Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-14

are said to menace the latter city Bermidji reported only small loss.
 Greatest loss of life and property daamge is believed to have odcurred in the Cloquet region, where a number of towns have been destroyed and all semi-rural settlements virtually wiped out.
 A special train of twenty coaches brought LOO refugees from Cloquet and Carleton. They confirmed reports that many persons lost their lives in i those towns.
 Albert Michaud, a special policeman, 1 told tragic story of the burning of i Cloquet and of the mad rush of it's ] residents to escape. | At 6 o'clock last night a forest . ranger gave warning that unless the wind died down the townspeople would i have to flee" said Michaud "A thick ! pail of smoke hung over the town and at [ o'clock the special trains were
 called.
 The scene at the station was in-
 describabie. There came rush of
 wind and the entire town was in i flames. The trains pulled out with the
 forest blazing closely behind them Women wept and chung to their chill , dren while others cried franticaIly for their missing ones. The flames licked at the cars. Windows in the coaches
 were broken by the heat. The en- i gineers and iremen alternately stoked, to give the boilers all the fuel they could stand.
 Other trains were hurriedly made of flat cars, box cars and anything that
 would roll. But even then all did not i get away. There are many dead in 'i Cloquet'
 Cloquet was a town with about
 I,500 population. More than 4,7O0 per
 sons were brought ot Duluth and Su-
 perior from there alone.
 Information brought in by rescue
 parties here tonight indicated that
 nearly 100 bodies have been found on
 roads leading to Duluth. Several burn ed automobiles filled with bodies were passed by the rescuers. Other bodies are being brought from every village
 and hamlet stricken by the gale driven
 fires.
 The list of dead will not be definite : Iy compiled for days, perhaps weeks Hundreds of panic-stricken people : have gathered about the numerous lakes in the burned areas and those reported missing may be among them The town of Twig, on the Miller , trunk road, was wiped out. T Other towns reported as being en-
 tirely destroyed include Rice Lake . Brookston, Brevator. Corona, Adolph Thompson Arnold, Moose Lake ant Wright.
 There is no community within {
 radius of thirty miles which has no z sustained more or less damage ant ! each has it's quota of dead and in . jured.
 > Both fire fighting and relief work ii being carried on under the direction s of the Minnesota Home guard ant state officials.
 The cities of Duluth and Superio
 were not definitely out of danger unti
 today As it was, property damag
 wrought yesterday will total more thai [ a million dollars. VI The fire also destroyed one approacl II to the interstate bridge which con l. meets Duluth and Superior, the Wis e consin city across the St. Louis rive t. from here.
 l. Automobile parties dashed through ,- wall of flame to rescue 200 tuberculosi al patients at the Nopeming sanatoriun y, which was partially destroyed. Tn
 patients were taken out with greates
 difficulty, fire having partially cut O
 the rescuers' retreat, but it was sai ., tonight none probably would suffer V effects.