Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-09-04

people and IL busy railroad and lum-
boring Interests.
The excitement which buoyai up 80
many survivors, In face Of the fact that
many relatives aud friends had refishtd
Ia the fiery food, has passed. away AMI
dull grief has taken IT. place. Uniulufei
refugees at Pine CITY stand around In
little Knots aud discuss incidents OF the
catastrophe In awe-stfichon tones
II aspilsl paiieuts demanded the aiton.
{ on Of physicians all uisht, nnd the
ouly druggist In Pine CITY was kept
busy until daylight filling prescriptions
and supplying iitlO NJ, for most Of
tho injuries were burns more or less
/ serious.
Before dayllghtarrangements for the
relief Of the destitute were taken up
where they we're hfOppel at midnight.
Before O'Clock construction train,
loaded with bridge mstorial Tor the re-.
laitof the bfijge across Gtlndsione
iivet nj Hinckley, came up from Rush
CITY, A couple OF hundred leaves u
bread snd other light provisions we're
| placed on board. a party " lahOrcrs
10 dig graves aui inter bodies was col.
lcciei, and the tram proceeded Into the
| burned county. Al Hiuokley ptOyi.
siOns were loaded on 10 n haudcir, and
a start was made across a shaky bridge
10 Miller. From Miller they expect 10
work cnst from Sandstone, nbJut five
mll,s across the country on tie East
etn Minnesota railway, where tuefo
ATE betWeBn forty.nve and fifty dead
and couple uf hundred living, who
were saved IN Kettle river anu in the
great Sandstone qIartirg. About II
I haH n Lad
| paired 10 admit passage Of tho train
and engine. A freight car and ca
boOse, with plentiful supply VI food
anu meagef store Of coillns was sent
north.
At Hinckloy the visible situation
haJ materially Improved over night.
| Thirty or forty chskots auI boxes, with
their griesomo contents, stlil lay along
the track whore they were placed last
night. No attempt has been made ~
dress or embaim tue bodies, aud they
were already growing very Offensive.
Fortunately the day was cool and
cloudy, Rnd grateful showers fell at
| Intervals duriug the forenoon.
Oug Ia the little cemetery, mile east
| Of town, was n scene which words are
absolutely powercss TO describe. At
best the little spot would bs dreary, rs
could DO vol imagined. There were
only a few little sandy, uusoddrn
mounds before. Now, blackened with
fire, SCARED stumps and fallen trunks
VI trees all about, IL presented an
appearance OF dus1lation hard 10 de-
scribe.
Ia tbs center, In an indlscrimlnate
heap, lay more than Ninety o0rpse,-
/ men, women and little chil ifeu, some
burned TO cf,sp, others only Drowned
| 10y heat, anu uUur with u fragment Of
clothing larger than mans nand to
conceal their awful machines. some
were mere trunks, the extremltles
having been burned OF.
From cracked Rbiomens intestinos
were ptoifudiuE. Skulls were burned
aud brains escaping, anu all the corpses
were twisted AMI crAmpui, A Iofce
" meg were quickly at work diggingA
shallow trench. The sandy ~ was as
hard A. tlinL II hal been baked to
I crust by weeks OF drought and almost
s0liJifled by the IRE, aud work pro.
gtcssed slowly. Ouin corner VI the
clearing smaller gfaves were being dug
for Mrs. Wan. Gtisinger aud her tvs
baby girls, Caroline, aged D, and
| Mabel, aged 3. rhe husband and
father had recognized them IN ghast
| ~ heap. Another grave was for the
Bts, family, whose numbers max O
their destruction notable even at this
time Of death.
John Best JrAwAs digging pit, with
the friendly assistance oi two neigh
bOrs. Laid In row, recently covered,
were the bodies OF JOhu Beet ST., Mfs.
Best, Fred Best, aged %; Bertha, aged
II; Mrs. Annie Wiegst, married
daughter, anu her thfee-yeAr.old
daughter Minnie; Mrs. Annie Tfutman
Of Diamond Bluff, Wis, visitor, aged
20, and Victor Best, aged s. Two
other sons, George, aged 20, Hnd Willie,
aged "a, are certainly dead, And OF
this whole family OF thtee generations
only the borrowing gravedigger aud
wife aud child, who took refuge In
a dugout, are Left. They all lived To-.
gc,her about two miles southeaAt Of
HinoEley.
wTBER's WORK.
PiNE CIlY, Mimi, Sept. 8.-No one
| Of tue citizens OF Pine City VINO yOlun.
teered their aid iu the work Of relief
did more than Mr.. r.. q. Weber. He
took entire charge VI the work ut the
cemetery and kept ut the hidcOus work
until all that could be- done had been
accomplished. Not until nightfall were
his lAbOrs over, and during that time he
had succession OF relays Of men under
him, for many slckBbed aud had 10
| give up. The WORK progressed slower
han need have been the Gaze had Mt.
Weber's working force been adequate.
As 1t was sixty.five unidentified dead
were Inferred In this trenches, nity'six
were put In boxes and thirteen were
buried by their ffiends, making n total
Of 1874 bodies handled nj the cemetery.
MT. Weber says he has reports OF
fiity one bodies all ready for burial to-
morrow aud this number VIII grow
every hour. The bodies found after
tomorrow must be- buried where found,
rs they will DO too BADLY decomposei
for removal.
DESCRIPTION OF TINS DISASTER.
ST. PAUL, MINI, Sept, Sis towns
wiped out aud more Than 900 deai IL
the record made by the forest hfes Ia
this state. In HlucSley, Sandstone,
PokegHms, Sandstone Junction, skunk
Lake ami Mission Geek there arc $50
known dead. la addition, several
hundred are missing, while from 1850 Ia
gOl were scattered on farms Throughout
tho district uutnei over Tue desIruc'
ton was complete In most " the towns
named, but come OF tho forest lAul g.
capped. Tao loss, however, VIII 10 Ia
the millions, au1 the l'sS Of liis vii
not DO definitely kgown Tor seyera
davs II ever
GA tho lraln today from thore were