Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1918-10-16
AT A LEAST |: ! !. 1000
PERSONS PERISH
IN FOREST FIRES
Flames Starting Near Bemidji,
Minn., Cut SWath About
Fifty Miles Wide.
MANY VILLAGES IL GONE
Property Worth Millions Of Dollars
Has Been Destroyed and More
IT, Than $1,000 Persons Are 2
Homeless. - ~

~ Than 5000 Persons Are
A.' Homeless.
Duluth, Oct. 15.-More than 1000
are dead, 10000 destitute and esti.
mates of those made homeless run az
high as 100000, as result of Mime
sofas greatest disaster, caused by for
est fires burning over an area of ap-
aproximately 80 by 100 miles in North
eastern Minnesota, centering in Pine
and Carlton counties, according to re-
ports received here.
The property loss is expected to run
between $50,o0Q00O and $10O,000,0 900.
Fires in most sections have burned
themselves out and the abatement Of
tho high winds caused the blazes to
die down, but renewal Of the gale may
fan countless small fires into furious
CONGREGATIONS.
Weather reports give no promise Of
rains quenching the blazes. i -
I 1876 Bodies at Duluth; rs at Moose
N 49, Lake. aE .. z-rI .
Officials were reluctant to estimate
the number of dead-it being almost
impossible to obtain any definite fig
ures from cities and towns, while hum
dreds of farm homes undoubtedly have
Z been burned and hundreds of persons
may eventually be found in these
ruins. Is
One hundred and nfnety-six bodies
had been brought to Duluth; seventy
FIVE bodies, few Of which have been
at Moose Lake, and II IS known that
more than 400 have been burned to
death in the Moose Lake-Kettle River
district alone; about ten deaths are
! known to have occurred at Cloquet,
and Twig, west of Duluth on the Mil
Ter Trunk road, is reported complete
ly wiped out and a search is being con-
Quoted for bodies. IT. III. =.
Scores of others are known to be
dead at Brookston; Pine Lake and
other villages in Pine, Carlton and. st.
Louis counties. Burch Lake, sum-
mer resort near. Duluth, is virtually
wiped out, with 2 heavy loss of life
reported. NO, 5 ~. M az s.:,is.. ~
J The fire fighters caution against re.
taxation in fighting the fires. Addi.
.tional aid and large numbers of fire
fighters from other sections Of the
Northwest are needed to relieve the
exhausted and burned men fighting
the fires, which continue to smolder in
all sections. -s. 4: D..
Forest rangers, said that the danger
will not be entirely over until heavy
rain falls throughout the entire sec.
ton. :. a high wind, they say, will fan
the flames into a roaring, seething
furnace Of fire.
cloquet Almost Desert Waste.
Cloquet, thriving city Of 5000, ia
almost level. Every residence in the
city is reported burned, but fortunate
ly a warning of the approaching fire
came in time to allow nearly every
resident of the city to leave: X
Twelve trains were made up at Carl
ton and rushed to Cloquet. The trains
were composed of Pullmans, coaches
boxcars, coal cars, ore cars and fiat
!, cars Three bodies have been found
there.
Five large mills, including a tooth
pick factory, lumber mills and othel
important Industries still stand-a re
hinder Of prosperous Cloquet.
Relief work, directed by Adjutan
+ ~ >~aro1 1Dlir0u, n~1 h;ns At Il l~..l -.
ant Glenn Harrison, is well under way
All Mesabi, Vermilion and Cuyun,
Iron range towns are reported safe
though at Nashwauk some building
are burned and fires are reported nea
Virginia, Eveleth, Hibbing and Gilbert
Part of Proctor and West Dulutl
were burned, but the losses in tina
section are comparatively small
Bodies Arrive In Duluth.
5 Bodies are being brought from ever
yillage and hamlet stricken by tn
gale-driven forest fires. The charre
bodies are beyond Identification an
great crowds Of eager searchers VIII
have relatives missing are filing in an
out OF the undertaking tablishment'
uncertain whether they have ident
fed their people or not. 4 III
When day broke on the Pike LAX
road gruesomes sights greeted re-
cuers. Bodies were streWn along th
x.roadside, six in the space Of half
mile, the charred remains Of five aut
mobiles still stood upright in the ditcl
great trees reared their blackene