Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-09-08
THE DEATH BOIL.
List of Known Victims of the Min
nesota Forest Fires.
The Total VIII Foot Up Nearly BOO-Fur'
ther Details of the Awful Catastrophe
Measures to Relieve the
Survivors.
CorNT1Na TIE nFAn.

NOONllNd Ihf bf Alrs
ST. PAUL, Mimi, Sept. 4. Later re-
ports from the fire-swept district of
northeastern Minnesota and north
western Wisconsin indicate that the
loss of life and destruction of property
have not been exaggerated. While it
is not possible even yet to ascertain
the exact number of lives lost, it is
certain that between 400 and 800 per-
sons perished. The property loss will
not fall short of $40, 900, 900.
TO the list of towns heretofore named
as having been totally or partially de-
stroyed there are to be added the fol-
lowing in Ties rstRtesf Minnesota: Part
ridge, Cpomwell Pok6eAma, Broad
Park, Curtis, Cushing, anA Rib Lake,
Wis, making total of twsh five.
Following. is q list of thoge known to
be dead at HfHeltIey
Mr. and Mrs. Abbey and Two children, Mrs.
Dan Donohue and three children, John Wes-
lund and child, Mr.. and Mrs. John Rodgers and
three children, Mr.. and Mrs. Mike Curry and
boy, - Sherman, Paul Leske, Mrs Meter
and four children, Thomas Dunn, Mrs. Blanch
ard and two children Mrs. Martin Martinson
and four children, Axel Hanson and mother,
Mrs Catherine Grissinger Callie Grissinger,
hBeu o, MnDel GrlSSlnBer, aReU - MT.
and Mrs William Ginder and two boys,
Winifred Clnder, aged 8; C. G. Ander-
son, Mrs. Hans Paulson and four chill
dren; Mr.. and Mrs. Chambers and two chill
dren; henry Hanson, Emily Anderson, Nels
Robertson wife and two children; Mary Rob-
inson. Otto Rowely, of Duluth Israel Schur-
msld OF Chicago; F.. Rickettson, of Minnea-
polls David Kane, OF Rock Creek Mr.. and
Mrs. John Best, George Best, aged 25; Fred
Best, aged %: VIII Best, aged2l Bertha Best,
aged II; Victoria Best. aged 8; Mrs, Anthony
WeiSel, Minnie Weigel, aged 3; Miss Annie
Truttman. aged %, of Diamond Bluff Wis; DIR.
Kelley, OF New Brighton; - Lombeson, VIII
liam Nesbtt Mr. and Mrs John Burke and two
children; Mr.. and Mrs. Reynolds and two chill
dren; Jim Bean, Hans Mattison, Sandy Hem
derson of Pine City; Johnny Henderson, OF
Pine City; Thomas Jones, Charles Hanson, Den
mis- Riley John Anderson, wife and two chill
dren; Peter Robertson, Louis Nelson, Emma
Dolan, Belle O'Brien, Anna Wallace. Mrs. Co.'S
tigan and three children William Pinnohr,
Patrick Murphy, Henry Hoffman and wife, OF
Sandstone; Mrs. John Mcnamara and one
child
The following are dead or missing at
Broad Park, Mimi:
Thomas Raymond, wife and three children
are missing; Charles Anderson. wife and three
children are missing Fred Mollinder, wife
and three children are dead; Charles Olson is
missing; Miss Nora Olson is dead; Oscar Lar
son and sister are missing; David Goodshell is
missing; Charles Whitney is missing; -
Barnes and j. Brennan are missing; Eric Lar
son is dead.
The list of dead at Sandstone, as
nearly as can be ascertained, is as fol-
lows:
p. England. his wife and seven children;
- Johnson, his wife, children and brother
in-law; f. Edstrom, family of six; Edstrom
himself is badly il not fatally burned; H. Hoff-
man and wife; Alfred Broad. wife and family
of three children; August Anderson and son;
Emil Peterson; c. +. Anderson, wife and two
children Mrs. August Anderson; Peter Kahn
wife and three children; Gustuve Anderson
wife and two children H. Linds, wife and five
children; Mrs. Greenfield and six children;
| Dan Muth.
OF the dead 223 have been buried al
Hincllley, most of them unidentified
| The remains are burned and charred
beyond recognition Wagon-loads oi
bodies are constantly being brought
to the Hincllley cemetery, so that the
list of dead will easily swell to $50 cl
800 in the immediate vicinity.
Broad Park, near Pollegama station
a new town on the st. Cloud & Hincl1
| ley branch of the Great Northern, was
totally destroyed. The flames burned
800. 900 feet of lumber, 4 sawmill, hotel
stores, post office, schoolhouse and SEQ
ton house. Twenty-Five families il
the immediate vicinity are homeless
Six thousand tons of hay, twenty heac
of horses and thirty head of cattle are
gone. The total loss of property is es
TINA ted at $50, 900, no insurance.
The sufferers need food, rainmen
and shelter for winter. Contribution.
from the outside are needed for theil
relief.
Gov. Nelson has issued a proclama
tiou calling on the people of the state
for contributions to aid the sufferers
DULUTH, Mimi, Sept. 4.-Early Mon
day relief train returned to Dulutl
bearing 22T survivors of the burning
of Sandstone. Sixty bodies wer
found in the little town, scat
tered about everywhere. No at
tempt has been made to bur,
them. One building is all that re
mains at Partridge, on the Easter
Minnesota. Everything was burned
but as far as can be learned only on
life was lost.
ST. CLOUD, Mimi, Sept. 4.-Nea
| Nl .ldCd AZ VI hNc Icch
well. The fire extended to the wood
work surrounding it, and after it wa
burned off caused the well to cave i
and all five perished by drowning.
Sr. PAUL, Sept. A relief trai
was sent to Hinckly on Monday wit
force of men and supply of tents
those being most needed just now
Additional supplies were picked u
at every station along the road. Phil
Martin, of the land department of tn
Great Northern road, went in search c
Thomas Fitzgerald, land examiner a
Dellgrove, who, with dozen worl<meI
was in the midst of the fire, and has nc
been heard from. The chamber of con
merce raised $1,000 for relief at il
meeting and adopted resolutions favo
ing the securing of information frol
United States consular agents as
forestry management in foreign coul
tries, with the object of preventin
future forest fires.