The herald., 1894-09-05

was started out today along the govern
ment road to east. A similar party OF
IL was sent up the Eastern Minnesota
railroad toward Sandstone. These par
ties will not bring in any bodies if they
are found, but will bury them where
found. These parties were cent into a
tract Of country from which no reporte
have been received, and the possible re-
suits of their labors can only be conjec-
tured. During the Gay other parties
were started in other directions.
The work at the cemetery today pro-
ceeded rapidly. There was one peculiarly
cad interruption. Yesterday Lee Web
ster, the mayor OF Hinckley, thought be
recognized his wife in the horrible heap
of dead. During his temporary absence
the body he hoped to claim for q more
formal and sacred burial was thrown
into the pile and covered up. When he
learned OF it today. he was hslf-crazed
with grief, and, with assistance, por-
tion OF the trench where someone re-
membered to have placed the body was
opened, and he descended into It to try
and find his loved one. Either the body
he sought was not the one uncovered,
or the handling OF it had destroyed the
ecanty marks of Identification, and Mr..
less corpse was probably not that OF his
wife, and the body was thrown again
anto the pit.
There is a prospect now that the num-
Der of dead which have been or will be
brought into Hinckley, and which has
hitherto been conservatively estimated
at about 200, will pass that number and
may reach 250. There is one point
where an indefinite number may be
found. West OF the Duluth bridge
across the Grindstone and at the north
west edge OF the town was millpond of
considerable depth and probably 400
feet wide. A considerable number Of
persons were seen making their way to
this spot. How many. however. it is
impossible to approximate. One thing
10 certain-no one who went into 1t
came back to give an account OF himself.
To the intense heat OF the burning lum-
Der and the suffocating volume OF smoke
coming from the flames which were de-
stoying a sawmill and half million
feet OF sawed lumber standing on the
banks of the pond, was added that
which came from the sawdust, and
through which the FIRE ran to the very
waters edge. The water is deep, and
those who were there probably chose
death by drowning to sufocation or
burning. The pond is yet unapproach-
able. The sawdust bank is still full OF
FIRE and as treacherous as Quicksand.
The smoke is 30 dense that not even
sight Of the pond can be had from
point near the place where the bodies
are supposed to be. and it may be some
days before an attempt ct recovery OF
bodies can be made.
From Brook PARK, near Pokegama
lake, on the Eastern Minnesota railroad,
comes the report that the fatalities
there are more than had been supposed.
There were 113 settlers at or near that
point. Yssterday's reports placed it's
dead at 28. Today rumor has increased
it to between so and so. Parties will 60
out from Pine City across the country to
Brook Park by team to aid in the work
ct that point.
At this city every branch Of the local
relief has moved along smoothly. There
10 an abundance of provisions and shell
ter. Governor Nelson, with representa-
tives Of the relief committees from st.
Paul and Duluth. arrived during the
day, and will assist in the work of aid.
Probably 800 people, rwho had NO real
property interests in Hinckley, and
WHOSE pslsouAi property Dsd oeen ue-
Btroyed, are anxious to leave the state.
1t is simply question of beginning life
over, they say, and they prefer to do it
elsewhere than at the point associated
such terrible memories. Aid for them
is being solicited by committee ap-
pointed for the purpose. Many of the
refugees have already lett. There lie,
however, still an immense amount of
labor in caring for those who remain.
The needs are great, but the relief work
is in the hands of efficient men and will
be we'll carried out.