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

la the fiery Hood, has passed. away,nuu
dull grief has taken IT. place. Uniulufei
refugees ut Pine CITY stand around Ia
little knots aud discuss incidents OF the
catastrophe Ia awe-stfickeu tones,
II spilal patients demanded the alton.
I on Of physicians all night, AMI the
only druggist In Pine City was kept
busy until daylight flling prescriptions
and supDlylug ljtiO ~, for most ot
the Injuries were burns more or less
serious.
Before dayllghtartangemenis for tho
relief OF the destitute were taken up
where they were htOppeI at mid night
Bei1re7 O'Clock construction train,
loaded with bridge matorial for the re-
lair Of the brlIge across GfindstOne
river al Hinckley, came up from Rush
CITY. a couple Of hundred leaves o.
bfesj anu other light provisions were
placed on buntd. A party " lahorcrs
to dix graves aui inter bodies was cOl-
lcctei, aud the tram proceeded Into the
burned country. Al Hinokley proyi.
siOns were loaded on 10 a handcaf, and
a start was made across shaky ufldge
~ Muller. From Miller they expect 10
work east from Sandstone, about i've
mills across the country on tie East.
are between for,y.1vs and fifty dead
and = couple II hundred living, who
were saved IN Kettle river anu in the
great Sandstone qlarries. About II
O'Clock the bridge was sufficiently re-.
paired 10 admit passage Of tho train
and engine. A freight car and ca
boOse, with n plentiful supply VI food
and a meagef store Of coilius was sent
north.
At Hinckley the visible situation
had materially Improved over night.
thirty or forty Baskets AMI boxes, with
their gfuesomo contents, stlll lay along
the track whore they were placui last
night. No attempt has bren made 10
dftsi or embaim tue bodies, aud they
were already growing very offensive.
Fortunately the day was cool and
cloudy, aud grateful showers fell at
Intervals duriug the forenoon.
Ga, IA the little cemetery, mile east
OF town, was n scene which words are
absolutely powcfloss to describe. At
best the little spot would bs drcary, rs
could DO vol imagined. There were
only few little sandy, unsOlueu
niounds before. Now, blacksned with
fire, SCARED stumps and fallen trunks
Of trees all about, II presented al
appearance OF dcsJlatiOn hard 20 DE.
scribe.
Ia tbs center, In AL lndiscrimlnale
heap, lay more than ninety cOrpsus-
men, women and little chiliteu, some
burned 10 cf,sp, others only Drowned
10y heat, anu uUuu with u fragment VI
clothing larger than mans naud to
conceal their awful machines. Some
were mere trunks, tue exttemltlvs
having been burned OF.
From cracked Abi9mens intostinos
were ptOtfudiug. Skulls were burned
aud brains escaping,and all the coTpses
were twisted ani cramped. A iOrce
Of meg were qulckly at work digginga
shallow trench. Tue sandy su was as
hard a. HAT Il hal been baked 10
crust by weeks Of drought ami almost
soliJified by the IRE, aud work pro.
grcssed slowly. Orin corner Of the
clearing smaller graves were being dug
for Mrs. Wan. Gfi,inger aud her two
baby girls, Caroline, aged D., aud
Mabel, aged 3. rhe husband and
father had recognized them IN ghAst
~ heap. Another grave was for the
Best family, whose numbers max o
their destruction notable even at this
time Of death.
John Best JrAwas digging pit, with
the friendly assistance Of two neigh.
bOre. Laid In n row, recently covered,
were tue bodies OF Jobu Beet ST., Mrs.
Best, Fred Best, aged %; Bertha, aged
| II; Mrs. Annie WIeget, married
daughter Minnie; Mrs. Annie Irutman
of Diamond Bun, Wis, visitor, aged
rs, and Victor Best, aged s. Two
other sons, George, aged 25, ana Willie,
aged q, are certainly dead. And OF
this whole family OF three generations
only ths borrowing grAvedigger and
wife aud child, who took refuge Ia
a dugout, are left. They all lived TO-.
gother about two miles southeast Of
HincEley.
wTBER's WORK.
PiNE Ci1Y, Mlun., Sept. 8.-No one
OF tue citizens Of Pine City who yolun.
teered their aid Ia the work Of relief
did more than Mt, n. q. Weber. He
took entire charge VI the work ut the
cemetery and kept At the hideous work
until all that could be- done had been
accomplished. Not until nighuHll were
his lAbors over, and during that time no
had y succession OF relays Of men under
him, for many HlckBued aud had TO
give up. The worn progressed slower
han need have teen the Gaze had Mr..
weber's working force been adequate.
As II was slxty.fiye unidentified dead
were Inferred In the trenches, nny.aix
were put In boxes AMI thirteen were
buried by their filends, making total
OF 1884 bodies handled ut the cemetery.
MT. Weber says he has reports OF
fifty one bodies all ready for burial to.
morrow aud this number will grow
every hour. The bodies found after
tomorrow must be buried where found,
as they will bs too sadly decomposei
for removal.
DESCRIPTION OF TINS DISASTER.
ST. PAUL, MINI, Sept. 2.-Sis towns
wiped out and more than 800 dead IL
the record made by the forest hfes la
this state. In Hlnoklcy, Sandstone,
Pokegamu, Sandstone Junction, Skunk
Lake ami Mission Creek there are $50
known deal. la addition, several
hundred are missing, while from 100 to
200 were scattered on farms throughout
the district burned over the ucstTuc'
lion was complete In most Of the towns
named, but come OF tho ioFe't lAnl o.
capod. Tao loss, however, VIII be la
the millions, ami tho l'-s Of liio VII
not bs definitely kHown Tor heYera
DAYS II ever
GA the train today from thore were
one OF two people who came through
tho nres AMI WuO gave gTaph'j stories
OF the scene. Tho tIAin nom Dululh
reached 4 pOiut "A milo aud a hall
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