Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-09-06

| streets of Pine City to-day gave visible
evidence of bloodshot eyes and burned
noses and checks, from their conflict
| with the fire. Women and children
who are numbered among the refugees
are thinly clad and many are without
covering for their heads. Many of them
sat outside the eating house last evening,
comparing notes with other unfortn-
mates, until called to occupy the cots in
tents in tine park. There are so tents
aud each had four or five people housed
last night.
GriHdstone Lake, 10 miles north of
Hiacklsy, has been the camping grounds
for several summers OF parties from
Hinckley, This year a larger number Of
people were campcd there than usual
and consequently when a fire was seen
tob be encroschins on Meals Place, three.
quarters 81 mile from ono of the
camps, several of the men started for
the scene John Patrick and MesSrs.
Ellsworth and Collins were among the
number. Other men were fighting the
FIRE when they got there and II was sup.
posed that they could get it under con
troll
The relief party hardly reached the
scene, however, when they discovered
DANES shooting over the tops Of thinkers
back of their own camp. Patrick
started back along the shore, while the
others got into u small skin and pad
dled faster than they had ever before,
EOT!ns to reach the camp before it was
overwhelmed. While they were still
some distance away they saw the
women rushing into the lake
and the camp outfit going skyward
in flames aud smoke. Patrick partly
comprehcaled things, however, rs he
had not gone far before a ball of fire
darted across the lake lover mile wide
where le STOOD and knocked him down
Us it sped on its work of destruction
through the forest. Ills clothes were
ignited and for time he was COM
plclely dazed. When he had recovered
his senses the fire was all about him,
and only narrow pathway through the
water at the edge Of the lake remained
The bank shelved oil very steep all
along and offered an avenue of escape
AS he was splashing through the
water a stray dog fell in behind him
aud marched along in his company
The two had ar encounter a little later
with big black bear that barred their
passage and would, under ordinary cir.
cumstanccs, have annihllated both man
and cur. Bruin, who was squatted in
the water, did not even deign to notice
them, but simply moved aside about s
inches so that they could pass, and
Patrick doubts if the dog realized that
the bear was there.
They finally reached space where
the road opened out from the lake, and
here met n LUmesteaders and their
families, who had been fleeing through
the binding smoke ahead of the flames.
Al! the members of the party threw
themselves into the lake and remained
there until the flames had passed over.
None were seriously injured, but all
were so exhausted so as to preclude the
possibility of going further that night.
They lay on the banks of the lake until
morning, and then started back over
the road they had come in the direction
of Sandstone junction. Patrick has not
seen or heard Of them since.
ESCAPED THE FIRE TO DROWN.
/ Eleven Of the settlers, one woman,
with baby five weeks old, got into an
old canoe and padded out into the lake
only to be destroyed by water after
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just inside the door of the hospital
last evening sat a fearful and woebegone
, woman, WINE al her side with a band
age around his forehead stood be-
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was listening with rapt attention. Tue
! man was NJ. A. dreenAcld, and the
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! in sympathy with her, for she was hear,
! ing the sad fate of bows. Ia and 16 years
/ of age, who had persisted in The flames
i at Greentield's farm. five miles from
Hincklcy. The bows with their father
were cutting road through from the
|, Duluth railroad toward Greenfield !
, when the ire forced them ant They
5 reached his place, and with his family
i took refuge In the cellar, One of them
when the Aamcs enNeloped the house
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