The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-09-13
THE DEATH ROLL SMELLS.

THE DEATH ROLL SMELLS.
rhe Work of BuryinE tho Dead ana Oar
Ing for tho Lying.
PINE CITY, Minn., Sept. 5.--The
general executive committee In charge
of the relief work In this section, has
made report Of the dead bodies re-
covered thus far as follows:
HiCckley 271, Sandstone II, Miller
Gotten called Sandstone Junctionl Is,
between Skunk Lake and Miller IL,
Iokegama 20, on the timber camps so,
Total $50.
Ghouls are at work In the vicinity Of
Sandstone. Today party from Du.
luth under James Bailey came down to
help bury the dead and while searching
around at noon, came upon gang
who had broken open and rifled some
safes and when Bailey and party met
them they had just found cistern
from which they had hauled fifteen
dead bodies and had robbed them of
JeWelry, rings trinkets, ETC., and were
! throwing the bodies back into the we'll.
the ghouls took to their heels and
| escaped.
a frame powder magazine at Sand
| stone, portion Of which was left
standing and which was empty was
| torn down for material for collins.
The fire was seen by tho Sandstone
people four hours before 1t struck the
town and everything was packed up
In readiness to move to * ettle River,
east of the village. Before anyone was
aware of the real danger the fire came
and west and firing the whole town in
| side of five minutes. Many we're un-
able to reach the river and died in the
streets. A blacksmith burned to a
crisp In his shop, where he was shoe.
ing horse. So sudden was the fire
not thing was saved and In thirty
minutes the whole town was swept Off
the earth.
Those who reached the river remain
ed most Of the night. The survivors
are entirely destitute and have not
even clothing to their backs, except
such as Is provided by the relief com
mittees. Whole families are wiped
out.
President Sam Hill Of the eastern
Minnesota branch Of the Northern Pa
c1llc came up from IIinckley this
morning and took northern train
over the ST. Paul and Duluth road
Mr.. Hill took the Duluth Road tc
within nine miles Of Sandstone anC
walked over. The big eastern Mime
sofa bridge over the Kettle river has 6
steel arch in the middle I8O feet Iona
and is still intact, though wooden ap
proaches are burned.
"The scene Of death and ruin along
the road Is a terrible one," says Mr..
Hill, mot a sign Of life Is anywhere
to be seen, all is blackened, charred
MACS Of ruins. Dead animals and hu.
man beings are everywhere and they
are buried where ever found. In one
old well was found twenty i've snakes
and forty or fifty field mice all together
awe. Ihere were many peculiar fea-
lures of the fire. In one place, where
all else was burned and blackoned all
around. we found wagon with tho
hay In the box intact, while the horses
we're dead. There Is yet to be closed
up on Minnesota, q gap of twelve miles
between IIinckley and Duluth, eight
miles, Of which are between IIinckley
and Sandstone. There are four miles
In st. Cloud direction, which will be
closed up by tomorrow. | noticed In
one place some freight car wheels were
melted, while not three hundaed feet
away was another car untouched.
Judge NethaWay, Of Still Water, has
been one Of the most active In relief
work, and has been all over the sur.
rounding country. lie found the fam
lily Of Jack Robinson, man, wife and
seven children all dead and hardly re-.
cogrizable and also found j. o. Row.
ley. agent of. the Minnesota and
Winnipeg. Several miles northwest Of
lllnckley today he came to spot
where farm house had stood. In
front was a we'll and over to the left
! could be seen five human bodies and
bodies of several animals. Judge
! NethaWay went at once to the we'll to
see If anyone was there, and found
; down in the bottom, little 12.year- old
boy In eight inches Of water, who had
} lived there since Saturday with moth.
ing to cat. The little fellow was pull.
: ed up and said he had been put down
: there when the fire was seen, and an
awful bad smoke had passed over him
and 1t was awful hot" lie asked tho
Judge If he knew where his father
and mother we're, and his dog. Judge
NethaWay took him on his back to
where ne could be fed. while other par.