The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-09-05
BURYING THE DEAD.
Sad Work in Wisconsin's Flame
Swept Towns.
STILL RECOVERING DEAD BODIES.



t1r'nin" Their ser--fhe Dead Now Num-
ber $40
81 iAuL' Mlnn., sept IA Pine CITY
khthh'j spt'i't 10 ihe floheet ffess says
ihe death roll at Sandstone has probably
reached its limit, and presents the awful
TOTAL OF slXty-seVcn. Thls Is not an esti-
mate nor GUESS, but an accurate account
OF the bodies Inferred Not all We're from
the little Village, q rev having Deen
Drought in from the Immediate vicinity.
ihcre are mere immense quarries, EN-
ployihE in busy time considerable
number Of men when actively operated
For some time work has been light, and
for this reason 1t is impossible tn get an
accurate estimate OF tire population oil the
place, nut a fnlr hgire is nr"hnhlo bl
Many took refuge IN the qnarrlea ana
some IN hettie river, JUS pe'"w IN aheop
raVihe, whrre Tue EASTERN minnesota
cr1sSes II Drid8e "OD 1907 .JhS ana 53O ieet
high. ..
Many CT those who we're burned were
cHught on tftir way To TINS refuge, and
othcrs were cnilght In the village streets.
In dne well Tour persons died n death That
mus hitEo be"h mixture OF drowning,
siifocating ana burning. Yesterday the
well was utilized hS grave, ana nine
erred with earth. Two rescuin2 parties
were organized in Pine City yesterday
One party fohnd TWO bodies OF men I'M
recognl@abiy burned. Today Two other
parties have gone out IN other directions.
iha country west OF mere is very heavily
wooded, with rev clear'hES ana water
NO report Whatever mas heen heard from
the settlers, anu it Is feared that all have
perlshed' Inc ,uiuth rlShC OF way ana
the country within considerable dis
tance on b"th SIDES up nS TAR as SNnnb
LIKE nus neeil secured prctty thoroughly.
Saretui N"hrch was mate ahd revealed
twchty-eiHht dehu podles. lhey We're IN
an awful condition and could not he han
died Win any care. rive children OF the
Greenfield family were 50 batiy burned
tnat all were put In box designed to cor
tain an adult: Tho mother and father
We're IN Hincklty and were saved, but
Their family and home is wiped out of
existence. --trn
The bodies or the Robertson family of
hVe persons, three OF whom are Adults,
were brought IN, as were those OF Mira
John Mcnamara and her son, who were
refugees from Hinkley and who made their
way further up the track than their
neiHhbors. Near Mrs. McNamara's body
WAS satchel containing s5Dl In currency
ana sS,OOO In checks. Not far away were
the bodies OF two unknown boys, presum-
ably from Hincklty. In cellar half
mile west OF SKUNK Bridge We're found
bodies which were identified as those of
Mrs. Westlund and her two babies. A
Finish womah named Sophie Nacki her
baby, Mrs. We-tinnds 5 sister aud Mrs.
Lind nnd her I'VE chlidrth This number,
added to thIrty-one brought iii from Du-
lu'h tracks ON SUNDAY, aud the body of
Otto Rowley, general freight and pasSen-
ger agent of the Duluth and Winnipeg
railroad, swellS the total OF the loss OF
life along this track to upwards of sixty.
The work at the cemetery yesterday
was in charge OF Mr. II. u Webber 1t
met with one peculiarly sad interruption.
On Monday L. Il. Webster the mayor of
Hinckley, thought he recognized his wife
in the horrid heap of dead. During his
temporary absence the body he hoped to
claim tof more formal and sacred burial
was thrown into pit and covered up.
When he Fcarned OF it ne was half crhzed
with sorrow. A portion of the trench
where some men remembered to hnye
placed the body was dug up. buJeither
the body he sought was not the one un-
covered or the handling 1t had received
had destroyed the scanty marks of identi.
hcation, and Webster was forced to ad-
NIT that thu shepcless corpse was prob
ably not that OF his wife, and the loose
sand was neain thrown into the pit.
There is enc point where an indefinite
number Of bodies may be found 1t is
west OF the Duluth bridge across the
GrindstoDs and at the northwest edge of
the town, where there was mill pond of
considerable depth and probably 400 feet
wide On the bank nearest the town stood
the plant Of the Brennan Lumbar corn
pany and its yatA with ah0':t see 900 feet
of sawed lu;lber, considerable num-
ber Of persaLs were seen making their
way TO the HItsr Of the pond down the
alleys bctwara the piles of burning lum-
ber. There is absolutely no basis for an
accurate approximation Of how many
there were. One thing is certain, no one
who went into it ever came back TO give
an account OF himself or his companions.
To the intense heat Of the burning lum-
Der and the sufocating volume of smoke
which it alone furnished was added TINT
edgiugs through which the lire ran to the