The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-03

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i've human bodies, victims Of the fire.
SENT TO sUCcoR AND SAVE.
Duluth, Sept. 2.-The relief train which
was sent from here last night on the St.
/ Paul and Duluth road tolsuccor and save
the victims of the forest confagration be-
| tween this city and what was the town of
| Hinckley, returned at 1890 O'Clock this
afternoon. The party counted the charred
and half burned bodies of seventy
five dead people along the railroad
| tracks. The doctors who accompanied
the relief party estimated the total num-
Der of dead to be 400 to 500 The
refugees from Sandstone, another town
which was wiped out of existence, caught
the relief train at Rutledge. On their
way across the country they counted the
corpses of sixty victims of the devastating
flames. The fre-swept region which
suffered the worst is embraced in the
Minnesota counties of Pine and Kanabec
and Burnett county, Wisconsin.
SURVIVORS COMING IN.
A train arrived here at o'clock to-
night bearing 600 refugees, many of
whom were suffering from the effects of
their experience. Another relief train
left this city for the blackened waste at
5 o'clock this morning. 1t returned to
this city bearing 500 living victims of the
fires. They were housed in empty build
| ings and fed by citizens. Another relief
train was sent out on the Eastern Mime
! sofa road and brought in several hundred
survivors.
RELIEF WORK BEGINS.
Pine City, Mimi, Sept 2.-The relief
train from ST Paul arrived here at p. m.
with 2, 400 loaves of bread clothing, hospi-
tai material and large delegation of St
Paul citizens AT White Bear Lake S4OO
was subscribed and three carloads of sup
1 plies were procured by the time the train
arrived here.
The following committee has been Sc
! lected to take entire charge of the relief
work: James Hurley, Pine City, chair
man, ); +. Stone, j. Y. Breckenridge,
! Gen. Charles Bunker e. A. Hough. n
| Berchers, and II. Hart, st. Paul; j. T.
ManniX, Minneapolis; A. f. Quinn, j. c.
| Nethaway, j. II. Burgman, J. p Moon, J.
ID. Markham, p. II Kelly, G. r. Finch
H, Y. King, d, +. Stone.
NO ESTIMATE POSSIBLE.
Anything like an estimate of the loss is
impossible. Hinckley has been COM
| pletely destroyed, as has Mission Creek,
Sandstone and several other small places,
and large numbers Of people are missing
The fire extends from Pine City as far
west as Carlton and Rutledge, sweeping
everything in its path.
PREACHERS STORY.
Rev. 2. Knudson, a Presbyterian minis
ter OF Hinckley, tells graphic story of
the fire which swept down on the town
like an avalanche. He SAYS over 200 of
| those who perished in the flames might
| have been saved had they kept away from
| the river. The people lost their heads and
stampeded IN trying TO escape by teams
| and saddle horses. Knudson took ua hill
top, and when the fire passed over found
himself in charred desert, surrounded
| by hundreds of dead, while those who
survived were far from help, and with
nothing 20 eat and drink. He
thinks the horrors of the
Chicago fire were nothing compared to 1t,
AT Hlnckley the bodies are being piled
IN the grave yard, and will be buried as
soon as possible. Every effort is made to
identify the dead bodies. There are 600
homeless people in Pine City.
/ Reliable Information received by the
relief committee shows about $50 dead at
Hinckley and 500 to $50 homeless surviy-
ors, most of whom are at Pine City with
nothing to eat or wear. Sandstone has fifty
| dead and 225 homeless in the very worst
| possible condition and needing immediate
aid. There are twenty-five dead at Sand
! stone Junction
/ Mayors Smith of st. Paul and Eustis
| of Minneapolis will be wired that the
situation is worse than first thought and
| immediate relief is needed.
! BECAME RAvING MANIAC.
! Conductor Sullivan of the train that
was caught by fire near Hinckley, and
backed to Skunk lake, became a raving
maniac after reaching comparative safety
He was heroic and cool while his burn
ing train was making its fearful run, but
at Skunk lake his mind gave way
Engineer Root of the same train is so
badly burned that he may not live. His
| fireman drenched him with water from
the tank. There seems no doubt that
| this train would have pulled through
safely had it not stopped to pick up 200 or
800 people, who lined the track.
vERITABLE HELL.
c. II. Vanhooven of Hinckley tells the
following story of the fire: about s
o clock a. m. smoke was noticed coming
from the southwest. No particular atten-
tion was paid to it until 10 O'Clock, when
the ire department was called out. A per-
feet hurricane of wind rendered it almost
impossible TO do anything. At $3.50 O'clock
the heat was so intense that they were
compelled TO abandon the engines and
lice for their lives. At o'clock the
house Of John Anderson was on fire and
in less than ten minutes the whole
town was a veritable hell about 200
buildings being ahame. People had no
time 10 get out of the buildings: others
were caught on the outskirts of the town.
Nanhooycn was saved by going into a
gravel pit with III others. Nearly ali of
those who took TO the river perished.
Two women died Of fright and the sight
OF burning men, women and children beg
CARED description.
AHEAvY Loss OF LIFE.
Chippewa Falls Wis, Sept 2.-Forest
fires have completely devastated the coun-
try between this city and Superior. a dis
tance of l40 miles. Telegraph wires are
down and railroad tracks are DESTROYED
making it impo sible to secure accurate
information from the scene Of destruction.
From what meager reports that have
beeu received. however, it is believed
that the loss of life in this district is very
heavy.
CORNELL LOSES HEAVILY.
Chippewa Falls, Wis. Sept. 2.-The
heaviest loser by the forest fires in this
vicinity is Cornell University of New
York, which had nearly 81 900 600 in
vested in pine lands located chiefly around
Long Lake, thirty miles from this citv.
Their lands have been completely divested
OF standing pines, and their loss will be
almost complete.
ANOTHER TOWN THREATENED.
Cadott, Wis, Sept. 2.-This city is sur
rounded by forest fires with a prospect
that 10 will be destroyed before morning
The entire population has been fighting
fire all day, and many are giving up in
despair and tleeing for their lives. A fire