The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 14, 1918, Page 12

HUNDREDS PERISH IN F MANY TOWNS SWEPT BRITISH STOP YANKS SMASH AWAY BY FLAME DULUTH, Minn, Oct. 1.— More than 500 persons have per ished in the most disastrous for est fires in the history of Minne sota, according to the belief of city officials today. Reports gathered from the devas tated region indicated that fully that| number of bodies had been ered, it was stated One hundred and eleven bodies lay in Duluth morgues. At Moose Lake Minn., 102 bodies have been found Automobile trucks, manned home guards, were arriving hourly at Duluth with other charred bodies, State Forester W. T. Cox estimat ed the damage at $20,000,000. Fit teen thousand square miles of forest land, he said, had been fire-swept. Scores of half-crazed refugees tramped the streets of Duluth. bee tors, nurses and state guardsmen ‘were giving relief to the injured. Circle Lake Superior Early today the s were re ported checked, but still dangerous. The first fires were reported Sat- warday in peat bogs 75 miles east of Duluth, They drove directly east toward the cities of Duluth and Superior, Wis, beth of which were singed. Other fires, originat to the north, encircled the head of Lake Superior. Some towns in the path of the flames were saved by surrounding swamps. Others were wiped out and are mere blackened ruins to- day, Residents of these cities hur ried east for refuge. Some. were reported overtaken in automobiles. Trains, jammed to capacity, ran terrifying races with the fires leap- thru adjoining timber lands. Plunge Into Lake At Moose Lake, Minn. a score of persons stood neck deep in the lake overnight, fighting the flying brands. Home guards rushed to the district, dragged the refugees from’ the water and hurried them to Duluth, where other hundreds were being cared for. Adjt. Gen. W. F. Rhinow ordered 300 caskets shipped to the fire- Swept district, but the number of deaths was only a guess. Relief trains today crept thru the recov by desert territory without dispatchers’ || orders, telegraphic lines being de- stroyed. In addition to residences in de- stroyed villages, millions of feet of timber have been burned. Among Minnesota towns practical ly wiped out are Cloquet, Brooks- ton, Srevator, Corona, Oneida, Odenah, Arnold( Moose Lake and Wright. churches, schools and private homes have been thrown open to 12,000 refugees who have al ready py to the city with hor | ror-st es. In some cases but r mains to tell of the h overtook his family | M s and fathers are frantically for lost lidren, while res of tiny tots ery unappeased thelr parents, whose bodies le at morgue, twisted and scorched be- yond recognition Wild tales of the work of enemy agents are being circulated every where, Firebugs are said to have been driven away from a local ship yard when the flames were at their tury Only two buildings are left stand ing in the town of Harney Relief trains pulled the entire pop ulation out of Cloquet Saturday eve ning as the last remaining building in the town collapsed in flames. Fleets of motor trucks started out Monday morning to gather up the dead. Relief work is being rushed to the limit and scores of physicians and nurses are being brought in from | ¢ other states. y Chosen to Lead i Allies in Siberia panera | | | OTANI | Genera! Kikuzo Otani, a veteran lof the ChinoJapanese and the | RussoJapanese wars, has been | placed in command of the Japan- ese army which is to occupy Viadt vostok, As such he will be the the (®, BUY eonos 4° Ss »}On one oceasion pasting of a hat THE SEATTLE STAR | COUNTER BLOW ENEMY ATTACK LONDON, Oct. 14 ad ter-attacks east of the Selle river German coun near Soleames, were repulsed, Meld J. Taylor | | Marshal Haig reported today | By United Press Leased Wire | These attacks were delivered in|! DUE 0 r force on a wide front north of Le| wiry THE AMERICAN FIRST Cateau, following a heavy bombard: | \pary, Oet. 14.—-<Noon) — Heavy ment. Other enemy attacks support: | Gorman attacks east of the Argonne od by tanks were also broken up early today were broken up by Northeast of Soleames, British pa counter attacks. trols pushed forward to Haspres, |“ st the beches mid seven miles southwest of Valencien » two lines, wield nes, Ground was gained at a num net and tearing the ber of points north and south of > shrede. | Doual ttack had been pre by a heavy barrage, but the foan artillery the my «uns, leaving their infantry | without protection | Later the American infantry went forward and began clearing out ma "Yesterday afternoon the enemy opened a heavy bombardment on a! wide front north of Le Cateau,” the | ¢ statement maltd. “Under cover of this artillery fire strong infantry attacks were launched againat the positions held|cyine gun nesta in the regions of by un cast of the Belle, in the! Romagne, Cunel and Sommeraine neighborhood of Solesmes, ‘These 2 attacks were repulsed in stiff fight-| qypppy THE AMERICAN FIRS? ing ARMY, Oct, 14—Ag intense artil “Other attacks, In which tanks jery pattle is raging between the were employed to support the in-| Aire and the Meuse. It continued try assault, were delivered by thruout the night and was growing enemy yesterday without suc-| jy violence this morning © 9 The Americ guns apparently ‘Opposlte the village of Haspres our patrols pushed forward yeater day, and at a number of points south and north of Doual gained ground and took some pris oners.” FRENCH TROOPS - SWEEP ONWARD PARIS, Oct. 14.—French troops | are keeping in contact with the Ger mans on the whole front of the ene my retreat, the war office announced |today. The French have reached Chateau Porcien, five miles east of Rethel and 18 miles north of Kheima “On the whole front we are keep |ing in contact with the enemy,” the lcommunique said. South of Cha | teau Porcien we threw back upon the |north bank of the canal the last en jemy elements which «till resisted.” WILD MAN OF BORNEO HELPS ALLIED CAUSE ed the situation, The solid we Must Be Surrender, | Says Gov. Lowden CHICAGO, Oct. 14.—Gov. Frank Lowden, of Iilinots, declared} there can be nothing short of un-| conditional surrender, in a speech at the dedication of the IMlinots centennial monument MUST GET U. S. PERMIT TO DO NEW BUILDING Government for new buildings, extensions or repairs costing more than $2,500, must be secured from the new government office, which Councilman RL H Thomson will open at 634 York block this week. Work undertaken for the war or navy departmenta, or the Emerg- fleet is not af permits ency fected. corporation, (Special to The Star by N. E. A) — | LONDON, Oct. 14.—Even the! 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