Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-09-06
NINETY IN ONE GRAv
Heartrending Scene in tho
Village Cemetery at Hino,'
ley, Mimi.

ley, Mimi.
Tine City, Mimi, Sept. 3.-At =
lev the visible situation did not NJ.
ly improve over night. Thirty oS
caskets and boxes, with their OWN
contents, lay alongside the track y
they were placed last night. No ~.
had been made to dress or emho,.
bodies, and this morning they wero
inc very offensive. Fortunately f.
was cool and cloudy and grateful
eIs fell at intervals during the fno'
The remains of the dead, howeyo,
in such horribly blistered and h.,
condition that decomposition raMN,
in. Undertaken j. G. Donnely -
Paul was on the ground, and he "A,
that the bodies be put under motbe,
as rapidly as possible. Every alta
at Identification had been exhans
From these bodies by the track III.
Gals of the Duluth road had ram.
and carefully preserved every trinkq,
article of jewelry, and even shoes !
scraps of clothing, placing those from
body in a receptacle numbered idpp,
ly with the casket, so that possibly NJ
relatives return they may recognize n
and know whether their friends Il
been inferred.
Out in the little cemetery mile cas-
town was scene which words are NJ
lutely powerless to describe. At bpy
little spot would be as dreary as O.,
well be imagined. 1t is on top of "a,
sandy knoll, where Nature is seen
her worst and absolutely no attemM
ward artificial embellishments has o
been made. There were only few Il
sandy unsodded mounds before.
with the blackened, tirescarred SIN,
and fallen trunks of trees all about, in
scented an appearance of desolation i
to describe. But in the center of the a
was the browning horror. In an IN
eliminate heap lay more than nj,
corpses, men, women and little chlr
some burned crisp, others only brow
by the heat, and none with a fragmey
clothing larger than mans hand to
ceal their awful nakedness. Some '
mere trunks, the eXtremities having
burned off Some were bloated until
abdomen had cracked open and the
burned open, the brains escaping, am
were twisted and cramped in the ext
lite agony of the death that had
taken them.
A force of men was quickly at ,
digging shallow trench along the 5
end of the cemetery. The sandy
hrI l,I.
a crust by weeks of drouth and al
solidified by the fire. The work
crossed slowly. Off in the corner OF
clearing two smaller graves were |
dug. One was for Mrs. William Gri
er and her two baby girls, Caroline.
6, and Mabel, aged 3. The husband
heap and was hard at work prep;
the trench designed for the unindent
his labors dulling for a time the a
ness of his anguish. The other s
make their destruction notable eve
digging the pit with the friendly a
decently covered were the bodie
aged 23; Bertha, aged II; Mrs. AM
Wiegel, married daughter, and h
year-old daughter Minnie; Mrs: =!
Truttman of Diamond Bluff. Wi
visitor, aged 26, and Voctor Best,
S. Two other sons, George, aget
and Willie, aged q, are missing an
certainly dead. And Of this whole
~ Of three generations only the sorr(
i Ii fn
took refuge in a dugout, are left.
all lived together about two miles 5
east of Hinckley. The only othe
these ninety odd who were recoe
were Charles Anderson, cashier o
| bank, Mrs. William Ginder and
daughter Winnifred, aged &. One Q
| others were imperfectly identitled,,
was largely guess work. Enough
| collins We're knocked together from
| boards to contain most Of these
and they We're rapidly laid away,
| the sand, but not before other bodlt
| gan to come III.
In the swamp across the GrinC
where these corpses were found vest
were about thirty-five others which
brought in this morning, making a
| of upwards $50 dead in this little
| of four or five acres. Down near the
was found the body of Thomas
the Duluth & South Shore operat
| Hinckley. Dunn was born and I
here and was universal tAvorite
stuck to his key until the depot
burning over his head The delay
| eating his body led his friends to
| that he might have escaped, but
morning the finding of his blac
corpses put an end to all uncert
| Up the St. Paul & Duluth right-o
were found three more bodies. A
those who persisted north of tow
e. Ricketson of 1918 Polk street
east, Minneapolis, who was visitil
son. He went out in a wagon with
Kane of Rock Greek, also a visitor
and both persisted, though the horses
thnI