Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-09-05
DEAD ROLL GROWS.
Lost in the Red Cyclone Now
Estimated at $40.
FOUR GREAT GRAVES AT HINoKLEY
Three Of Which Are Full Of Corpses
and Nineteen Bodies in the
Last One.

stone and Hinchley Proceeding syste-
matically-A Cellar That Was the Tomb
Of Fourteen. Men, Women and Children
"A Ray of Happiness for q Man Who
Finds His Wife Alive-Revised Figures
ofthe Lost-The Fires In Wisconsin.
ST. Paul. Sept. 5-The Pioneer Press
has the following from Pine City: The
Hinckley horror is growing. The total
estimate Of dead is now 379 There are now
lying in the desolate cemetery under a
shallow covering of sand, or in the rude
rough boxes which take the places of
caskets. al6 bodies. Four trenches in all
have been opened, separated by about four
feet. Commencing on the south in the
north trench are forty-five unlocked
corpses. In trench No. are twenty boxes.
many containing from two to five bodies.
This trench is not yet closed. In the third
are twenty-seven boxes like the others.
The fourth trench contains nineteen
boxes.
Dead Now Figured at $40.
The estimate Of dead is now made as
follows: Hinckley and vicinity, 2a5; at
Sandstone. 60; at Pokegame. p; at Miller.
II; estimate Of dead not found, so; total.
319. Amazing estimates are being made,
but there is no foundation for them.
There were undoubtedly settlers and men
in the lumber camps who have not yet
been discovered. A search for them will
be prosecuted with vigor and they will be
buried where they lie.
ST PAUL, Sept. 5.-A Pine City, Mimi.
special to the Pioneer Press says: The
death roll at Sandstone has probably
reached its liini: and presents the total of
sixty-seven. This is not an estimate nor
a guess, but an accurate count OF the
bodies inferred. Not all were from the
little village, few having been brought
In from the immediate vicinity. The
character of the population at the time of
the holocaust was such that it is impossi-
BILE to get an accurate estimate, but a fair
figure is probably SO In one well four
persons died death that must have been
mixture of drowning, suffocation and
burning. This well has been utilized as a
grave and nine other bodies placed in it
and all covered with earth Tents are I'D
and food is plenty. The dead have all
been inferred and the people are begin
ming to plan the rebuilding of their homes
and the revival of enterprise.
Sent Out to Hunt the Dead.
Two cruising parties were organized in
Pine City IN charge Of Jim Hunt, of
North Branch. There were TWENTY-FIVE
men, eleven in each party. One party
went up the government road, which was
the main road from Hinckley to the north
east. The other went up the Eastern road.
Above Hinckley and the territory that ha,
been carefully searched during the last
few days they spread out so as to COM
pletely cover wide strip OF country-all
In that direction where there had been
settlers or where any one but a wahderer
would have been apt to 60 for shelter.
There were plenty of shovels in the party
and the order was to bury any bodies
where they might be found carefully pre-
serving anything that might lead to iden-
tihcation and 10 mark the graves and
make careful note of their location.
Added But Two to the Total.
There had come in q rumor that there
were forty-three bodies out on the East
ern, but it proved to be unfounded. and
was probably occasioned by confused
statement of the dead at Sandstone. The
party centering on the government road
found no One. The party along the tracks
found two bodies of men burned beyond
recognition and with little about them to
aid Identification. This was the net result
Of the search. Today two other parties
will go out. One will go out along the
stream known as South Fork of the Grind
stone, which comes into Hinckley almost
from the west. There is a dam about four
miles out, and near this there were a
couple of settlers, and others out further.
The country Is heavily wooded, with very
few clearings and little water. No report
whatever has been heard from the set
tiers, and it is feared that all have per-
ished.
Doubled the Estimate Of Dead.
The Duluth right of way and
the country within consider
able distance of Hinckley on both
sides up as far as Skunk Lake has been
secured pretty thoroughly. A few bodies
were taken out and all the bodies were
picked up. 1t had been reported that
there were twelve bodies, but the careful
search that was made revealed twenty
eight. They were in an awful shape and
could not be handled. Five children of
the Greenfield family were so badly burned
that all were put in a box designed to con-
tain an adult. The mother and father
were in Hinckley and were saved, but
their family and home is wiped out of ex-
istence. The Robertson family of five
persons. three of whom were adults, were
brought in. Mrs. John Mcnamara and
her son, who were refugees from H!nckley
and who made their way further up the
track than their neighbors. were ideuti-
fed.
Horrible Find in n Cellar