New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-09-04
FOUR HUNDRED DEAD.
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were first attended to- Then the crowd OF home
less refugees who surged around the car were fed.
The caboose which came up on the train was
started back TO Pine City and 1t was crowded
with refugees. Among them were Ira smaling.
wife and infant Saturday morning last these
ncople started FOR Grindstone on fishing ex-
cursjon The Are overlook them and they put out
into the like and noated around nearly all Satur-
dav night and finally landed in North Shore.
Ru. the fire followed them up. and they went TO
an Indian camp and walked fourteen miles to
Hinckley this morning. OF course their home was
destroyed.
Wells Delong and wife. who lived two miles
east of the Great Northern track, were driven
from home by the fire. They ran down the bank
from their house and took to the creek. when
they arrived at the creek there was great num-
her Of bears wolves and skunks at the water $
edge but all were so frightened that they did not
attack the fugiuves.
1t is difficult to portray the situation at Hinck-
ley. A few refugees. nalf-score OF searchers'
team or two transporting boxes containing
dead bodies. the place where town mad been
that is the picture. The brick veneer when con-
stituted the outer covering Of some OF the build
ings has fallen into the cellars. 1t is Ike look
ing over the track Of tornado. a few curious
rel,c-hunters delve among the ruined household
goods, but their quest receives li;te reward.
large majority of those lost were Scandi-
navians and many OF those. dlstrusting the
banks since last years panic carried their saw
irgs in their rockets and where IL was In paper
money II was. OF course. destroyed. But the
mind reverts to that dreadful scene in the Gene
terry. and one insensby reflects that money or
no money. it makes sort of difference now to
those scorched and naked people piled In a grew
some heap In every conceivable position Ike so
many dried sticks.
Reports continue to come In from the vicinity
of Skunk Creek Of added discoveries OF burned
victims. Most of the homeless people OF SKUNK
Creek proper have been taken TO Duluth. fifty-
eight dead were found lying In the streets and
In the Immediate vicinity Of this village. The
total in the vicinity will reach fully 400 dead
when all the returns are in. Identification IS an
exceedingly difficult matter. and most Of the So
called idcntncatons Of a dead body are mere
guesses. It will he fully ten days. perhaps
longer. before al the missing are positively TO-
Gated. The Registration Committee. of which
IL H. Hart is chairman, is bus!ly engaged try
ing to locate people. ascertanng the condition
and necessities Of all applicants for relief. and
this means nearly every survivor from the
burped district.
J. D. Markham Of Rush CITY says that the
population Of Pokegama aggregated ll3 souls
last Saturday or this number sixteen ere
known TO be burned.
FORTY OR FIFTY DEAD AT SANDSTONE.
Sandstone Mimi. Sept. 3-Ths town Is In com
plete ruins. there being bu; single building
standing shack used by the quarry company
Crowded into this building and the ferry the re-
lief par,y found over 200 people who had lost
their homes and everything they possessed ex-
con, the clothing they wore. All those saved at
Sandstone were In the river while the flames
rassed and only they managed T. escape by
u,dinr in the water as far rs possible and
throwing winter over each others heads. The
canning ~ the flames sounded Ike thunder and
with such rapidly did they come that people
who waited 10 save property or neglected 10
sock safety in the river persisted. As far as can
no learned between forty and nifty people ARD
dead The Relief Committee has thus far PAID
little attention to the bodies. ns the living re-
ouirc immediate attention.
Pine CITY. MINI. Sept 3.-The walls of the
ecboolhousc the iron fence about the Town Han
nror or,v. the bank vault and one absolutely un-
injured clubhouse are all that IL left TO marx the
site Of Ii!nckcy. whore Saturday stood score
- store buildings and dozen times as many
dwelling houses
SAVED RY 4 MERE CHANCE.
Tho fire first struck IIinckley On tho cas-. side
~ the Duluth track and the brave iire-hghter'
for the first time gave up the unequal battle.
and already too late IN many instances. turned
their attention to their personal safety. The
Eastern Minnesota train from the South had
lust come In and the people Of the panic-stricken
city nocked 10 Il for safety 4 number Of box
cars were coupled on and filled and covered
with men women and children. III all there was
n motley crowd OF $50 more people. TIE
train pulled out just ahead Of the fire. and sue
ceeded I'm ultimately reaching Duluth. This cir
cunstanco while fortunate In Il degree that can
not be estimated has made the confusion greater.
for II Ia not known who escaped in this way. and
many people are reported dead who may be In
safety Had not this number Of people-largely
women and chdrcn--lcft the doomed city when
they did. the loss Of life would have been vastly
increased.
About the same time the accommodation train
on the Hinckley and st. Cloud branch left Hinck-
ley for the latter place with about twenty-five
passengers lts track lay directly across the
path Of the fire. and the situation speedily be-
came desperate. No one was Injured and they
pressed on to Pokegama station. Presently. In
front Of the engine. was discovered n gorge Sixty
feet wide and forty feet deep, where the trestle
had been burned away. The passengers sue
ceedcd in reaching the clearing about the station
and escaped with a few burns and bruises. There
were burned along the track however four or five
people, including Or. Kelley. OF New-Brighton.
who had come up to look after his brother.
The people who were left in the city were in
what seemed to be an almost hopeless condition
Egress by the only means Of transportation that
could be hoped TO distance the swiftly advancing
flames was out Of the question. The men had
been fighting the fire for hours and the women
and children in panic-strickcn condition.
Horses were harnessed to buggies and wagons.
Women and children were hurriedly put In the
vehicles. In some cases attempts were made to
carry off some household goods. but in most In
stances the people had no thought for aught but