New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-09-02
FIFTY LIVES LOST.
BURNED IN FOREST FIRES.
HEMMED IN BY FLAMES THE VICTIMS
PERISHED.
CONFLAGtATIoNs RAGING WITH rNABATEp
Fr'Ry IN THE NORTHWEST HIGH WINDS
FAN THE FLAMES-SkTTLERS
DRIVEN FROM THEIR HOMES
INTO THE MARSHES

INTO THE MARSHES.
Minneapolis Sept "A telegram from Pine
City. MINI. at a. m. says:
Fire destroyed Hinckey utterly. Fifty people
were burned to death. Mission Creek is also de-
stroved'
Pine city Mlnn.. Sept. 1.-The forest fires
north OF the town raging with fury
The high winds have famed every spark into
a flame and It has been travelling over the
country sweeping everything before 1t. Settlers
are being driven from their homes to seek shelter
in the marshes. The northbound limited train
over the St Paul and Duluth with all the pas
sengers is now laid up at this place waiting to
get through Relief corps are being sent out
from towns as rapidly possible to aid the dis
tressed settlers At midnight the wind has died
away and hope has correspondence increased
There is no danger to this town at present
Rice Lake Wiz. Sept. Terrible forest fires
are raging in this vicinity. and the town OF
Bashaw fifteen miles north OF here Is entirely
wiped out Railroad bridges are partially burned
and ,elcgraphic connections entirely cut OF
from the north The noon passenger train which
left here at 1870 reached far as Bashaw. but
had 90 return. picking up what people they could
| find Some OF them were nearly overcome with
the heat and smoke. and would have perished
| had II not been for the timely rescue y party
| was sent out from here by a special train, but
only succeeded In finding man. whom they
| half wandering around IN
search OF his family. having got separated from
! them while escaping the flames. II Is though'
that some are burned to death. as no trace can
! be found of them.
| Ishpcming Mich Sept. Smoke from burning
| forest fires was so dense that it became neces-
sarv 10 turn on the electric lights this afternoon.
! There are no very large fires nearer than onta-
gon County. but thousands Of small ones are NIL
| Ing the air with dense smoke. Farmers are los
ing crops ard rain is very badly needed. Ihou-
sands ~ square miles Of the upper peninsula
are covered with dense smoke.
st Cloud was asked for help late In the AFTER
noon and n train left at $40 over the Eastern
Minnesota. The train was only To proceed a.
! far as Bridgman as beyond that point all
bridges ties and Telegraph poies na" ,l. oesn
| burned The ST. Cloud crew got the hre uhder
| control around Brigman and was then iorced 10
| return To- this point. All Eastern Minheso'a
trains stopped. and VIII not De apIe 70 PR pro-
| Milara is n town OF abou; 400 inhabitants In
| country thickly covered with pine trees.
| REPORTS up 10 midnight from Becker. Gro"
! Wing and Aitken counties are 10 the erect ina
| Thousands Of dollars worth Of property mas peer
| DESTROYED Including hay and grain stacks iarn
| houses fences and wood
| Ashland. Wis. Sept News has been re-
| ce,v.d here from the hre-swept regions or ASH
| land County that the flames have swept away
| IN. village ~ Marengu. a thriving lumber mil
| nIac. In this county near Ashland. Two hun
| dred families are rendered homeless but no lives
| have been lost "a far Is known. \ large
| quantity Of lumber was burned In the yards
| The mill of Spender & Co. and l.jO0,OoO feet oi
! lumber destroyed.
| Bay city. Mich. Sept. tSpeciaD.-Forest fire'
| are raging In almost every county ~ tnls Stal"
from Saginaw Bay northward MacklnaW u"ll
| arrived today from the Straits OF Mackina"
passng through the counties Oi Emmett, 'n'
| bovgan Otsego Crawford. Roscommon. ogama
Aranac and BAY. II brings news that not one d"
these counties IL free from n coniagratlon ah'
that raIlroadng is dangerous on account oi IN
dense black smoke which hangs over everything
Ike pail and shuts ont the view 81 object
oven A short distance ahead. There are nuhlp'
~ small hamlets and settlements In this dlS'ri'
without telegraphic COMMUNICATION, ana II Is reared
that some ~ them may oe In imnln"nt uanerr
The engineer said that for two hundred mic
I, vyas inDossibe 10 see hfty feet ahead or IN
sngine on account OF the continuous coui @
smoke on Sagn.w Bay, on the rivers "ni'I
empty into H. and On Lake Huron the naVlsa'II
are having a hard time. on account oi 'he sli'uN
which the westerly wind warts out over tn
Iake Millions Of feet " standing lu'nprr VIII ~
lost and the fire will sweep through tWeh!
counties unless rain falls soon