ï~~ Ai rii,:uuprogr mfor umi nre pt n h c uantry wilt be apped cl.tc llL":l, lti 3s m en and mi ' ro s ' ior.;ra at a conference In th:rno i tou I - \ednesdaY. Staif ite oety com-:1 - n the.eene of dei in jos 51on with the relief it;.)i igt: 1d (y Goy. Lurnquist, Ad1t. Gen. W bi, state high way commis.t I nwmier repr'esenta tiv, th.fI u] 'lAssociation anl i nnleapolis i x'1 an d Com'mercecvas sociaztion: o I:1 Cd rets of'ficecrs PROB3L EMS FACED. The proulsi to becopew - Heusinig of ho maeles thousands. Provision of immediate supplies.of food, clothing, bedding, furni ture, fuel and stock food. Adequate tnancial assistance for the restoration of business and ag riculture in the district. Rebuilding of bridges destroyed by fire and opening of highways closed by debris. Vestoration of 'communication in the flame isolated zone. The meeting will be held in the one remaining building in the village, a little country schoolhouse. MAY CALL LEGISLATURE. In a dramatic appeal for action.in stead of discussion while tfire sufferers are going insane, Mayor Hodgson rammed a special legislative session appeal to raise state funds into the program of the St. Paul Association at its second day of discussion at the _ St. Paul Athletic club at noon today.. Mayor Hodgson and C. H. Bigelow, president, St. Paul Association, will go to Moose Lake Wednesday to attend he meeting of state relief bodies and will urge a special 30:-minute session of the Minnesota legislature-neWtt'Fi day to raise funds to care for,;thesuf ferinr' The newspaper -raising of funds for the Red Cross fire relief fund was in dorsed. Mayor Hoiodson said the disaster af rected the entire state, and relief should be provided out of state fund. He said te governor should be im portuned a: once by long distance tele 1 one, instead of after Wednesday's meeting, to cali the legislature. DISTRICT DIVIDED. The fire district has been divided uto three iniitary districts, each of which vill be in charge of a colonel of the thre elinnesota infantry regi ments. cl. I. A. Bellows will be in charge if the d.jstrict surrounding Cloquet; Col. L. 0. GAodfrey in charge of Moose - ae and probably Ccl. W. A. Stevens in charge of the Aitkin district. A specital train,.three sleepers and a naggage car. lift St. P aul at 2:30 p. mn. for blouse Lake.- tCs: H and K, 4th mnfantry, wore aboard, and' will he assigned to duaties upon arrival there'..Supplies are also- being forwarded on the train. - UN DE R M A RT IAL L AW. Moose Lake wo~is placed under mnar tial lawx today and railroad officiails were notified by tihe ndjutanit generdas devar~tment tha t no tickets are to. be 01 1oil"tucivilians fnr Ithait Point. I lads Vi it. \Vihis 1,tocheste co n. inanding the motor reserve unitw which will carry stte efliocials tu the scone today, sthrted ihis imorning that. Ie ween $10 100 - and ' 15 000 h be~en raised in Rocheister to be turned ox<er to the state it fi cmmission for the; immediate relici Of suffereis. DISCUSS TRANSPORTATIO N,..' ~ ~ - Ra ro->ial. 1 1of the Great Norti ern, N o ith rn,,, P: ci e and Soo Like ->ri met til Ilining ini the oiIceof - 1:el'aree, tiahie manager, to con ider t' eI-rrying oTf supplies to the St. Paul Red Cross chapter, wires from Moose Lake that financial aid is imperative. Carload of medical supplies sent from St. Paul. c Two Deaths Result Fron Influenza-55, Cases Are'. Children. One hundred and twenty-eight newx cases of Spanish influenza, the larges number recorded at the city health of. flee in a single day, developed in St, Paul'today. Two deaths resulted fro the epidemic- today. Fifty-five of these cases are among school children. All visitors now are excluded from St. Paul schools by or der of Dr. B. F. Simon, chief city health officer. Total number of cases in St. Pau. today Is 325:" O e hundred and eighty-two new cases developed in Minneapolis today. Four deaths and 84 new cases are re ported at Ft. Snelling today, Fifteen deaths occurred "in Minne apolis during the last 24 hours as a re sult of the disease. Deaths resulting from the epi, ic in St. Paul today are: Harold Guil. bault, 18, 1024 Iglehart ave., and Mrs. A A. Hill, 41, 680 E. Lawson st. The dead at Ft. Snelling today are: Private H. H. Engleman, 27, Odessa, Minn'.yDnwoody treariing detanhment; Private Ollie Hines, 27, Stanley, Minn., Ft. Snelling medical corps; Private.R. A. Newell, 28, Sheridan, Wyo., Ft. Snell ink medical corps; J. W. McMullen, 21, Odell, Neb.,.state hospital unit 107, Flt. Snelling. MOST FROM UNIVERSITY. Of the 84 new cases received at the fort hospital today, 76 were from the University of Minnesota training detachment No. 2, four from Co. D, 29th battalion, United States guards; two from the medical corps, Ft. Snelling; one from,the quartermaster's corps, Ft. Snelling, and one from Dunwoody training detachment. There now are 415 cases on hand at Ft. Snelling. Thirty-one patients were discharged today. The state calamity board today appropriated -$10,000 for the use of the state board of health in the campaign against the influenza epidemic in Minnesota. FUEL-SAVING DAYS But Cooler Weather Coming,Tonight -and'-Wedneu da Is Warning. War--time weather., SWarmer days, less cdcli, more surplus change,wlih which to buy liberty bonds. W. S. S., or -_____- ____ vitms ut is- e going to be cooler tonight and Wednesday -- take the 4iveatherman's word - T h e minimum M temperature for to day was 49. By 7 a. m. it ws un changed, but rose,to 54 between.8 a. m. and 9 a. M.. The official forecast is: "Partly. LATEST FIRE FACTS Dead--1,000. Bodies Found--800. Property Loss-$40,000,000 half in timber. Area BFurned-500,000 acres (not including poradic blazes destray ing s:l a petches of ground). To n tDestroyed-Moose Lake, Cloquet, Kettle River, La'vler, Adolflh, Munger, Five Corers, Harney, Grand Lake, Maple Grove, Twig, Ba um, Mathew, Atkingon, French RTver,- Clifton, BrookSton, Bravator, Pike Lake, Pine Hill, Kalavala, Ronald, Salo, Split Rock, Automba, McGregor, Warba. BY J. A. PETERSON. Duluth, Oct. 15.--The fire at Aitkin late today seemed to be assuming threatening proportions. Mayor W. L. Morris of that town wired to St. Paul that 50 caskets sent to Aikin Monday had not arrived, and asked for 50 more to be rushed to Law r. (Aitkin isr on the western edge of Aitkin county, close to the line dividing that county from Cro'w Wing, Vid is in about the center--north and south -of the county. It is southwest of Duluth. e RECONSTRUCTION PLANS. Devastated Northern Minnesota al 1 l 1 ready is making reconstruction pla s. Many towns which have been rep rt ed in danger ore now safe. The wind which whipped the fires into a hurri enne of flames, sweeping south until it expended its force on Lake Superior, veered late Monday and blew north west, menncing Chisholm, Hibbing and other tovan iin the Vermillion rango region,.;h had escaped the earlier fires. Proctor, a Cew miles northwest of' Duluth, which suffered in the first on slaught of the red demon, again was threatened by the shift in the wind Monday aftqrnoon. The flames had little fuel to feed on, however, and soon;pent themselves on the barren land they had laid waste. 75 IN ONE GgAVE. -purial squads arc working day and night removing and interring the bodies of the fire victims. Many are burned beyond recognition, and these are being put into rough bdard coffins and buried in hastily dug pits. Near Moose Lake, in the vicinity of which the loss of life was perhaps, the heaviest of any one sectibn, 75 shivled human remains were buried in one grave. I FOR FIRE VICTIMS American Flag All r Flames eft Untouched at oose Lake. BY A STAFF CORRESPONDET. Moose Lake, Minn., Oct. 15.-A flag pole, bearing the Ameridan flag,. is all left distinguishable in the town of Moose Lake,. following the terrible fire which swept over this region. To attempt to give a narrative of the horror is futile; to estimate the num mer of lives lost is a mere conjecture; a description of the devastated area is impossible. Bodies are heaped in three tempo rary morgues where the center of the town once was, bidies that are burn ed to a crisp. Late Monday relief workers:dug a ditch more than, half a mile long for the burial o fire victims. Into this ditch the crumpled bodies are being pleced, while 'frantic relatives rush to and fro, praying to discover some mark of identity by which they might rec ognize their loved ones. FLAG INTACT. Perhaps the most strange incident of the horror is - the presence of the Americai-flag, flying from the pole in' the center of. -the town. Telegraph poles around it were burned to a crisp. On arriving in Moose Lake I was: first appalled -by the pathos of, it all.Every time I turned my eyes I saw more indescribable horror-horror and terror that eclipsed that of Dante's Inferno. Charred boddies, blackened to a. crisp were "brought in from everywhere by heroic workeqp from Pine'. City, the first relief worlers to arrive on' the scene. I was amazed at their indefatiguale 'efforts. W. en they dontinue to bring,in one viec m'after an, other I wondered how'long it would keep up and'prayed for it'to'stop, My only recourse was to 'lead my Thousands of settlers 1 ft without a I single asset in the world, except their ability to transform th wilderness into great agricultural aras,are soil ing In the midst of the misfoijune which came upon thein Saltnrday night when the greatest fire in] the history of Minnesota swept across 1.600 miles of farm and timber In ds, lit<ing 'leath and desolation in itÂ~ wake. I I traveled over 75 miles f this burn ed territory today in company with W. T. Cox, state forosterand IT. P. Bruno, secretary, Minnesota Red Oross. We talked to scores of the ruined and bankrupted settlers and, aked them what their.iutt.- ire.Not * -f. mild he intended to leave the coun try.. Everyone was smiling and thank ing heayen for his escape from.the sheet of flames laying almost solid dyer the area 40 miles wide and 40 miles long and swept along by a 60-mile gale at such a gait that, $40,000,000, of destruction -was done within- four hours. Settler after settler told me hey is perfectly satisfied to be qut of the conflagration alive and well -,althodgh there are thousands not sot fortunate. The death list runs into ti4 hund bds and the injured is expected to reich 1,000. SUFFERED 24 HOURS. Four thousand men, mo tly forest ranger, railroad and lunber company employes, still are scouring the a'hes amid the fallenforests in search of bodies. Several were found today. - At one point near 'Brookston ja woman was found with both han a burned until they were a nass of tlisters all her hair- gone, her ears ch rred and both eyes swollen shut. Shed had been in the woods in thi' conlitionk for more than 24 hours when ' iscovered. She was taken to one of. the few farm houses in the devastated region which miracuously escaped destruc-ion. Two little children almost burned to death, but still living, also 'were i-es-. sued in the woods near the same point and taken to the lone farmhouse standing in this district. AID DELAYED. On account of burned out culverts and bridges it was impossible for medheal aid or other attention to reach the injured until a late hour, when a doetor and nurse were brought by; automo-.bile within nine miles of ' e place, then were r.owed across a river and had to walk the rest of th distance; climbing much of the way ver fallen. trees, telephone ani telegrap poles. Home guards from Dulnth found these victims: They are searobing the woods in all directions arou d Brooks 0