Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-09-07
CONSUMED BY FIRE.
HENCKLEY, IN MINNESOTA
ENGULFED AMID BLAz-
ING FORESTS.
Fsars That 1000 Persons are
Dead.

st. Paul, MIMI, Sept. Fear
ful forest fires are raging between
here aud Duluth, which is LOT
miles away. Towns have been
wiped out and hundreds OF lives
have been lost, and the only hope
10 that the list of the dead Will not
exceed a thousand.
The greatest fury Of the flames
has been expended seventy-eighi
miles from here, or about halfway
between the two cities, aud the
town of Hinckley, Mimi, has been
utterly wiped out.
Following ia a rough estimate
of the dead: Hiuckley, 200; Sand
stone, 46; Sandstone function, 20
Pozegama, 20; Skunk Lake, %
miscellaneous, 80. Total, 355.
On the train today from the
town of Hinckley we're one or two
persons, who came through the
fires and have graphic stories OF
the seine. The train from Duluth
reached a point a mile AID a hall
north of Hinckley some time after
midnight, and was forced to return
to point five miles away on &C
count of the threatening flames.
Half a dozen of the passengers
rode through the flames to HInck
ley on ahand-car, taking the north.
bound train this side of there and
returning on it to this city.
They encountered twenty-seyen
dead bodies along the line Of the
railway. Seventeen were discover.
ed ct HinckIey In the morning and
twelve others had been found up
10 l o'clock. They say that the
people of Hinckley- ran to the
woods when their houses caught
fire, and as the timber afterwards
burned, it is more than probable
that great numbers persisted. The
whole country around Hinckley is
on fire.
TRAGIC STORIES OF FORTITUDE.
The party that came through
the fires around Hinckley in The
hsnd.car suffered from burns.
They tell many sad stories of what
ttsF/saw. One woman had evil
IDENTIFY tried to save her five child.
rem and was overtaken by the
flames and the whole family per-
lshed close to the railroad track.
Ia another case, a mother seeing
her house burning ran in to save
her child. Her husband followed
her, and the walls of the house
fell upon the family before they
could get out.
The passenger train from Duluth
on which these travellers were is
in ashes and the rest OF the pas
sepgers have taken refuge in o
marsh near Skunk lake, where
they are surrounded by are. The
engineer was badly burned by thu
flames, but stuck to his post and
got all the passengers out Of the
fire safely.
This engineer, James Root, ia
one of the pluckiest Of those in the
employ Of the ST. Paul and Duluth.
he tried to take his train through
tie fires to Hinckley, but when the
cars caught fire from the flying
embers he reverse d his engine and
backed at full speed to Skunk
lake.
1t was so daik during the day
tn 1t 1t yas~atmoss impossible f'r
a1y one to see 100 feet away, and
during thu night the headlight Of
tie engine was useless. Engine or
Roots injuries are quite serions,
but lids hoped that he will recover,
although one report gives no hope.
MISSING CREEK AND MILLACCA
The little town Of Missing Greek,
some little distance north OF HInok-
lev, 10 also reported In ashes.
NilIscca called for help Jester
~ Afternoon and the relief train
st. Cloud was unable to get
I'd Bridgman. Nothing fur
IS yet beeu received from
kca.
egeman was apparently safe
hard fight. The flames
.owever, been very threaten,
sud that town, and, as 1t Is
ali over that part of the
worst is feared.
trains we're sent out both
til and st. Paul today,
nedi&ue stock and q staff
ans. A private dispatch
his evening from the
(rIct states that twenty.
iies have already been
10 the neighborhood
hlch II on the west
u drl sSare estimated