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Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-09-07
SCENE OF DESTRUCTION.

Damage to Crops in the Leona River VAL
ley Estimated at Half a Million.
ST.LoU1s. Sept. 3.-A special telegram
from San Antonio to The Post Dispatch
says: The scene Of destruction and des-
olation in the flooded district for dis
trict for distance Of 100 miles east and
west from here, and extending south
from the Southern Pacific railroad to
the Rio Grande, 200 miles away, is sim
ply terrible. Thousands Of acres of pas
ture and farm land are still under
water. It is estimated that the damage
to crops in the valley Of the Leona river
alone will reach $5O0,0 while in the
valleys of the Saco and Sabima rivers
the losses will be fully as much more.
Many thousand head Of cattle, horses
and sheep were drowned.
Later Reports More Alarming.
Reports received during the morning
are more alarming than the earliep
ones. 1t is still a matter Of uncertainty
as to the number of lives lost, but addi-
tlons to the list of drowned are con-
stantly being added. About one half
OF the houses in Uvalde, a town of 1880
people, were carried away, and there is
much suffering there by homeless fami-
lies, but no more fatalities are reported
there. Nothing has yet been heard
from the settlement of IS families sew
eral miles below Uvalde, but there are
still grave fears that many, if not all,
of them were swept down by the tor
rent and lost.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-09-07
WASHBURN'S NARROW ESCAPE.

Heroic Efforts Save the Town From De-
StructiOn.
ASHLAND, Wis.,, Sept. 3.-As a result
Of the forest fires Saturday and Sunday
$1,000, 900 can be added to the amount
Of loss occasioned this season. It is
doubtful if that will cover the entire
loss, when the damage to standing pine
and logs is estimated.
Washburn had narrow escape from
total destruction. It was only by the
most heroic efforts that it was saved
from the flames. It still stands in a
precarious condition with smouldering
fires all around it, but in nearly everv
household midnight vigils are being
kept and unless the fires gain extraor-
binary force Washburn is now safe.
A dispatch from Brule out on the
Northern Pacific states that the scene
there is dark and smoky. Sawmills
have been shut down and the men will
remain on duty all night fighting fires.
Highbridge and Marengo are reported
to be in great danger.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-09-07
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THE SURVIVORS DESTITUTE.
Distressing State of Affairs
Discovered by a Relief
Committee.

HNCKLEY, Minn, Sept. 3.-Over 300
people dead, five towns blotted from the
face of the earth, and over $4,000, ,OO0
worth of property destroyed-this is the
record of the fire fend of the pine forest
between noon and midnight Saturday
in tho counties of Pine, Mile Laos and
Chisago. The catastophe is the most
frightful that ever visited Minnesota.
The cyclones of St. Cloud, Rochester
and New Ulm We're awful at the cost of
human life and property, but they were
piSmy accidents alongside the terrible
holocaust which has swept this fair
town and miles OH miles of country
north, south, east and west of it. It all
came SO suddenly, too, that it bereft the
people by the score of their reason, and
they plunged like maddencd cattle into
The Forest Inferno of scethine Flame.
When the san Went down but two
buildings were left standing in Hinck-
kv--a water tank and a roundhouse-
and into the latter were crowded 15O
people, all that We're then known to be
alive OF the 1900 people who have made
this place their home The dead are
lying III field and forest for miles north
and south Of Hinckley, and there are so
few left to tell the tale that it is almost
impossible to secure names of the dead.
Dozens of heartrending stories are told
of escape and attempts at escape which
ended in death.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-09-07
GOOD WILL RESULT.
The Strike Investigation Commented on
by Chairman Wright.

The Strike Investigation Commented on
,, by Chairman Wright.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.-Colonel G.. D.
Wright, chairman OF the strike inves-
tigation commission, returned here
from Chicago and left soon after for
Boston. He will remain away until
Sept. 25, and on the day following the
strike investigation will be resumed in
this city. In an interview with al
Associated Press reporter Commissioner
Wright expressed his confidence in the
beneficial results Of the inquiry, and
summed up the work Of the commission
by saying: "A number of newspaper
statements as to what the commission
is likely to recommend have been
brought to my notice. The commission,
however, has formulated no recomda-
tions, decided on none and all such
statements are mere guess work. [
consider the investigation thoroughly
successful. All leading men Oh both
sides, railroad leaders and Pullman Off
cials freely gave testimony, and the i'll
vestigation was conducted fearlessly
and impartially, and i'll the most search
ing manner. believe it will do great
good i'll the end, and that out Of it viii
come some most valuable recommended
tions. The commission sat II days and
examined 107 witnesses. It has now
adjourned to meet in Washington Oh the
26th for the purpose Of hearing any tes
timony which may be considered neces-
sary for the completion Of the report and
which parties on either side Of the con-
troversy may deem essential to the case.
In the meantime each member Of the
commission will be hard at work study
ing the testimony already furnished,
the laws bearing on the various features
involved in the investigation and pre-
pairing himself for the commissions
final report. Our plan is to have the
report ready by the middle of Novem-
ber and to submit it to congress early
in the next session. AS the testimony
taken will cover over 2,00O pages, the
magnitude of the undertaking becomes
apparent.''
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-09-07
: PARTIALLY DESTROYED.

a Sam N i'll and Lumber Pile All That Is
y~* Left Of Benoit. " K
ASHLAND, Wis, Sept. 3.-Ben01t, a
saw mill town II miles from Ashland
on the Omaha road, is partially de-
stroyed. The flames have burned every
thing but the saw mill and the 3,0O0,-
600 feet of lumber piled out in the yard.
Everybody labored to save this portion
of the town and succeeded in doing it,,
leaving the remainder Of the buildings
to feed the flames.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-09-07
IN MICHIGAN.
Present Fires the Worst the State Has
Ever Seen.

Present Fires the Worst the State Has
Ever Seen.
BAY CITY, Mich, Sept 3.-Fires are
raging throughout Tuscola county, do
ing great damage. At Gagetown peo-
pie have plowed around their buildings
to keep them from burning. Unless it
rains soon nothing can save the town.
Michigan Central engineers, who
have been runlinS Gil the Mackinaw
division of tho road Ter years, say that
the present fUre>t fires arc the WO2sJ the
state has ever seen.
At Gladwin & crcw is kept busy fight
ing the fire that threatens to DESTROY the
Michigan Central roandllouse and other
buildings. Sleicher's camp, two miles
from Gladwin, has been burned. The
fire was SO hot that every light Of glass
in the coaches Of the evening train,
which was passing, were cracked.
Around Bay county the flames seem
to be dying out. The air is free from
smoke for the first time in two weeks.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-09-07
Myron r. Kent CAPTURED.

ARLINGTON, Colo., Sept. 3.-Myron
R. Kent, formerly real estate and in
surance agent of Mandan, N. D., was
arrested here charged with completely
in the murder Of his wife. The arrest
was made by Detective Walter Ehritch-
man Of the Minneapolis police depart
ment. The alleged crime was commit
ted March IL, 1894, and Immediately
afterward Kent fled, coming to this
place several months ago.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-09-07
ALONG THE ST. PAUL ROAD
Trains May He Abandoned OH the Superior
Division,

Division.
MILWAUKEE, Sept. 3.-At the local
offices OF the St. Paul road it was re-
ported from points OH the Superior di-
vision that there was great danger to
the tracks from the forest fires and
trains may have to be abandoned. 1t
appeared at that time that the colfag-
ration was worse along that line than
upon the Wisconsin Central. Traffic
had continued without serious inter-
ruption, but Sunday night, between
Charming and Rockford, in Ontonagon
county, Michigan, the fires were work.
ing toward the tracks on both sides and
We're being fought back with difficulty
Section men had been stationed at all
the bridges and culverts, prepared with
appliances to prevent them from burn
ing in case they took fire. Washburn,
it was learned, was in imminent peril,
though it had thus far escaped Infor-
nation along the st. Paul Superior di-
vision was meagre, because the wires
were down.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-09-07

AEgf> 1ARAE: :tlaEdI hi kft,l, t|jIli

hsa $3R44@!$r :3 .|Sr Saas>- s. =
tttSaa tt' is :5ils9t il:
eaatl AN loaNe bsaillthsl9&ss is s8t s4Sb Of
city Of 700. One 1aaaa was burned to
death. The total loss will reach a
quarter of a million. Shell Lake had o2
dwellings burned with total loss of
$4,000. Three hundred and sixty peo-
pie are homeless and many without a
dollar of insurance. Deeds of heroism
are plentiful. One widow lady dragged
her son, who was So Wi :yphoid
fever, from the house into ). potato
patch and there protected him from the
flames, while the rest of the inhabitants
fled in terror. Fires are now under
control in that vicinity.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-09-07
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Smoky in Boston.

Boston, Sept. "a peculiar atmos-
pherical phenomena has attracted the
attention Of Bostonians. During the
latter part of the morning and all after
noon the sun, unobscured by clouds, has
feebly shown through a strata of smoke
supposed to come from the forest fires
now raging in the lake region. The ef-
feet has been a weird, unearthly yellow
tlnge of atmosphere, made oppressive
by the general absence of stirring air.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-09-07
A Barber's Dreadful Deed.

CINCINNATI, Sept. 3.-James Cain,
Jr., a barber Of Lockland. came home
drunk and shot his girl baby, two
months old, killing her, shot his young
wife in the head, shot his father, 80
years old, in the arm. The wife's
wound may prove fatal. The fathers
wound is slight. In the prison cell
Cain admits his guilt, but alleges i'm.
proper relations between his father and
his wife.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-09-07
FIVE TOWNS BURNED.

The Number of Casualties May Reach
Five Hundred.
PINE CITY, Minn., Sept. 3.-The fires
crept over the Kettle river after Destroy
ing Hinckley, a place Of LOO inhabit-
ants, Sandstone, place of 400 people,
and Mission Creek. It then licked up
Willow River, place Of 600 inhabit-
ants, and other places to the north, and
was still spreading northward at mid
night. Douglass Greeley of Hinckley,
proprietor of the Morrison House, says
that the fire started in the John Martin
lumber yard at Mission Creek and
swept northward to Hinckley and other
towns, cleaning every ything in it's
course. It was about p. M. Saturday
when the flames reached Hinckley.
The people became panic stricken.
Many Of them rushed to the river,
Where Some Were Drowned
by people piling upon them. Others
plunged under the water, as the flames
darted down i'll great red tongues and
Missed in their faces, singing their hair.
Some of these escaped.
A train on the Eastern Minnesota
road left Hinckley about the time the
fire reached there. The rushing of the
people after the train caused the con-
ductOr to run back to the station. About
400 people crowded into the cars, all
they would hold, and were taken to Su-
perior for safety. Neither river nor
lake stopped the course Of the flames as
they swept onward in devouring
cloud to destroy the other towns and
settlements. It will probably never be
known how many
Perished in the Holocaust,
as it is not known what people were in
the woods getting ready for winter
numbering work. There were at mid
night 250 dead in the graveyard at
Hinckley, and others are being brought
in by rescuing parties. The injured
are constantly turning up. There were
at least 5000 people in the burned dis.
trict, and it is probable that the dead
and injured will run up to 400 or 500.
Many of those who escaped other in
juries are almost sightless from scorched
and smoked eyes. The damage to prop
erty will exceed $500,000.
The bridge across the Grindstone
river on the Eastern Minnesota road is
gone, and will require three months to
rebuild it. The bridge over the same
river on the Duluth road is DAMAGED.
A number of small bridges on both
roads are gone, and it will be days be.
fore either road can run through trains
without transferring at the river.
Not a House Is Left Standing
in Hinckley, Sandstone, Partridge, Mis-
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-09-07
EVEN IN DANGER.
Buildings on the Outskirts Succumb to the
Fury of the Flames.

Su11dlnSs on the OutSk1rts Succumb to the
Fury of the Flames.
MARQUETTE, Mich, Sept. 3.-The
Western division Of the Duluth, South
Shore and Atlantic road is crippled by
the loss of bridges in forest fires. Sev-
eral other roads have suffered serious
loss.
Reports from all the lumber towns
between Nestoria and the Wisconsin
state line are that all are safe so far,
but many are fighting fire dangerously
near. At Even many people have
loaded their effects on train which the
South Shore officials are keeping ready
to move out if necessary, and some
small buildings in the outskirts have
been burned. The smoke is still heavy
here and the fog whistles are sounding.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-09-07
DETAILS MEAGRE.

Bird ges Burned, Wires Down and Trains
Abandoned.
EAU CLAIRE, Wis, Sept. 3.-Wires to
points on the Chicago, st. Paul. Min
neapolis and Omaha have been down
since last night and information of the
situation up north is still lacking. The
last train from the north on the Omaha
reached here at 5 o'clock Saturday af-
ternoon and no trains have gone out OF
in except a wrecking train sent from
Eau Claire early Sunday morning. Rail-
road men say the whole region from
Cartwright to Bashaw and Haugen has
been Oh fire since Saturday afternoon.
Bridges are burned, wires down and no
one knows when trains will run. Many
people here are alarmed for safety of
friends and relatives who are blockaded
at northern points. The Omaha train
arriving here at 5 p. m. Saturday, which
came through Bashaw, took 10 men,
women and children
From the Burned Village
to Rice Lake, the conductor backing
the train up to Bashaw to get the refu-
gees, after he had run through without
stopping. The Northwestern Lumber
company has report, of fresh breaking
out of fires along the Eau Claire river.
One Of the company said they had al
ready sold $4,000, 900 feet of pine on the
Eau Claire and did not believe there
would be a green tree left when rain
came. One Of the Eau Claire owners of
the Baronette Lumber company plant
says the loss there is $3.50, Every
effort is being made to get details from
the north.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-09-07

- :-::NlsAlE94tEs$ s.:
ysatlrt Judge : Cooper Cooper q
&c ;1:52i ;1iiis!t - &c g, t.:
lynched the six alleged negro incen.
diaries near Mllllngion Friday night.
-Four men were arrested on bench war
rants during the day charged with com.
plicity in the lynching. Their names
are j. d. Laxton, E. R. Kinson, J. w.
Walker and w. G. Thompson. From
facts brought out it appears that De-
tective Richardson knew that an at.
tempt would be made to lynch the pris-
oners and deliberately led them into the
hands Of the mob. He has been ar
rested.
Several persons had warned the Of
ficer against starting to Memphis in a
wagon and urged him to place heavy
guard around the negroes until the ar
rival of the trains. A number of citi-
Zens
Volunteered to Act as Guardsmen,
but he declined the offer. The funeral
Of the victims of the vigilants occurred
at Kerrville, Tenn, Sunday. No de-
monstration of any kind occurred.
The lynching has aroused storm Of
indignation. The Commercial Appeal
editorially says: 1t was deed of al
most inconceivable savagery, cold
blooded, brutal deviltry, that makes
every nerve writhe with horror and the
heart sick, loathing for the bloody
brutes that committed it, Every man
in any connection with or responsible
for the foul crime is wretch whose
feet detile the gallows and whose neck
would disgrace the rope that strangled
him. The lynchers must be brought
to justice.
LyncElers Numbered Fifty.
The lynching occurred two miles
west Of Millington, a village on the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad. For a
year Or more the people Of that part
OF the country have been kept i'll con-
tinual excitement by acts Of indenciar-
ism. Barns and dwellings have been
burned, and recently the buildings Oh
the Millington fair grounds were de-
stroyed.
Suspicion pointed to six negroes and
thay were arrested near Kerrville by
Deputy Sheriff Richardson. Later in
the day, Richardson started with his
prisoners in a wagon for Millington,
where they were to have preliminary
examination. About midnight the
party was stopped by mob Of 50 men,
armed with shotguns, who lynched all
the prisoners and rode away in the
darkness. The lynchers were not masked
but the officer being new to that part
OF the country recognized none Of them.
An inquest WAS held on the bodies and
the jury, which included two negroes,
found that the prisoners had come to
their death in the manner stated Sat
the hands Of persons unknown"
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-09-07
CORBETT is WILLING.
The Champion Thinks the Sioux City Club
Means Business.

Means Business.
NEW YORK, Sept. 3.-Champion Jim
Corbett is in town. R8g irding the
said:
Il am willing to fight Jackson in Sioux
City and will meet the clubs represen-
tative any day this week. The $4,000
sent on from Sioux City is pretty
good indication of the clubs solidity.
My part of the stake money is still up
and don't care to trouble it SO long as
there is POSSIBILITY of fight. I shall
name no conditions which will bother
the club. The purse can be guaranteed
by responsible men or put up in bank
subject to the referees orders. I only
hope the fight can be pulled off,
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-09-07
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PINE CITY, Mimi, Sept. 3.-TIre re
.;rf committee ~c.:"...a f--%., Hi,rth,r
at p M, and repviittt li;,5 3o 3oo bodies
had been found at that place and As at
Sandstone. There are still number OF
unexplored parts Of the place, and it is
thought other todies will be found. A
conductor Oh the Eastern NJ nncsota
road reports that the condition at Sand.
stone is even worse than at Hinckley.
There arc 200 people burned in
there, and they are digging up
potatoes and carrots and eating them
They are also destitute of cloth
ing. The relief committee will go as
near Sandstone as they can by train in
the morning, and will then take teams
with provisions and blankets for the
people. There will also be provision
made for burying the dead there. The
st. Paul relief committee left it's sup
plies here under charge of the detail of
troops, and it will be apportioned
among the needy by the general COM
mittee. Other supplies will be taken in
charge as they are sent in. The work
of caring for the destitute will be car
ried Oh as long as there is need for
relief.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-09-07
SURROUNDED BY FLAMES.

Hundreds of People Fighting F.res
Around Cadott.
EAU CLAIRE, Wis, Sept. 3.-A special
from Cadott says the village is sur
rounded by fire 10 rods from the depot
On the south and west. The condition
is serious. A steamer from Chippewa
is working. Hundreds Of people were
fighting the fire all day. Many families
and merchants have moved out. The
fire is being checked on the west side Of
the town.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-09-07
Highwaymen in Omaha.

OMAHA, Sept. 3.-Two mounted high
waymen have been at work in Omaha
for several nights. They ride together
and ride rapidly from one part of the
city to the other, easily eluding the
police. A number of people have been
held up. They ride upon the sidewalks
End with revolvers hold up pedestrians.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-09-07
Long Strike Ended.

HoLL1DAYsBURG, Pa, Sept 3.-All
departments Of the Portage Iron works
at Duncansburg are in operation after
an eight months strike. The puddlers
have acceded to the terms of their en-
ployers in imposing a wage scale of
$2.75 per day. The mills will work Oh
double turn with force of 500 men.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-09-07
CITIZENS HARD AT WORK

Usual Sabbath Services Dispensed With at
Grantsburg, Wis.
GRANTsBURG, Wis, Sept. 3.-The
fires which have been, burning near here
for the past month broke out fresh Sun
day morning and the entire male force
of this city are out to prevent the burn
ing Of the village. The usual Sabbath
services were dispensed with and
church members fought fire like
demons. The council had taken pre-
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-09-07
General Banks Dead.

WALTHAM, Mass, Sept. 3-General
Nathaniel P. Banks died at his home
here at Sam. He was 78 years old and
senile decay had been going on for many
months. His wife and daughter, Maud,
the actress, were in constant attendance.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-09-07
Fifteen People Injured.

CHESTER, Pa, Sept. 3.-Fifteen peo-
pie were injured in collision between
trolly cars at Darby, the accident being
caused by a gripman losing control Of
the brakes in going down hill.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-09-07
Services Under Police Protection.

OMAHA, Sept. 3.-As sequel to
Bishop Scannell's arrest for contempt
in refusing to open the doors of ST.
Paul's church on the order Of the dis
trict court, services were held there
Sunday under police protection by the
bishops opponents. Mounted police
surrounded the church and prevented a
riot
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-09-07
To Protect Russian Trade,

ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 3.-The Rus
sian squadron destined for Corea is un-
der orders to proceed with the utmost
expedition. 1t is officially stated that
the despatch Of the feet does not imply
Russian military intervention in the
Chinese'Japanese dispute, but is merely
intended to protect Russian trade.
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-09-07
PilRrf1ns Visit the Pope.

ROME, Sept. 3.-Sixty Canadian pill
grims attended mass in the hall of the
consistory. The pope acted as cele-
brant. After the services his holiness
permitted the pilgrims to kiss his toe
and spoke fsw pleasant words to each
of them
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-09-07
The President Taking IT F,asv.

BUzzARDs BAY, Sept. 3.-President
Cleveland remained at home all day.
spending most of the time Oh the
veranda. The excursionists on the
steamboats, passing got view Of the
president and there We're occasional
demonstrations, to which the president
responded, bowling his acknowledge
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