FOREST FIRES.
CABLE NEWS
United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.
TOWJtfS WIPID our
SETTLERS BURNT TO DEATH
Received October 11, 9 a.m. VANCOUVER, October 10. Forest fires are still raging over a [ large part of Minnesota. The towns or' Jbeandette, Spooner, Pitt, and Gracetown have been wiped off the map. Seventy-five bodies have been found, and it is expected that the death-rate will exceed a hundred. Ihe bodies of the dead are being brought to the railway station at Beandette in wagon-loads. Official returns give the number of dead so far notified as forty.
THE DEATH ROLL.
CORPSES IN SMOULDERING HEAPS.
OUTBREAK OF TYPHOID
Received Last Night, 10.5 o'clock. VANCOUVER October 11. Four hundred lives have been lost at Beandette. Two hundred and fifty-nine todies have been recovered. 'I he corpsei were found in smouldering heaps. T<vo hundred typhoid patients have been hastily removed to the Beandette Hospital. Many are now dying at the Logging Mills. A VESt area of forest is turning. five hundred persons are homeless. Robbers, in the stricken towns, have robbing women of their jewels. Wild animals raced before the flames with human beings. Special trains are uringing the refugees to Dulatto.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10117, 12 October 1910, Page 5
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196FOREST FIRES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10117, 12 October 1910, Page 5
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