The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-09-12
THE DEATH ROLL SWEILS.
rhe Work OF Buryine the Dead and Car
ing for the Lying.

The Work OF BurylnG the Dead ana Car
ing for the Lying.
PINE CITY, Mimi, Sept. 5.-Ths
general executive committee &c charge
of the relief work in this section, has
made a report of the dead bodies re
covered thus far as follows:
Hirckley 27l, Sandstone Il, Miller
(often called Sandstone Junction. l3
between Skunk Lake and Miller y
Pokegams 25, on the timber camps 50
Total $50.
Ghouls are at work in the vicinity CT
Sandstone. Today party from Du,
luth under James Bailey came down to
help bury the dead and while searching
around at noon, came upon q gang
who had broken open and riled some
safes and when Bailey and party met
them they had just found cistern
from which they had hauled fifteen
dead bodies and had robbed them Of
jewelry, rings trinkets, ETC., and were
throwing the bodies back into the well.
Bailey and party were unarmed, and
the ghouls took to their heels and
escaped.
A frame powder magazine at Sand
stone, a portion of which was left
standing and which was empty was
torn down for material for collins.
The fire was seen by the Sandstone
people four hours before it struck the
town and everything was packed up
in readiness to move to Kettle River,
east of the village. Before anyone was
aware of the real danger the fire came
upon the town from the north, east
and west and firing the whole town in
side of five minutes. Many we're un-
able to reach the river and died in the
streets. a blacksmith burned to a
crisp in his shop, where he was shoe.
ing a horse. So sudden was the fire
not Ghing was saved and iE thirty
minutes the whole town was swept OH
the earth.
Those who reached the river remain
ed most of the night. The survivors
are entirely destitute and have not
even clothing to their backs, except
such as is provided by the relief com.
m!ttees. Whole families are wiped
out.
President Sam Hill Of the eastern
Minnesota branch of the Northern Pa
cifc came up from Hinckley this
morning and took a northern train
over the st. Paul aud Duluth road.
Mr.. Hill took the Duluth Road to
within nine miles of Sandstone and
walked over. The big eastern Mime.
sofa bridge over the Kettle river has a
steel arch IN the middle 180 feet long
and is still intact, though wooden ap-
proaches are burned.
"The scene of death and ruin along
the road is q terrible one," says Mr..
Hill, mot sign of life is anywhere
to be seen, all is blackened, charred
mass of ruins. Dead animals and hu-
man beings are everywhere and they
are buried where ever found. In one
old we'll was found twenty-five snakes
and forty or fifty field mice all together
alive. There were many peculiar fea-
lures of the fire. In one place, where
all else was burned and blackoned all
around. we found a wagon with the
hay in the box intact, while the horses
were dead. There is yet to be closed
up on Minnesota, a gap of twelve miles
between Hinckley and Duluth, eight
miles, Of which are between Hlnckley
and Sandstone. There are four miles
in St. Cloud direction, which viii be
closed up by tomorrow. I noticed IN
one place some freight car wheels were
melted, while not three hundsed feet
away was another car untouched.
Judge NethaWay, of Still Water, has
been one of the most active in relief
Work, and has been all over the sur
rounding country. He found the fam
lily of Jack Robinson, man, wife and
seven children ali dead and hardly re-
cogEizable and also found J. 0. Row
ley. agent of the Minnesota and
Winnipeg. Several miles northwest of
Hinckley today he came to a spot
where a farm house had stood. in
front was a we'll and over to the left
could be seen five human bodies and
bodies of several animals. Judge
NethaWay went at once to the well to
see if anyone was there, and found
down in the bottom, a little 12.year-old
boy in eight inches of water. who had
lived there since Saturday with moth.
ing to eat. The little fellow was pull
ed up and said he had been put down
there when the fire was seen, and an
lawful bad smoke had passed over him
and it was awful hot" He asked the
Judge if he knew where his father
and mother were, and his dog. Judge
NethaWay took him on his back to
where he could be fed, while other par
ties went back after the five bodies.
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