Evening journal., 1894-09-04
A scenn of Desolntlnn.

PINE CITY, MINI, Sept Words can
not tell the story Of death and destruo-
ton that Is revealed to the traveller on the
St. Paul and Duluth from Mission Crock,
two miles above tha little town of Miller,
or Sandstone Junction
The awfulnoss Of the dosolation which
strikes upon the oye Of tho observer as ho
reaches the camp which was once tho
town OF Hlneklcy is moro strongly inn
pressed on his vision as he journeys north
ward. The smoke has lifted, revealing
a landscape bare and black, tho fow stand
ing trees boing oharrod to a holRht OF 40
feet, while the ground IS Of a peculiar
tint OF brown and mixed with gunpow-
der for the grass has been burned to tho
roots.
Hero and thero in tho blenk and droary
stretches Of country In what Is now a great
lone lane is seen tho body Of a deer whose
feet had not been able TO outrun the flames
or Of human being who had been abso-
lutely powerless against the grim destroy
CT.
The latest verifloation reports OF the
number of dead do not materially alter
the former estimates. In fact, that esti-
mate IS proving remarkably exact, con
sidering the confusion Of the first day
The element that makes close figuring
very difficult is the fact that bodies seen
in the woods and along the track arc not
infrequently reported at two points and
sent out from each as among its dead
The number of dead at Hinokley is
placed at goo. Your correspondent has
actually counted 1874 Of these and the
margin allowed is about all that is neces-
sary Tho figures nre as follows;
Hinckley, 200; Sandstone, so, Miller
70; between Skunk Lake and Miller, IL
Pokegama, 3s: in lumber camps and
scattering, estimate 90; total, 874
The following is the list of known doad
at Hinckley partially identified;
The Dead at HinekIey.
Mr. and Mrs Abbey and two children,
Mrs. Dan Donoghue and three children,
John Woslund and child, Mr.. and Mrs
John Rodgers and three children, Mr.. and
Mrs. Mike Curry and boy, 49, sherman,
Paul IeslSe, Mrs. McClevere and four
children, Thomas Dunn, Mrs. blanchard
and two children, Mrs, Martin Martinson
and four children, Axel Hanson and moth
err Mrs. Catherine Grissinger, Callie Girls
singer, aged O; Manuel Grissinger, aged
3; Mr.. and Mrs. William Ginder and two
boys, Winifred Ginder, aged O. 9. G.
Anderson, Mrs. Hans Paulson and four
children, Mr.. and Mrs. Chambers and two
children, Henry Hanson, Emily Anderson,
Nels Robertson, wife and two children;
Mary Robinson Otto Rowley Of Duluth,
Israel Schurmski Of Chicago Il. Richott.
sen OF Minneapolis, David Kane Of Rock
Creok, Mr.. and Mrs. John Best, George
Best, aged "a; Fred Best, aged %; VIII
Best, aged 81; Bertha Best, aged II; Vic
tor Best, nged s; Mrs. Antony Wiegel
Minnie Wiogel, aged 9; Miss Annie Trutt,
aged a6, of Diamond Bluff, Wis; DR..
kelcey OF New Brighton, -- Lambeson,
William Nesbit Mr.. and Mrs. John Burke
and two children, Mr.. and Mrs. L. Roy
nolds and two children, Jim Boon, Hans
Mattison, Sandy Henderson Of Pine City,
Johnny Henderson Of Pine City, Thomas
Jones' Charles Hanson, Dennis Riley,
John Anderson, wife and two children;
Peter Robertson, Louis Nelson, Emma
Dolan, Belle O 'Brien, Anna Wallace Mrs.
Costigan and threo children, William
Pinnohr Patrick Murphy, Henry Hoffman
and wife Of Sandstone, Mrs. John Mona
mara and child
Yardmastor Dave Williams Of Duluth
is something Of hero himself He is the
man who grasped the situation, acted on
his knowledge promptly and relieved the
people of Sandstone.
He received message from Miller
which said; "Thero are $50 people at
Sandstone without food or shelter For
Gods sake get them out Of thero.
Within an incredibly rhort time an en-
gino in charge of Yardmaster Williams
was on the way TO Sandstone. Tho en-
tire road after the burned district was
reached was patrolled, and the engine
| kept up an incessant whistling, so that
any persons who were near by would
como at once to the track. When the
train arrived at Sandstone Junction, or
Miller, as It is generally called, It was
met By nearly the entire population of
| Sandstone and Miller
The depot platform at Miller had been
burned, and there was not a house left
: standing anywhere in view. About 10