The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-09-07
MINNESOTA TOWNS WIPED OUT BY FOR
EST FIRES.

| Hundreds of lives have been lost by the fierce
forest fines which have swept through the cour-
ties i'll the eastern and central portions of Min
nesoa. One town-llincklay-in Pine couE
ty, has been completely wiped out, and Mil
lea, in Milla Lucas county, and Missing
Creek, also reported to be in ashes.
Great damage has been done TO half a dozen
other towns, and reports of the list of the dead
place the fatalities at 3:}5. while the number
may reach 1000.
An estimate of the dead received from, vari
Gus points is as follows:
Hinckley, 200: Sandstone, &c; Sandstone
Junction, %; Poke.ama, p; Skunk Lake,
20; Kettle River Junction, 20 miscellaneous,
80: total, 30
Miaca, in Mlla Lucas county, called for
help and the relief train from ST. Clouu was
unable TO get beyond Brldgeman. Nothing
further has mp to this time been heard from
Milaca, and how much may have been the suf-
ferns cannot at this time be known
Brideeman was apparently safe after a hard
struggle. The flares have, however, been
very threatening around that town, and as il
is very dry all over that part of the State, The
worst is feared
The tile town of Missing Creek, some lit
lie distance north of Hinckcey, is also report
ed in ashes
The losses in the neiehborhood of st Cloud,
which is on tie western edge Of the fires are
estimated at 100000, and from that point east
and north nearly everything was burned. Tie
fires are raging in Becker and Aiken counties,
where many farm houses and other buildings
have been lost, as well as the timber
The walls of the school house, the iron
fence about the town hall property. the bank
vavlt and one absolutely uniriured clubhouse is
left to mark the site OF Hinckley, where stood
a score of store buildings and a dozen times as
many dwelling houses.
The story of the catasr ,phe which wiped
out the material possessions that had made
Hinckley busy, prosperous little city, is a
short one. The town was built of wood The
school house, erected last year at a cost of
so 900, and one-half the Duluth round house
were the only brick structures IN the city.
Revised estimates fully corfm the caller
statements that neatly tour hundred persons
persisted last Sunday IN the forest fires in Min
nesota.
Rain fell Monday at IInckey, where the
greatest loss of lite occurred on Sunday. The
work of burryins the dead occupied most of
the day. -Four generations were inferred in one
grave.
a railroad l.fpbai in n
fire near Pokegama, Sunday, and the passen-
gers and trainmPn only sased their lives bv
making their way through the smoke and
flame to creek. The wind was driving the
fire along at the rate of 50 miles an hour at
the time.
Forty or fifty bodies We're found in the
streets of the village of Sandstone, which was
destroyed by the fire. No attempt was made
to remove the bodies as the wounded required
the attention of relief committee.
The fires were checked Monday in Wiscon-
sin, where the fires have also been raging, but
the danger there is not past. Many railroad
trains have been abandoned. SO thoroughly
was the ground heated that 7eget ables were
cooked where they grew.
At Washburn, Wis, incendiaries started
fires in different places. Several were arrested
and threatened with lynching.
Fire is raging in upper Michigan, and the
lake is so enveOped in smoke that navigation
is dangerous.
Governor Nelson, of Minnesota, and The
mayors of st. Paul and Minneapolis have ask
ed for aid for the sufferers from the fires, aud
supplies are being hurried forward.
Fires in Pennsylvania along the limo of the
line of the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg
Railroad endanger much oil property.