Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1918 — GREAT DAMAGE BY FOREST FIRES. [ARTICLE]

GREAT DAMAGE BY FOREST FIRES.

Forest fires in northerri Wisconsin and Minnesota have done millions of dollars damage and nearly one thousand people are dead and missing wirle thousands have been rendered homeless. The greatest number of fatalities were at Moose Lake and its immediate vicinity where three hundred people lost their lives. The fires burned fiercely Saturday and Sunday and the atmosphere here was filled with smoke from same Sunday. The fire had burned out Monday.