The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1894-09-06
GENERAL NEWS.

The property loss IN Texas by floods is
100000. The loss of life Is %.
Waite has been renominated as the
populists governor for Colorado by ac-
Clamation.
The famous Chaplin mine is to be sold
at auction to satisfy the bonded indebt-
edness of the company.
Henry Irving, the actor, has sent $500
from London for the relief of those made
destitute by fire in the Northwest.
The republicans have carried Vermont
by quite large majority. The majority
is about 1000 more than 1t was 1892.
The drouth IN Chicago is ended. A
rain fall of three inches flooded that city
on Monday last. Easements were flood
ed.
The fighting both on land and water be-
tween the Japanese and Chinese has been
largely In favor of the former. The Japan
csc residents of China fear massacre and
are fleeing the country
Six negroes were shot to death near
Mllllngton. Tenn, on Friday night while
IN charge of detective who was taking
them to jail. A band of negroes have
been going about burning barns. A
number of them have been arrested aud
1t was thought the incendiary work would
be discontinued But other fires follow
ed and the enraged community decided
to make an example of those they
thought guilty.
The terrible fires which visited north
ern Minnesota on Saturday and Sunday
last, exceeded those of 1871. Six towns
were wiped out and over 800 people lost
their lives, The deaths are placed as
high as 1,500 and may exceed this as
some towns are known to have been
burned with which communication is cut
off. The greatest destruction of life &C.
CURED IN Hinckley, which was complete
~ destroyed. Some tried to escape on
the railroad track but were burned to
death as they fled. Thirty one bodies we're
picked up on a few miles of track. A
number of people sought refuge in a
swamp but the fire followed them and
not one escaped. There were picked up
here IN space of four acres. $50 bodies.
A train which was running toward
Hinckley vas pursued by the fire. 1t
overlook the train and the rear car caught
fire. Men became crazed and Jumped
through the windows. The engineer
stuck to bis post, but concluded it was
better 10 run back over the district which
had been burned than to race farther with
the flames. = number of refugees from
Hinckly were taken on. The cab was
like furnace but the fireman poured wa.
ter over the engineer and himself and
thus they were enabled to make the run.
A swamp was reached and the people
buried themselves IN the mud and water
and were saved. The cars were in flames
when the passengers quit them
One hundred people IN Hinckley saved
themselves by clustering in a pond of
stagnant water, though some were over
come by the smoke.
The little towns of Mission Creek was
wiped out and also Sandstone, Pokegama
and Skunk Lake. Some fishermen who
were out on lake with skiff heard the
cyclone of fire and were enabled to watch
its progress. They say it went with
rapidity.
There were no lives lost at Mission
Cheek, but quarter of the population
of Sandstone are lost and about 90 lives
were lost at Pokegama. The loss of life
In the other burned towns is also heavy.
1t is said the fires moved with the
frightful velocity of 60 miles an hour.
The description given by railroad men of
the gauntlets they ran and the heaps of
bodies found is slckenlng. One OF the
peculiar features of the cont1agratlon is
the escape of horses and cattle. MAN. of |
which escaped unscathed. ]
The work of burying the dead IN
trenches was most trying. People en-
gagged in it grew sick at the sights and |
had to be relieved by others. The char
red and blackened bodies of 60 unindenti- |
fec were buried in sandy, bleak spot in |
the cemetery. There is a search in pro- |
gress daily for bodies as mary people are
yet unaccounted for.