The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-03

nlcaJlon is shut off. The Eastern Mime
sofa train which came here from Prince
Ton last evening is still in the Great
Northern yards, the company keeping
the passengers at the hotel They will
not get away before tomorrow.
THE FATE OF A PASSENGER TRAIN.
Mora, MINI, Sept 2-One hundred
and forty-eight bodies have. been taken
out OF Hinckley and places in the vicinity.
Inc nearby town of Pokegama is wiped
out. The Eastern Minnesota train which
lett ST. Paul at :05 yesterday afternoon
and arrived at Hinckley at o'clock last
night, took 300 people on board and moved
westward toward St. Cloud. The train
has not been heard of since. 1t has not
reached St Cloud and has not gone back
to Hinckley.
BURNED WITH ALL ABOARD.
There is a general fear that it has
been burned with all on board. There is
no chance that they are alive unless they
have found a stream or slough into
which they could go and escape the fire.
Every family in POkegama is homeless
and in danger of starvation. A freight
train is in the ditch II miles west of
Pokegama. Twenty-Five people are in
the caboose, and the fire is all around
them. If they are not rescued soon, all
must perish Hans Nelson, section fore
| day afternoon with his family on hand
car to escape the fire, and has not been
| heard from since then. 1t is certain that
they have perished.
FARMS SWEPT BY THE FLAMES.
Pine City, Mimi, Sept. 2.-Three towns,
Hinckley, Mission Creek and Pokegama,
lie in ashes tonight, and more than 200
| corpses lie in the region in the neighbor-
hood of Hinckly. The vast valley be-
tween the Kettle river and Cross lake is
laid waste including several villages and
settlements. Besides the towns that
were reduced to ashes, farms were
swept clean by the flames. The
forests are still burning fierce
ly and rain is required to
down the fires that are sweeping over
that vast region. Whole families have
been cremated. In some instances only
one or two men escaped from a neigh bor-
| hood to tell of the destruction. They
saved their lives by running to small
lakes, or hiding in potato fields, and
reached Pine City more dead than alive.
The dead are being picked up by the
score and brought here. Searching par
ties are penetrating the burned district,
| but find none but the charred remains of
| the inhabitants
NEITHER HOMES NOR FOOD.
The people from Hinckley and Mission
| Greek who escaped with their lives are
destitute having neither homes nor food.
The relief sent out from ST. Paul was
timely. The supply of provisions was
more welcome than even the blankets
sent out later, because the majority were
still anxious to continue the search for
the dead and sufferers. The tents and
hospital supplies were very necessary for
the injured and badly burned people.
Harris Richardson of St, Paul wired Gus
Nelson to send out more supplies of pro
visions and bedding.
RELIEF FOR THE SUFFERING.
H. H. Hart of the state board of chari-
ties is at Pine City, collecting data pre-
paratory to providing state relief. Joseph
ManiX of Minneapolis is here also to re-
port the situation to Mayor Eustis, so
that supplies may be sent later from that
city. A committee of five from Stillwa-
ter is getting Information as to what lum-
Der supplies are needed and will contri-
butte building material Assistant Cen
eral Manager Miller of the ST. Paul and
Duluth road has been here and returned
to St. Paul to send out sleepers, hospitals
and camp supplies for the wounded and
homeless.
CAUSED By FOREST FIRES.
Marquette, Mich, Sept. 2.-Specials
from Nestoria and OntOnagon report the
wreck of a freight train on the Milwaukee
and Northern branch, twenty miles south
of Ontonagon near Port station, yester-
day noon. Engineer Fred AlmuGuist
was killed and Brakeman Steven Or
toms leg was broken. The wreck was
caused by forest fires burning ties and
warping the rails Five carloads of logs
were piled on top of the engine and were
soon a mass of flames in which poor
Almuquist's body was reduced to ashes
1t 3 pt,Is, 49,,
same road was reported burned yester-
dag.
BRIDGES AND TREsTLEs BURNED.
Marquette Mich, Sept. 2.-Telegraphic
communication has been re-esta blished
as far west as Marengo junction on the
Wisconsin Central and Duluth South
Shore and Atlantic Railway. A trestle
5000 feet long at Marengo was wholly
destroyed, but trains from here to Duluth
are ordered via Ashland. Two bridges
at Billion station on the Duluth road
were burned. The Wisconsin Cen
tral has lost three bridges south
of Marengo, but their officials
are as yet unable to state the damage
The trestle at Marengo will not be re-
built, the management of the Duluth road
having decided to make new crossing at
Grade Nothing is yet known of the
whereabouts of the Duluth passenger
train No. s, Que here this morning, but
Supt. Ketcham expresses hope Of locating
it before midnight.
DEATH LIST INCREASES EVERY HOUR.
st. Paul, MINI, Sept. 2.-The town of
Hincklev, seveEty-fve miles from St
Paul, on the St. Paul and Duluth road,
with q population of 1000 TO 200, was
wiped out of existence last night by
raging forest fire, which swept down
upon the doomed village. The smaller
town of Mission Creek, station about
FIVE miles from Hinckley was also wiped
out. The loss of life is variously
estimated al from one to four hundred.
and II is almost certain the loss will equal
two hundred IL will be several days be-
fore the full extent of the disaster will be
known. All is confusion and excitement
among surviving parents who are search
ing for their children and children search
ing for parents
The death list increases every hour
The walls of the railroad round house
and Of the school house are the only parts
of buildings in Hinckley which remain.
THE FATED PASSENGER TRAIN.
One of the most thrilling events was
the experience Of the train which left
Duluth at o'clock p. m, Saturday for
st. Paul. 1T was the limited passenger
the best train on the road, and was
crowded with passengers. The smoke
from the forest fires was so dense
that lamps were lighted in the cars
When the train came within a mile of