The Fire Fiend

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 157, 12 October 1910, Page 5

The Fire Fiend

TERRIBLE BUSH FIRES IN AMERICA. BIG DEATH ROLL. WAGGON LOADS OF CORPSES. FOUR TOWNS WIPED RIGHT OUT. By Cable—Press Association.—Copyright. New York, October 10. The official list gives the names of forty killed by forest fires in northern Minnesota. Beaudette, Spooner, Pitt and Gracetown were wiped off the map. Later information says that 75 bodies have been found, and it is expected that the death roll will reach 100. Corpses were brought to the railway station at Beaudette in waggon loads. FOUR HUNDRED BURNED. ROBBERS STRICKEN WHILST ROBBING WOMEN. WILD ANIMALS RACE WITH HUMANS. Re ceived October 11, 9.40 p.m. New York, October 11. At Beaudette 400 were burned. Two hundred and fifty-nine bodies were recovered. The corpses were found in smouldering heaps. Two hundred typhoid patients were hastily removed from Beaudette Hospital. Many are now dj'ing. The logging mills and a vast area of forest are still burning. Five hundred people are homeless. Robbers were stricken in the towns whilst robbing women of their jewels. Wild animals raced before the flames with human beings. Special trains are bringing the refugees to Duluth.