The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-09-07
CELLAR FULL OF CORPSES.
Found by the Searchers Near Hinckley-L
SYSTEMATIC Hunt.

Found by the Searchers Near Hinckley--A
Systematic Hunt.
ST. PAUL, Sept. ga Pine City, Mimi,
special to the Pioneer Press says: The
death roll at Sandstone has probably
reached its limit and presents the total of
sixty-seven. This is not an estimate nor
guess, but an accurate count of the
bodies inferred. Not all were from the
little village, a few having been brought
in from the immediate vicinity. The
character of the population at the time Of
the holocaust was such that it is impossi-
BILE to get an accurate estimate, but fair
figure is probably 80. In one we'll four
persons died death that must have been
a mixture of drowning, suffocation and
burning. This we'll has been utilized as a
grave and nine other bodies placed in it
and all covered with earth. Tents an I'D
and food is plenty. The dead have Ill
been inferred and the people are begin
ming to plan the rebuilding of their homes
and the revival of enterprise.
Sent Out to Hunt the Dead.
Two cruising parties were organized in
Pine City in charge of jim Hunt, of
North Branch. There were twenty-five
men, eleven in each party. One party
went up the government. road. which was
the main road from HIucklry TO the north
east. The other wen, no tn Eastern road
Above Hinckley AMI The TERRITORY that has
been carefully searched durlns the last
few days they spread cut 30 ~ to COM
pletely cover n wntl ~tr.p OF country all
in that direction wher' tler nad been
settlers or where any ole IN. - wLuderer
would have been Hp; ~ 70 for shelter.
There were plenty Ui shovtis in the party
and the order WIS to bury any bodies
where they might be found, carefully pre-
serving anything that mi .;ht lead TO iden-
LITIGATION and to mark the graves and
make careful note of heir location.
Added But Two tn the Total.
There had come in u runlor that there
were forty-three bodies out on the East
ern, but it proved 10 be- umfounded, and
was probably occasoned by confused
state ment OF the dead aJ SiapdSton The
party centering ON the government road
found no one. TIE party along the tracks
found two bodies of men burned beyond
recognition and with little about them to
aid Identification. This was the net result
of the search Today two other parties
will go out. One will 20 out along the
stream known as South Fork of the Grind
stone, which comes into Hinckley almost
from the west There is dam about four
miles out, and near this there were q
couple of settlers, and others out further.
The country Is heavily wooded, with very
few clearings and little water. No report
whatever has been heard from the set
tiers, and it is feared that all have per-
shed.
Doubled the Estimate of Dead.
The Duluth right of way and
the country within consider
able distance of Hinckley on both
sides up as far as Skunk Lake has been
secured pretty thoroughly. A few bodies
were taken out and all the bodies were
picked up. 1t had been reported that
there were twelve bodies, but the careful
search that was made revealed twenty
eight. They were in an awful shape and
could not be handled. Five children of
the Greenfield family were 90 badly burned
that all were put in box designed to con.
] tain IN adult. The mother and father