Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-09-03
1000 Lives Lost and More Than
Sl2,OO0,000 Worth Of Prop
erty Wiped Out Of Ex-
istence.
Twenty Towns Destroyed by the Pitt
less Flames-A Day of Mourn
Ing in the Northwest.
Many Deeds of Heroism Rescuing the
T. rhay.t l Bodies-A Welcome
Rain ~ Relief Trains
f'f"' - &'' Moving.

Chlcago, sept. 3.-heports 10 the IT'D
une from portions of Minnesota, Michi-
gan and Wisconsin, in which states forest
fires are now raging, show that the loss
of property at low estimate already
reaches $12,0OO,00O, not including stand
ing timber destroyed. But even worse is
the loss of life, which it is feared will
reach as high as 1000.
The best information is that
TWENTY TOWNS HAVE BEEN DESTROYED,
driving thousands from their homes in
the face of the flames.
The Herald summarizes as follows
Six towns wiped out and more than 500
dead is the record made by forest fires in
Minnesota. At Pokegama, Sandstone
Junction, Skunk Lake and Mission
Creek there are
355 KNOWN DEAD.
In addition several hundred are miss
ing, while from $50 to 200 people are
scattered on farms throughout the dis
trict burned.
The Times estimates at least 500
persons dead as follows: Hinck-
ley, $50; Sandstone, 40; Sandstone juno
tion, 28; Pokegama, 25; Skunk Lake, 80;
Pinetown, 12; Mission Greek, 8; Partridge,
8; Kettle River Junction, 6; Carleton, 81;
Rutledge, 2; miscellaneous, 30.
ANOTHER REPORT.
Eau Claire, Wis.--The last train from
the north on the Omaha road reached here
at o'clock Saturday afternoon. No
trains have gone out or come in since,
except wrecking train sent from here
early this morning. Railroad men say
that the whole region from Cartwright
to Bashaw and Haughen has been on fire
since Saturday afternoon. Bridges are
burned and wires are down, SO that no
one knows when trains will be run.
HUNTsMEN PROBABLY LOST.
st. Paul, Minn.-Large numbers of
sportsmen have left st. Paul within the
last ten days to hunt prairie chickens
near Hinckley, Mora, Sandstone and other
points in that vicinity. The forest fire
covers large stretch of territory, and if
these sportsmen were in the forest no
power on earth could save them, unless
they we're close to some large body of
water. The Northwestern Lumber COM
pany has reports of fresh fires along the
: Eau Claire river. One of the company
said they already had 5O,OOO,OOO feet of
pine burned on the Eau Claire.
CITY SWEPT AWAY.
Spooner, Wis.-Destructio of Baron
ette WAS complete. One lone building is
left in town of 700 inhabitants. One
man was burned and the total loss was
$25O,00O.
Shell Lake has 50 buildings burned,
worth $4,000. Three hundred and sixty
people are homeless and without dollar
of insurance. Deeds of heroism are
plentiful. One widow dragged her sick
son from the house into potato patch
and there protected him from the flames,
while the rest of the Inhabitants fled in
terror.
H1NoKLEY COMPLETELY DESTROYED.
Hinckley, Mlnn.-A gentle rain is fall
ing to-day and quenching the burning
embers of the great forest fires. Black
ened ruins of two or three brick buildings
are all that remain standing of the once
prosperous town of Hinckley with l, 200
people and busy railroad and lumber in
terests. The town is the junction point
for the St. Paul & Duluth and the eastern
railways of Minnesota; and both of those
| roads have suffered losses that can not
be estimated, while the loss to the timber
interests is something beyond computa-
ton. This to-day is place OF
mourning and burial of charred and un-
recognizable bodies of hundreds Of vic
( tins which has saddened the survivors
even more than the disaster itself. The
fires are so overwhelming in immensity
that none in the first terror of the m moment
could realize how great was their loss.
| Each was SO intent on
SAVING HIS OWN LIFE
that little was thought of saving others In
the general disaster, although many cases
ofheroism have been reported. The bodies