The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-09-05
BURYING TnE DEAD.
Sad Work in Wisoonsin's Flame
Swept Towns,
STILL RECOVERING DEAD BODIES.

| Der $40.
ST. PAUL Mimi, Sept. "a Pine City
! Mimi special to The Pioneer Press says
| The death roll at Sandstone has probably |
reached its limit, aud presents the awful
total Of sixty-seven. This is not an esti-
mate nor guess, but an accurate account
| Of the bodies inferred ~ all were from
the little village, 4, having been
brought In from the immediate vicinity.
There are here immense quarriss en-
ploying In a busy time a considerable
number OF men when actively operated.
For some time work has been light and
for this reason 1t is impossible TO get an
accurate estimate Of the population Of the
place, but fair figure is probable $50
Many took refuge in the quarries and
some in Kettle river, just below, in deep
| ravine, where the Eastern Minnesota
crosses a bridge 800 feet long and 23O feet
high.
Many of those who were burned were
caught on their way to this refuge and
others were caught in the village streets.
In one well four persons died death that
must have been a mixture of drowning,
suffocating and burning. Yesterday the
well was utilized as a grave, and nine
other bodies were placed in 1t and all COW
cred with earth. Two rescuing parties
were organized in Pine City yesterday.
One party found two bodies of men un-
recognizably burned. Today two other
parties have gone out in other directions.
The country west of here is very heavily
wooded, with few clearings and water.
No report whatever has been heard from
the settlers and it is feared that all have
perished. The Duluth right of way and
the country within considerable dis
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lake has been secured pretty thoroughly.
Careful search was made and revealed
twenty-eight dead bodies. They were in
} an awful condition and could not be han
died with any care. Five children of the
, Greenfield family were so badly burned
} that all were put in box designed to con-
| tain an adult. The mother and father
were in Hinckley and were saved, but
their family and home is wiped out of
, existence. v5SSTs
The bodies Of the Robertson family of
, five persons, three of whom are adults,
were brought in, as were those of Mrs.
John Mcnamara and her son, who were
refugees from Hinkley and who made their
way further up the track than their
5 'neighbors. Near Mrs. MCNamRras body
was a satchel containing $500 in currency
and $1,000 in checks. Not far away were
.
ably from Hinckley. In a cellar half a
mile west of Skunk Bridge were found
. bodies which were identified as those of
3 Mrs. Westlund aud her two babies. A
0 Finish woman named Sophie WacH, her
baby, Mrs. Westlund's sister and Mrs
1 Lind aud her five children. This number,
added to thirty-one brought in from Du-
luth tracks on Sunday, aud the body of
1 Otto Rowley, general freight and passen-
- ger agent of the Duluth and Winnipeg
o railroad, swells the total of the loss of
. life along this track to upwards of sixty.
The work at the cemetery yesterday
was in charge of Mr.. F. G. Webber, 1t
e met with one peculiarly sad interruption.
It On Monday y. E, Webster, the mayor Of
'- Hinckley, thought he recognized his wife
1t In the horrid heap of dead, During his
temporary absence the body he hoped To
claim for a more formal and sacred burial
was thrown into a pit and covered up
q When he learned of it he was half crazed
4 with sorrow A portion of the trench
r where some men remembered to have
" placed the body was dug up, but either
D. the body he sought was not the one un
As covered or the handling it had received
10 had destroyed the scanty marks of identi-
t. fcation and Webster was forced to ad
nit that the shapeless corpse was prob
is ably not that of his wife, and the loosl
sand was again thrown into the pit.
There is one point where an indehnit,
number of bodies may be found 1t i,
,e west Of the Duluth bridge across tn,
n Grindstone and at the northwest edge OF
h the town, where there was a mill pond of
is considerable depth and probably 400 fee
DO wide. On the bank nearest the town stood
vi the plant of the Brennan Lumber com
1 IL. 10 I, al. Faa
a of sawed lumber. A considerable mum
,g ber of persons were seen making thei
n way to the water of the pond down tn,
alleys between the piles of burning lum
ber There is absolutely no basis for al
accurate approximation of how man!
"a there were. One thing is certain, no on
M who went into it ever came back to Civ
- an account Of himself or his companions
m To the intense heat of the burning lum
,3 ber and the suffocating volume Of smok
~ which it alone furnished was added tina
ma which went up from the sawdust an
d. edgings through which the fire ran to tn
,s. very waters edge. The water was deer
and those who We're there probably chos
death by drowning to sulfOcatiou or bL
ed ing
x The pond is yet unapproaChable. Th
sr- sawdust bank is still full of fire aud a
no lEedtutIouA rs QulNhbduAAs L nc nllbht
he so dense that not even a sight Of the pom
6 can be had from a point near the plaC
where the bodies are supposed to be- an
it may be some days before an attempt
las recovery can be made.
ny The Hinckley horror is dawning in Il
awful magnitude. There are now lyin
. IN the desolate cemetery, under a shallo
m covering of sand, or in rough boxes whiC
w w take the places Of caskets, 2l6 bodies. FoJ
la- trenches in all have been opened, sep
me rated by about four feet.
ed The foreman of the construction ira
es reported to Coroner Cowan that on Il
rs rs hill at the nortn end of the bridge aero
,t sts the Grindstone were nine bodies so cor
ne pletely iucnerated that the sex could n
hy be distinguished,
YER The revised list of dead, as far as know
not is as follows; Buried at Hinckley al
OF vicinity 235; at Sandstone, 81; at PoB