The record-union., 1894-09-05
Special to the REcoRp-US1oS.


special from Pine City says: Buried at
Hinckley and vicinity, 225; at Sandstone.
81; at Pokegama, %; Miller. u; estimated
dead not found. so. Total, 379.
The Hinckley horror is dawning in its
awful magnitude. There are now lying
in the desolate cemeteries under shallow
covering of sand or in the rude, rough
boxes, which take the place of caskets,
ZIG bodies. f. j. Weber of Pine City,
who has entire charge of the interment.
has had his work well in hand; and has
kept most accurate accounts of the bodies.
These figures are his, and include those
bodies buried by friends.
Four trenches in all have been opened,
separated by about four feet. Commence
ing 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. In the third are
twenty-seven boxes like the others. The
fourth trench is not yet in use, but there
are piled nineteen boxes. which will be
put in tomorrow morning.
The foreman of the Duluth construc-
ton train reported to Coroner Cowan this
afternoon that on the wall of the north
end of the bridge above Grndstone there
were nine bodies, so completely inciner-
ated that they could not be identified. A
few blocks off where the depot stood was
found woman. This must be added to
those shipped away, make a total of 225
accounted for Hinckley and vicinity.
Amazing estimates are being made. but
there is no foundation for them. There
were undoubtedly settlers and men in the
lumber camps burned who have not yet
been discovered. A search for them will
be prosecuted with vigor. and they will
be buried where they are found.
There is an unknown number of dead
in the millpond. 1t is as yet unapproach-
able. The bank was covered with saw
dust, and not far away was the Brennan
mill and lumber yard. A number of
persons were seen to go to the pond. No
one came out alive, and so hot is the fire
still burning there that it may be q day or
two before this pool of death can be ex-
amined.
AT Pokegama the dead have been nearly
all accounted for, and will not run over
twenty-five. AT Miller there were buried
twelve, and at Sandstone sixty-seven.
These figures, with an estimate of those
not yet found, brings the total up to 379.
The latter estimate may be too low, but it
is matter of absolute conjecture, and it
is here that the widely different reports
are found. Some think that at least 200
settlers in camps are yet to be found.
WORK OF RELIEF.
PINE CITY (Minn.) Sept. 1.-The curl
Gus apathy which marked almost every
move at Hinckley yesterday gave way to
bustling activity this morning. During
the night shack was put up for a cook
house. In the early morning an inclosed
room was added to it for the storage of
The commissary supplies. The people
who had remained over night were quar-
tered in the tents which Captain Hart,
Quartermaster of the First Brigade of
Minnesota National Guard, had pitched
last evening. Volunteers were more nu-
merous than yesterday and affairs as
sumed more settled aspect. The early
trains brought up men who came to
work, and did not abandon themselves to
the qualification of morbid curiosity, as
did so many when brought up yesterday,
which was perhaps not unnatural, but,
cusable.
At an early hour force of men was
started out to the cemetery to complete
the work of internent. There had been
left above ground last night ffty-seven
bodies in boxes, and at daylight parties
were detailed out after those that had
been located. Careful search was made
last night along the Duluth right of way
TO the north. Yesterday parties located
twelve bodies, bat closer scrutiny of the
woods for considerable distance from
the track revealed several others, includ-
ing the entire Green family-father,
mother and four children. Besides the
body of Otto Rowley, General Freight
and Passenger Agent of the Duluth
and Winnipeg, taken to his home
last night, nineteen others were picked
up between Hinckley and Skunk Lake.
Two or three were evidently passengers
on Saturdays southbound afternoon
limited. Most of the others were settlers.
Rnd the remainder were refugees from
Hinckley who got further away from
the doomed city. One is that of Mrs.
John Mcnamara, on whose body was
found $4,000 in checks and $500 in cur
rency, and near by was the body of a
boy, partially Identified as one OF her
sons. The Robertson family OF five
found yesterday were also brought in.
Israel Schrimpski, the young Chicago
lawyer who was reported as among the
lost at Hlnckley, is safe. He lost his
valise, but got out safely, and is now at
Hudson.
This about completes the number on
the right OF way to a point six miles out,
and foots up a total of between fifty and
sixty. A scattered few were brought in
from the country just across the Grind
stone River. One man was found in the
gravel pit just across the river, and was
identified as Joyce Crowell, aged 90.
A rob 1 "a nv at-ia .araI
timber cruisers and seven assistants was
started out to-day along the Government
road to the east. a similar party of
eighteen was sent up the eastern Mime
sofa Railroad toward Sandstone. These
parties will bring in no bodies II any are
found, but will bury them where found.
These parties were sent into tract of
country from which no reports have been
received, and the possible results OF their
labors can only be conjectured. During
the day other parties were started In
other directions. The work at the ceme-
terry to-day proceeded rapidly.
There is prospect now that the NUM-
Der of dead which have been or viii be
brought into Hinckley. and which has
hitherto been conservativeiy estimated at
200. will pass that number, and may
reach 80. There is'one point where All
indefinite number may be found. Vest
of the Duluth bridge across the Grind
stone and the northwest edge of the town
was mill pond of considerable depth,
and probably 400 feet wide. A consider