Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1894-09-07
NUMBER DAKOTA SEPTEMBER T. 1894.
MORE BODIES FOUND

MORE BODIES FOUND
THE DEATH LIST FROM FIRES CON-
T1NUEs TO GROW.
Three Hundred and Eishty-nine
Bodies Have Thus Far Been Found
Within a Radius of Eight Miles of
Hfnckley-Parties of Timber Cruts-
ers Sent Out to Bury the Dead-The
Mill Pond, Where Large Number
of People Are Supposed to Have
Heen Lost, Is Still UnapprOachable
Owing to the Fire in the Sawdust.
Hinckley, MINI. Sept. 5. - Noble
Sherman is In Hinckley to-day, one OF
the saddest OF the throng. He was at
Pine City when the fire swept over
Hinckley, and was unable to reach his
home, located two miles northeast OF
the town, un til the fire had subsidized.
His Wife had sheltered her four chill
dren in the cellar as well as she was
able and had interposed her body be-
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overcome. the children's bodies being
found beneath that of their devoted
mother. Mr.. Sherman's brother John
and his wife and five children perished
amid the ruins of their home. Eleven
other people residing close by shared
their fate.
This morning while securing the tam
arack swamp q correspondent came
| ~, Ia, 1ft 1v,1,n hO1
evidently tried to reach the river. One
was within 800 feet of it, and had
fallen on his side with arms out
stretched. Near the remains were a
G. p. r. r. switch key, tobacco box
and knife. The other man has evi-
IDENTIFY climbed over the bank into the
sand coulee and then fallen, never to
rise again. He laid on his back with
his clothes all gone and so burned as
to be unrecognizable. The appearance
of his shoes indicates that he kept on
his feet long after his clothes had ig-
nited, the shoes being in very good
condition. The burial party will bring
the ghastly corpses into Hinckley to-
day. These two and one other found
this morning swell the list of dead
found within radius of eight miles of
E1lnckiey 10 3S9.
At an early hour a force Of men was
started out to the cemetery to COM
plete the work Of interment. There
had been left above the ground, last
night, tfty-seyen bodies in boxes, and
at daylight searching parties were
started out after others that had been
located. A careful search was made
last night along the Duluth right of
way to the north. Yesterdays party
had located twelve bodies, but the
closer scrutiny of the woods for a con-
siderable distance back from the track
revealed several Others, including the
entire Green family of father, mother
and four children.
Besides the body of Otto Rowley,
general freight and passenger agent of
the Duluth & Winnipeg, taken to his
home at Merriam Park last night. nine
teen others were picked up between
Hinckley and Skunk Lake. Two OF
three were evidently passengers upon
Saturdays south-bound limited. Most
Of the balance We're settlers and the re-
mainder were refugees from iiinckley
who got farther away from the doomed
city. One was the body Of Mrs. John
Mcnamara. Cd whose person was found
$1,000 in cbecks and $500 in currency,
and near 10y was the body OF a boy
partially identified as one OF her sons
The Robertson family of five found
yesterday, were also brought in. Israel
Schrimski, the young Chicago lawyer,
who was reported as among the lost
at Hincliey, is safe. He lost his valise,
but got out safely, and is now at Hud-
son, Wis.
This about completes the number
from the right of way to point six
miles out. and rolls ur total of fifty
or sixty. A scattered few were brought
in from the country just across the
Grindstone river. One man found in
the old gravel pit just across the river,
was identified as Jerry Crowley, an old
man of sixty years of age. He has a
son who is a conductor on the Omaha
and another who occupies a similar po-
sition on the Wisconsin Central.
A searching party Of five experienced
timber cruisers and seven assistants
was started out along the government
road TO the east. A similar party Of
seventeen was sent up the Eastern
Minnesota railroad toward Sandstone.
These parties will bring in no bodies
if they are found. They are equipped
with the necessary tools and will bury
the bodies where they lind them. These
parties were sent into a tract Of coun-
try from. which no reports have been
received, and the possible results of
their labors can only be ccnjectured.
During the day other parties were
started in other directions. but no def
mite reports will be received for many
hours.
The work at the cemetery was in
charge Of f. G. Webber, one of the
many efficient workers Pine City has
furnished, and progressed rapidly. 1t
met with but one peculiarly sad inter-
ruption. yesterday Lee Webster, the
mayor Of Hinckley, thought he recog-
nized his wife in the horrid heap of
dead. During his temporary absence
the body he hoped to claim for a sep
arate and more formal and sacred
burial. was placed in the pit and COW
cred up. When he learned Of it he
was half-crazed with this added sor-
row, and upon his insistence portion
OF the trench where some of the men
remembered to have placed this body.