St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-05
FITZGERALD TURNS UP,
Fire Practically Out on the East
ern Minnesota.


ern Minnesota.
.. M. Lang, chief clerk 70 Assistant
General Manager Miller, of the St.
Paul u Duluth, left for Pine City, in
the fire devasted district, OH the
''limited" at 2:l5 yesterday afternoon.
Ever since the grea. fire Assistant Gen.
eral Manager Miller has been back and
forth. General Manager Plough, it was
learned yesterday, would not return
from New York till Monday. No report
has come from Hinckley as to whether
any efforts were made toward rebuild-
ing the place. Through trains are rum
ming. No. II. that left at 7:40 last night,
carried out a bridge and building crew
of about fifty men. and all repairs will
be pushed through with vim.
The company,s land examiner at Dell
Grove, Thomas Fitzgerald. was at work
near Finlayson when the fiery holocaust
came on. 1t was supposed that he was
dead. but ne has turned up safe.
Already the relic hunters are at work
at Hinckley and Mission Creek. collect
ing souvenirs of the most awful catas.
trOphe in the history of the state.
Yesterday morning searching parties
left Pine City e-~+
To ScOur the Woods
in search of the dead, who are to be
buried when found, and their last rest
ing places identified as fully as possible.
The Omaha people are advised that
the fire losses at Washburn will be ex-
tremely heavy. The dismal reports of
the destruction of the villages of Com
stock, Granite, Baronett and Bashaw
are confirmed.
The only town entirely destroyed on
the line OF the Northern Pacific was
Cromwell, though other towns were Sc I.
verely scorched. The company has lost
three bridges, but they were only small
ones. No reports or any loss of life
have been received at Northern Pacific
headquarters on that portion Of its line
between Brainerd and Duluth.
The suspension of train service on the
Eastern Railway of Minnesota beyond
Mora still continues. Inquiry at head.
quarters shows that the company ex-
poets to get its
Trains Into Hfnckley
some time during the latter part of the
week, though this is not definite, as the
work Of recOnstructing burned bridges
is not so easily accomplished as it might
be. One official thought that the COM
pany's bridge over Kettle river might
be in shape by tomorrow for the passage
of trains. The wires beyond Mora were
reported as still down. The III jury to
rails is comparatively slight. except, of
course, on bridges, where they were
warped, bent and badly twisted by the
intense and Ong-continued heat.
i General Superintendent Scott, of the
Omaha, stated yesterday afternoon that
there is about sixteen miles of hat
company's line affected by the great
fires. This lies between Benoit and
Wasnburn. In this stretch of track
three bridges were totally dest royed.
ut will take at least three day s." said
Mr.. Scott. "t0 drive new piles and make
other repairs. There are quite a mum.
Der OF small culverts in this section
affected, but they are easily repaired
and are of small moment. We ow have
three pile drivers in operation aud large
Forces Of Men at Work
at both ends of the burned strip. The
fires have ceased raging ON our line, and
are, l think, practically subdued. Of
course the hot embers are still alive, but
unless some gale should arise to fan
them again into flame all danger will
soon be over. We have through tele.
graph service established by wires ten.
porarily strung up. Superintendent of
Telegraph Hope, with large force Of
linemen. is busy in the burned district
in putting up permanent wires, and he
probably will get through today. As.
matters now stand. our, traffic is only,
suspended between Spooner aud ASH
land and on the Bayfield, branch. Rail-
roads have had some pretty hard fights
all through the present years.