Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-09-03
TO-DAY'S TELEGIApHIC NEWS.
The Northwestern Forest Fires

The Northwestern Forest Fires.
DULUTH, Mimi, Sept. $50 far ss
heard from the forest fires have almost
c implicitly wiped out six lows, Hinck-
ley, MIMI. Sandstone, Partridge and
Mansfield, small stations, and Shell
Lake and Baronette, Wis. Besides
these, bayfield, and WashburD, Wis.,
from which nothing can be heard, have
probably suffered considerably aud nu-
,nerous little settlements all through
the northern parts of Wisconsin and
Minnesota. The total loss of life will
never be definitely known. There
were scattered through the woods SIT
tiers clearings and lumber camps, and
many people were undoubtedly burned
whose bodies were completely destroy
ed and will never be found. Of the
bodies found were families of five, SIX
and seven, and there they lay, the men
generally little in advance, the moth
or surrounded by her little ones. Near
ly all the bodies were nude, the fire
having burned every vestige of their
clothing and blackened and charred
many of the corpses beyond recogni-
ton. Whole families were wip.
ed out. The were bodies COM
pletely incinerated and identified
ton in many instances was out o.
the question. A correspondent investi
eating the result of the fire in the
towns burned on the st. Paul and Du-
luth road counted 312 dead bodies with
the interior yet to hear from.
DULUTH, Mimi, Sept. 3.-This city
is the refuge for hundreds of survivors
of the great forest fires. A train bear
ing nearly 600 who escaped from Hinck
ley reached Duluth at 900 o'clock last
night. At 2:45 yesterday morning the
forest relief train sent down the line by
the St. Paul and Duluth arrived witt
about 800 settlers, and probably 20t
more came in on the second st. Pau
and Duluth relief train which left here
at 5 o'clock yesterday morning and re
turned at 1890 in the afternoon. The
refugees presented a pitiful sight. AL
were poor people. Few ofthe men had
hats or coats, and the women were not
more fully clad. Women with babe:
in arms were accompanied by from two
to five children, homeless and friendless
except for charitable public. Many
of the women were without their hus
bands as the latter remained to see If
anything could be saved. In the grimy
SCOT covered crowd were many child
rem without parents.
DULUTH, MIMI, Sept. ga relic
train returned at 1890 o'clock this
morning from a run down the st. Pau
and Duluth road bringing about $50 des
titute and blistered people from points
along the line. At Sandstone 50 bodie:
were found.
MARQUETTE, Mich, Sept. 3.-Rail
road officials here say the worst is ovel
along the line of the Duluth, South
shore and Atlantic The passenger
train for which so much anxiety wa:
felt yesterday arrived this morning.
Wires beyond Nestoria are again
broken and no definite news of the &C.
tual state of affairs this morning can be
obtained.
GRANrsBURG. Wis, Sep. 3.-The for
est fires that have been burning neal
here for the past month broke out
afresh yesterday morning, and the en-
tire male force of the place was called
out to prevent them from burning the
village. The heavy fires west of the
st. Croix river have destroyed millions
of feet of standing pine. Logging out
fits and hundreds of oxen have been
burned.
ASHLAND, Wis, Sept. 3.-As result
of the forest fires OF Saturday and yes
terday, 81 100000 must be added to the
amount of loss sustained this season.
At Washburn, Goals from forest fire
south of the town a lighted in one of the
piles OF lumber on the dock, and soon
all was a mass of flames. The flames
spread to Bigelow's four docks where
much damage was done.
MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. ga private
dispatch just received from Pine City
says the number of victims in and near
that place from forest fires will reach
at least four hundred and twenty-five.
Foreign News.
MADRID, Sept. S.-The Gazette to-day
publishes the text OF the decree can