The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-09-04
PRICE FIVE CENTS
way through under the entire width of the

road.
No one OF the citizens of Pine City who
volunteered aid in the work of relief did
more than F. G. Weber. He took entire
charge at the cemetery and kept at the
hideous work until all that could be done
mad been accomplished. Not until night
TALL was his labors over. and during that
lime he had succession of relays of men
under hlp. for many sickened and had to
give up. The work progressed slower
tnan need have been the case had Mr..
Weber's working force been adequate. AS
1t was slxty-dve unidentified dead were in
TERED In the trenches. fifty-six identified
were put in boxes and thirteen were
buried by their friends, making total of
154 Dodles handled at the cemetery. Mr..
weber says he has reports of fifty-oue
bodies all ready for burial tomorrow, and
THIS number will grow every hour. The
bodies found after tomorrow must be
buried where found, as they will be too
badly decomposed for removal.
The hrst act of the officials of the st.
Paul and Duluth Railroad Company was
TO care for the unfortunate people along
It's line, who had lost everything they
| owned; the second was to restore the
operation of through service between ST.
Paul and Duluth. The first task we'll
under way and its completion placed in
the hands OF competent committee, the
company at once set to work upon the
herculean task of opening its line between
Mission Creek and Miller. A. L. Brown,
master of transportation, has been busy
since the fire in handling the relief trains
from ST. Paul and between Pine City and
Hinckley. He now began a systematic
attempt to straighteh out the crooked rails,
build bridges and repair culverts and re-
place the burned ties, of which there
were literally thousands. With the work
train and an efficient crew MIR. Brown
rebuilt the burned bridge over the Grind
stone River at Hinckev.
Iu the meantime Yardmaster Williams
of the Duluth yards had a worktrain
pushing its way down toward the center
of the difficulty, which was at the spot
where Engineer Root stopped the Duluth
limited on Saturday By noon the crew
of Yardmaster Williams, the man who re-
lieVed the sufferers at Sandstone, had
pushed down 10 this point and had the
track in working order to the bridge,
which was burned. The force was large
one and in a couple of hours the bridge
was built and the big engine of the limited.
which had been left on the track, was
pushed down to Hinckley. The tender of
the limited engine was tipped off the track,
as it was wrecked beyond repair.
At :25 O'Clock the two work trains met,
and at o'clock tonight the line was open
from st. Paul to Duluth, the regular
Duluth train passing Hinckley about 7
o'clock, somewhat behind time, but run
ming through without mishap,
During the afternoon at Pine City the
arrangements for systematic aid we're
taken in hand by II. Ii. Hart Of the Board
of Charities. On the afternoon train ar
| rived the committee. appointed by the
citizens of Minneapolis. A report sub
| mitted to these gentlemen for their ap-
proval contains an estimate of the popula-
! ton Of tho burned towns as follows:
| Hlnckley, 1000; Sandstone, 800; Mission
| Creek. 100; Pokegama, 113; Partridge, 100.
From this number about 400 are to be
deducted as dead. and a further de-
duction of those able to help themselves
| leaves about 800 to be relieved in various
ways. Contributions of transportation.
money. clothing and household utensils
and lumber are wanted. The latter are of
all grades, from rough lumber to sash
and doors. A general contribution will
be recommended in all the churches next
Sunday. There will be no particular
effort to force a large subscription,
but the generosity of the people
will be allowed to show itself in natural
channels. The following physicians ac-
companied the MINNEAPOLIS party: Drs.
Higbee, Fitzgerald. Moore, Mcdonald.
Leepert, Norton of Minneapolis, and
Perkins of Excelsior. Their services were
in great demand, and the hospital patients
received the best of care. 1t is the inten-
ton to start out searching parties in all di-
recIions 10 find the scattered dead, and
physicians will accompany them The
committee proper will leave for Mime
apOlis on the early morning train, and a
citizens meeting will be called at 8 O'Clock
in the afternoon, to which they will re-
port.
A local committee got together tonight
and selected a finance commiuee. Fred a.
Hodge, Auditor of Pine County, was made
treasurer.
A particularly strenuous effort was made
to-day to identify a number of corpses of
men who were known to carry life insur-
ance. Some of the missing men were
known TO carry considerable, and when
one was Identified a number of ac-
quaintances were called upon to assure
themselves of his identity, so the.possibil-
ity of contest in the payment of the in
surance. might be avoided. j. G. DON
nelly said to-day that in all his experience
as an undertaken he had never seen such
sights as were presented at Hinckey.
There is strong suspicion that among
those who have been in Hinckley ostensi-
bly, for relief purposes there have been a
lawless few who have played the part of
ghouls and vaDdals. Many of the bodies
had money and valuables on them and in
several cases they were robbed. A detail
of twenty regular troops from Fort Smelling
under command of Captain Hale and
Lieutenant Mccoy. accompanied by an
army surgeon. has arrived from ST. Paul.
The local physicians were nearly ex-
hausted with their long service and the
army surgeon rendered valuable assist
ance. There are about 400 refugees in
Pine Citv, and as many more are expected