The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-09-05
DEATH LIST <
INCREASING
Six Hundred and Fifty People Known TO
Have PeriShGd.
HORRORS OF The HINCKLEY FIRE
Whole Families Swept Out of Exist
ence in a Twinking-The Loss of
Life Greater Among Women and
Children-Bodies Gathered by the
Burial Train and Piled Up in Boxes
Like Cord Wood Searching P Parties
Still at Work.
DULUTH, MINI. Sept. 4
GPHE death roll resulting from the
forest fires increases. and now


0PHE death roll resulting from the
forest fires increases. and now
over Gj0 are known 10 be
u lost. the greater part women
and children. The greatest percentage
Of deaths occurred among settlers.
where whole families were swept ont
Of existence in the twinkling Of an eye.
Not in any one direction, but every
part Of the fire-swept district the
finding of bodies hourly swells the
list At an early hour this morning q
party Of thirty experienced woodsmen
left on special conveyance to scour
the woods for bodies OF settlers in out
OF the way cabins and clearings They
are expected to bring Gack appalling
reports
In the stretch of territory twenty
six miles long and from one TO fifteen
miles wide, not q single human hsoi-
tation has been left standing except a
section house at Miller. and in every
part of the track of the fl lmes bodies Of
men, women, children, horses and cat
tie were found. The position of every
body found outside of Hinckley shows
that shelter of some kind was sought
by the agonized sufferers, and the dead
are found in holes behind overturned
stumps, marshy deprts,ions and in
every water course.
THE BURIAL TRAINS TRIP
S. A. Thompson, who went out on
the burial train yesterday. has re-
turned. All the way down the train
men almost had TO throw people off
who wished to go along and take in
the grave sights, At Finlayson a
party headed by Ell Finlayson drop
ped off and went east several miles,
visiting, among other places. the Billie.
deaut farm, where tine oodies of three
children were found. The rest of the
family had gone to Sandstone. A party
beaded by Fred Reynolds left the train
near Skunk lake and got the bodies of
Mrs. Lind and five children, whose
home was half mile west of the
track.
The train picked up the bodies of
Littel and Elder, two operators of the
North American Telegraph company,
who had been sent out to the scene Of
the trouble. The train picked up ten
bodies besides that OF General Passen.
ger Agent Rowley, of the Winnipeg,
near the track. 1t was learned that
Pine Lake, settlement seven miles
west of Finlayson was untouched. but
nothing has ueen heard Of Sand Lake,
a settlement away from the railroad,
and 1t is feared it has gone up in smoke
Another body was discovered in the mud
at the edge OF Skunk lake, but it could
not be gotten out.
SEARCHING PARTIES AT SANDSTONE
At Miller, A. A. Harrington and
Robert Forbes healed parties and
started for Sandstone. and have not
since been heard from. Thompson him
self headed party that picked up
seven bodies in the Westerlund collar.
half q mile west of the wreck. Another
party headed by Lynch got the bodies
OF Ed Greenfeld's five children, half
mile south of the wreck near the track.
A large man was picked up over Hinck.
ley hill who was recognized by his
brother.in law as Dennis Ryan, watch
man of the Hincklsy saw mill The
burial train reached Hiuckley ut 6 p. IN.
The coroner of Pine county said
there were 1877 bodies already picked
up in Hinckley alone. They were piled
up in boxes and coilins near the track
like so much cord wood.