The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-10-14
MINNESOTA DISASTER GREATEST
SINCE HINCKLEY FIRE IS
YEARS AGO.
BEAUDETTE IS NO MORE
Property loss in Rainy River, Beau
dette and spooner is $1,5o0,o00
Hundreds r
Dead.

a PROCLAMATION.

X X T. > X = 4 +
A PROCLAMATION.
+ BY virtue of my position as
< president of the State Red Cross
= society, in view Of the dire needs
X of citizens of the northern part of
X this state who have suffered from
+ recent forest fires, l hereby call
+ upon the people of Minnesota to
x respond at once with contributions
y Of money, provisions and clothing,
4 to be distributed to the needy un-
4 der the direction of this society.
x Such contributions will be re-
X ceived by Kenneth Clark, st. Paul,
x treasurer of the State Red Cross
+ society, and F. NJ. Prince, Mime
x apOlis, acting as assistant state
x treasurer, and l hereby designate
x the mayors of the towns and cities
x of the state to act as collectors Of
< this fund in their respective local
Il tiles.
4 Prompt and generous response
x is imperative as the reports from
4 the afflicted districts indicate
< that the need is great and will
* continue for months.
= Given under my hand and seal
4 this ninth day of October, 1910.
4 Adolph o.. Eberhart, Governor.
u x II X II - x x x 4 4
Warroad, Oct. 1.-THE creates
catastrophe that Minnesota has eX
perienced since the Hinckley horro.
IS years ago occurred Friday night ant
Saturday, when the whole Minnesota
Manitoba boundary country was swep
by fire that is still raging, and as de
tails become known, the disaster as
sumes appalling proportions.
The number of deaths is estimated
at from 100 to 200 or more, almos
entirely among settlers in the woods
around the towns of ~Beaudette, Pitt
Roosevelt and Graceton.
Very few of the settlers are know
10 have escaped and this estimate will
likely fall considerably short of the
actual number.
SCCItG u T1OTFCTA Enacted
Scenes of horror ahe reported or
every hand. People lost their heads
completely and ran ainlessly about
bewalling their loss, Streets of towns
were strewn with personal belongings
which were thrown away i'm their
flight.
Crowds Of ~able-bodied men, mostly
w0rkmen with no person to care Sr
ran pell-mell to board the waiting
train ct Beaudette to the exclusion o.
women and children, and refused pos
itively to assist in saving property.
The village of Pitt was burned at
o'clock Friday night and at s O'Clock
the towns Of Spooner and Beaudette
six miles distant, were in flames.
A hurricane was blowing at the time
and within 10 minutes after the ap
pearance of the fire the inhabitants
of the town were forced to flee fol
their lives, being unable to save any
OF their property.
Then We're enacted scenes which
will never be forgotten by those pres
ent. Sick people apparently by the
score appeared and were carried OF
assisted to points of safety. There
We're five patients in Carrigan's hospi
tai, which was burned. One woman
who had given birth to a child at {
O'Clock the same evening, had to be
carried to the Office of the Shevlin.
Matthew Lumber company, in whose
building many people took refuse.
Property Loss $t,5O0,n coo
The property loss in Rainy River,
Beaudette and Spooner alone, inelud,
ing the Rat Portage Lumber company's
plant and yard 1T Rainy River and
the yard Of the Shevlin-Mathieu Lum-
Der company at Spooner, will total
about $1,500,000.
The people Of Rainy River are do.
ing everything possible to assist the
homeless residents of the two Ameri-
al towns.
Steps were at once taken by Mr..
Matthew, the executive head of the
Rainy River Lumber company and the
Sheylin-Mathieu Lumber company, to
have timber shipped oyer from Rainy
River for the purpose OF building tenn
porary shelters for the people In
Beaudette and Spooner and the board
ing camp of the Shevlin- Matthew Lum-
Der company is feeding as many of
the people as possible.
Situation at Rainy River.
Rainy River, Oct. 1O.-This town
was on fire from the International
bridge to Sixth street. a distance of
half a mile.
Included in the burned area are the
Rat Portage Lumber company's mill
and lumber yard, containing $1,000. 600
feet Of lumber; the Western Canada
mills company and surrounding