CASUALTIES.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14322, 12 October 1910, Page 5

CASUALTIES.

TERRIBLE FOREST FIRES. LONG DEATH ROLL. Press Association—By Tel.—Copyright. NEW YORK, Oct. 10.

An official list gave forty killed by the forest fires in Northern Minnesota. The towns of Beaudette, Spooner, Pitt, and Gracetowii, 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. The corpses were brought to the railway station at Beaudette in waggon loads.

TERRIBLE TALES. Received 10.50 p.m., Oct. 11th. VANCOUVER, Oct. 11. At Beaudette 400 are dead, and 259 bodies were recovered. Corpses were found in smouldering heaps. Typhoid patients were hastily, removed from Beaudette hospital, and many are now dying. Logging mills and a vast area of forest are burning, and 500 are homeless. Robbers went through the stricken towns, robbing women of their jewels. Vt ild animals raced before the flames with men and women. Special trains are bringing refugees to Duluth. ELEPHANT AS LIFE-SAVER. CALCUTTA, Oct, 10. During the tidal wave in the Ganges last week, by which some hundreds, of pilgrims were drowned, an elephant repeatedly swam the river at Soroni, and with ropes attached, saved a thousand lives.

Dangavilla reports that a large area or country has been searched for a Norwegian bushman who was missed a week ago, but without result. 'J'wo school girls were crossing a sawmill yard at- Tekopuru, when a truckload of timber came along the tramline they were on. As usual' they climbed on a stack of timber to be out of the way, and the timber toppling down with tliem they were jammed against it by the truck, and were both painfully bruised about the feet and legs.