The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-09-04

DuLuru, MEM, Sept. s.-Early to-
aay reliet train returned to Duluth
bearing two hundred and twonty.sevon
survivors Of the burning Of Sandstone.
The train came up on the St Paul &
Duluth, the trip having been made to
Sandstone by tho relief party on foot.
The survivors were secured, and babes
and small children carried back over
tho six miles oftrail through the woods.
One hundred and fifty people were left
and second train was sent out for
them. The party had to cross from
Miller station on the st, Paul & Duluth
to Sandstone. ak miles distant. Sixty
bodies were found in the little town,
scattered about everywhere. No ut
tempt has been made to bury them and
they arc rosting In the hot sun. One
building is all that remains OF Pard-
ridge, on the Eastern Minnesota, every
thing was burned. but so far as can be
learned only one life was lost. Tho list
of dead, as near as could be gotten from
the survivors who reached tho train
Is as follows:
P. England, wife and seven children;
- Johnson, wife aud brother-in.law;
T. Edstrom'a family Of six, Edstrom
himself 10 badly, ii not fatally burned;
II. Hoffman and wifo, Alfred Broad,
wife and family of three childrcn;
August Anderson and son, died in the
pump house and were found in tho box; ;
Emil Peterson, single. found In tho
strccts in tho central part OF the town;
q F, Anderson, vito aud two children; ;
Mrs. August Anderson, Peter Kahn,
wiic and three children; Gustavo
Anderson, wife and two children.
LOSS OF LIFE.
They found moshcr in theyard with
hcr children claaped in her arms.
Many others were found in Sandstone
aud remained unidentified. Estimates
from conservative men who have gone
over the ground, place the loss Of life
al anywhere from 500 to 1000. About
1900 homeless people have been brought
10 Duluth. The railroad wires are not
vet repaired aud details come in slowly.
All that remains OF what was once
the prosperous village OF Sandstone Is
the small shack used by the Sandstone
company for an office, aud this would
have met the fate Of the other buildings
but for tho fact that 1t was located near
the quarry and was missed by the
famea. Crowded into this building and
the ferry house were found over 2U9
people who had lost their homes and
everything they possessed, except the
clothing which they wore.
When the st. Paul & Duluth train
which left Duluth at 4 o'clock arrived at
AIiller's junction, word was received
that the town OF Sandstone was entirely
burned, and the people there were in
need Of immediate aid. A party OF the
relief committee was aboard the train
when it started with provisions to look
after tho destitute people.
After passing the Eastern Minnesota
tracks aud Just before coming to tho
glowing coals and ashes that marked
the site OF Sandstone, several bodies
were seen, tho victims apparently haV-
ing been overtaken by tho flames as
they were fleeing to safety. Those who
wore burned and number Of childron
were loft in the Office building until to-
day. when they will be cared for by an-
other relief train. All those saved ut
Sandstone were In the river while tho
cyclone Of flames passed and only man
aged TO escape by wading in tho water
as far as possible and thon throwing
water over each others heads.
WORDS CANNOT TELL.
A Pine City special to the St, Paul
Pioneer Press says:
Words cannot toll tho story Of death
and destruction that is revealed to tho
traveller on tho ST. Paul & Duluth from
Mission Creek to two miles above tho
little town OF Miller, or Sandstone
Junction. Tho awfulucsa Of the desc.
laLiou which strikes upon tho eye oil
tic observer as he reaches tho camp
which was oncc tho town Of Hinckley
10 sstill moro strongly impressed on MS
vision as he journeys northward.
A Pioneer Pres man accompanied
Judge Nothaway, Of saltwater: and th9
mOmbers Of relief party. which started
on hand car loaded with provisions,
to reliove tho people Of Sandstone who
wero reported In great distress: Two
miles above Hinckloy they found lying
by the trunk Of trco the body OF a
man which was evidently that ofa lum-
herman. Tho relief party proceeded aa
far as Skunk Lako.
Tho house o, John Robinson was near
Skunk Lake, In tho edRo OF the woods,
and tho family sought refuge In tho
cellar. There was no escape from the
fro. and the party found tho
bodies Of John Robinson and
his wife, Mary Robinson, thcir
eldest daughter, and two gmallcr.
children. Ali the clothing was burned
from tho bodies, bat tho victims had
evidently been sutTocated before the
iinmos reached them. Tho hands ot the
oldest daughter wore upraised with
palms together in an attitude Of prayer.
Within ak hundred yards Of the
spot whore Engineer Root stopped
his train was long tronch, running
from tho IIttlo body OF wator,
which proved a place OF safety
for the passengors on tho limited, 70 a
swamp on tho inko. Following along
ihin tvnnoh tha ,,oKIy, nnIn0 IO0n tho