Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 242, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1910 — DISASTROUS FIRES RAGING IN MINNESOTA. [ARTICLE]

DISASTROUS FIRES RAGING IN MINNESOTA.

Many Lives Lost In Forest Fires Near Warroad and Baudette and Whole Families Destroyed. Terrific forest fires have been raging for several days in Minnesota, and some estimates of the ’dead are as high as 1,000. On Monday it was reported that for a distance' of fifty miles from Baudette and the Rainy River to Warroad the forest was a solid mass of flames. Baudette is said to be only the charred remnant of a town, gpooner is entirely wiped off the map, while Cedar Spur, Graceton, Pitt, Swift and Roosevelt, all hamlets, have been destroyed. Refugees from the fire reported that they saw many bodies of dead along the line of their escape. The fire is* worst near the Manitoba line.