Residents of Spooner and Baudette found refuge by riding trains across the Rainy River to the town of Rainy River , Ontario . Sources put the death toll between 29 and 42 people . Thousands were left homeless with winter fast approaching . The American Red Cross assisted survivors ; a tent city was built in a day to provide shelter , and many supplies were donated in order to rebuild . The Red Cross and the National Guard immediately began the rebuilding effort and many homesteaders now turned to the chore of land clearing with hopes for a crop in the spring . The lumber mills were either spared or undamaged ; and so there was some reason for hopefulness for the future . The Baudette Fire was the third worst fire in the history of Minnesota measured by casualties , after the 1918 Cloquet Fire and the Great Hinckley Fire of 1894
Great Hinckley Fire
Great Hinckley Fire
Baudette fire of 1910