The morning call., 1894-09-05

used as hospitals, and the people seemed
to know no wearlness in their eagernesS
to relieve the suffering and the surviving.
The heat was so intense the eyeballs
were nearly shriveled, and nearly every
person who passed through the fire is
wearing smoked glasses or else unable to
see at all. Relief trains came up on the
Duluth road from st. Paul. At frequent
intervals and at every station the people
were ready with supplies, which were
brought 10 this city for distribution. The
appointment of State commission by the
Governor to look after general relief meas
ures has met with universal commenda-
tiou.
The news that Engineer James Root
will recover has caused general rejoicing.
Thomas Dunn and his family of three
we're buried to-day. Dunn was the heroic
telegraph operator who lost his life be-
cause he remained al his post until the
station was oD fire. He sent the order for
the train to return and take those who
wanted to escape. The train carried away
over 800 people from the fire. Dunn then
jumped from the window and started for
the gravel pit. where SO many saved their
lives. Dunn was within five rods of the
pit when he fell and was unable to go
further
The curious apathy which marked al
most every move at HinckIey yesterday
gave way to bustling activity this morn
ing. During the night a shack was put up
for cOokhouse. In the early morning an
inclosed room was added to it for the
storage of the commissary supplies. The
people who had remained over night were
quartered in the tents which Captain
Hart. Quartermaster of the First Brigade
of the Minnesota National Guard, had
pitched last evening. Volunteers were
more numerous than yesterday. and af-
fairs assumed more settled aspect. The
early trains brought up men who came to
work and did not abandon themselves to
the qualification of a morbid curiosity, as
did so many when brought up yesterday,
which was, perhaps, not unnatural, but,
under the circumstances, entirely mex
cusable.
At an early hour a force of men was
started out to the cemetery to complete
the work of intsrment. There had been
left above ground last night fifty-seven
bodies in boxes. and at daylight parties
were detailed to go out after those that
made last night along the Duluth right of
way TO the north. Yesterday parties To-
Gated twelve bodies, but closer scrutiny of
the woods for a considerable distance
from the track revealed several Others,
including the entire Green family-father,
mother and four children. Besides the
BODY of Otto Rowley. general freight and
passenger agent of the Duluth and Winni-
peg. taken to his home last night. nineteen
others were picked up between Hinckley
and Skunk Lake. Two or three were evil
IDENTIFY passengers on Saturdays south
bound afternoon limited. Most of the
others were settlers, and the remainder
were refugees from HiDckley, who got
farther away from the doomed city. One
is the body of Mrs. John Mcnamara, Oh
whose person was found $4,000 in checks
and $500 in currency. and near by was the
body of boy, partially identified as one
of her sons. The Robertson family of
five. found yesterday. were also brought
in. Israel Schrimpski. the young Chicago
lawyer, who was reported among the lost
at Hinckley, is safe. He lost his valise,
but got out safely and is now at Hudson.
This about completes the mum Der on the
right of way to a point about six miles out
and foots up total of between fifty and
sixty. A scattered few were brought in
from the country just across the Grind
stone River. One man was found 10 the
gravel pit just across the river, and was
identified as Joyce Crowell. aged 60.
Every other person met in Pine City to-
dav gave visible evidence in bloodshot
eyes and burned noses and cheeks of a
conflict with the fire.
In the hospital last night Mrs. Thomas
Henderson sat woebegone while NJ. A.
Greenfield, who is badly burned, told of
the sad fate Of her boys, II and 16 years of
age. The boys, with their father, were
cutting a road from the Duluth Railroad
toward Greenfield's when the fire forced
them out. They reached his place and,
with the family, took refuge in the cellar.
One, when the flames enveloped the house,
never got out. The other perished in
calvert. where he had taken shelter. Mr..
Greenfeld's five children found a fiery
grave in the cellar, and his wife. although
still alive, is in the hospital burned beyond
the hope of recovery. Miss Hammond of
Hinckley, who occupies bed near her, is
in similar condition.
A scar ching party of five experienced
timber cruisers and seven assistants was
started out to-day along the Government
road TO the east. A similar party of seven
teen was sent up the Eastern Minnesota
Railroad toward Sandstone. These par
ties will bring in no bodies il any are
found, but will bury them where found.
These parties were sent into a tract of
country from which no reports have been
received. and the possible results of their
labors can only be conjecture. During the
day other parties were star ted in other
directions.
The work at the cemetery to-day pro-
ceeded rapidly. Here is one peculiarly sad
interruption. Yesterday Lee Webster, the
Mayor of Hinckley. thought be recognized
his wife in the horrible heap of dead.
During his temporary absence the body
be hoped to claim for more formal and
sacred burial was thrown into the pile
nd covered up. When he learned of 1t
to-day he was half-craZed with grief, and,
with assistance, a portion of the trench
where some one remembered to have
placed the body. was opened and he de-
scended into it to try to find his loved one.
Either the body he sought was not the
one uncovered, or the handling of it had
destroyed the seanty marks of identifica-
ton, and Nj. Webster was forced to admit
that the shapeless corpse was probably
not that of his wife and it was again
thrown into the pit.
There is prospect now that the num-
ber of dead which have been or will be