Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-10-11
Homeless Refugees Fill Towns
Along Canadian Border,
Where All Possible Is Done
for Their Relief
TALES or HORROR COME
FROM BURNED ZONE
Parents Are Cfemated White
Trying to Save ChiIdiels
Dead Bodies Lie Along Rail-
road TRACK for Miles,
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Winnipeg, Man. Oct. i0.~-rhc latest
reports from tlte firea 10 tho Rainy
River region Of Minnesota tonight in
creased tue horrors OF the situation.
Estimates Of the number Of persons
I Killed range from seventy.fiye to four
: hundred tonight Many conservative
] men place the deaths at more than
4 100 But the greater concern for the
/ present Is the rescue Of the helpless
and the relief Of thousands OF home
| less mon, women and children,
stories OF wild animals fleeing for
safety side hy side w'th human be-
ings of mothers burned 10 death With
babies on their breasts, and OF men
cremated while endcayoring 70 shicla
their children, were among tho talcs
OF horror brought IN today.
The Duluth express when ii arrived
here today. brought MANY refugees
from the scene OF the conflagration
The engineer ot the truin thus de-
sorthed the situation.
III the fire keeps on the way Il IL
going there win hc mighty little left
OF the population of thst part Of Min-
nesata
For miles around BAndctte ana
\ spooner, Wis. where there were ttrge
Z trtots oi pasi IL Is nsm systpt rAean.
There have been forests Ia thnt part
of the country Tor such o long time
that the earth Is practica.lS peat and
when q tree fell IL sci fire even 10 the
roots ana the earth around thu roots.
From my engine It appeared thar
"a h. hl
bcen burned except that Of the Shev-
lin Mathieu company which Is safe.
All the lumber In the yards. however.
burned like flash When we passed
through. All the territory near the
track had been burned over aud WAS
stili smouldering All the ties OF the
road have teen charred. We stopped
every little while to take on people.
but most Of them got of just out
side of the danger zone, so they could
go back to what was left of their
homes after the fire dies down"
one of the most thrilling stories Of
the situation is given by Mrs. Town
sends OF Warroad, q refugee on the
Duluth train. She said
Two trainloads of people left
Warrond hast night after midnight.
hut we do not know whether they
reached place Of safety. The town
OF Baudette is wholly deserted. Every
one in Warrond who had revolver
Is carrying it, The survivors are des-
pcrate aud a great deal Of vandalism
is abroad Mcn are robbne women OF
their Jewels
"lr high wind arose nothing could
save the Town of Warroad. When we
passcd through spraeue Man. we
saw that the fire had run right up
To the Canadian Northern station."
Othor refugees tell how Wild anti
mails raced Wildly about the edge OF
the fire ana then turned and plunged
into thc deep and wide Rainy River
ana swan across 10 safety They fol-
lowed the human flight and cattle
likewise. released by their owners az
the approach of tho flames, fled To
safety.
oscnr johnson and his wife and
three children stood tive hours In the
Baudctto river duckins their hands
when the heat became too Intense.
They say the water ia the river was
hcutcd Gao an uncomfortable tcmpera-
ure and that steam rose from the
surface. when they escaped il was
through u furnace of dying conls with
here aud thcrc a. tlaVu reaching out
for what ID might destroy
Mrs E G. l.agvon, aged CO. n
pioneer who stood iu freight car
with her granddaughter 10 her arras,
saws shc counted nine bodies along the
railway.