Under Control

St. Paul, Minn., Sept. as. - Dispatches frora Carleton,' Milaca, Hinckley and Pine City state it has been raming at all those points for the last eighteen hours and that the forest fires are everywhere under control. There has never befqre been a fire of the magnitude of this one in this región. The whole country has been swept by the flaines, and everything has been burned outside of the towns, except that a few lumber canips were, by great exertion, saved, Thousands of tons of hay have been cut on the lowlands about the lakes and this is all destroyed. For miles and miles on every side there is nothing but a blackeutd waste. A dispatch fróm Williamsport, N. D., the ccranty seat of Emmons county, says the property loss there has lfeen somewhat exaggerated, but will reach 8100,000. Three persons were burned to death in that county - Henry Tabor, near Williamsport, and George W. and Clyde C. Johnson, farmers living near Beaver Creek. A report from the Holland settlement on the Missouri, north of Bismarck, says three farm hands were burned there. The loss at that poi'nt is about 850,000. Whole herds of cattle hemmed in by the awful conflagration were burned to death. The prairies are strewn with carc&sses. Hundreds oí families are homeless and penniless, and in many instances they had to Jiee from their abodes with only the clothes on their backs. There is certain to be great suffering this winter unless assistance comes to them from outside sguibcs. The fire which started tliis great conflagration was set by a thrashing machine. TuBTLB Lake, Minn., Sept. 28.- Word has reached this village that the family of Mr. Nesse, a farmer living a Short distance out of town, consisting of himself, his wife and several small chüdren, were hemmed in by theflames Ind no doubt burned to death, as no help could reach them. Black ElVEB Fali.s, Wis., Sept. 28. - Eeports from the east fork say that forest fires are raging in th;tt vicinity. Lumbering camps, tim beraad hay are being reduced to ashes, and even the flooding daras on the Etreams are not spared b' the raging Sames. Bears, deer and all manner of small game are seeking the Btreama for a. place of safety. In this vicinity tiros are raging on every side and a largo amount of property has been destroyed. CiilPPEWA 6ALLS, Wis,, Sept. 23. - Forest Bres are raging all over Chippewa county and the air in this city is thick with smoke. Considerable timber land, barns eoatainiag summer crops, stock, etc, have byeu burned. Whole villages have been burned. Bxbcock, YU., ;-üit. 28. An unpre.eedentcd siljkition presenta itself in this seci uii daya fires have been burning in eyery direction destroying millions of dollars worth of property. Fires of short duration, with a few thousand dollars' damage, are almost an animal oceurrence, but a continuous blaze of ten davs' duratio' destroying three-fourths of all the cranberry marahes, millions of feet of lamber, many farmhouses, granarles and stacks, is far beyond anythlng heretofore known.