New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-09-03
DEAD UNKNOWN.

recovered at Uincklev and forty-hve at Sand
stone II will be several days before the full ex-
tent Of the disaster can be known. All Is con-
fusion and excitement among the surviving
parents who are searching for their children and
children searching for parents. The death list
increases every hoIr
SOME OF THE DEAD AND INJURED.
The names Of those krown to be dead focw:
ANDERSON, JOHN wife and two children.
ANDERSON. CHARLES. cashier Hinckley Bank.
AMNELsON. Mrs ANDREW. and two children.
BEAN. JAMES. unmarried.
BLANCHARD. Mrs. JOHN. and three children.
BEST family. five members.
CARL. JOSEPH
CAMPBELL. THOMAS unmarried.
CURRY Mrs NIKE. and two children.
CROWLEY. JOHN. single.
CHAMBERS. LOUISE, single
DONAHI'E. Mrs. DANIEL. and two children
GRAY. WALTER.
GRANsTROM. ANDREW. wife and three children.
GORMAN Mrs THOMAS. and three children
HANSON. AXEL wife and three children.
JONES TOM. Of Eau Claire. Wis.
MATTISOS MATTHEW. single
NESBITT WILLIAM. single
PENNOYER WILLIAM. OF Chippewa Falls WIS
REYNOLDS LEVI. wife and three children.
RIi.E1. DfsNNlS. S.USlf
SCANNED THOMAS. single.
SCAMMON. LOUIS
SIGNALLING WILLIAM
SHERMAN. Mrs NOBLE. and child.
SHERMAN. JOHN. wife ami three children.
The names Of the injured. far as obtanable
tonight. are as follows: Charles Larson. hands
burned; Joseph Barden. eyes legs and hands
Mrs. westerlund. face ana eyes; Nels Frisk face
and hands. Emma Hamn.onu. entire oody. VIII
die: Otto VIII. eyes; Carroll Jemke. head and
arms: Mrs Mcneil aged eighty years. head; c.
4. Carlson " St Louis. and hands; Mrs.
Greenfield. face and entire body; Mrs. otto Olsen.
face and eyes
only the horrors which accompanied the his
toric Chicago fire can be cited In comparison with
the terrible scenes and experiences In the flame
swept pine region of Pine. Kennebec and Carlton
counties or Minnesota. and Burnett County. Wis
At least 900 settlers. their families and others
were burned t. death or suffocated before the
flames reached them. and the death list may
rise another hundred or more. The people OF
IIlnc6ley. which was prosperous town In Pine
County. sixty-scven miles southwest Of Duluth
are now dead or homeless and destitute. Al
conservative estimate 25O men. women and chill
dren Of this doomed town were unable TO escape
from the mercilcss swiftly advancing sheets OF
flame They fell on the railroad tracks or on the
old Territorial road elthe- to be crematci or die
the more mercifu death from sunocation by the
clouds Of dense smoke and hcat-laden atmos-
~. - already recovered
from the blackened waste at and around what
was Hinckley is $50. the majority being women
ard chcIren. who had not the strength to fght
their destroyer or escape by fleeing TO place OF
safety.
THE TOWNS THAT WERE DESTROYED.
So far as can be learned at this time
from the devastated district. the following towns
have been destroyed, and the dead follows
in numbers:
Hinckley. Mimi. 1000 to l2Oo inhabitants; 25O
to 300 dead 500 to 600 homeless
Pokegama. Mimi. next station southwest of
Hinckey. 800 inhabitants; 50 dead.
Mission Creek. next station south Of Hinckley.
on the St Paul and Duluth road 10 dead.
Sandstone Junction Mimi. next station north
OF Hnckley. on the st. Paul and Duluth road. 2G
dead.
Sandstone. second station north Of iiinckley, on
the Eastern road. 80 dead.
Cromwell Mimi, Carlton County. dead un-
known.
Miller. Mlnn near Hinckley off railroad line.
dead unknown.
Shell Lake, Baronette Granite Lake. Cumber-
land. Pineville, Comstock and Forest City, lum-
Falls and Superior
Spooncr. Wis. partly destroyed.
The number of dead In these Wisconsin towns
and in other parts Of the country between Chip
pewa Falls and Superior is estimated at 100 per-
sons.
The Minnesota confagration. which was at
tended by the shocking loss Of life and agony
Of body and mind for hundreds OF others, who
escaped with their lives only. swept everything
and everybody In It's path from Pine CITY, az
far west as Carlton. near Duluth. The great
valley between Kettls River and Cross Lake.
which a few days ago was In no danger OF
destruction by the forest fires raging IN 'he iu"-
her States. is now one vast area OF ashes
When the sun went down tonight but two
buildings we're left standing In Hinckley-a
water tank and a roundhouse. and into the lat
ter were crowded $50 people. all that were 'he"
known 70 be alive Of the I5oo people who have