The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-04
HORROR UPON HORROR.

Will be put up at Hinckley-
HORROR UPON HORROR.
Words Can But FeebIy Tell the Story
of Death and Destruction.
st. Paul, Mimi, Sept "a Pine City
special to the Pioneer Press says:
Words cannot tell the story of death
and destruction that is revealed to the
traveller in the st. Paul & Duluth re-
lief train from Mission Creek to two
miles above the little town of Miller or
Sandstone Junction. The awfulness of
the desolation which strikes upon the
eye of the observer as he reaches the
camp, which was once the town of
Hinckley, is still more strongly i'm
pressed upon the mind as he Journeys
northward. This morning, the smoke
had lifted, revealing a landscape bare
and black, the few standing trees being
charred to height of forty feet, while
the ground was of that peculiar tint
OF brown sand mixed with gunpoWder,
for the grass had been burned even
to the roots. Here and there, in the
black and dreary stretches of country
In what is now great lone land, was
seen the body of a deer, whose fleet
feet had not been able to outrun the
f1ameS, or of a human being who had
been absolutely powerless against the
grim destroyer.
A Pioneer Press man accompanied
Judge Nethaway, Of Saltwater, and the
members of the relief party which
started on handcar loaded with pro-
visions to relieve the people of Sand
stone, who were reported in great dis
treSs. Two miles above Hinckley they
found, lying by the trunk of tree,
| the body of man which was evidently
| that of lumberman. The relief party
proceeded as far as Skunk Lake, where
the Duluth limited train was burned.
Here they found Engineer Williams in
| charge of gang of men rebuilding
! the burned bridges. From them it was
learned the people living at Sandstone
| had been taken to Duluth by special
trains on Sunday night, and their
| pressing necessities relieved, so the
help from Pine City was not needed.
The party. therefore, resolved itself
into one of search for bodies of victims
of the disaster.
| Suffocated in n Cellar.
The house of John Robinson was near
Skunk lake in the edge of the woods
and the family sought refuge in the
cellar. There was no escape from the
fire, and the party found the bodies OF
John Robinson and his wife and Mary
their eldest daughter, and two small
children. All the clothing was burned
| from the bodies, but the victims had
evidently been suffocated before the
flames reached them. The hands Of the
eldest daughter were uplifted with
palms together in an attitude of prayer
/ Within six hundred yards of the spot
l -ta,N L -AA H. -,
was a long trench running from the
little body of water, which proved a
place of safety for the passengers on
| the limited to a swamp on the lake
Following along this trench, the party
! came upon the partially-clothed body
of a man who. in personal appearance
lcorresponded to the description of Gen
eral Passenger and Freight Agent
Rowley, of the Duluth & Winnipeg
railway. An examination of the dead
mans shirt, showed the name Of
Rowiey, and is supposed he was a pas
Senger on the limited and in taking tC
the ditch expected to reach the lake.
Other bodies found by the party were
those of a man and woman. who hac
evidently fled from a farm house neal
by, and the bodies of two men who are
supposed to have been passengers or
the burned train.
Some of the Victims.
The latest verified reports of til,
number of dead do not materially altel
a former estimate. In fact, that esti
mate is proving remarkably exact, con
lsidering the confusion of the first day
One element that makes close figuring
very difficult is the fact that bodie.
seen in the woods and along the tract
are not infrequently reported to two
points and sent out from each as among
+1,, Il Of 2 HI
occasion, bad as it is, is toward eXag
geration. However, eliminating thos
doubtful elements as far as possible
from it's approximation, the Pionee
Press is convinced the total is as nearl.
jexact as possible. The number of deat
at Hinckley is placed at 200.
The Pioneer Press correspondent ha
actually counted 1874 of these and tn
margin allowed is about all that i
Hinckley. 200; Sandstone, 60; Miller, II
between Skunk lake and Miller, II
Pekogama. %: in lumber camps ant
scattering, estimated. so Total, 364.
The following is the list Of the known
dead at Hinckley, partially identified
so far as known at late hour tonight
Mr.. and Mrs. Abbey and two children
Mrs Dan Donohue and three children
John Weslund and child.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Rogers and tire
children.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mike Curry and boy.
- Sherman.
: Paul Leske.
Mrs. McIver and four children.
Thomas Dunn.
:. Mrs. Blanchard and two children.
Mrs. Martin Macintosh and fou
children.
Alex Handson and mother.
Mrs. Catherine Grissinger.
Guile Grissinger, aged 6.
Mabel Grissinger, aged 5.
Mr.. and Mrs William Ginder an
two boys.
, Winifred Ginder, aged 6.
c. G. Anderson.
! Mrs. Hans Paulson and four children
) Mr. and Mrs. Chambers and tw
+ children.
! Henry Hanson.
: Emily Anderson.
; Nels Robertson. wife and two children
Mary Robinson.
. Otto Rowley, of Duluth.
Israel Schurmski, of Chicago.
f. Ricketson, of Minneapolis.
David Kane, of Rock Creek.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Best.
George Best, aged %.
Fred Best, aged %.
Will Best, aged q.
Bertha Best, aged IL.
Victor Best, aged 8.
1 Mrs Anthony Weigel.
D Minnie Weigel, aged s.
t Miss Annie Truttman, aged 90, of Dis
e mond Bluff, Wis.
Y DR.. Kelley, of New Brighton.
e NJ K Henderson.
!, William Nesbitt
V Mr. and Mrs. John Burke and tv