The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1894-09-06


pared to leave early The wind blew
like hurricanc and as the people were
getting ready to leave, the fire closed
IN on three sides, not single person
saved a thing except his clothes.
Stefferfeldt carried two children to a
place CT safety, and went back for
more. About 100 went to the river
and fifty or sixty were burned to
death At o'clock this morning Mr..
Stenerfeldt saw over forty bodies,
chaired and burned, lying on every
si0e. The people who were saved
have been all day without food or
shelter and no relief could be got to
them today. The people are living on
potatoes aud carrots left in the ground
Sandstone is about three miles from
Sandstone junction on the Duluth
road and the tire was on both sides OF
the river Sc thpt the town of Partridge
was burned.
Mr.. Gilboy, conductor on the Eastern
Minnesota came down 10 eighteen
miles north Of Hinckley and found all
bridges burned, including big bridges
over Kettle river and the Grindstone,
walked down to Sandstone and found
only handful of people One gentle
man, Mr. Sanborn, found forty-sayen
dead bodies lying uncovered In the sun.
The people are destitute OF everything.
They need food, shelter, clothing and
medica! attendance. The only build
ing left is the brick school house, which
Is all burned out inside.
The people are living on the river
bottoms without shelter. General
Manager Falrington at Duluth, wlg
teiesral he'd, as wires IRE open, to
within two miles of Partridge. ard
asked to send train to within seven
miles OF the place with provisions and
medicine.
In addition to forty-seven bodies at
Sandstone, there are twenty at Kettle
River Junction. One family is living
in root house and the father is miss.
ing. All the settlers in the vicinity
are probably burned to death. O'Neill
bros. had twelve camps in the woods
nelr sandstone, and all these are
burned. Most of tine inmates however.
are believed to have escaped with
their lives.
There are about eleven homeless
families stlll at Mission Creek, but
they have provisions for about twenty
-FOUR ECurs Brook Park, two miles
west of HiIckley, is burned and there
abont 125 people there, many of whom
are i'll need of immediate relief.
Pine City, Mimi, Sept. 2. - This
city has been converted into a
big hospital for those injured in the
, terrible timber fires north. Between
Itinckley aud this city, the st. Paul q
Duluth railroad runs a special ever,
Few hours bringing in the injured.
A Tow OF the wounded are the fol-
lowing: Carroll Jtnkc, head and arms:
=. A. Carlson, St. Louis, ears and
hands burned; Mrs. Mcneil, aged
eighty, head: Mrs. Greentields, face
and entire body: Mrs. Otto Oleson.
face and e es; Charles Larsen, hands:
Joseph Garden. eyes, legs and hands;
Emma Hammond of Iowa, entire
Dody, Will die; Mrs. Westerlund, face
and eyes: Nels .T-resk, face and hands:
Otto Bull, eyes: John Frisck. body:
john Shaborg. body.
Pine City has turned the skating rink
snd court house as well as MANY
Irlvate houses, into hospitals, where
n.tY .Sllncrcrs are receiving medical Mt
trdal'co ald careful nursing. The
loWE Lall 1t used as an eating house
mere all the homeless men, women
ana ch!ldre:i are substantially fed. The
school house, church and hotel besides
som" stores are used to shelter them
Ds rlght There is no property to be
nhKcd after. Those who have saved
tnen families are lucky, and those who
saved their own lives feel grateful for
thlt much.
NO attempt ut burial will be made
Dclor'' irnruing Forty Boxes have
peen received from st. Paul and about
q dozen are being constructed here as
receptacles for the dead. Whichever
way the eye turns heartrending scenes
are witnessed. The hospitals and
streets are thronged with people seek
ing their missing loved ones.
a soon as each train comes in from
the north there is a frenZied rush of
pailld inquiries, some of whom are
doomed to disappointment forever.
Fathers seek wives and children: sis
tiers. their brothers, youths. their moth,
ers, and occasionally are made to re-,
Jolce Dy hrding them. Few families
are complete and the torture Of anxiety
ana DESPAIR Is driving some people out
OF their senses. A man going insane.
pauent groaning life away, woman
giving premature birth, a heap of
cinders representing human form
these are few of the incidents of the
great forest fire Of 1894.
NO trains are running west of Hinck,
ley and 1t is impossible to get accurate
information. Carlton, Rutledge and
Other towns in the north are reported
burned to the ground. The Eastern
minnesota Is gutted out, and the
omaha has feared little better. Yhe
eastern Mirresota train from Hinck-
ley for St Paul Mt 4 o'clock the limited
on sunday took about 800 nonrle tn
Duluth, all of whom are reported all
right. This train got over the bridges
few minutes before they were
buried.
At Pinetown, three miles east Of
Pine City, south Of the Snake river and
west o. the st, Croix fearful fire is
tiazing and sweeping everything be-
fore 1t. In the afternoon this fire was
ut least twelve miles square, and as
the wind has gone down considerably
here it Is hoped its course will be
checked. There are fires north of
Snake river also in q heavy timber
section which is sparsely settled.
Zine City is wide open for any and
every case of distress along the rail-
road lines or in the interior. The name
of Pine City will occupy prominent
place i'm the history of MinnpSotn A
kinder feeling for sufferers and more
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