepared to leave az a moment'I
notice
II was a veritable tornado Of Are thl'
struck the village 81 Pitt az p N. ves;er-
day The wind was blowing seventy
miles an hour II continued blowing
until p. NJ. when the fire hit Beaudeti4,
and fifteen minutes later IL struck SpooneT.
Bet ween the two towns a distance 81 NJ
teen miles was solid sheet 81 fame
30 feet high.
Men dropped in the streets from inhal-
ing the heated sir and were blown on their
feet by the high wind. The exodus from
these two towns began six hours before
the flames came hut many remained
behind.
The wind even unroofed buildings and
tor. out nv the roots trees yet untouched
by the fire
Oscar johnson with hia wife and three
children stood I'VE hours in the Beaudetts
River ducking their heads when the heat
became too intense They say the water
in TN. river was heated 10 an uncomfort-
able temperature and that steam ross
from the surface When they escaped 10
was through a furnace Of dying Goals with
here and there a blaze reaching out fog
what IL might der' roy.
Mrs A & CragEon. aged %. q ptoneeN
stood in a freight car in the relief train
with her granddaughter in her arms and
told the marvellous tale Of q white pony
coming up To her on the railroad track
with neck extended and whinueyine a.
II seeking aid She called the pony 90 her
and II stood while she mounted 70. and 20
ge,hsr they went up the railroad tracks
while the forest blsZed on both sldes.
She sayS she counted nine bodies along
tn. rails
Grignon. manager for the Shevlin-
horses in from Pitt when the fire menaced
there and quartered them az Spooner.
When the fiame- hit Spooner j Y. Huss.
editor OF the Northern N'~s and post-
master. re leased them They raced
wildly about the edge 81 the fire for few
minutes and then contrary 20 their habits
turned from the fire. plunged into Rainy
River and swan across To safety
Cattle released by their owners AZ the
approach % the flames fed to safety. and
accompanying them there were hundreds
OF deer caribou and moose and in truth.