The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-09-06
TERRIBLE
1env Villages Destroyed By For
csc Fires.
Se "uhser OF Coed rgnt prohshly Hra4n
MY HonSrsd- Isinck.ey, .r,nn., sosoo
Ssosse Hundred We're s1.t.rns.-zAc-n
rthis essenca a.nts Exp,r.enees

b, OF PAUL, Minn., Sept, s.-oniy tho
noE,1ors which accompanied tho hss-
sorfc Chicago Gre caa 10 cited to COM
Pare With the terrible sceues nad ex
Ferasncos IN tho damo-swept pine re-
slon OF Pine. Kanaheo and Caroltoa
Counties GOV Mimi, and Burnett county,
rs At ieast 400 settlers, their femi.
lies and others wcro burned TO death.
or suifocated before tho fa1nex rea ohed
'nein' end the dooth list may reach en-
oeher hundred or more. The people Of
hlnciSloy, which was prosperous town
IN r'ne county aiSty-seven miles south.
west OF Duluth, are DOW decd or horne.
less end destitute. at conxervativo
estimate two hundred and fifty men,
women end children Of thta doomed
oowu were unable to escape from the
maoroile4s, swiftly advancing sheets Of
dame. They fell or tao railroad trseks
op On the old territorial road,
either to be crepated or die the
more merciful death FROM suRacattan
oy the clouds OF dense ernoko apd heat.
laden atmosphere. Tho number Of
corpses already recovered trcn che
olacxened waste at and around what
was uinokley Is 15o, tie majority be.
Ing women and children who had not
the strength to fight their destroyer
or escape By fleeing 70 place q
safety.
So far es can be learned Of this time
from the devastated district. the fol.
lowing towns have boon destroyed aud
the following ara dead 10 nunbsyo:
H!ncl1lay, MINI, 1000 to 1,e0o in,
habitant, $50 to 800 dead. coo to 900
homeless
Pokegano, MINI, next sta ton south.
west Of Uinckley, 500 Inhabitants; 80
dead.
Mission Crcel, next station OF Hfnch-
icy on'the ST. Paul and Duluth rail-.
road; 10 dead.
sa1dstone Junction, MINI, Eext STA.
tion nosth Of Bincklsy, on the St. Paul
and Duluth road, 2G dead.
! Sandstone, second station North Of
HinclSley, on the eastern Minnesota,
50 dead.
Cromwell, MINI, Carlton county;
dead unknown.
Miller, MINI, near Eincklsy, off
railroad line; dead unknown.
Shell Lake, Bar7onett, Granite Lake,
Cumberland, Pineeille, Cemstock and
Forest City, lumber towns in Wiscen.
sin, between Chippewa Falls end SUI
perior, and epooner, Wis, vera partly
destroyed.
The number Of dead in these Wis
constn towns and in otaer parts Of the
country between Chippewa ond SUI
perior is estimated ct 600.
The Minnesota con1agration, which
was attended By the shocking less Of
life and agony Of body and m3nd for
hundreds of others who escaped with
their lives only, swept everything and
everybody Ia It's path from Pine City as
far wost as Carlton. near Duluth. The
great valley between Kettle river assd
Gross IGlSa, which @ few doys ago
%as 10 no danger OF destrpetson by
Tire epraet Gsos ragAeg IN the tanbsr
staesa, Is roqp oe,a vast area o. esfaes
ma.d cindsrs, WITH here and Shere On
Casss IN the csaert of devastation in
Che form OF half-dried lake, staard-
Ing farm building or clump of tin
Der. The bodies of tho known and I'M
known dead which dot the heated and
blacI1ened cxpanse, give the scene the
appearance Of battlefield in Which
fire has played the ccnQuering role.