The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-09-14
Relief for the Fire suferers-An indie
scribable Scene at shell Lake. Wis
consin- Firebugs ut Work
and Several Arrested.


4 Special Correspondent ut the Sreno OF
the Holocaust.
ST. PAUL. Mimi, Sept. "a special
20 the Morning Call from Hinchley.
Mimi, says: A Call reporter boarded
the first train out of Pine City for
Hinckley at o'clock this morning. II
was work train. but carried many
members Of the different committees
appointed at Pine City last evening.
As the train neared Mission Creek the
first physical evidences of the great
fire became apparent The whole coun-
try was singed The telegraph wires
were down. and the scene was one OF
desolation incarnate Mission Creek
was a small shanty surrounded by a
potato patch. II was the only house
standing. the depot buildings and the
mill being but mass of smoking ruins
The train proceeded slowly three
miles further to Hinckley. The round
house and coal sheds of the Eastern
Minnesota road only remained. West
on this road was a long line of smoking
ruins Of freight cars. probably not less
than fifty in number
The train halted at Hinckley and the
scene Of woe and DISSOLUTION which
broke upon the vision beggars descrip-
ton. The gaunt skeleton Of the pub
lie school alone remained standing in
the center of the village. Alongside
the railroad track were two score Of
boxes filed with the bloated and dis
figured remains of victims of the fire
The reporter read some of the inscrip-
tions as follows: supposed remains
Of Mrs blanchard. horribly distorted
Girl. 10 years old. NJ clothing.
Three children of Mrs Martinson.
and in the mex BOX Mrs. Martinson
laid Then ca John Wendbund and
child and nn .nDcr more unidentified.
sight to Freeze the Blood.
IF you want TO see sight TO freeze
your blood. said T.. J. Donnelly. ''go
out to the cemetery from which have
Just returned" The reporter picked
his way through the deserted avenues
of the village, encountering the burst
ing remains OF horses. cows. cats,
chickens and dogs lie overlook Hans
Paulson, an employee in the brennan
mill. II am going out To the cemetery
70 see IL can find my wife and four
children he said II lost them all.
Then he burst into tears.
The rain began pouring down IN
sheets We reached the cemetery. Z
mile and half from town and noted
a half dozen men digging a trench
but oh. the dread horror of that heal
Of bodies lying on knoll in the mid
die of the cemetery. Here were nine
ty-six bodies, men. women and chill
dren. scorched, blackened. distorted
bowels and brains protruding. hand
clutched in their final agonics, hal
singed from heads. Old. young. mid
die aged. male and female. all in
dread promiscuous heap. No words G
the Imagination can describe I'll
dreadful reality. 1t was there pre-
ent. but even then the mind coul
hardly accept the evidence IL did nc
seem that anything - fearful, 80 VI
spcakably dreadful could result frol
few hours forest fire. Dante ncv'
imagined snch scene in the dcepc'
inferno. nor Dore picture so dire
sight.
In another conner of the ccmetel
were for.y-fiyc more bodies cover'
with quilts. All were Inferred Ia
this afternoon.
Hans Paui-on'- Gruc-omc Search.
Hans Paulson. who had ACCOMPANY
the reporter. delvcd among the horr
pile of bodies five feet high. and final
pulled out the remains OF "A little
male child with only slight shreds
white clothing remaining on her bod
lie scanned the face. critically cxa
med the clothing and then broke Q
in lamentations
Eyes. yes; it is my poor little X
NV God. Yes. il is she; and my OF
children; oh. where can ! md the
How can | hope 10 identify them
that blackcned mass hut he X
up the quest, and the reporter !
him there in the driving storm.
houette of human agony outlii
against the horizon-a weird
dreadful scene.
The reporter encountered among
~n;ns az Uinckley beautiful You
girl. who was making vain sea
Tor her trunk She was dressed /
liuht colored calico dress which ~
rood Samaritan in Pine City had 81
her. Her experience was a dram'
one.
Moiiie M~Neir- Pathetic story.
"My name Is Mollie Mcneil"
said, ..and lived with my mother
sister in I'nckley the past sixi
years. noticed the fire coming at
saturday afternoon. and rushed gu
the house with two dresses. grip
two hats and startca up tie rail-
tracks On both sides and in from
me was living wall of fire and $40
everywhere. How ever got thro
do not know, for people were
ing on every side Of me.
going. dropping everything !
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