The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-09-10
Wind Blowing a Gale All Sunday and
the Fires Reach Duluth, Causing
Great Apprehension.
THE HINCKLEY DISASTRR
The Estimates Now Make 1t 500
Victims i'm That County.
SOrrOwful Sabbath i'm the Burned
Region, Dead Bodies Still Being
Found in Heaps in Places.

DULUTH, Misn., Sept 9.-Forest fires
were renewed again to-day in this region
by heavy southwest gale which steadily
increased in force. The bright sun was
shut out and the horizon again took on the
sickly yellow coat of the fatal Saturday
week ago. There was great excitement here.
and every one rushed to telegraph and
train dispatchers' Offices The sensation
intensified by the breaking out of for
est fires in the city limits. Fire crept
around in the underground at Oneata and
caused some apprehension, for this is in
the vicinity Of the Missaba ore dock. Then
an alarm came in from Duluth Heights, a
suburb at the top OF the hill. which is sur
rounded by timebr. The fire department
sent up a detachment, which a little later
sent for a fire engine. Then excitement
was at fever pitch. for news had been
coming in of the side-tracking OF a st.
Paul & Duluth passenger train because
of fires all sides of them. and Mora, on
the Eastern road. was reported on fire. At
3 o'clock this afternoon the operator at
Mora, on the Eastern Minnesota, was chat
ting with the operator at Duluth about the
threatening Of the fire. Ten minutes later
he said:
Its getting awful hot down here. The
people have nearly all taken refuge in
Snake river, and I'll have to follow unless
there's a let up
Just a few moments passed and he said;
81 fly. Thirty" Chats all) Tests of the
wires q few minutes later proved that they
had gone up, and it has been impossible to
raise Mora since. The people took warning
in time and all are believed to be safe.
At Kerrick the inhabitants put in the
afternoon fighting the fire. and thought in
the evening the danger was over. Barnum,
too, had narrow escape all the afternoon.
At Kimberly on the Northern Pacific, a
large gang OF railway laborers working
like mad saved the town. There was a
state of terror among the refugees at Pine
City when the St. Paul & Duluth limited
passed through, for it was feared another
cyclone of fire was at hand. At o'clock
the wind shifted from the southwest to
northwest. thus driving back the flames
and at II o'clock had almost entirely died
away. No danger is now feared unless the
gale springs up again.
The operator at AIahtowa this afternoon
reported fire all around him and choking
smoke. At Sturgeon Lake and Moose Lake
fires also caused uneasiness TO residents
there, but no positive reports Of disaster
have been received up TO late hour to-
Duluth at 10 o'clock tonight, three hours
late. Passengers reported much fire all
along the line outside the district swept a
week ago. n Pine City special says danger
from fire in that vicinity has not been
passed. This afternoon the strong wind
stirred up a great fire just north OF town,
but the wind subsided at night and danger
is temporarily over. At Rush City the res
icients became so frightened that they
boarded a freight train standing on the
tracks so as TO be ready for departure
but the danger passed when the wind sub
sided.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, Sept. "A gale OF
wind was glowing in the neighborhod OF
Mora and Mlaca, on the Eastern Mime
sofa, this afternoon, and the smoldering
forest fires were quickly famed into furi-
blaze which for a time threatened
Mora and Groundhouss e latter place
being particularly in er The wind.
however, has since go- N, and for the
present. at least, dams believed to be
over. A train crew is held at Ground
they break out again. and to take the peo-
pie 10 place of safety of the fires get be-
yond control. During the afternoon the
fires were raging all sides OF Ground
house, except TO the south. having come
within half a mile of the town. The popu-
out fighting the fires. The sawmili and
lumber yard at Soules which is seven miles
from Malica, were destroyed. notwithstand-
ing the desperate fight Of the fire-hghters
The loss will be heavy.
The last report from Mora TO this city
and reports from st. Cloud state that trains
went through the fire territory between
GrounGhouse and Mora safely at 7:f5 o clock
tonight A later disnatch from St. Cloud
states that Mora and Groundhouse are not
in danger at present, as the wind has gone