Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-10-14
TOWNS ARE WIPED OUT
Scores Of HamletS Are
Swept by Greatest
Blaze in North.
PROPERTY LOSS IN MILLIONS
Estimates Can Not Be
Made; Many Bodies
Are Recovered.

DlJtTII, Minn.. oct. I3.-Offi-
Cinl> tonight were reluctant To Cs-
tlmhtC the numEr or dead In the
northern Minnesota forest fir,s.
IliOSc ;u Moss Lake say that tie
ioidl there will reach nj lchst three
hundred. At "a late hour tonight
i9B bodies had been brought Ia
Duluth mOrguIs. In other dis
triCtS II II snId that several hun.
drtd moro may bc added 10 this
and brings the total up to 500 oy
900.
DULUTH MINI. oct. 13. More
than fiNc hundred persons are dead
or missing and at least 1000 hav"
been mad" homeless by five fearful
forest fire.. which have spread across
northern Wisconsin and northern
Minnesota during the past SO hours.
Seventy five bodies, most Of them
Charrcd, are in local murgucs to-
night
Cloqucsst, Brookston, Rrevator. Co
roma, Adulph Thompson Arnold.
IlN'tf l4tlINf anu W IlbuN lANt bffll
wiped out Refugees declared this
afternoon that charred bodies were
seen in these towns as they were
fleeing from the fire zone
Scores Of hanl lets and hundreds OF
settlers homes have been destroyed.
The property and timber loss which
will total many millions will sur.
pass that claimed by any Of the
III 4. N.,h thi IL
section.
Duluth and superior seemingly are
safe from devastation. The terrific
wind OF last night died down today.
The flames which were creeping 50
close for the twin ports that they
destroyed suburban property and
threatened the great shipyards at
Superior. are subSiding. Many
buildings In Duluth were burned.
Every hour adds 10 the horror Of
the disaster and each hour add ad-
ditlunal names TO the list of dead.
Al Moose Lake an Associated
Press correspondent saw 10 bodies
piled In a firc-guttcd building. ON "A
road leading ou' OF Moose Lake at
least 100 bodies were strewn here
and there. A relief worker reported
that in a root cellar between Moos"
Lake and Kettle river. there we're
IT, bodies IN heap.
Wire communication 10 towns In
IA, u,,Ia,vd district Is wrecked. In
formation hrough, here bye rescue
parties, indicated that nearly 100
bodies have been found between Nv
mth and Cloquct. Several burned
automobiles, filled with Curpsrs.
were passed. the rescurerS declared.
Bodies are being brought from
every village and hamlet. stricken
by the gale-drivcn fires
when day broke on the Pine Lake
road, grusomc sigh's were seen by
rescurors. Bodies were strewn along
the rUidsidcs, six I'm the space Of half
mile, the Chnrrcd remains OF five
automobiles stood upright in the
ditch, great trees reared their black
ened hunks 10 the skies--cvcry where
was devastation.
The list Of dead will not be def
nitely compiled for days possibly
for week.
MOOSE LAKE. MINI. oct IL
Adjt. Gen. ". r. RhinoW Of St PAM
hero 90 supervise relief work in the
devastated north country, estimated
tonight that moro than 300 lives
were lost in the Moose Lake district
and It's immediate vicinity between
300 ana 400 caskcts have been or
dercd Shipped here hy the AdtuHul
general for distribution In this dis
trict
Three impruNiscd norgucs iu
Moose Lake buildings which 's-
capped the f,amcI hold IN" hudirs Of
50 victims. Gmorll Rhiuuw said.
aud many Of thea are chdrr'd DC
yOnd recognition
Bodies Of = men. women and cuui-
dron, literally baked to death, were
found IN = collar four miles wos' II
here uu aupihcr farm. Two u,'s
west. - moro bodies We, taken from
a well where firc-ds.y,u uuiortunnt'o
sought safety from m" uauca o..y
to perish BY drowning
Tho fir" which burned an area IN
miles square around MoOS" Lake,
was beng brought under control H.
this vicinity and General REiuUw sail
rcl.f work is WrN orgtuized anl all
immediate wants a." supplied.
UINCkLEN. MIN. oct i2.r-
More than % score Of persons arc
dead. hundreds are injured and
thinner ana UIe stock vail
ucl at several million collars was
destroyed hv" th" forest fire which
consumed the towns NJ Moose Lake
and kettle River, Mimi, last night
aud wiped out smaller settlements
AZ It swept eastward into Wiscon-
sin
RRAINERD, MINI, oct Ia
Eraincrd B"nedli and Atkin cs-