Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1894-09-14
RAGING FLAMES.
Three Hundred and SiXty-Eour
Dead in Minnesota,
WISCONSIN And MICHIGAN.
The intense Heat Cooks |egetaoies
In the Ground on the Farms
Desolated by the Flames
Miles of Rails Warped and
Z ins RnrnNd.


In the Ground on the arms
Desolated by the Flames
Miles of r ais Warped ana
Ties Burned.
It seems probable that 500 lives were lest
by the forest fires in Minnesota, Wisconsin
and Michigan. and it may be that double 'ha'
number perishcd Railroad surveyors WHO
have zone over the burned district OF MIN
nesota think that 1.20) is not an extrayasant
estimr,to Of the loss Of life in that state alone
The towns that have been entirely or par
tally destroyed inciud IIinckley, Sand''oh''
pokecama and Missouri Creek, Mimi;
Benoit. Poplar, Mareugo. Spencer HlSr
Bridge. Ashland Washbun, Barone''e'
Granite Lake Bashaw. Shell Lake ana cons
stock. Wis, and South Rubicon, Men In
the latter State the towns Of Allonez, Phoenix
and Eagle River have no. been heard from z
three days
The property loss is as difficult to es'lmae
as tie loss Of life. All that is positively known
is that it is in the millions.
st. Paul, Mimi Blazing forests continue
TO spread destruction through the border
counties. and lives and towns still fall prey.
The list Of those killed is still estimated at
800. As many in the sparsey settled districts
have undoubtedly perished without leaving
trace. the exact number will probably never
be known.
So far as can Le learned the ioilowii
,..,.,,, l,o,.o boan dcotrovcd and the following
are dead, in numbers
Hnckley MINI. 1000 to 300 inhabitants;
.. dead: 500 to 800 homeless.
Pokcsama. Mimi, next station southwest
oi Hircklcy: 500 inl abitants, fifty dead.
Mission Creek. next station southo' IilncE-
lev. on the st. Paul 81 Duluth R'ad, ten
dead.
Sandstone Junction, Mimi, next staten
north of Hincklcy. on the ST. Pau Du'u'n
Road. twenty-sx dead.
Sandstone. eecond station north OF llihcA-
lev. on the Eastern Road. sixty-two de"c.
Cromwell, Mimi, Carlton ounty, dead un-
known.
Miller Mimi. near Hinclllcy, off railroad
| line, twelve dead.
wasbburn. Wis. Mills and millions OF feet
of lumber destroyed
Beloit, Wis, in ashes, except one mill and
some lumber. go.
Ashland junction. Wis, many buildings
burned
Partridge. Wis. wiped out completely.
Rosbaw Tmlayson. Moose Lake, Cadott'
Gliddcn. Saxon, Margengo and Hlghprluse
partly destoyed
cIidden was in danger Of total destruction
when last heard from.
JIaugcn Wis, wiped ort.
Shell Lake. Baronette, Granite, Lake Gum
horland Pi1cville. Comstock and Forest CIty'
lumber towns in Wisconsin, between Chlppe-
wa Falls and Superior, partly desiroyed'
The number Of dead in these Wisconsin
towns and ether parts Of the country betwe' n
bippewa Falls and Superior IS estimated al
100 persons.
vhe Minnesota connagration swept every
thing in its path from Pine City as lar as
carlton. near Duluth.
The loss to property at Iinckley Is about
100000.
nAty THE ONLY WEAPON
The heayily-timbcred country over when
lbe flames swept with such relentless Jury
hss been suffering from one OF the most pro
,rocted drouehts in the history OF the couh-
try. With the exception OF slight shower
bore and there early last month there has not
hoan a drop Of rain in that region for tie last
four months. aud only a heavy doWhPoui
c,n save many more towns and the valuable
nine lands from destruction, with probable
additional loss Of lie.
If is feared that many well-known residents
Of st. Paul have peri,hed in the forest fires
Of Hnckley and vicinity Large number; ol
snortsmen have left st. Paul wi hin the last
ten Jays TO hunt prairie chickens near Hinch'
lev Mora. Sandstone and other points III tha
vic,nity President George Freeman. OF lh(
Minnesota Shoe Company, and Lumperihal
Cue;ck y nrominent resident OF Saltwater
went hunting in the forests near HnckIey
and nothing has been heard OF them since.
There is little probability of Hinckley ever
heinp rebuilt to its former proportions. The
Brennan Lumber Company is no; expected t'
rebuild its plant. The timber in the vicinity
is well cut aad burned off and there Is nc
chance Of any o,her company coming IN
Without an enterprise Of this kind there Is Nc
future for H,nckey except as junction
point.
Words cannot tell the story OF death an'
obstruction that is revealed to the travele
on the st. Paul g. Duluth from Mission Creei
two miles above the little town OF Miller, o
Sandstone Junction. The awfulness OF tn
desolaton which strikes upon the eye OF tn
observer as hc reaches the camp which wa
once the town OF Hinckley, is more stronSl
imnressed on his vision as he journeys north
ward. The smoke has lifted, revealing
landscape bare and black. the few standin
trees being charred to height OF forty fee
while the grass has been burned to the root
Here and there. in the bleak and dreai
stretch Of country in what is now grei
lone land. was seen the body OF dee
whose feet foot had not been able to ouiru
the flames. or Of human being who ha
been absolutely powerless against the SRI
destroyer.