The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-04

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/ IL Is generally called, it was met by nearly
the entire population of Sandstone
ana Miller. The depot platform at Mil
! Ter mad been burned and there was not
a mouse left standing anywhere in view.
! ABOUT l6O people were taken aboard and
! a messenger was sent to Sandstone who
| informed the people of the arrival of the
reileI. Very few remained but those
| with loved ones lying dead. There was
no attempt to care for the dead, who Law
| scattered with irregularity through the
| streets OF the town. Everything inflam-
mable at Sandstone was DESTROYED. and
! to-day's Investigations brought the num-
! Der OF dead at that place up to sixty-two,
| with tWenty-One missing.
! The scene at Sandstone was heart rend-
/ ing. The streets of the town were only a
line Of sand between heaps of ashes.
| Within these lines lay forty bodies scat
tered al random, and twenty-five more
were found dead in the outskirts of the
town and in the hollows and marshes to-
| ward the river bank. The bodies were
lying exposed TO sun and rain alike, and
were readily becoming decomposed. They
were identified as far as possible and will
De buried tomorrow. Duluth people are
looking after the care and relief of the
people on the line north of Hinckley
They are doing their work well, and will
see that none of the living is allowed to
suffer for food or clothing. One of the
marvellous circumstances of the affair is
the escape of so many cattle ana horses.
Many were absolutely unscathed, though
no one can tell how they escaped the
ordeal of fire.
OVER 400 AT PINE CITY.
Minneapolis, Sept, 3.-A private dis
patch just received from Pine City, says:
The number Of victims in and near that
place, from forest fires, will reach at
least 425.
RESCUED BY TRAIN.
Pine City, Mich, Sept 3.-When the
forest fire reached Hinckley an Eastern
Minnesota train from the south had Just
| come in, and the people, panic-striken,
| flocked to it for safety. A number of box
cars were coupled on and filled and COW
| cred with men, women and children. In
all there was a motley crowd of about 400
! or more. The train pulled out just ahead
| of the ire, and succeeded in ultimately
| reaching Duluth. This circumstance
| while fortunate in a degree that cannot
be estimated, has made the confusion
| greater, for it is not known who escaped
in this way, and many people are reported
| dead who may be In safety Had not this
number of people-larRelY women and
chlldren-left the doomed city when they
did the loss of life would have vastly in
| creased.
THE RACE WITH DEATH.
Probably 200 people left town on foot
or in vehicles, pluuging into the woods to
! the north, across the Gladstone river,
which skirts the town on the north.
| They were literally fleeing before the
! pursuing demon of fire. Over the hill
that rises behind the Gladstone is a
| swamp, and to this most of the people
with taa haoIa1 hut
lection. The fire gave them no
| opportunity to go farther Some
! abandoned their teams and ran into the
| lower portion of the mOrass, but the fire
sought them out. Not one was left to tell
the tale, and there yesterday morning in
space of little more than four or five
acres, were counted over 1870 corpses.
| There were families of five, six and seven,
! and there they lay, the men generally a
little in advance, the mother surrounded
| by her little ones, cut off by
the most horrible of deaths. Nearly
all the bodies were nude, the fire having
| burned every vestige of their clothing
and blackened and charred many of the
corpses beyond recognition, and whole
| families were wiped out as they were, and
some of the bodies completely inciner-
ated. Identification is absolutely out of
| the question.
hAD IiEl bUI IhOOUdIs
The most sorrowful feature of the ter
| ribie fatality at Hinckley is the thought
| that had the situation been realized in
time not 3 single life among the residents
! of the town need have been lost. The
! Great Northern craven pit, in which only
| hundred sought safety, is about ten
| acres in extent and broad and long enough
and deep enough TO have sheltered every
! soI in Hinckley, with all their domestic
animals There is a pool of water
of considera BILE depth. The banks are
bare of grass or shru6bery' and
| there was no imtiammaOle material
near the brink on the side from which
the fire came. Those who did seek this
! have passed the hours of their enforced
! Imprisonment in comparative comfort.
| This morning a detail of regulars from
! Fort Smelling, under command of Capt.
! Hale and Lieut.. Mccoy and an army sur
! geon came in from ST. Paul. They brought
! some tents, ubut finding that Adjutant
! General Muehlberg had sent up 100 state
tents, the regulars turned in and put up
! fifty of them for the refugees, with reg
! ular army expedition. The local physi-
clans were about played out, and there
! was an abundance Of work for the army
! surgeon.
There is little probability Of Hinckley
| ever being rebuilt TO its former prosper
Gus proportions. The Brennan Lumber
| Company is not expected to rebuild its
| plant Work had been crowded this sea-
| son in the hope of clearing up all the tim
| Der, and another season would have been
| the last.
| TURTLE LAKE THREATENED.
! Turtle Lake, Wis, Sept. 3.-Turtle
| Lake was threatened all day yesterday.
| During the afternoon a bad fire ap-
preached the south side of the town,
| famed by the brisk breeze which was
! blowing all day. The entire male
population turned out and sue
! ceeded in saving the town. Re
| ports from the towns along the Omaha
| line between Turtle Lake and Spooner are
very meager A passenger train went up
| TO Cum berland, about fourteen miles
north of here. on Saturday night, and has
been unable TO proceed in either direc-
| tion.
Grand Lake, Baronett and Shell Lake,
the towns next north, were wiped out,
and yesterday afternoon the hamlet Of
| Comstock, eight miles north Of Turtle
! Lake, was destroyed AT all these
| burned stations the railroad tracks are
! burned and warped and no trains can
move. The telegraph wires are practi-
cally useless, though an attempt was
made 10 get them into shape. The Omaha
company loses many culverts and trestles
/ All wagon road bridges are burned and
! communication with the burned districts