The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1894-09-11
THE DEATH ROLL swELus.
The Work of Burying the Dead and
Caring for the Living.

Lie WORK OF Burytng the Dead ant
+ Caring for the Living.
PINE City, Mimi, Sept. 4.-Th,
general executive committee in eharg,
of relief work in this section has mad,
y report of dead bodies recovered thus
far as follows
Hinckley 35l, Sandstone II, Miller
called Sandstone Junction, Is, between
Skunk Lake and Miller AZ, Poke Gam
ma 81, in lumber camps so; total, 450
Ghouls are at work in the vicinity o
Sandstone. Today party from
Duluth under James Bailey came dowr
to help bury the dead, and while
searching around at noon came up on
II gang who had broken open some
them they had just found q cisterr
from which they had pulled fifteen
dead bodies, and had robbed them OF
| jewelry, rings, trinkets, ETC., and
wore throwing the bodies back into
the well. The party were unarmed,
and the ghouls took to their heels and
escaped.
| A frame powder magazine at Sand
stone, portion of which was left
standing and which was empty, was
torn down for material for collins.
The fire was seen by the Sandstone
people four hours before it struck the
in readiness to move to Kettle River,
cast of the village. Before any one was
aware of the real danger the fire came
upon the town from the north east and
west and firing the whole town inside
of five minutes. Many were unable to
reach the river and died in the streets
A blacksmith burned to crisp in his
shop, whore he was shoeing horse.
So sudden was the fire not thing was
saved and in thirty minutes the whole
town was swept OF the earth. Those
who reached the river remained most
of the night. The survivors are en-
tirely destitute and have not even
clothing to their backs, except such as
is provided by the relief committees.
Whole families are wiped out. Pre-
sident Sam Hill Of the eastern branch
of the Northern Pacific, came up from
Hinckley this morning and took
northern train over the ST. Paul and
Duluth to within nine miles Of Sand
stone, and then walked over. The big
Eastern Minnesota bridge over the
Kettle River has a steel arch in the
middle $50 feet long and is still intact,
though wooden approaches are burned
The scene of death and ruin along
the road is terrible one," says Mr.
Hill, mot sign Of life is anywhere
to be seen, all is blackened, charred
mass of ruins. Dead animals and hui
man beings are everywhere and they
arc buried wherever found. There
were many peculiar features of the
fire. In one place, whore all else was
burned and blackened all around, we
found wagon with the hay in
the box intact, while the horses
were dead. There is yet to be closed
up on the Minnesota gap of twelve
n,ilnS hot TIinnlyla,, nl l,,th
eight miles of which are between
Hincllley and Sandstone. There are
four.miles in st. Cloud direction, which
will closed up by tomorrow. / noticed
in one place some freight car wheels
which were melted, while not three
hundred fcetaway was another car un-
touched"
Judge Nethaway, of Stillwatcr, has
been one of the most active in relief
work, and has been all over the sur
tounding country. He found the
family Of Jack Robinson. man, wife
and seven children all dead and hardly
recognizable and also found j. y. Row
Icy, passenger agent Of the Minnesota
and Winnipeg. Several miles north
west OF Hinckley today he came to a
spot where a farm house had stood.
In front was we'll and over to the left
could be seen five human bodies and
the bodies of several animals. Judge
Ncthaway went at once to the we'll to
see if anyone was there, and found
down in the bottom, little l2-yoar-old
boy in eight inches of water, who had
lived there since Saturday with moth
ing to eat. The little fellow was
pulled up and said he had been put
down there whom the fire was seen,
and an lawful bad smoke had passed
over him and 1t was awful hot" He
asked the judge if he know whore his
father anc mother were, and his dog.
Judge Nethaway took him on his back
to whore he could be fed, while other
parties vent back after the five bodies.