The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-09-05
MANY PROVED HEROES.
Tales of Wonderful Devotion From
The Fire Scourged State.


Tales of Wonderful Devotion From
The Fire Scourged State.
DULUTH, Mimi, Sept. s, 1S94-The list
of heroes of this great fire will never be
enrolled save in that list where every
mans deeds are recorded. There was the
engineer of the limited who picked out
the only green spot for miles and bore
200 souls to safety through the terrible
ordeal, standing erect in the roasting
heat, which only iron fibres could endure.
There was the little hero, West Du-
luth boy of fourteen, who dragged two
smaller children along the weary miles
from the wreck of the train to salvation
where rescuers found them.
There was the young lover who carried
his sick betrothed for mile through the
flames on his back to place of safety,
while the heat was so intense that others
walking beside him, and with no burden,
lay down to die. There was a man, who,
after fighting fire two hours. took up a
crippled brother and bore him in safety
to the relief train. There We're telegraph
operators who, by quick decision and
quicker action, saved hundreds.
There was the daughter who stayed be-
side the BEDSIDE of her mother, who being
moved, and who was not to be dragged
away from sharing her mothers death
until forcibly pulled from the already
burning house. There were the dozens
of men whose positions in death as it
instantaneously seized them showed they
were fastening at all speed into the very
face of flames to the rescue of loved
ones.
RTJRYINC THE DEAD
The first care was for the living. Now
the burial of the dead is being done.
relief party marked many of the
bodies for identification. AT first there
was some trouble to get power to make
burials. There was no Coroner and no.
body knew how to proceed without one.
the law against unauthorized burials
being very strict. The members of a
military company were sworn in as spec
ial coroners and today the bodies that
were put decently into boxes are being
buried as fast as possible.
AT Hinckley the interment is about
done by this time and at Sandstone like
progress has been made.
The members of the town party yester-
day afternoon visited the cabnis near
the ST. Paul and Duluth track.
At the Hinekley meeting it was stated
that Minneapolis Saltwater, ST. Cloud
Duluth and other lumber towns would
furnish lumber to rebuild the burned
towns. However, it is conceded that
Hinckley will not be rebuilt to it's for
mer size, as the fire has made it use
less to rebuild the sawmill, having wiped
out the timber. good part of Hinck-
ley's population depended on the saw
mill. There are ten months yet before
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meanwhile the State of Minnesota must
care for the settlers. There was a lit
tie warm discussion in the Duluth Re
lief Committee as to the advisability
of making National call for aid, but
it was finally decided that it would be
best for Minnesota alone to take care
of the sufferers.
WORKING FOR SALVAGE.
The Eastern Minnesota has a thousand
men at work rebuilding it's line between
Partridge and Hinckley. On this side of
the Kettle River are three construction
trains and on the other side are three
bridge trains and the construction train,
making seven trains in all. The timber
for the huge bridge are already being
Aewn at a rapid rate, and General Mana
ger Harrington thinks that within a week
the bridge will be completed. If his pre-
dictions prove true it will be the most
remarkable of bridge building feats in
the Northwest. But, then, the details
of this bridge are well known to the men
in charge of the work. as it was built
only recently.
John F. Killorin, Manager of the Swan
River Logging Companys operations,
few miles northwest and of the Duluth.
Mississippi River and Northern Railroad
Company is in the city making arrange
ments to hire 400 or more men for work
in the timber. All possible viii be done
to save the standing timber that has
been burned over before it is ruined, as
it must be cut this season to be of any
value whatever. While there was no
loss Of life probably, in the country
reached by the Duluth, Mississippi River
and Northern. hte destruction of timber
was fearful Mr.. ISillorin estimates that
not less than 300,00O,000 feet was burned
over, some of it sobadly it cannot be cut,
but most of it, if it can be got out this
winter, can be saved.
The Itasca Lumber Company and Shev-
lin-Carpenter Company are also losers
Probably 100.0O0,000 feet of that burned
over is so far from rivers or roads that
it cannot be cut. In total the loss of
standing pine timber cannot be less than
7oo0OO,0O0 or 8OOO0GoOO feet On the east
ern road 100,0O0,000 feet belonging to the
Empire Lumber Company is all destroy
ed, while to the east the Diamond Match
Company lost 100000, 900. Many owners
have lost from ten to fifty million feet
which will have to be put in at once to
save it. Already there is demand for
woodsmen and higher wages being offer
ed for such than were paid last winter.
ESTIMATING THE DEATHS.
At the meeting of the RELIEF Committee
- Hinckley, composed of representatives
OF several larger cities and the State
bodies were recovered and 421 persons
were known to be lost in the burned dis
people in Hinckiey 25S bodies have been