The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-10-10


forest nre at . O'Clock this morning
located and II is thought the death
rate viii be upward OF 300.
Wagon loads of human bodies are
being brought into the railway stu
tion at Beaudette.
1t is reported that many settlers.
crazed with grief at the loss of fam
HES and property, are roaming the
woods and searching parties are look
Ing for the injured the dead and the
dcmented One family Of nine. one OF
seven and one of Ave perishcd on Fri
day night
Tornado Of Fire
At s 30 p. m. Saturday 4 tornado OF
fire struck Beaudette and Spooner and
within three minutes after the first
alarm. every building was ablaze
Within half an hour they were heaps
Of ashes The people of these two
toTns had just enough time 10 get
out OF their homes with what they had
on their backs. They were loaded on
a passenger train thar was standing
al the depot and taken to Rainy Riv-
er. Ontario. The whole country east
OF here Is on fire. Roosevelt Swift,
Williams and Cedar Spur are In great
danger All the women and children
are being rapidly removed to places
OF safety. The Canadian Northern
railway has stationed trains al every
station 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
everything Five thousand made
homeless and the greater part OF them
absolutely destitute. Help must reach
them in the next day or two and that
in a substantial way as a greater part
Of them are about half clad
IT will be impossible 10 get details
and the names of the dead and injur-
ed before tomorrow and some OF the
dead will not be found until spring.
1t Will be impossible to estimate the
damage or casualties until later. but
the pioneers of northern Minnesota
must have help.
The wind shifted tonight aud car
ried the flames away from Roosevelt
and unless II changes again the town
will be saved.
Canadian Northern trains have been
a freight train went through bridge
near Pitt The crew was saved and
Conductor Monahan walked into Beau
dette which he reported as destroyed
only the water tank. the school house
walls. aud the depot standing Mona
han says he walked over dead bodies
on the way. but could not say how
many
H., L. "A
have not been heard from since. \
mother and FIVE children are known TO
have been burned. The fires are still
raging and the smoke Is dense
Saloons at Roosevelt were closed by
the mayor
Dead as far as known are.
KATHERINE JASPER, aged 50.
domestic for Albert Berg. Beaudette.
JOHN GOLVIN. aged As homestead
er. four miles from Beaubette wife
and three small children, two girls and
a boy
KATHERINE JASPER. fought her
would be rescuers off with a butcher
knife and perished in the home of her
employer.
RAINY RIVER, Ont. oct @
While a wind is sweeping sea OF
fire eastward on the south side OF
the Rainy river at a velocity OF fifty
miles an hour, the great body Of
flames passed this section. reye6-ng
a calamity that already reaches the
proportion Of an international dis
aster. Sixty corpses have been
found in the path OF the flames and
n vast area is yet 10 be searched for
dead while the towns of Spooncr.
Beaudette and Pitt have been totally
DESTROYED with great property loss.
With the exception OF the destruc-
ton of the mills and stock OF the Rat
Portage Lumber company al Rainy
River. the principal loss is confined
IN the south side OF the river and
chiefly sustained along the American
border
Railroad and Telegraph Cut OF
Railroad and wiro connections from
tho west wcrc cut of by n burned
district axtending 20 miles from War
road, MINI. on ihe Canadian North
ern railroad Through this district
the last trains passed last night The
road is open 10 the south and cast.
however. and relief is being afforded
from Fort william
Tho ilTcb hoi' VSeu hulpul"tlih
in that district for months and were
started anew by a terrific wind that
began two DAYS ago. The wind In
creased in velocity until II bore
wave OF namo 100 feet high and a
hair mile wide. Many settlers took
the railroad track but most of these
vcro burned 70 a crisp as the fire
leaned this barrier of some 700
Yards along the clearing 4 dcscrip