The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-09-06
FIRES YET BURN.
Several Small Towns in
Danger.
ROLL OF DEATH GROWING.
Seven More Bodies Brought Into
HinckIey.
ROLL OF DEATH GROWING.
FLAMES SPREAD INTO CANADA.
1t Is Hard to Tell Now Where the
Destruction of Forests
Will Stop.

horth are to the effect that Carleton, Ker-
rick and Barnum are in danger. Fierce
fires now surround those places, and so
dense is the smoke that 1t is impossible to
see across the street. Details are hard to
get, as the wires are down. A report was
current In this city to-day that Barnum
had been destroyed, but 1t has been i'm
possible 20 confirm the report. The men
Of Kerrick sent the women and children
to West Superior and Duluth for safety
and remained TO fight the fire.
Eleven people were burned to death at
Marengo. few miles south of Ashland,
Wis. The bodies are so badly burned that
Frank Bergrom.
Elish a Towney,
Isaac Towney.
Mrs. Ida Towney,
William TOwney,
Jessie TOwney,
Walter Graft and four children.
Subscriptions for the FIRE sufferers
jumped up rapidly to-day. The first one
came from President James j. Hill Of the
Great Northern Railway and was for
$4,000. Accompanying this was another
for $4,000 from President HIPS associates
in the Great Northern. Altogether the
money contributions will aggregate about
S25, 600. Minneapolis has already raised
$4,000. ana is rapidly increasing the
amount, and Duluth has fund of $4,000
A special to the Pioneer Press from Pine
City, Minn., says: To-nights correct
figures are of character calculated to
lower rather than to raise the total num-
ber of dead. There has been an increase
over previous estimates at Htnckley, but
remaining still in the woods is decreasing.
The estimated loss of life is now placed at
between 375 and 400
DULUTH, Sept. 5.-There are over 1000
destitute refugees from the Hinckley aud
Sandstone fires now in Duluth. Over
$1,000 has been raised for relief. and wood.
clothing and lumber are being donated
literally. The relief society yesterday
sent 100 unfoItunates to their friends RnC
relatives in other cities. One sad feature
of tho catastrophe is the large mum Der OF
cattle. horses. sheep and hogs, as well as
fowls, that miraculously escaped the
flames. and are now slowly dying from
hunger.
PINE CITY. Mimi, Sept. 5.-The death
roll at Hinckley is growing, but slowly.
Early to-day the remains of seven bodies
were brought in from the eastern county
road. This brings the total of Hinckley's
dead TO 221 and in the vicinity of Hinckley
to upward of go. AS yet IL has been i'm
possible 10 approach the mAlpoud. The
heap of sawdust and edgings. which forms
its banks are still sending up dense clouds
of binding smoke. At Pine City the work
of rescue is running smoothly.
WEST SUPERIOR, Wis. Sept. 5.-Along
the line of the Omaha Railway, south of
here, the fires are still burning. At Su-
perior junction the fires were reported
very bad to-day, but at last accounts the
town was still unharmed. A small settle
ment, about twenty miles north of Iron
River. burned last night. but the residents
escaped.
IsHPENIING. Mich, Sept. 5.-This city is
again euveloDed in smoke, the fires in the
forest having started afresh. The damage
is confined to crops and timber, as the fire
is some distance from the settlements. A
report from the lumber towns west of here
says all are safe as yet. but the danger is
by no means over. Hundreds of men are
still fighting the flames throughout the
upper peninsula.
MANIsTEE. Mich, Sept. 5.-Forest fires
are raging fercely in this vicinity. South
Manistique and Thompson are in consid-
erable danger. The conditions are favor
able for a disastrous fire throughout the
county of Sehoolcraft Manistique is al
most without means with which to fight a
fire, and could render bat little assistance
10 the surrounding hamlets.
WINNIPEG, Man, Sept. 6-The Min
nesota forest fires have spread to the Cana
dian side and are burning the entire
country along Rain River. Mrs. Gamsley
and four children are reported burned to
death. =