The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-03
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Awful Scenes of Suffering and Dealt
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Awful Scenes of Suffering and Dealt,
by the Flames.
st. Paul, Sept. "A special to the
Pioneer Press from Pine City, Mimi,
Aays:
Estimate of the dead-Hinckley, 200;
= sandstone, 80; Sandstone Junction, %;
= Pokegama, Is; Skunk Lake, %; miscel-
laneous, 80. Total, $685.
The list of dead to date includes the
following:
Sandy Henderson, 10 years.
John Henderson, II years.
]. Hanson.
Mrs. Hanson.
Five Hanson children.
Thomas Jones.
ID. Chambers.
Alex. Hanson and wife.
Emily Hanson, 16 years.
Charlie Hanson, 10 years.
Charles Anderson, 20 years.
Hans Mattison. 20 years.
Mrs. William Ginder.
Dennis Riley, a yard Waterman.
Jim Bean, foreman Brennan Lumber
company.
John Best, wife and four children.
John Anderson and wife.
Two Anderson children.
William NeSbitt.
Henry Hanson.
T. Turgon.
- Lamb and son.
Mrs. Martin and four children
drowned.
Mrs. Blanchard and two children.
DR.. c. II. Kelsey. of New Brighton.
Z. Blanchard.
Louis Nelson, employee of Eastern
galway.
Peter Robertson.
Nels Robertson.
Mary Robertson.
20 NJ. Robertson. child.
r. Hoffman and wife.
Mrs. Costigan and three children.
~. William Pinnorr.
Patrick Murphy.
- Orville Cox.
Thomas Dunn, wife and four children
Emma Dolan, Belle O'Brien and An
ME Wallace, 'demi-mondes.
The walls Of the schoolhouse, the iron
fence about the town hall property, the
bank vault and one absolutely uninjur-
ed clubhouse is all that is left to mark
the site of Hinckley, where yesterday
stood a score of buildings and a dozen
times as many dwelling houses.
short But PitifuI.
fThe story of the catastrophe is a
(short one. The town was built oil
n wood. The schoolhouse, erected last
year at cost of $4,000, and one-hali
of the Eastern Minnesota railway
roundhouse. were the only brick struc-
lures in the city. BY one Of those. pc
culiar freaks. for which there is nc
accounting, the roundhouse and water
tank. on the southwestern edge of the
town. almost in the woods, escaped
the flames, circumstance the more re-
markable from the fact that il stood
directly in the path of the flames
which seemed to have jumped it as
cleaniy as if playing leap-frog. AL
yesterday forenoon the townspeople
were apprehensive. The fire kept ad-
vancing, swept by the wind, which was
blowing a gale. About IL o'clock the
laid an eighteen hundred foot line OF
hose to the southern outskirts of the
Rown.
The hose was too short for the mea-
Sure of protection desired, and tele-
gram was set to Rush City for more
One hundred feet was sent, but il
never reached Hinckley.
About o'clock in the afternoon the
fire literally jumped into the town. Il
did not eat its way along, devourine
everything in its path, but came in
huge leaps, as if to take everything
before it. 1t appeared as if It was
forced along by a cyclone of its own
generation. The intense heat would
develop a veritable whirlwind OF
flame and carried huge blazing fire
brands high in the air, and carrying
them forward for from forty to eighty
rods. let them fall and begin theil
Cork of devastation anew.
Fighting for Life.
TIE fire first struck Hinckley on the
ssast side of the Duluth track, and the
9razTe fire fighters for the first time
.Axfre UP the unequal battle and, already
Moo late, in many il-5tances, turned theil
( Attention to their personal safety. The
Eastern Minnesota train from the south
had just come in and the people OF the
panic-stricken city flocked to it fol
safety. A number of box cars were
coupled on and filled and covered with
men. women and children. Some were
bare-headed. some were coatless, some
few clutched a pitiful bundle of the
more precious Of their portable posses
sions Families were separated, an6
I'm all this was q motley crowd of about
400 or more people. The train pulled
out just ahead OF the fire and succeed
ed in ultimately reaching Duluth.
This circumstance. while fortunate il
a degree that cannot be estimated, has
made the confusion greater, for it is no
isnown who escaped in this way, ant
many people are reported dead whc