The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1894-09-06

UAfE1Iuo, 0sco.s sept. h.-Thle city u
again snvslopsd In smoke, Arss in the for.
est having started afrssh. The damage
10 confined TO crops and timber, % the
nrs 10 some d istance from the settlement.
Reports from lumber towns west Of here
say all are safe % yst, but ,the danger 10
By NO means over. Hundreds Of men are
eth fighting the flames throughout the
upper peninsula.
ELEVEN BURNED.
ST. PAUL, Sept. 6.-Elsven people we're
burned 70 death at Marsngo, Q few miles
south Of Ashland. Wis. The bodies are %
badly burned that recognition 10 impossl-
bic. The dead are: Frank Bsrsrom, Isaac
Townsy, Mrs. Ida Towney, Ellsha
Townsy, William Towusy. Jessie Townsy,
Walter Graft and Crafts four children.
MORE TOWNS IN DANCER.
81. PAUL, Sept. 5.-Rsports from the
north are to the effect that Carleton. Ker.
rick and Barnum are In danger. Fierce
fires now surround these places and %
dense 10 the smoke that Il is impossible to
80 across the street. Details ere hard to
get - the wires arc down. A report was
current In the street to-day that Barnum
had been destroyed, but It has been Inn
possible TO confirm Il. The mon Of Ksr.
rick sent the women and children to West
Superior and Duluth Tor safety and 70.
mainsd to fight the frs.
jim HILLS GENEROSITY.
81. PAUL, Sept. k-Subscriptions g. for the
flre sufferers jumped up rapidly to-day.
The first one came from President J. Hill
OF the Great Northern railway and was
for 1900. Accompanying this Was another
5000 from President Hills Associates In
the Great Northern. Aitoesthsr the money
contributions will aggregate about S2s 900.
Minneapolis has already raised Si2, 900 and
70 rapidly Increasing the amount, and Du.
luth has fund Of $4,000.
SORROW STRICKEN.
DULUTH, Sept. 6.-There are over 1000
destitute refugees from the Hinckley and
Sandstone flrss now In Duluth. Over $751;.
600 has been raised for relief and food.
Clothin9 and lumber are being donated
liberally.
The rslisf soeisty yesterday sent 100 Of
the unfostuates to friends and rslatives
In other cities. One sad feature Of the
catastrophe is the large numbsr Of cattle.
horses, sheep aud hogs. % we'll % fowls.
that miraculously escaped the flames and
are now slowly dying from hunger.
HiNCKLEY WILL REBUILD.
PINE CrY, Sept. 5.-Arrangsments are
being made for . grand memorial meet.
ing at the Park Sunday evening. Hinck.
ley and Mission Creek will bs rebuilt 40
soon - the more important matter Of 70.
Mnf n vHNPFaa n An tlv aaassrad
MANY HERoEs.
PINE CITY. Minu., Sept. 6.-The heroes
at the forest fires wero many. In the front
rank must be placed Engineer Ed B. Berry
and Conductor Powers Of the Eastern
Minnesota freight, l7s people, whom they
picked up and carried back to safety in
boz cars, bong carried through the mldst
Of the furnace, over burning cars, In tho
facs Of the knowledge that another train
In the opposite direction had tho right-of.
way and was liable to b met anywhere Ia
the dense smoke and fierce flames, and o
terrible ride over l30-foot bridge scross
the Kettle river, which was blazing and
trembling under the wheels, apparently
ready to fall. Fifteen minutes after the
train passsd the bridge went down.
COWARD'6 PLEAD.
Il was st this time o crowd Of alleged
men crowded In the cab and bsegsd En-.
Rineer Berry to uncoupls the train and
carry them to safety. leaving the people
In the rsar cars to perish. They were
summarily thrown out by the engineer
and the train load Of precious freight was
finally ha uled to place OF safety.
ONE VERY PATHETIC INCIDENT.
One Of the most pathetic and heart.
rending tales ID that OF James Kelly and
Ernest Hogan. Kelly was foreman for
O'Brien Bros., whose camp IL eight miles
from Hincklsy. When the flre drew per.
ilously close to the camp and they could
fight Il no longer they started to walk to
Sandstone. seven miles. They trudged
through . blistesing atmosphere, on.
coursging each other at every step,
and picking each other d, up when
the other fell. Finally about o quar-.
ter Of a mile from the Kettle
river Kelly became exhausted and Hogan
could not urge him on. BY this time Ho-
gan's feet were so badly blistcred he was
compelled to take to his hands and knees.
Kelly in the meantime had dragged him.
self TO the head of the ravinc. upon which
he lost his head, and falling. rolled over
and over until he struck the bottom of the
gully dead.
SEVEN MILES on HIS HANDS ASD KNEES.
Hogan all Saturday night lay in the ra.