The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1894-09-12

ade There were six OF these women in
all. They escaped to the river, but three
returned to carry out trunk and were
overtaken by the flames.
Near Skunk Lake was found Il family
consisting of father, mother and seven
children. OF another family, in which
there were five children, only the father
escaped.
There was a settlement of about 30
people near this lake, and but two are
known to be alive.
SAVED BY MIRACLES
Marvellous escapes were numerous.
John II. Anderson started out by team
with Ills wife and three children Just
across the river the horses were over
come by the smoke. They left the wag-
on and started Off on foot, quickly be-
coming separated. The father, mother
and the daughter, Emily, died in the
swamp. Charles and his little l2-year-
old brother struggled for the Duluth
track. The latter fell in ditch and was
too exhausted to rise. He lay there all
night and this morning made his way to
the track, finding the dead body of his
brother but few feet from where he
had been saved. The other daughter
was on the eastern train to Duluth.
One family, consisting of a nan, his
wife and four little children and the
wife's brother, crawled out on boom in
the river, where they remained all night.
They made their way to Hinckley this
afternoon and came down to Pine City,
where they now are, none the worse for
their experience.
A few miles below Hinckley stands
the miracle of the fire, a claim shanty
belonging to Frank Baumcher, the
Duluth section foreman. 1t was covered
with ragged builders paper and present
ed most inviting opportunity for the
flames, which ragged close about it on
all sides. There it stands, uninjured.
The paper is not even scorched. In the
same vicinity stands grove of twisted
poplar trees almost stripped of their
branches, an evidence of the cyclonic
popularity of the fire.
CAsKETs AND PINE CoFFiNs.
About o'clock this afternoon the
work train from st. Paul reached Hinck-
ley with Undertaken O'Halloran and his
30 caskets. lie went quickly to work
upon the 81 corpses beside the track.
A close description of these bodies was
kept, and every fragment OF clothing,
jewelry and anything else that could
lead to Identification was carefully pre-
served. The work progressed rapidly
and by evening the bodies were all wrap
ped up and and laid away in the Baskets
and returned to Pine City. A last effort
to identify them will be made in the
morning.
Assistant General Manager Miller,
who arrived here at an early hour yester-
day morning, and whose labors had been
as efficient as unbeatable, sent up a car
load of lumber and force of carpenters,
who went to work knocking together
rough boxes, which will be used as far
as possible at the cemetery.
A party of Hinckley people, consisting
of M. l.. Elsemore, of the Brennan Lumb-
er Company, Prof. Collins, of the Hinck-
ley schools and others, was fishing at
Grindstone Lake. They were out in a
skiff, but were warned of the approach
of the fire by the noise, which was like
that of cyclone. They ran into the
shore at the southwest end of the lake
and warned a lot of settlers who were
back in the woods, getting together a
party OF about IS down by the lake. The
fire struck the lake at their end, ran
along the shore about half mile and
then jumped the lake in a diagonal di-
rection at a point where it was not less
than mile across. Mr. Elsemore says
the fire went across that distance in two
bursts OF flame with lightning rapidity.
This illustrates as we'll as anything the
way in which the fire progressed. At
the other end of the lake was a lumber
camp, where the men had a batteau.
Between 20 and 30 settlers were rescued
in this boat.