The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-09-03
THE AWFUL DETAILS

OF tho Flrcs-uIuokIsy Wiped Out aud
Many LIyos Lost-ThriIiing Stories Of
tho Calamity.
ST. PAUL, MrSN., Sept o.-The town
Of Hnckley. with 4 population Of from
1000 to 1900, has beon wipcd out by
forest fires and no. loss .han 200 peo-
ple are dead. A special train with a
force of reporters has gone to the scene.
It Is feared that several other towns
have suffered like fato, and tho total
loss Of life Is more than Ave hundred.
Millaca called tor help yesterday
afternoon and tho relief train from St.
Cloud was unable to got beyond Bridge
man.
THE DEAD.
A special to the Pioneer Pre-" from
Pine City, MIMI, saya: An estimate OF
the dead is as follows:.
Hinckloy, 200; Sandstone, 40; Sand
stone Junction, 25; Pokcgnma, p;
Skunk Lake, 20; miscellaneous, 30; total,
S55. The list Of dead to date includes
the following:
Sandy Henderson, ten years; John
Henderson, twelve years; - Hanson,
Mrs. Hanson, Gvo Hanson children,
Thomas Jones, - Chambors, Alex
Hanson and wife, Emily Hanson. ak
teen years; Charlie Hanson, nine
teen years; Charles Anderson.
twenty yeors, cashier bank; Hans
Mattison. twenty years; Mrs.
William Ginder; Dennis Riley, yard
watchmau; Jim Bean, foreman Brennan
Lumber Company; John Bost and wife.
four Best children, John Anderson aud
wlfc, two Anderson children, William
Nesbitt, sawyer; Henry Hanson. T.
Turceon, = Lambe and son, Mrs.
Nlertin and four children, Mrs. Blanch'
ard and two children, DR.. g. II. Kelcey.
Of brighton; u. Z. Blanchard, wito and
two children, Louis Nelson, ompIoye
Eastern railway; Potter Robertson, Neis
Robertson, Mary Robertson, ,-Rooert-
son, child; Hoffman and wifo. Emma
Dolan, Bolic o'Brlen aud Anna Wallace,
drml.nondo. 49,,
Mrs. Kos.igan and thrco children;
William Pinnorr, sawyer; Patrick
Murphy, sawyer; Orville Cox. Thomas
Dunn, wifo and four email children.
Tho walls Of the schooihouse, tho
iron fence about tho town hall property,
tho bank vault and ono absolutely un'
Injured outhouso is all that is lott to
mark tho sight Of Hincklcy, whore yes
torday etood score OF store buildings,
and dozen times as many dwelling
houses.
STORY OF THE CArATRoPHE'
Tho rtory Of tho catastropho which
wiped out tho material possessions that
had madu llincklcy busy, prosperous
lit,lo city, is a short ono. Tho town
was built OF wood. Tho school house
erected last year at a cost Of SlO,OUo anu
oue.hali tho Duluth roundhouso werc
tho only brick structures IN tho CITY.
By ono Of those peculiar froass for
which there is no accounting, tho East
ern Minnesota roundhonso and water
tank OH tho south-weatdrn edge Of tho
town almost In tho woods, escaped tho
ilamcs-a circumstance tho moro re:
markable from the fact that It stood
directly in tho path OF tho flames, which
socrn 10 havo jumped It 90 cIeRnly as II
playing leap frog. -.
All yesterday afternoon tho towns
people were npprollensivc. The smoke
rolling up from tho south told a story
unmistakubly plain to those accus'
toned to wooded country. Tho hrc
kopt advancing, innnod by the Wind,
-WLlch-Ras-blowinS-a Rnlo-About y
o'clock tho fire company got cut thor
engine and laid an eighteon-hundrod'
loot limo Of hose closo to tho southern
outsklrts OF tho town. The hoso was all
too short for the measure oil protection
desired and telegram was sent to husn