Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 4, 1894, Page 5

| j HALF NOT YET TOLD (Continued from Pirst Page.) of eoffing in charge of Undertaker O'Halloran | of St. Paul was sent north. At Hinckley the visible situation had not materially improved over night. The (hirty or forty caskets and boxes with thels gru some contents siill lay along the track where they were placed last night No at- tempt had been made to dress or embalm the bodies and they were already growing very offensive. orlunately the day was cool and cloudy and grateful showers fell at in tervals during the forenoon, The remains of the dead, however, were in such a horri- hle blistered and burned condition that de- Composition rapidiy set in. Undertaker J. G. Donnolley of St. Paul was on the ground and he advised that the bodies be put under Mother Barth as rapidly as possibl Bvery attempt at jdentification lad failed, FFrom these bodles by the track the officlals of the Duluth road had removed and carefully preserved every trinket and article of jewelry and even shoes and scraps of clothing, placing these from each body in a receptacle numbered identically with the casket 80 that when relatives return they them and know whether their en interred may recogniz friends have b HORRORS IN THE CEMBETERY. Out in the little cemetery a mile east of town was scene which words are abso- lutely powerless to describe. At be: the little spot should be as dreary as could be Imagined. It is at the top of a little sand knoll where nature is seen at her worst and absolutely no attempt toward beauti- fying the spot has ever been made. Ther were only a few little sandy, unsod mounds before. Now with the blackened fire scarred stamps and fallen (runks of trees all about it presented an appearance of desolation hard to describe. But in the center of the opening was the crowning hor- ror. In an indiscriminate heap lay more than ninety corpses, men, women and children; some burned 1o a crisp, others only browned by the heat and none with a fragment of clothing larger than a man's hand to con- ceal their awful nakedness. Some were mere trunks, the extremities having been burned off Bome were bloated until the abdomen had cracked open and intestines were protrud Ing. Skulls were burned open and. brains escaping. Al were twisted and cramped In the exquisite agony of the death that had overtaken them. A force of men were quickly at work digging a shallow trench along the south end of the cemetery. The pandy soll was hard as fint. It had been baked to a crust by weeks of drouth and almost solidified by the fire. The work Off in the corner of the were being dug progressed slowly. clearing two small graves One was for MRS. WILLIAM GRISINGER and her two baby CAROLINE GRISINGER, aged 6, MABEL GRISINGER, aged 3. The husband and father had recognized them in the grisly heap and was hard at work preparing the hole for their final rest apart from the trench, his labors dulling for a time the acuteness of his anguish BURYING HIS FAMILY The other grave was for the Best family, whose numbers make their destruction nota- Blo even in this time of death. John Dest, 3r., was digging the pit with the friendly assistance of two neighbors. Laid in a wow_decently covered were the bodies of JOHN BEST, SR., MRS. BEST FRED BEST, aged 23, BERTHA BEST, aged 17, MRS, ANNE 'B. WIGEL, a daughter, and HER 3-YEAR-OLD TER, MINNIF. MRS, ANNIE TRUTTMAN Biuff, Wis., a visitor, aged 26. VICTOR BEST, aged 8. Two other sons, George, aged 25, and Wil- lie, aged 21, arc missing and are certainly dead, and of this whole family of three gen- erations only the sarrowing gra and his wife end ctlla, who took refu a dugout, are left. They all lived together about two miles southeast of Hinckley. The only others of the ninety odd who were rec- ognized were: HARLE: bank. 3 MRS. WILLIAM GINDER and her daugh- ter, WINIFRED, aged 6. One or two others were imperfectly identi- fied, but it was largely guess work. Enough rude boxes were /knocked together from Tough boards to contain most of thesa bodies, and they were frequently laid away under tho sand, but not before other bodies be- gan to come. In the swamp across the Grindstone, where these corpses were found yesterday, were ebout thirty-five others, which were brought in this morning, making a total of upwards of 130 dead in this little space of four or five acres. Down near the river was found the body of THOMAS DUNN, Hinckley. Dunn was born and raised here, and was @ universal favorite. He stuck to his key until the depot was burning over his head. The delay in locating his body led his friends 10 hope that he might have escaped, but this g;ullm( of his blackened corpse put an end all uncertainty. Up the St. Paul & Duluth married DAUGH- of Dismond ANDERSON, cashier of the » the Duluth operator at wight-of-way were found three or four more bodies. Among those who perished north of town was B. RICKETSON of 2318 Polk street, north- east Minneapolis. He was here visiting his son. He went out with Dave Kane of Rock Creek, also a visitor here, and both perished, though the horses came out unscathed The busiest point at Hinckley at noon was the Associated press telegraph office. It was not much of an office, but it sufficed to serve the public with the Associated press reports sent out of Hinckley today. The wires were brought down to a burned stump of a pole. A large dry goods box near by furnished the operator with a desk, a cracker box made him a comfortable seat. A burned railroad spike held down the copy in the brisk breeze. A rough board, on end resting on the opera- tor's table and the other on a miik can, furnished the Associated press correspondent his desk, and his seat was a beer Keg. Here, under these circumstancss, werc pre- pared and sent the story of the day in this stricken town. An occasional shower blurred the copy, but it was rapidly fed to the eager wire despite the discomforts of the occasion. SWEPT ABSOLUTELY CLEAN. The Asscciated press correspondent took a five-mile trip out through the woods to the north of town this morning through a scene of desolation which rarely falls beneath the eye of man. The country Is absolutely swept clean, There is but one settler’s house | standing within an unknown radius of | miles. It Is that of Mike Dein, on the edge | of the river, three miles east cf town. It was a new house and very substantial. Dean | and a nelghbor fought the fire bravely, but | had to abandon hope. They got the women and children into the water, evering their heads with cloths kept wet by dash- ing water over them, and when the fire had passed thoy eams oul unhurt and were much surprised to find the building standing, and this morning when the Associated press correspondent entered the clearing the house fog barked as savagely and the rcoster crowed s lustily as if they had not come within an ace of death. The hand car party which went north this morning has just returned. It met the Duluth constraction train about eight miles up the track, with word that the eity of Duluth had farnished the nec y reliet | at Sandstone and Miller. They accordingly turned bick, and on the way in located eloven bod es. These eleven bidies swelled the total of those found alcng the Duluth track between Hinckley and Skunk lake to about fifty. One of them was recognizod as Gtto Rowley of Duluth, gencral freight agent of the Duluth & Winnipeg. He was a passenger on the limited south on Saturday and bhad Zeft the miin hody of refugees and passen- gors, running back toward the lake. His Dody was identified by his name on his col- lar. Near another body, evidently that of a passenger, was found a’ letter addressed to Tsrael Schrumski, Chicago, and a chirred business card bearing the sams name. Three others of the bodies were probably those of passengers on the ill-fated trafu. Another was a young man, a splendid speei- men of manhood, &nd from his clothing and high laced boots, apparently a pros- pector or cruiser. The other five were the family of a rettler named John Robin- consisting of himself, wife and infant. MIGHT ALL HAVE BEEN SAVED. Above Skunk Lake the work train reported on son twelve bodies the right of way, pre- sumably settl In retrospective, the most sorrowful feature of the terrible fatal ity at Hicckley Is the thought that had the p'tuation been realized in time ot & single life among the residents of the town need have been lost. The Great Northern gravel pit, where only a hundred sought safety, is about ten acres in extent, broad enough and long enough and deep enough to have shel- tered every soul in Hinckley, with all the domestic animals. There fs a pool of water of considerable depth. The banks are bare of grass or shrubbery and thers was no inflammable matter near the brink from the direction in which the flames came. Those who did scek this haven passed the hours of their enforced imprisonment in comparative comfort This_morning a detail of twenty regulars from Fort Snelling, under command of Cap- tain Hale and Lieutenant McCoy and an army sur. came in from St. Paul. They brought some tents, but, finding Adjutant General Muehlburg had sent up 180 state tents, the regulars turned In and put up fifty of them for refugees with regular army expedition. The local physician was about played out and there was an abundance of work for the army surgeon. A portion of the tents will be put up at Hinckley. TALES TOLD BY TRAINME Terrible Experionce of th: Wrecked in the Midst MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 3 Journal from St. Cloud first eye witnesses of the to arrive loday from the scene of the dis- aster wer trainmen of No. 46, which was ditched one and one-half miles this side of Pokegama. Mr. John Vanderslice thus tells ihe story of their awful experience ‘We left Hinckley at the usual time Satur- lay afternoon. It smoky and the air was lot and oppressive. A terrible wind was blowing A hot as from a furnace. We had not gone far when the smoke began to be so thick that it was perfectly dark. Our train consisted of an engine, baggage car and coac) “As we plunged through tha darkness smoke and flame, and rushed over the small bridges and wooden culverts, we could feel Crew of a Traln t the Fire. A special to the Minn., says: The great forest fire them give under the weight of the train The ties, bridges, fences and trees above our heads were burning. “When within one and onc-half miles of Pokegama our train went into the ditch, but we all escaped and laid down on our faces to keep from smothering. But it con- tinued to grow worse, Fi to reach a small creck, and we threw the water over ourselves and put out the fire which caught under the baggage car. Over ds the flames were leaping clear ross the right way. It was terrible— awful. No one can describe our experience. “At one time we thought we could not stand it any longer and said good-by to each other. The fire came with the fury of nally we managed a cyclone -and must huve been traveling sixty miles an hour. “At 5 o'clock two of us walked to Poke- ma, thinking we could gt relief there. When we got there we found half the peo- ple in the river., Their feet were burned and blistered and thelr faces scorched Some of them were so blinded that they could not see. We took them back to the train with us, There were about twenty four of them. They did not know where their neighbors were. We tore up our shirts nd used the cloth to cover up the burned and blistered feet of the suffer.rs “'At 5 o'clock Sunday morning we left the party and train in charge of two brakemen I started for Hinckley. On the ay every tie in tho track was burned out, the ground was baked, and we found many bodies of people who had perished. “When we reached Hinekley we found that the relief train from St. Paul over the St. Paul & Duluth had reached there and everything that men could do was being done for the injured and suffering. Every- thing but the Groat Northern roundhouse, freight shed and water tank was gone. “We found all of Pine City a hospital. Every house was thrown open for the shel- ter of the sufferers. The stories told of the terrible loss of life in and about Hinckley are not exaggerated in the least. Thera are at least 300 people dead there and it is hard telling where that fire, swe ping along at sixty miles an hour, has or will be stopped.” WATER WORKS WERE USELE All the Water in Kettle River Would Not Have Stayed the Flan SANDSTONE, Minn., Sept. 3.—All that re- mains of what was cnce the prosperous vil- lage of Sandstone is the small shack used by the Sandstone company for an office, and this would have met the fate of the other build- ings but for the fact that it was locuted near the quarry and the flames missed It Crowded into this building and the fery house were found over 200 people, who bad lost - their homes and everything that they possessed except the clothing which they wore. When the St. Paul & Duluth relief train, which left Duluth at 4 o'clock, arrived at Miller's Junction, word was received that the town of Sandstone was entirely burned and the people there were in need of imme- dlate ald. A party of the relief committee aboard the train started with provisions to look after the destitute people. After pass- ing the Hastern Minnesota tracks and just before coming to the glowing coals and ashe: that marked all that remained of Sandstone, several bodies were seen, the victims ap- parently having been overtaken by the flames as they were fleeing to sifety. On reaching the quarry, below the town, where the people who were saved were awaiting ald, they were given provisions and those who were uninjured were sent forward to the relief train, about four or five miles away. Those who were burned and a number of children were left in the office building until today, when they will be cared for by another relief train. All those saved at Sandstone were in the river while the cyclone of flames passed, and only minaged to es- cape by wading into the water as far as possible, and then throwing water over each other's heads. The coming of the flames sounded like thunder, and with such rapidity did they come that pecple who lingered to save properly or neglected to k safety in the river perished in the flames. As far as could be learned between forty and Afty bodies were scattered about the streets, burned to a crisp. The relief committes had paid but little attention to bodies, as the Lving required immediate attention. The town boisted of a water works, of the citizens remarked, * Kettle river would not hav on the solid sheet of flames on the town and swepl it in less than an hour. The relief train took back about 245 per- sons to Duluth for aid. At Sandstons Junction, H. Linds, wife and five children perished. Lind was fatally burned, but Is still alive. Mr. Greenflelds, wife the same place were burned. The bridge watchman, Denmuth, of Sandstone, was 80 badly burned that he e:mmitted sulcide before the r-muinl: party arrived. but as one The whole of had any effect that advanced out of existence and six children of ALL KEADY 10 1 AVE. Yoople of Caddot Ready to Fly Should the fives Reach that Point MILWAUKEE, Sept. 3.—A sp:cial from Falls, Wis., orth- Michigan is o of flames and reports are coming to this city constantly of fatalities caused by the great conflagration. The towns of RIb Lake, compief Marengo and Bradshaw have b:en ly wiped out and at the latter place three persons lost their lives. Many others are missing and it is impossible to estimate the extent of the sufferings by the Inhabit- ants. Yesterday a message was received here from Caddot asking for assistance was threatened by a forest fire habitants were almost pani thelr imminent danger. A force of men from Chippewa was sent up and until 10 lock last n the 100 inkabitants of the village struggled to preserve their homes from de- struction. S:veral bulldings on the outskirts caught fire end were shortly reduced 1o ashes, The town and the in- stricken over but happily the fire was prevented from spreading to the others. Th> citizens were greatly excited at the prospects of losing their homes and preparations were made for a hurried flight in case the town fell a prey to fire. Wagons loaded with household goods stood in the streets and the scine was one of indescribable confusion. At 10 o'clock last night the fire had abated in the immed ate vieinity of Caddot and for the y it the village is safe. Almost twenty miles away in a dense forest which ends at the edge of the town, th: woods are in a vast blaze and the winds are carrying the flames with great rapidity toward the town. If no rain falls before this evening the town will certanly be wiped out. The inhabitants realize this fact and already quite a number have taken refuge in this city, while others are pre- pared for flight on & mowent's warning. It THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TOFSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1894. would be useless to stuggle against the mass of flames fast bearing down on the town and as It reaches its limits safety will be taken | in_fight The city authorities have taken every pre caution to assist the towns In the neighbor. hood, but there is little hops that their house hold ‘goods will be saved. A special train and | a fire engin: were sent up. The town of Cad | dot has about 500 inhabitants and i situated in the midst of a dense forest, where escape s practically impossible, No word has been rec:ived from the party sent to the rescue of the village and fears are entertained for its safety PENNSYLVANIA WOODS ON FIRE Valuable Timber Burned Properties Are in Danger, BRADFORD, Pa., Sept. 3. —Forest fires are raging all along the line of the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg railroad. Reports from all points on the marrow gauge roads state the woods are on fire for miles and the dam- age whl be heavy unless rain should fall The woods along the pike to Corydon are on fire for miles and oil property in the vi- cinity of the west branch Is threatened 8hould the fire spread to the ol fields seri. Much and 01 ous consequences would result. The woods along the Bradford, Bordell Kinseau rail road between here and Southport are re ported on fire and valuable property is in danger of being destroyed. Between Mount Jew:1l and this city and the west branch all the woods are ablaze and several oil wells are reported burning At Long Bird the woods are a roaring mass of flames and valu- able ofl property is being devoured by the flames. As yet no loss of life is reported and the extent of the damage cannot be esti mated. A report reached here this evening from Lewis Run stating the woods are ablaze and the people are fighting the fire to save their property. KANE, Pa., Sept. 3 —Forest fires are with- in a mile of town on all sides. Should no rain fall the damage and loss to property will be great. Men are watching the fire and are preparing to prevest it from reaching the oil wells and nitro-glycerine maguzines. located close by. RUSSEL CITY, Pa.. Sept. 3.—The woods are on fire on both sides of this place and the fire extends over an area of twenty miles. A large gang of men is fighting the flames and diggging trenches to prevent the Are from spreading to the oil lands in this vi- cinity. The Elk Oil company has laid water lines in all directions from their pump sta- tion and have a large pump ready for any emergency. There are a number of saw mills and fumber camps in the woods south of here, but nothing has been learned as to their condition and it is feared the mills have been destroyed and that some loss of life has occurred. NORTHWESTERN GETS OFF EASY, No Loss of Life on Its Lineand Little Prop- erty Destroy CHICAGOQ, Sept. 3.—General Manager J. M. Whitman of the Chicago & Northwestern has just made follwing official state- ment, prepared from dispatches forwarded by his superintendents “Saturday night heavy winds north of Antigo spread the forest fires. The South Shore road lost their long viaduct over the Wisconsin Central at Marengo. We ran a Wis- consin Central passenger train from Iron Mountain to Ashland Saturday night.” The Wisconsin Central, South Shore & Green Bay roads have each lost several bridges. We have lost no bridges yet. Yesterday after- noon large fires were burning around Bes- semer and Wakefleld. We furnished a train to take the people out of Bessemer. The lime kilns at Grimms caught fire from one of the kilns, and nine of our cars burned. At 7 p. m. last night the wind went down and we think the worst is over. The Chicago & Northwestern has lost no property except as above. Forces are out rolling the tracks and fighting the fires. The Peninsula di- vision fires are not particularly dangerous thus far, although there is considerable fire in the vicinity of Bagley, Beaver, Clowry, Hermansville, Wac and Stager, and west of Iron River, No Chicago & Northwestern company property on the peninsular division has been destroyed save a few ties and posts. A section force is out watching and fighting the fires. The wires are badly crippled. The Omaha lost several bridges between Ashland and Washburn. A number of lives are reported lost on the line of the St. Paul & Duluth and Eastern Minnesota by the burning of the trains and several towns. Severe fires are reported on the Wisconsin Central, South Shore and Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul in Michigan. Indications are Mr. Winter the vicinity of that the fires are under control in just reports light St. Paul.” WHOLE COU rain Heat So Intense that Vegetables Cooked in the Ground. MILWAUKEE, Sept. 3.—A special to the Wisconsin from Iron Mountain says the whole north and eastern country is a mass of ruins, and the loss will amount to thou- sands of dollars. Yesterday the people of Norway had to fight the fire for hours to save their town from destruction. The dam- age in this direction is chlefly to the crops of homesteaders, many of whom lost their all. An idea of the intense ~ heat may Dbe gathered from the fact that the vegetables were cooked in the ground, Captain John Perkins losing 1,000 bushels of turnips in this manner. On the Ontagnon division of the Chicago, Mil- waukee & St. Paul road the fire belt ex- tends from Channfng to Rock Island, on both sides of the road, and the damage is chiefly to standing pine. It is estimated that 200,000,000 feet of tim- ber has been scorched, but if lumbered at once the loss will be about 10 per cent. The ralroad is badly warped in many places, and it is not considered safe to operate trains on that division. One train was derafled by warped rails, and the engineer, named Almquist, a resident of Ontagnon, was Instantly killed. A brake- man, whose name is unknown, was badly injured and cannot live. Conductor Hilker, who came down from the fire belt last night, says the flames have attacked the roadbed and the tles are burning. Many homestead- ers have lost their homes, barns and crops. Unless rain comes within the next ten hours, of which there is not the slightest indication, all trains on the division will be abandoned. In the direction of Watersmeet, on the Chicago & Northwestern, there are fires of the same nature. Many tralns are being abandoned. The passenger trains due here Saturday night did mot arrive until this morning. Were APPEAL FOR ALD UED, Governor Nelson of Minnesota Makes an Appeal to the Chiaritable ST. PAUL, Sept. 3.—Governor Nelson to- night issued the following proclamation To the prople of Minnesota—Information of an offic charac has reached me that the villages of Hickley, Sandstone, Mission Creek and the neighboring towns and farms have been destroyed by forest fires; that hundreds of lives have been sac- rificed, and suffering and destitution are on every hand; that the survivors of this ter- rible devastation are in immediate need of clothing shelter and everything that existence possible. This appalling disaster appeals to every heart of g nerous impulses, and the case is one that demands the immediate and liberal assistance of all gocd citizens of this state. Now, therefore, 1. Knute Nelson, governor of the state of Minnesota, in view of this awful calamity which has befallen our people and by virtue of the authority in me vested, do hereby appeal to all liberal and public spirit-d citi- zens, to all municipalities and to all re- { ligious and benevolent institutions of this state to take {mmediate action toward se- curing contributions for the relief of the prevalling distress. 1 hereby appoint the following state commission, authorized to { receive contributions of money and sup- plies and to expend and disburse the same C. A Pillsbury, Minneapolis; Kenneth Clark, St. Paul; Matthew G. Morton, Win- ora; Hastings Hart, St. Paul, and a Duluth | man yet to be named. NUTE NELSON. | Curtis and Cushing Both Wiped Out, | MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 8.—A special to the ! Journal from Little Falls, Minn., says: A | forest fire desiroyed Curtis and Cushing, | eighteen miles west of here, Saturday. The loss at Cushing is about $35,000, Dower's saw mills and lumber yard were burned 1 $25,000; insurance, §16,000. The J. J | Howe Lumber company have $40,000 insur- ance L At Curtis, William Long's mill burned, to THE SOCIETY EVENT OF ILITARY NIGHT Exhibition Drills TONIGHT At Pompeii GENERAL B Commander Department of the Platte, In a Blaze of 20x40 FERET. i BEGINS | ekl | ROOKE ire 8:00 SHAR]’ In Full Dress BY THE— Omaha Guards and Thurston Rifles Uniform. DRILLS TAKE PLACE AT 800 O'CLOCK SHARP ON MILITARY NICHT RESERVED SEATS ON SALE AT Kuhn's, 16th and Douglas. Kinsler's, 16th and Farnam Fuller's, 14th and Donglas Kiplinger's, 13th end Far- nam. | Upto5oelock of the night | ofthe pertormance. Take the Sherman avenue transfer slip is neccessary after 3:00 p. m. street aft On returning from Court cars and change cars at Locust str nd Beach conductor no On entering cars at Locust 3:00 p. m. pay ten cents, conductor gives you a return ticket, akes up this return ticket and hands you a transfer slip which will take you to either end of the Sherman avenue line you may de Also admit to Court'and Beach after 3:00 p. m.— while Courtland Beach tickets are not good for Pompsii at any time, 1 Tickets to POMPEII U. P. train to Pompeii leaves Council Bluffs at 9th and Broadway at 7:00 p, m; returning leaves Scale of Price Admission, with good seat. . Admission, with reserved seat. .......... Family Boxes, seating five persons.. ... Single Seat in Boxes...... Chiidren under 12 years. . .. ildren occupying Reser gether with all the houses-in the town. The loss to Long will be about §25,000; insurance, $4,000. A great deal of timber was d stroyed. Onme hundred people are homeless, but 50 far no lives are lost. DEAD AND MISSING AT BROOK FARK, Supposed to Have Perished in the Frames. MINNEAPOLIS, Sepl.’ 3.—A Journal special from Mora, Minn, says: Brook Park, Pokegama station, a new town on the St. Cloud-Hinckley branch of the Great Northern, was totally destroyed. The flames burned 300,000 feet of lumber, saw mill, hotel, stores, postoffice, school house and section house. Twenty-five families in the immedate vicinity are homeless. Six thou- sand tons of hay, twenty head of horses and a large herd of cattle are gone. The total 1oss of property is estimated at $30,000; no_insurance THOMAS RAYMOND, wife and three .chil- dren are missing. CHARLES ANDERSON, wife and children are also among the missing FRED MOLANDER, wite and two chil- dren are dead CHARLES OLSON is missing. MISS NORA OLSON is dead. OSCAR LARSON and sister are missing. DAVID GOODHUE, missing. CHARLES W. WHITNEY, missing. BARNES AND J. BREMAN, missing. The injured are: Dr. Kelsey, hands burned. Wright Kelsey, burned about the eyes, Many children were blinded by the fire and smoke. The following surviving sufferers were brought to Mora last night: W. W Thompson, Joseph Bergoniz, Wright Kelsey and family, Mrs. Cream and four children, Hans Nelson, section foreman, and family, and Frank Littlegarber. The remainder, about fifty people, will be brought in today. Rey. Mr, Thompson opened his church to the sufferers, and the citiz:ns are relieving the immediate wants. The dead found yes- terday were buried. All railroad bridges be- tween Mora and Hinckley were burned, but will be repaired today. The sufferers need food, raiment and shelter for winter. Con- tributions from the outside are necded for their relief. Contributions should be sent to Rev. Mr. Thompson. Ke & Markham, the townsite owners, say the town will be re- built, S FEARS FOR 51 three . MEN, ‘Well Known Sportsmen of that City Be- lleved to Be in the Furnace Regions, ST. PAUL, Sept. 3.—It is greatly feared that many well known residents of St. Paul have perished in the forest fires that have swept over Hinckley and viclnity since Satur- day night. Large numbers of sportsmen have left St. Paul within the last ten days fo hunt prairie chickens near Hinckley, Mora and Sandstone and other points in the vi- cinity, and few of these places have es- caped the flames. The fire covers a large retch of territory and if the sportsmen were in the forest nothing could save them unless they were ciose 1o some large body of water. A great many St. Paul families are uncasy, fearing the worst has happened to their loved ones who went gunning last weck. President George Freem:n of the Minne- sota Shoe company aml’ Lumberman Cusick, a prominent resident '6f Stillwater, went hunting in the forests mear Hinckley last Friday and nothing had,bren hesrd of them up to midnight last might. It t they perished in the: five. Mr said last nig hat hier hush was Mora, Minn., abpit’twenty-five miles this side of Hinckley, &5 in all probability Mr. Freeman is safe. Train Delayed Tifenty-Four Hours. ESCANABA, Mich.,. Sept. 3.—The contin- ued dry wedther is'leunsing heavy from forest fires. armers and lumbermen report fires all over the'country and unless rain com the loss” will be The Hurley passenger, due: Saturday, arrived twenty-four hours late,’ having been delayed by fires on the hand division at Gogebec and Marnisco. Two special trains were sent losses serious. out Saturday ard Sunday with men and water to help put out the fires doing the most damage. Reports from Bagley, N way, Clowrey and Hermansville say those places are threatened and the inhabitants are fighting the flames. At Beaverside a large amount of ties and posts were burned and men have been fighting the fire there for two days, protecting gbout $4,000 worth of cedar. The wires are all down on the Iron Mourtain Wisconsin Towns in Danger: EAU CLAIRE, Wis, Sept. 8~It Is feared the little town of Rib lake, in Tay- lor county, population 52, will be destroyed tonight, although a fire engine and crew from Chippewa Falls have gone to fight the fire. The Rib Lake Lumber company, ved Seats or Box S, ves 100 s st 00 oats full price with mills and fmmense tannery, is lo- cated at that point The danger at Carnot, Cartwright and Rice Lake is thought to be ov Lake, a summer resort, te General Ginty was destroyed this af- ternoon. At least seven raroad bridges on the north division of the Omaha road be- tween Chippewa Falls and Superior have been destroyed At Long the cottage of th OW'S HEROISM. ONE W £rotected Hor Sick Son from the Flames While Her Nelghbors Fled in Terror. SPOONER, Wis., Sept. 3.—The destruction of Barronett was complete. One lone build- ing is left of the thrifty milling town. The total 1oss is .$250,000. Shell Lake has fifty- two buildings burned, with a total loss of | $75,000. Three hundred and sixty people are homeless and many are without a dollar of insurance, Deeds of heroism are plentiful. One widow dragged ‘her typhoid sick son from the house into a potato patch and there protected him from the flames while the rest of the inhabltants fled in terror. The fires are now under control in this vicinity. arvivors Arrive at superior. WEST SUPERIOR, Wis., Sept. 3.—Fifty survivors of the fire at Partridg> were re- ved in this city today and anotier rellef train is expected later. The sufferers were provided with everything to make them com- fortable. A late report from the Omaha line says that Bennet siding is in imminent dan- ger of destruction. The Omeha and North Pacific_lines are running trains, but the South Shore, St. Paul & Duluth and Eastern Minnesota are tied up on account of burned bridges. Ralns Uelp Out Some. CHICAGO, Sept. 3. — The following dis- patch was received by the Northwestern railroad from®Ashland from Division Super- intendent Bidwell this afternoon TRONWOOD, Sept. p. m.—Situation is all right this far are all down, but 4 fresh wind is coming up on the range, which may start them ag We are having a nice rain as far north as Monroe Junction, which we hope will continue north rain Kan the MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 3.—A Marquette, Mich., special to the Journal says: The South Shore express from the west pulled in at 7 o'elock this morning, many hours late, after an exciting run through dense smoke 1 walls of fire and over burning bridges. The wires are all down, but the towns along the line are believed to be safe. The trains to Duluth are running via Ashland. oug i Fire € . Cnddoet. EAU CLAIRE, Sept. 3.—Word from C: 1 doet says that the fires have been checked, | | but that there is still danger. Members of the Rice ny advices that Rice Lake is in no present danger. The fires are northward of their city and the wind has generally been from the southwest, It is next to impossible to obtain communication direct with the towns. Lake Lumber comp here have Blaze i Wyoming. BUFFALO, Wyo., Sept. 3.—(Special Tele- The Bee)—Heavy forest fires have been burning on the Big Horn mountains for several days past. The whole basin country is enstirouded In a dense pall of smoke. Be- tween the forest fires and the railroads the nificent forests in the northern part of the state will soon be devastated. aters Lose Hen Big | gram to Chicago Lumbor o iy, CHICAGO, Sept. 8.—Chicago lumber d suffer heavily from (he recent forest fl estimate can yet be made, but from the interviews had with leading lum- bermen of this city it would seem that the losses £0 into the millions. ers e g A S WORTH A GUINEA A BOX." 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