The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1894-09-05

and reports are coming 70 this city cou.
stantly of fatalities saussd b. the con.
aagsNtiea. RIB Lake. Marriage aud Brad.
shaw have been completely wipsd out.
and % Bradshaw three psssons last their
livss ysstsrday. A message vas ssceived
from CAddes asking for assistanee.
HxARIRENprxo.
PINE CrrY, MINI. Sept A.-Evssy other
person one meets 10 Pine CITY to-day gives
visible svidsues In bloodshel eyes and
burned nose and checks Of Q conflict with
tho hre. Some are thinly clad. There are
20 tents and each housed four o. i've peo-
pie last night.
In Tie hospital last night Mn. Thomas
Henderson sat woe-begons, whils n A.
Greenasld, who is badly burned, told her
the ssd fate Of her boys, II and 10 years
of age. Ths boys, with the father. were
cutting road from the Duluth railroad
toward. toe Grssnaslds when the flrs
forced them out. They rsrchsd his place
and With the family took refuge In the
cellar. One, whom the flames snvslopsd
the house, never got out; the other per.
ished In . eulveat where hs bad taken
shslter. NJ. Grssnhsld's i've children
found hssy grave in the cellar and the
vile. though stlll alive, 10 In the hospital
burned beyond hops Of recovery. Miss
Hammond OF Hinekley. who occupied the
ued near her. 10 In Q similar condition.
yRlGHrYuL srvRERIS0s.
NmNeAPoLIs, Sept. "A Duluth, MINI.
special to the JouvAal says: Oliver Du.
bols, French Canadian farmer living
on the outskirts Of the little Village OF
Sandstone was among the 80 refugees
from that stricken spot. He saved his
life By jumping into the bottom Of dry
we'll and hs was one Of the vsey few who
took sueh refuge and did not 6nd Il .
grave alssady dug. His experience was
similar In many ways to that Of scores
fearful spssd Of the flames.
Mr.. Dubois was little distance from
his homo when he heard In the south .
mighty roaring and hs thought . cyclone
was coming. The blackncss Of the sky
adsd 10 thA belief and he ran still
farther from the building to escape any
flying sticks that might come. He throw
himself down at the root Of stump, his
head under root. Scarcely was be on
the ground before the awful heat and iire
showed that hs eontsndsd not with .
cyclone, but with the hamss. There was
. we'll few feet away Into whicn he
jumped. Il was ~ feet deep and vas dry.
Above him he could 80 rolling the cloud
Of flames high In the air, aud then, down
close 70 the ground. His position grew
sitting and the cir seemed 10 b 90 OK.
haustsd that he eonld only breathe By
II IL q k~l~ L. kA AasrA AnA
pressing his face to the sides. A. soon %
one place got too sitting hs would make
anothse little fresh spot The we'll Allied
with smoke and gas bat aftsr time be
managed to climb out.
STILL 40 DEATL
I s1.Nns % weak thss-f could hardly
| walk" eaid hs, land for 0 few moments
was dssed. ! was shosless and could moi
ses the ground at my feet for the smoke
but ! groped my way 10 town. Il began
| to grow lighter 20 could go the street.
| stood In the center OF Sandstone and
called. Not Q sound came In answer.
called again and again. but the place !
had been In enly two hours before was q
still a. the grave. walked toward the
rivss, shivsring With fear. On the way
counted moro than 30 bodies. I climbed
down the river bank and thsrs croushsd
In the water found the people. During thu
passing Of The Are women had held thsil
screaming ehlldrsn In the watsr and had
stoed mouth deep In u themselves"
Several, II b reported. have bsen fount
In wells In the neighborhood Of Sandstone
dead.
TOWN or Dows DESTROYED.
MASON Ciry. Iowa, Sept. A-Ths tow
Of Dows, In White county, populate,
1000. was destroyed by flre last nisht
Only two business buildings remain. Th,
loss will reach 100000.