The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-05

/ local physician. who with her husband
had oeen working day and night from the
| tine the nrSt victims were brought in, till
| Ihey were almost completely worn out
On, we're so glad you've come"
almost sobbed the little woman to DR..
McL onald as he stepped from the train.
! THE GENERAL PASSENGER AGENTS BODY.
The platform was crowded with inuuis-
/ itlVe, Out glad looking people with Scared
/ faces and bandaged hands and arms bear
ing pathetic witness to the terrible ex-
/ perlence. Near the edge of the platform
/ rested coffin box in which were enclosed
| the remains of what was once the gen
eral passenger agent of the Winnipeg and
Duluth railroad-O. Rowley The poor
! fellow was one of the passengers on En-
| glneer Jim Roots Inflated train, aud the
body was found yesterday a short dis
lance from the burned train, but so
/ charred and disfgured that its identity
was only established by the name printed
/ on the inside of the burned fragment of
/ linen collar. He had been in the habit
OF coming down from Duluth every Satur-
day to spend Sunday with his family at
/ Merriam Park, and was on his way home
| when he met his death.
| EXAGGERATED ACCOUNTS.
The correspondent found that, not
| w1thstanding the reports received, mat
ters relating to the number and condi-
tlon of the wounded and the necessity for
! supplies had been greatly exaggerated so
Tar as Pine City was concerned Instead
of 200 wounded to be cared for, there
were about twenty, and many not seri-
ously hurt.
EITHER LIFE OR DEATH.
Even those at Duluth scarcely outnum-
| bered those at Pine city. IL appears that
IT was clean cut case of either life or
death. Most of those who escaped did so
| with little or no physical hurt. The
most severe and dangerous cases in Pine
| City had been taken to the improvised
| hospital at the rink, and here nine of the
| medical relief set to work while the other
| two went on to HinckleY. Only about
! twelve patients were being cared for at
the rink, but all IN all they presented
pitiable and heartrending spectacle
INSANE AND BADLY BURNED.
Nearly all the patients are Scandi-
navians. Two women who lost all their
relatives are maniacs. as well as dan
! gerously burned. Between Pine City and
Hlnckley the country was swept bare of
! everything living or green. At Hinckley
| only about dozen of the tents put up by
the state authorities were occupied.
| There is not a building left standing
Every person there was engaged in re-
| covering, identifying or burying the dead.
NJ AhANU ~ I1Al b1NCE SATURDAY.
Seven miles northwest of Hinckley TO-
day he came to spot where farm house
had STOOD In front was a well, and over
to the left could be seen five bodies and
the bodies of several animals. Judge
| Nethaway went al once TO the well to see
if anyone was there, and found down in
the bottom little l2-year-old boy in eight
inches of water, who had 5lived there
since Saturday with nothing to eat. The
] littla fallnyy rt1llad mr. an6 cai1 bo
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 was and his dog.
| Judge Nethaway took him on his
back to where he could be fed, while
other parties went back after the five
! bodies
THE NUMBER OF THE DEAD.
Pine City, Mich, Sept. THE general
| executive committee in charge of the re-
| lief work in this section has made re-
| port Of the dead bodies recovered thus
! far as follows: Hinckley 271, Sandstone
! n, Miller (often called Sandstone juno
! tom Is, between Skunk lake and Miller
| II, Poke Cana 25, in lumber camps So
| Total 450.
| GHOULS AT WORK.
Ghouls are at work in the vicinity of
! Sandstone Today party from Duluth,
under James Bailey, came down to help
! bury the dead, and while searching
! around at noon, came on a gang who had
broken into rand rided some safes, and
| when Bailey and party met them they had
! just found a cistern from which they had
| hauled fifteen dead bodies and had robbed
them of their jewelry, rings, trinkets,
etc, and were throwing the bodies back
into the well. Bailey and party were un-
armed and the ghouls took to their heels
and escaped A frame powder magazine
| at Sandstone, portion of which vas left
standing and which was empty, was torn
! down for material for collins.
SEEN FOR MANY HOURS.
The fire was seen by the Sandstone peo-
pie four hours before it struck the town,
and everything was packed up in readi-
| ness to move to Kettle river east of the
village. Before any one was aware of
the real danger the fire came upon the
town from the northwest, and firing the
whole town inside of five minutes.
many were unable to reach the
river and died in the streets.
blacksmith burned to a crisp in his shop
where he was shoeing horse. So sudden
was the fire, not thing was saved, and
! in thirty minutes the whole town was
| out. Those who reached the river re-
mained there most of the night. The sur
vivors are entirely destitute and have not
even clothes, except as they are provided
! by the relief committees. President
| Sam Hill, of the Eastern Minnesota
| branch Of the Northern Pacific, came up
! from Hinckly this morning and took
northern train over the St. Paul and
! Duluth railroad. Hill took the Duluth
road within nine miles of Sandstone and
walked over. The big Minnesota railroad
| bridge over the Kettle river has a steel
arch in the middle eighty feet long and is
still intact, though the wooden approaches
are burned.
PECULIAR FEATURES OF THE FIRE.
''The scene Of death and ruin along the
road is a terrible one" says MIR Hill,
mot a sign of life is anywhere to be seen.
| Dead animals and human bodies are
! everywhere and they are buried where
! ever found. In one old well was
| found twenty-five snakes and forty
or fifty field mice all in to-
| gether alive. There were many peculiar
| features Of the fire. In one place where
! all else was burned and blackened all
around, wagon was found with the hay
| in the box intact while the horses were
| dead There is yet TO be cleared on the
/ Minnesota road gap of twelve miles be-
tween Sandstone and Duluth, eight miles
| of which are between Hinckley and Sand