The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-09-06

PINE CITY, Mimi, Sept. 3.-Conserva-
tive reports Sunday night place the to-
tai number killed IN fires at three hun
dred at least, with the number Of
wounded at as many more, a number
Of whom will die. Nothing like Q
complete list of dead or injured is OBJ
tainable at this moment One hundred
and forty-three charred bodies have
been recovered at Hinckley, and forty.
five at Sandstone.
Anything like an estimate Of the loss
Is impossible. SHinkley has been COM
pletely destroyed, as has Mission Creek,
Sandstone and several other small
places, and large numbers Of people
are missing. The fire extends from
Pine City as far west as Carlton and
Rutledge, sweeping everything in its
path.
Rev. p. Knudson, Presbyterian
minister of Hinckley, tells q graphic
story of the Ere, which swept down on
the town like an avalanche. He says
over two hundred of those who per-
ished in the flames might have been
saved had they kept away from the
river. The people lost their heads and
stampeded, trying to escape by teams
and saddle horses.
Mr.. Knudson took hilltop When
the fire passed over he found himself
in charred desert, surrounded by hun
dreds of dead, while those who survived
are far from help, with nothing to eat
and drink. He thinks the horrors of
the Chicago fire nothing compared to
1t. At Hinckley the bodies are being
piled in the graveyard, and will be
buried as soon as possible. Every ef-
fort is being made to identify the dead
bodies There are six hundred home
less people in Pine City.
Judge Nelhaway, one of party who
went to Hinckly Sunday night, said
that there were 141 bodies in the heap,
and that with those found Sunday
night there are 2O4 altogether picked
up in sand banks, streets, etc. A fam
lily named Robinson-father, mother
and seven children were burned
to death. Five little children,
found just south of Hinckley.
About sixty people were found in a
sand pile on the Eastern Minnesota.
One lady was found literally boiled,
with little child buried in the sand
A m an, wife and two sons started to
get away by teams, but gave up just
east of town, and all but one little boy
were found with their heads buried in
the sand. One freight car was left in
Hinckley. Not vestige Of Mission
Creek is left. Quite fire is burning
there yet.
Stenographer Matteson, of the Bren-
pan Lumber Co., and a girl named
Emily Anderson, were out in the woods
when the fire began. They were found
later in the woods, locked in each 9TH
er's arms John McNamara's child was
burned to crisp in the street with a
little dog hanging about his neck.
He informed the reporter that FIVE Of
his children were burned to death, him
self, wife and one son living.
THE fire did not run on me-" he
said. II saw it coming and had back
hred all around my house, and
thought l was safe, but the sparks
came on me from above, and have
lost everything.
my God," he moaned, ''it is terri.
BILE! terribler' And it was indeed ter
rible. He stated that when he left his
home with his wife and one child there
were seven children, three men and
three women lying dead at Sand
stone.
Mrs. Olson, Of Hinckley, both eyes
burned, probably blinded, lost husband
and three children.
Aaron Olson, of Hinckley, whose
eyes were slightly burned, saved his
family by getting them in the river.
His wife's face and eyes were burned,
and she is in the hospital.
Mrs Yenke, from farm near Hinck-
ley, eyes and face burned.
Emma Hammond, who had been
working on farm near Hinckley, pre-
sented pitiable spectacle; feet, hands,
face and eyes badly burned.