The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-10-12
Six Cars Bearing Governor, Attorney
General and Other High Officers
in Safe Burst of Speed
MILITIAMEN ARE NOW ON DUTY
Supplies Include Tents, Blankets Hard
ware and Medical Supplies-Red
Cross Nurses on Boari

International Falls, Oct. H.
Under the direction of VIII. Gem
nell, general manager of the Min.
nesota & International, and having
on board Governor Eberhart, Adult
ant General Wood, and other high
officers of the Minnesota National
Guards. the special train which left
Bemidji at 100 Tuesday afternoon,
arrived at International Falls at Sis
that evening.
On board the train was Attorney
General George Simpson, Major T.
c. Clark, general medical advisor of
the M. N. G., Major w. A. Clark,
Quarter Master and Captain II. H.
Thatcher, Military Storekeeper T.
V. Herb and Ed. Collins
Major Clark is famous as an army
surgeon and expert on infectious
diseases. He was in charge of the
hospital at Chickamauga in 1898, at
which time General Wood was cap
tain of company from Austin. He
goes on the present trip to render
what aid he can in preventing an
epidemic.
The governors train is composed
of three cars of supplies, coach for
the militia and private car for the
governor.
In addition to the car of provisions
and hardware, added in Bemidji
there were two baggage cars filled
with 500 tents, blan kets, nails, ham.
mers and other hardware and medi.
cal supplies. Five hundred new
blankets were purchased in St. Paul.
In the governors car there are
two Red Cross nurses, Miss I. B.
Carlsteen and Beatrice Dolan. They
are to give such attention to the
fire sufferers as only trained and
experienced minds can give.
Adjutant General Wood, Attorney
General Simpson and other state
officers of the M. N. G., make the
day coach carrying the Bemidji
militia there headquarters and it is
in this coach that the Twin City
newspaper men, of whom there are
five, are to be found. Your own
correspondent was fortunate enough
to be CHARTERED in the governors
private car.
Twenty seven of the Bemidji
militia men were modified under
the command of Lieutenent
Kenneth Kelley and placed on
board, but at the urgent request
OF Mayor Parker and Chief Harr-
ington, nine Of the men were
ordered to remain in Bemidji.
The nine left behind to fight the
fires around Puposky and NeDish
were Elmer Mattson, M. A.
Lockwood, Vern King, Lewis
Bourgette, Frank Parker, H.
Dunn, B. R. Erickson, Louis
Slmonson and M Adams. The
militia men who continued on to
the fire zone were Charles Baker,
Ernie Anderson, John Skogsburg,
Ted Getchell, William Pickles,
Sergeant Birrer, James lullaby,
Levi KING, c. Crippen, Corporal
Del Burgess, Sergeant George T.
Baker, John Holden, V. l.. Ellis,
Lieutenent Kelly and Roy Lindsey.
Beginning at point twenty miles
north of Bemidji the smoke became
thick and continued to increase as
the train proceeded north and with
one or two exceptions, noticably at
Blackjack, details concerning which
were covered in separate dispatch,
no fires were encountered.
The special train is furnished free
from St. Paul to Brainerd by the
Northern Pacific and from there to
International Falls by the Minnesota
& International.