The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-09-05
SEARCHING FOR THE BODIES
ExPERIENoED MEN EIGAGED IN
 sCOURIE6 THE WOODS.
They Are Expected to Bring Back Appai- ling Reports of the Havoc Wrought by the Forest Fires-work Done by the Rt- lief Committee.

ling Reports of the Havoc Wrought by
 the Forest Fires-work Done by the Rt-
 iisf Committee.
 Duluth. Minn.. Sept i.-The death roll resulting from the forest fires continues to increase. and now over $50 are known to be lost, the greater part wo- men and children. Whole families of settlers were swept out of existence in the twinkling of an eye. This morning a party of thirty experienced woodmen left on a special conveyance to SCOUT the woods for bodies of settlers in out of the way cabins and clearings. They are expected to bring back appalling reports.
 In a stretch of territory twenty-six miles long and from one to fifteen miles wide not single human habitation has been left standing. except a section house at Miller, and in every part of the track of the flames bodies of men, wo- men, children, horses and cattle were found. Where the fire held sway not single tree Is standing, except as a blackened stump. A careful canvass re- veals the fact that seventy-two settlers homes outside of the towns were burn ed. As near as can be learned there were 800 people in these homes. At Brookdale. south of Hinkley, where about ninety persons took refuge in the water of small creek, sixty-seven bodies were taken out.
 By Duluth relief committees most remarkable work has been done. Hun dreds of people, including those of the very highest social standing in the city, have been working day and night since Saturday last and have organized thoroughly into all needed sub-com- mittees and have in a systematic wss taken care of men, women, children and babies Over $S,0O0 in cash has been given for temporary relief and goods and clothing valued at as much more have been given.
 S. A. Thompson, who went out on the burial train yesterday, has returned. A party dropped off near Skunk Lake and got the bodies Of Mrs. Lind and five children, whose home was half mile west of the track. The train pick ed up near the track the bodies of Lit tell and Elder, two operators of the North American Telegraph company, who had been sent out to the scene of the trouble the body of General Pas senger Agent Rowley of the Winnepeg, and seven other bodies, It was learned that Pine Lake settlement seven Aniles west Of Finlayson, was untouched. but nothing has been heard of Sand Lake, a settlement away from the road, and 1t Is feared that 1t has been de stroyed. Thompson, himself, headed a party that picked up seven bodies in the Westerland cellar The coroner of Pine county said there were 1S7 bodies already picked up in Hinkley alone, with more to follow.
 Mason City, Ia., Sept. 1.-The town of Daws, in Wright county, with 8 popu- lation of 1000, was nearly wiped out by fire last night. Only two business buildings remain and many Of the resi- dences were also consumed. Loss $1o0.000.
 Rush City, Mich., Sept 4.-Ed. St, John reports that great fires have de- stroyed the lumber camps belonging to him near here. Forty men who worked for him are missing.
 Pine City, Mich., Sept. 1.-The relief committee has made a report of the dead bodies recovered thus far as fol- lows: Hinkiey 272, Sandstone 77, Miller 16, between Skunk lake and Miller 12. Pokegama 25, in lumber camps 50; total. 450. r. .r..
 Detroit, Mich, Sept. 8.-Reports from northern Michigan show that yester- days rain was general and that the for. est fires have been materially checked where they have not been entirely ex- tingutshed. In the counties of Dickin- son, Boughton and Ontonagon, in Michi- gan, and Florence and Marinette, in Wisconsin, is is estimated that 700, OOO,- GOO feet of white pine and hemlock have been seorched.
 Ewen, Mioh., Sept. 4.-The heavy rain of last night has cleared the air of smoke and has extinguished the fires in this vicinity. A refreshing breeze off Lake Superior has lowered the tempera- ture to about 50 degrees.
 It is thought nearly every foot of standing pine in Ontonagon county is burned-fully 800, 900, 900 feet.
 Many cattle and horses were burned but no human lives were lost, though there have been many perilous situa- tions and narrow escepes.