Omaha daily bee., 1918-10-14
TEN MINNESOTA
TOWNS WIPED
OUT BY FIRES
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people were brought to Duluth and
Superior from there alone.
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Superior from there alone.
100 Bodies Found on Roads.
Information brought in by rescue
parties tonight indicated that nearly
100 bodies have been found on roads
leading to Duluth. Several burned
automobiles filled with bodies were
passed, rescuers declared. Other
bodies are being brought in from
every village and hamlet stricken
by the gale-driven flames.
The list of dead will not be def
nitely compiled for days, perhaps
weeks. Hundreds of panic stricken
people have gathered about numer-
Gus lakes in the burned area and
those reported missing may be
among them.
The town of Twig, on the Miller
trunk road, was wiped out. Other
towns reported as being entirely de-
stroyed include Rice Lake, Brooks
ton, Brevator, Corona, Adolph,
Thompson, Arnold, Moose Lake
and Wright.
There is no community within a
radius of 80 miles which has not
sustained more or less damage and
each has its quota Of dead and in
jured.
Danger Over at Duluth.
Both fire fighting and relief work
is being carried on under the direc-
ton of the Minnesota Home guard
officials and state officials. The
cities of Duluth and Superior were
not out of danger until today. AS
it was, property damage wrought
yesterday will total more than mil
lion dollars. The Duluth Country
club, and the Children's home, the
largest structures of its kind in the
state, were total losses. and the fire
swept Woodland and Lester park,
recreation centers, loss of which will
amount to several thousand dollars.
The fire also destroyed one approach
to the interstate bridge, which con-
meets Duluth with Superior, the Wis
consin city across the St, Louis
river from here.
Automobile parties dashed through
a wall of flame to rescue 200 tuber-
culosis patients at the Nopemipg
sanitarium, which was partially de-
stroyed. The patients were taken
out with greatest difficulty, fires
having cut off the rescuers re-
treat, but it was said tonight none
probably would suffer i'll effects.
80 Bodies at Moose Lake.
Moose Lake, Mimi, Oct. l3.-Ad-
jutant General w. F. Rhinow OF St.
Paul, here to supervise relief work
in the devasted north country, es-
timated tonight that more than 800
lives were lost in the Moose Lake
and its immediate vicinity. Between
800 and 400 caskets have been order
ed shipped here by the adjutant
general for distribution in this dis
trict.
Three improvised morgues in
Moose Lake buildings, which es-
capped the flames hold the bodies of
80 victims, General Rhinow said,
and many OF them are charred be-
yond recognition. Bodies of II men,
women and children, were found in
a cellar, four miles west of here.
On another farm, two miles west,
IA more bodies were taken from
a we'll.
The fire, which burned an area
20 miles square around Moose Lake.
was being brought under control
in this vicinity. Relief work is we'll
he said, and all immedi-
ate wants are supplied.
Tonight General Rhinow ordered
10 motor trucks to report early to-
morrow. These will be sent out in
all directions to gather up the dead
and injured, and bring them here.
Home guardsmen from surrounding
towns will aid in the work, des-
pite the fact that they have been
on duty continually since the fire
broke out.
"The country for miles around
Moose Lake is a smouldering ruin"
said General Rhinow. Perhaps six |
Or seven buildings are standing here
and there, but all else is desola-
ton. On the roads we traversed
to reach here we saw crazed set
Tiers pacing about aimlessly, gen.
orally too stunned to talk. The |
whole situation is APPALLING.
Orders were issued to all rail-
.oads not to sell tickets to any one
bound for the hre-swept region not
to go there. This order
$ intended to bar sightseers and
curious persons who would hamper
he relief work,