Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-09-13
THE NORTHWEST FIRES.

THE NORTHWEST FIRES.
Surveying the Situation and Planning for
the Futare-Twenty-Three Dead Indians
Found-They Comprised Chippewa
Hunting Party-A Serious Problem For
mans Story.
DULUTH, Mimi, Sept. s-Gov Nell
son, c. A. Pillsbury, Kenneth Clark, H.
d. Hart, Mr.. Norton, of Winona, and
c. Il. Graves. of this city, members of
state relief committee, came here
Thursday night and held meeting.
Mayor Eustis represented Minneapolis.
The future of the burned dis
trict was discussed, as it is inn
possible that numbering, which
has been the chief industry
will ever amount to much again. The
commission will ascertain if there is
any chance of any of the saw mills be-
ing rebuilt. If not it is planned to re-
build Hinckley as a farming town and
junction of the two roads. All the ter
ritory burned over is ready for the
plow, and it was the opinion of the COM
mission that all heads of families can be
given farms of generous proportions,
resentatives offered to give farms to all
who do not now own them. 1t was
further outlined that the women and
children refugees who are here will be
provided for in this city until the faith
ers can put up temporary buildings in
the burned district. Lumber and ma
terial for these buildings will
be sent on at once. The
state or individuals must provide
funds for necessities of life over win
ter, and to ascertain the amount needed
full and complete census will at once
be taken. Single men will be urged
and aided to seek work elsewhere, ard
an effort will be made to have the or
phans adopted into worthy families.
Those not so cared for will be main
tanned in state institutions. The COM
mission will look over the situation at
Hinckley and other points.
Dead Chippewa Indians.
PoKEGAMA, Mimi, Sept. S.-A courier
brings a report that the bodies of
twenty-three Chippewa Indians, bucks,
squaws and pappooses, lie upon the
baked sands between here and Opstead,
of Lake Mile Laos. They are scattered
over 10 miles of country and will in all
probability prove food for buzzards and
wolves, as the country where they died
is too far from civilization for burial
ceremonies. The Indians left their
reservation two months ago and built
hunting lodge along one of the forks
of Shadridge creek. Chief Waucouta
was the ''big chief of the party, and
he persisted with his followers. The
first body found by the courier was
that of an infant barely a year old.
Then came those of two squaws and
five children. They had evidently
turned west when the flames
swept through the forest. Another
mile brought him to a pile of ashes,
which marked the site of the
hunting camp. There was one tepee,
the shriveled rawhide thongs marking
the place where it stood. Around it
were the ruins of a half dozen birch
wood bark shanties and protruding
from the ashes were the fused barrels
of rifles and shotguns. Then for 5
miles the pathway was lined with
charred bodies. The courier counted
twenty -three.
A Serious Problem For tho Survivors.
BARNUM. Mimi, Sept. s.-Dr. Cowan,
coroner of Pine counly, believes that
the dead list in this county will reach
700. Reports come slowly from the
searching parties. 1t is impossible to
give a correct statement even of
the bodies already found. DR..
Cowan went to Sandstone Thurs
day afternoon. He will have the
eighty or more bodies that have
been temporarily covered with
earth there dug up, closely examined
and properly buried in the cemetery
near the town. Another serious
problem for the survivors in this neigh
borhood is the disposal of the dead ami
mails. The region about Hinckley is
Uttered with the carcasses of horses,
cows, hogs, deer and even a few moose.
The terrible stencil from them promises
to breed pestilence among the few PEG
pie left.
A Wisconsin Lumberman's Story.
GRANTsBURG, Wis, Sept. s.-Frank
Keen, a lumberman. came to town
Thursday and reported that two of his
men were burned to death at his lumber
camp. The others saved their lives by