The Saint Paul Globe from Saint Paul, Minnesota • Page 1

HE KNEW WHAT HE WANTED and got it, because he advertised his "want" in the TOL. TWO APPALLING ROSTER The Death List in Fire-Swept Eastern Minnesota Running Toward Four Hundred. More Than Two Hundred Bodies Have Already Been Buried at Hinckley Alone. The Awful Story of the Penning In of the People of Sandstone Village. Eight Towns Entirely Swept Away by the Frightful Catastrophe of Saturday.

St. Paul, Minneapolis and Other Cities Coming to the Rescue With Provisions and Clothing. More Than One Thousand of the Refugees Flock to Duluth-Story of the Great Disaster. Ipeclal to the Rlobo. Hinckley, Sept.

hours after the holocaust of Saturday the survivors of the stricken city are still so dazed that they sit amid their ashes and weep tears of bitter anguish. With every hour come added horrors, and the death list has reached the appalling number of 300. Eight Minnesota town Have been completely wiped Hinckley, Mission Creek, Partridge, Cromwell, Sandstone, Pokegema, Curtis and and the loss to property amounts to at least $4,000,000. Last niulit was a gloomy one. The hospital patients demanded the attention of the physicians all nieht, and the only druggist in Pine City was kept busy until daylight filling prescriptions and supplying lotions, for most of the injuries were burns more or less serious.

By morning all were in a state of comparative comfort, and there were none whose hurts were deemed fatal. Among the good citizens ut Pine City, who- had opened their hearts, their homes and their public buildings to Their Stricken Neighbors, all was bustle and activity. The town hall was kept open all night, and coffee and plain fare served to all comers. The court house, the school house, and many a private home was thrown open. Every blanket in town was called into service.

The women and children were given the better quarters, aud the men stretched out in rows on the floors of the two public buildings named. Before daylight the town was astir. The arrangements for the relief of the destitute further up the line, where hundreds of men, women and children are not only homeless, but absolutely without a scrap of food or bedding or extra clothing, were taken up where they wore dropped at midnight. The appointed committees met and got their work well in hand. Before 7 o'clock In the mornine the construction train, loaded with bridge material for the repair of the bridge across the Grindstone, river at Hinckley, came up from Rush City.

A couple of hundred loaves bread and other light provisions were placed on board in charge of Judge J. C. Nethaway, of Stillwater, representing tho relief committee. A party of laborers to dig graves and inter the bodies were collected, and the train proceeded into the burned country. At Hinckley the provisions were loaded onto a handcar manned by Judge Nethaway-and A Crew, and a start was made across the shaky bridge to Miller, nine miles further north, where are reported a dozen or more dead and three or four times as many hungry aud homeless.

From Miller they expectto work east to- Sandstone, about five miles across the country on tue Eastern Minnesota railroad, where there are between- forty-five and 'fifty dead and a couple of hundred living who were saved Kettle river and In the great quarries. Aboat 11 o'clock the bridge was sufficiently repaired to admit the passage of a train, and an engine, freight car and caboose, wilh a plentiful supply of food and a meager store of coffins, in charge of Undertaker O'Ualioran, of St. Paul, was sent north. At Hinckley the visible situation had uot materially improved over night. The thirty or forty caskets and boxes with their gruesome contents still lay alongside the track, where they were placed last night.

No attempt whatever had been made to dress or fembalm the bodies, and they were already growing very offensive. Fortunately the day was cool and cloudy, and grateful showers fell at intervals during the forenoon. The remains of the dead, however, were in such a horribly blistered and burned condition that decomposition rapidly, set Undertaker J. G. Donnelly, nf St.

Paul, was on the ground, and he advised that the bodies be put Under Mother Earth as rapidly as possibl.e. Every attempt at Identification had been exhausted. From these bodies by the track the officials of the Duluth road had removed aud carefully preserved every trinket and article of jewelry, and even, shoes and scraps of clothing, placing those from each body in a receptacle numbered identically with the casket, so that possibly when the refugees return they may recognize them and know whether their friends have been interred. Out in the little cemetery mile easj of town was a scene which words are absolutaly powerless to describe. At best the littla spot would be as dreary as could well be imagined.

It is on top of a rough sandy knoll, where nature is seen at her worst, and absolutely no attempt toward artificial embellishment has ever been made. There were only a few little sandy unsodded mounds before. Now wi th. the blackened, firescarred stumps and fallen trunks of trees all about, it presented an appearance of desolation hard to describe. But in the center of the open was the crowing Iv an indiscriminate heap lay more than ninety corpses, meu, women and little children.

Some burned crisp, others only browned by the heat, and none with a fragment of clothing larger than a man's hajd to conceal Their Awful Nakedness. Some were mere trunks, the extremities having been burned off. Some were bloated until the abdomen had cracked open and the intestine were protruding. Skulls were burned open and brains escaping; all were twisted and cramped in agony of death that had overtaken them. A force of men was quickly at work digging a shallow trench aloug the south end of the cemetery.

The sandy soil was hard as flint. It had been been baked to a crust by weeks of drought, and almost solidified by the fire. The work progressed slowly. Off in the cornerof the clearing two smaller graves were being dug. One was for Mrs.

William Grissinger and her two baby girls, Caroline, aged, six, and Mabel, aged three. The husband and father had recognized them iv the grisly heap, and was had at work preparing for them a final resting place apart from the trench desisrued tor the unidentified, hit labors dulling for the lime the acuteness of his anguish. TEe Other for the "family, whose nunAefs mail 7-' Their Instruction Notable even in this time of John Best Jr. was digging the pit, with the friendly assistance of two neighbors. Laid In a row, decently covered, were the bodies of John Best Mrs.

Best, Fred Best, aged twenty-three; Berthn, aged seventeen; Mrs. Annie Wigel, a married daughter, and her three-year-old daughter Minnie; Miss Annie Truttiuan, of Diamond Bluff, a visitor, agel twenty-six, and Victor Best, aged eight. Two other, sons (George, aged twentyfive, aud Willie, aged twenty-one) are missing, and are certainly dead. And of this whole family of three generations only the sorrowing grave digger and his wife and child, who took refuge in a dug-out, are left. They all lived together about two miles southeast of Hinckley.

The only others of tliese ninety odd who wero recognized were Charles cashier of the bunk; Mrs. William Cinder and her daughter Winifred, aged six. One or two others were imperfectly identified, but it was largely guess work. Enough rude boxes were knocked together from rough boards to contain most of these bodies, and they were rapidly laid away under the sand, but not before other bodies began lo come in. In the swamp across the Grindstone, where these corpses wero found yesterday, wore about thirty-five others, which were brought in this morning, making a total of upwards of ISJ dead lv this little space of four or live acres.

Down near the river was found the body of Thomas Dunn, the Duluth operator at Hinckley. Dunn was born and raised here.and was A Universal Favorite. He stuck to his key until the depot was burning above his head. The delay in locating his body led his frieuds to hope that he might have escaped, but this morning' the finding of his blackened corpse put an end to all uncertainty. Up the St.

Paul Duluth right of way were found three or four more bodies. Among those who perished north of town was Erick Ettson, of 2,318 Polk street northeast, Minneapolis, who was here visiting his son. He went out in a wagon with Davo Kane, of Kock Creek, also a visitor here, and both perished though the horse came out unscathed. The busiest point at Hinckley at noon was the telegraph office. It was not much of an ollice, but It served to serve the public with a report, the only report sent out of Hiuckley today.

The wires were brought down to a burned stump of a pole. A dry box near by furnished the operator with a desk. A cracker box made him a comfortable seat. A burned railroad spike held down the cooy in the brisk breeze. A rough board, one end resting on the operator's table and the other on a milk can, furnished the correspondent his desk, and his seat was a beer' empty.

Here under these circumstances was prepared and sent the story ot the day in this stricken city. An occasional shower blurred the copy, but ie was rapidly fed to the eager wire, despite the discomforts of the occasion, four correspondent took a live-mile tramp out through the woods to the north of town this morniug, 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 Dean, on the edge of the river, three miles east of towu.

It was a new house and very substantial. Dean and a neighbor fought the fire until they had to abandon hope. They cot the women and children Into the water, covering their heads with cloths kept wet by dashing water over them, and when the fire had passed, they came out unburned.and were much surprised to fiud their buildings standing, and this morning, when your correspondent entered the clearing, the house dog barked as savagely, and the rooster crowed as lustily as if they had not come within an ace of death. Tho handcar party which went north this morning has just returned. It met the Duluth construction traiu about eight miles up the track with word that the city of Duluth had furnished the necessary relief at Sandstone and Miller.

They accordingly turned back, and on the way located eleven bodies, swelling the total of those found along the Duluth track between Hinckley and Skunk lake to about fifty. One of them was recognized as Otto Rowley, ofsDuluth, general freight agent of the Duluth Winnipeg. He was a passenger on the limited south on Saturday, and had left the main body of refugees and passengers, running back toward the lake. His body was identified by his natns on his collar. Near another body, evidently that of a passenger, was found a letter addressed to Israel Schruinski, Chicago, and a charred business card bearing the same name.

Three others of the bodies were probably those of passengers on that ill-fated train. Another was a young man, a splendid specimen of physical manhood, and from his clothing and bigb-laoed boots apparently a prospector cruiser. The other five, were the family of a settler named John Robinson, consisting of himself, three women and an infant. Above Skunk lake the work train reported twelve bodies on the right of way, presumably settlers. Iv retrospection the most sorrowful feature of the terrible fatality at Hiuckley is the thought that had the situation been realized in time, not a 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 sheltered every soul in Hinckley with all their domestic animals. There 19 a pool of water of considerable depth. The banks are bare of grass or shrubbery, and there was no inflammable material near the brink on the side from which the fire came. Those who did seek this haven passed the hours of their enforced inlprlsonment in conparative comfort. THE DEAD NUMBER 36a A List Which in Growing Larger Every Hour.

Special to the Globe. Hinckley, Sept. This has been a 'busy day a'ud one full -of Incident over the territory where ami villages were so recently swept off tho earth and borne off It off into the heavens as clouds 61 smoke. 7 Hundreds' of men have been working with tireless energy in cafng for the living but destitute sufferers, burying the dead ana; In searching for more victims of the appalling disaster of Saturday, Hundreds of others have been repairing FAINT PAUL TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 4, 1894. the railroad and telegraph lines.

All work is being carried on with system and under the management of cool--' headed meu. The end Is not yet In; sight. Although a great amount of work has been done, there seems to-be; little disposition to sleep even at Although the work cannot be prosecuted in the? darkness, men gather in groups and discuss in low tones somonew phase of the- catastrophe. Women are still going about looking for husbands and children In the hope that they may be found among the and men are hunting for lost families. Most of the dead are burned beyond; recognition and are being buried ns unknown.

The interring committee performed the last sad rights for fifty-six unknown incinerated persons today. A long trench has been dug, and the bodies placed therein with as much order as could be used, although there was doubtless a mingling of bones of different persons. No elegant casket, not even a rough box, enclosed the remains of these. No funeral rites were said, and although the faces of the bystanders were sad, never a tear was shed. The people seem to be too much appalled to shed tears.

The bodies of. fifty others were incased in rough boxes, hurriedly made of rough lumber, and placed in another long trench alongside that containing the unknown. Then' both trenches were filled up with The few ministers present looked on as spectators without even pronouncing a benediction or saying the customary "Earth to earth and ashes to ashes." As the new cemetery was informally dedicated with tha 1015 bodies, other trenches are being dug for the accommodation of the ninety or more bodies now ready for Interment. The new cemetery is a mile west of Hinckley, near a woodland. Other dead bodies are being brought to Pine City for interment, aud still others to various other poiuts.

The dead are now estimated at 360. divided as follows: Hinckley, 225; Sandstone, 50; Pokegama. 20; Sandstone Junction, 20. There are others to the number of twen ly. scattered around in the woods, which were seen by searching parties today, and which, with any newly discovered ones, will ba Drought to Hinckley tamorrow.

It is thought that a number of bodies will be discovered in the Grindstone river, as many were known to have gone there during the fire. Ths military pitched tents at Hiuckley and are. guarding supplies taken there for the convenience of workmen. A telegraph station has established in a box car at Hinckley. The searching com- uilttee also makes that point the base of operations during the day.

Tonight all the workmen and everybody except a few watchmen are at Pine City. The snioko at Hinckley is so thick that it is almost death to wort there for many hours at a time. The fallen trees, the stumps and even the roots of the grass are burning over i. large territory and the smoke, obscures the rays of the sun. The rain of today did not check the tire in the least.

Tonight a brilliant aurora borealls is playlug against the clouds of smoke hanging over the site of Hinckley. It is a beautiful sight- to look on, as tho lightning generated by -the superheated earth disturbs the heavens. 7 SANDSTONE'S AWFUL FATE. The Loss' of Life in the Quarry Appalling. Sandstone, Sept.

3. Ail that remains of what was once the prosperous village of Sandstone is the small shack used by the Sandstone company for an office, and this would have, met the fate of the other buildings but; for the fact that it was located near the quarry and the flames missed it. Crowded into this building and the ferry the relief party found over 200 people who had lost their homes -'and everything they possessed except the clothing they wore. When the St. Paul Duluth relief train, which left Duluth at 4 o'clock, arrived at word was received that the town of Sandstone, was entirely burned' and the people were in need ot immediate aid.

A party of the relief committee aboard the train started with provisions to look after the destitute people. After passing the Eastern Minnesota tracks and just before coming to glowing coal and ashes that marked all that remained of Sandstone, several bodies were seen, the victims apparently having 'been overtaken by the flames 'as they were fleeing to safety. Ou reaching the quarry below tho town where the people who were saved were awaiting aid, they were given provisions and those who were uninjured were scut forward to the relief train, about four or five miles away. Those who were burned aud a number of children were loft Iv 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 managed to escape by wading iii the water as far as possible and then throwing water over each' other's heads.

The coining of the flames sounded like thunder, and with. such rapidity did they come that people, who lingered to save property or neglected to seek safety In the rlvor, perished in the flames. As far as could learned last night, between forty and fifty bodies were scattered about the streets, burned to a crisp. The relief) committee had paid little-' attention to the bodies, as the living required immediate attention. The town boasted of works, but, as one 'of tbe old' citizens remarked, the whole of Kettle' river would not have had any effect on solid sheet of flames that advanced' on the town and swept it out of existence in less than an hour.

The relief train took back? about 215 persons to Duluth for aid. The list of the identified dead, as nearly as be gotten from survivors who reached the train, is as follows': ENGLAND; his wife and family of seven children. 7 i JOHNSON, his wife and child and brother-in-law? Yy- '-'r EDSTROM'SJamIIy of six; Edstrora himself badly if not fatally Domed. 'rM. tt.

H. HOFFMAN and wife. ALFRED BROAD, -wife, and family of three children. 7 AUGUST SVV'fNSfJN and son died at W- pump house and were found in. the boa.

"-V V- EMIL PETERSON, single, found in c'litral part of town. trr; i C. F. ANDERSON, wife and two children.ltHßlHs£BStaflSgoßnaSßaH&Eri MRS. AUGUST ANDERSON.

PETER KALM, wife and three children. He was told to run for the river, but Kalra refused, saying that he would fight and save his faintly and home. evidence showed that Mrs. Kalm had poured tubs of water on the children. GUST ANDEKSON, wife and two children.

The mother was found In the yard, with her children clasped in her arms. Many others were found in Sandstone, and removed unidentified. At Sandstone 11. Lind's wife and five children perished. Lind was fatally burned, but is still alive.

Mr. Greenfield's wife and six children, of the same place, were The bridge watchman, Denmuth, of Sandstone, was so badly burned that he committed suicide before the rescuing parlies arrived. THE II Kill) OP HINCKLEY. for the When devastation through the pine lands broke. And ail the air was filled with flame and smoke: When desolation stalked through Hinckley town, Durk'ning the village o'er with fearful frown, When faces with terror-stricken fear.

And piteous moans went up from far and Lo, from the north a dark shape hove in view. One moment later, and a whistle blew. bouin-bouuil traiu!" a thousand voices call. While hope eternal fills the hearts ot all. At every turn, at every piston stroke, Tba Iron horse gains ou the flame and smoke.

Which, like arch-demons of destructive breath. Fly madly after on the wings of death. comes! She comes! God's messenger is here 1" $. Tbe populace send up a mighty cheer. Now buoyant hope has taken place of grief, And prayers are answered by this glad relief.

The panic-stricken refugees in vain Kush from the woods to crowd the wailing train. Meanwhile, the flame, with many a crash and moan. Seeking new victims, dashes madly on. within bin cab, the engineer To take up every helpless victim stays: Burning and bruised? bleediug from every pore. He calmly looks the situation o'er.

And bravely vows he'll ne'er desert his post, But Bare the sufferers at any cost. The cars are all lt seems au age, This awful waiting lv a fiery cage. But while a cry for succor greets bis ear, lie cannot this plucky engineer. "All aboard I Aboard!" The last call has gone forth. The truin starts swiftly backiug for the north, Ou through a perfeot hell of flame she flies, Tbe air Is filled with agonizing cries.

noble, manly feelings filled his breast, 'W ho thought not of himself, but for the rest. With baud on throttle, through the dark he peers, The watchword "Duty" falling on his ears. A yawning chasm sweeps before his oyes. Down on the cab floor, fainting, weak.helies. A dash of water from the fireman's cup, And bravely to 'his feet he staggers up.

"We'll save 'em yet wild eyes strangely gleam. "Come, sonny! Watch the gauge! Fire up! More steam He grasps the throttle with a firmer hand, And at his post he proudly takes his stand, Ana there he slays, and there he lingers on Till alibis crew of passenger are gone. Gone from the train at Skunk lake's murky shore. Tortured by flames Increasing more and more. -Y-- The battle's Root has saved the day.

A braver hero ne'er was made from clay. Of precious stun? this noble sou of toil, A sturdy specimen of Freedom's soil, Let Fame erect a monument on high To this Immortal name, not born to die. Joseph Donnelly. SOME THE DEAD. Those Who Have Been Identified at Hinckley; Special to the Qlobe.

Fixe City. Sept." Up to the present the following is a list of the names of the persons who have beeu identified: JAMES BEAN. JAMES FAKUAGHAN. WALTER GRAY. WILLIAM SCHMALING.

ANDEKSON and family. MIKE MURPHY. JOERICKASON. RICHARD NESBITT. MRS.

M'NAMEE and five children. MRS. ROSEDAUL. AXEL HANSON and family of six. WILLIAM NESBITT.

HENRY HANSON. CHRIS PEARSON. MRS. ED HANSON. CLARA HANSON.

LOLLIE LEAF. MRS. FRISK and two RICHARD GUSTAFSON and father. CHARLES WISTERGREEN and three ohilren. LEW DAVIS.

WILL DUNN. JOE KRONENBERG and family, DENNIS BRNNAN. FRANK NORTON. DENNIS RILEY. JOHN ROGERS, X.

BONE. OBVILLE COX. MRS. LEE WILESTER. Two daughters of W.

S. Bartlett. JOHN ANDERSON and wife and daughters Clara and Emily, and sou Charles. MRS. JOHN BEST and five chilren.

Four inmates of a' house of ill-fame. PETER NELSON. i Mr. Henderson's two sous. 7 BARNEY CAIN and father.

C. E. PEASLEE and PAUL SCHLANCE, of Taylor's Falls. CHARLES STHOMBERG and family. NINE MOKE DEAD BODIES Were Hauled Into Hinckley Last Evening.

Pink City, Sept. At the place where Pokegama stood there are twenty dead and fifteen This was a village of 100 inhabitants located on the Eastern Minnesota road, eight miles east of Hinckley. W. W. Braman and thlity-five others escaped by biding in a puddle of water.

The dead al Pokegama are: J. W. BRAMAN, single. CHARLES ANDERSON, wife three children and sister-in-law. FRED MOHLANDER, his wife and two children and Mrs.

Hollander's I. THOMAS RAYMOND, wife and children; CHARLES ANDERSON, single. ERICK' LARSON. 7- BARNES. 7 Joseph Gruyer Is badly burned.

There are fifteen missing. About thh-ty-fivo took refuge In a mud puddle 1 Md with no other damage than i 4 to their eyes by smoke. A relief party went to their assistance last night on a hand car from Hinckley. The party consists of J. D.

Markham, of Pine City; B. J. Kelsey, of Kenyon, Dr. Allen, of Cloquet; Dr. Higgins.

of Minneapolis; Rev. Fosbrook, of Sunrise, and W.W. Breman. They took a supply of provisions and a camping outfit and will arrange to bury the dead aud care for the survivors. Breman says there is not a sign of a house left In the place.

Doctors Kllvlngton, Nippert and Fitzgerald, of Minneapolis, were detailed uy the committee nt Pine City to go to Sandstone and render such services as they could. The lone woodsman's shanty between Pine City and Hiuckley is a curious The brown paper covering is loose at the ends. The box on a pail beside the shanty still stands. Neither of them are even scorched, alihough the timber and grass within a few feet of them were burned. Dense clouds of smoke still hang over the territory, and Is still teeming up from the burning timber aud the swamps.

The stumps of trees are lying above ground about Hinckley, the ground having been literally burned from under them to a depth of two feet. This is accounted for from the fact that the timber stood in swamps and the grass and peet having burned away lowered the surface of the land. Occasionally a green sapling is left with its leaves almost fresh, while about them the bushes and trees ate stripped and blacked by fire. Thousands of small trees are broken and twisted as if a cyclone swept over the country. About 7 o'clock this eveniug a searchparty in a wagon returned to Hinckley from the woods near by, bringing with them nine dead bodies.

They reported wenty more bodies lying in the woods, aud were unable to haul them in be cause of their already heavy load. The rough ground makes Impossible to drive fast or to haul a big load. Wagons and searching parties will go out tomorrow to bring iv other dead. BLUE COATS ABOUND. Of Great Assistance In Pushing the Keller Work.

Special to the Pine City, Sent. 3. The crowds at Pine Hinckley and Sandstone have been largely augmented today by searching parties looking for friends, by sight-seers and parties join-' ing in the general work of relief. The incoming of so many hundreds of people adds tv the facilities for pushing the work of recovering bodies. A number of owners of camps in the woods came here today and will assist In ascertaining who are missing in the woods aud will organize a systematic search for those unaccounted for.

The arrival of the United States troops, with hospital and camp outfits, today was vary timely, as they are being utilized in rushing to the outposts and providing shelter aud assistance' to searching parties in the yet unexplored territory. The state militia is rendering valuable service in preserving order and giving confidence to the army of civilian workers. If it were not for the timely and renewed efforts of the St. Paul relief committee, there would already have suffering, here among the people who are devoting themselves to the. work of caring for the wounded, the dead and the people who lost their all.

This good work is being supplemented by the people of Minneapolis, White Bear and elsewhere. The searching Parties today recovered twenty-seven, bodies along the track between Hinckley and Skunk creek. They evidently were attempting to follow the track from Hinckley to escape the flames, but were overtaken. North of Hinckley a number of bodies were found. It is presumed the people were running from the pine stumpage to the woods.

Had they reached the forest death would have been a certainty, for the timber lauds are even yet raging furnaces. The heat over the burnt area is almost Intolerable, aud the earth seems tube still red-hot from the burning of timber and the thick covering of grass at its roots. The hospital at Pine City has received no new patients today, the injured at Sandstone being taken to West Superior and Duluth. There are four trained nurses, several ladies and a dozen physicians and attendants on duty in the hospital. The best of care is being taken of the patients.

Some of them are improving. Mrs. Greenfield's condition is growing more serious, and her demise is expected at any time. Mrs. Hammond, who was so severely burned externally, will probably recover, but will be horribly disfigured.

Sandy and Alex Henderson, the two boys who were burned to death at Hinckley, were buried today. Thomas Dunn and a family of three others will be buried here tomorrow. Thomas Dunn was twenty-six years old. He was the heroic telegraph operator who lo3t his life at Hinckley because he remained at his post uutil the station was on fire. He it was who sent the order for the train to return to Hinckley and take on board those who wanted to escape the flames.

He put his order through. The train returned, and carried away over 300 people from the fire of hell. He then- jumped from a window, and started for the gravel pit, where so many saved their lives. Dunn was within five rods of the gravel pit when he tell, and was unable to go farther. His dead body was found almost on the edge of a safe retreat.

He was well liked by railroad men, and had a large circle of acquaintances in Hinckley aud Pine City. THE HORROR AT SANDSTONE. One of the Survivors Telia the Story of the' Disaster. Special to the Qlobe. Pink Citt, Sept.

The survivors at Sandstone have harrowing tales to relate. Otto. Staffenfeldt, a merchant, related the story of the beginning of the fire. He said that during Saturday afternoon a great smoke rolled over the city, and a loud noise like thunder heard in the distance People paoked up everything, so as to be in readiness to move to the river, which lies oil the east the village. Before any person was aware of the real great roll of smoke, dust and tire came in upou them and in less than fife minutes the whole towu was In a blaze.

The fire came In from tbrea sides, oomplstsljr hamming PRICE TWO NO. them In. So rapidly did it come that many were unable to reach the river and died iv tbe middle of tbo street. Not a thins was saved. In less than half an hour the town was swept from the face of the earth.

Those who survived are the ones who managed to get into the river, where they remained most of the night. Mr. Staffenfeldt said that they have found forty-eight dead bodies and twenty-five are still missing, most likely missing for all time. The quarry had just received orders for a large amount of work, and. In two days more a crew of COO men would have been working there.

One shudders when contemplating the consequences had the, lire not come until several days later. The people are entirely destitute, not having as much as decent clothes to -rear, and their condition is one which appeals to the sympathy of all. BINGULAK INCIDENTS. Soma of Them Bub Up During the Great Fire. Special to the Globe.

Pine City. Sept. 3. body of Mr. Rowley was brought to Hinckley tonight.

A casket arrived from St. Paul. The remains will be encased tonight and will be sent home on the. first train. The body is blackened so that -recognition was difficult.

Of the many Incidents is one witnessed by a number of people in the Grindstone river. Among the peoule in the river were dogs, cat- and two bears. The most singular animal in the group was a prairie wolf that was driven into the river by the flames. The beast did not seem wild, and was among the people trying to keep above water by climbing upon one man, who first took it to be a dog. It got out of.

the river alive, and afterwards made its escape. Another party of men told of seeing a largo black bear and several wolves in the shallow water of Snake river. The only two animals surviving at Hiuckley are a horse and cat. The horse belongs to the Brennan Lumber company, and was saved by going Into the river. is so badly crippled with burns sustained by walking over the hot earth after that its hoofs are loosening, and death will inevitably come.

The cat was picked up today by John Williams. He brought it to Pine City, and will keep it as a memento. One of the sad scenes was that when John Blanchard, a car repairei of the St. Paul Duluth road, went to Hinckley to recover the bodies of his wife and two children. He encased the remains in rude boxes and brought them to Pine City for burial.

John McNamarn, who was reported dead yesterday, was fouud today to be alive. GOING TO MINNEAPOLIS. Many of 'the Injured Be moved. Special to the Globe. Pine City, Sept.

C. M. Loring, chairman of the Minneapolis committee, of Minneapolis, has telegraphed for a special car over the St. Paul Duluth road to be used by the hospital surgeons in charge here in conveying nine of the more seriously injured to a hospital at Minneapolis. It will then more convenient for the physicians and.

the patients will have better care. He wants to make the removal In the morning. The weather is growing cooler, and will permit the removal in the morning, in case a car witn good equipments is provided, and attached to the train passing here at 11 a. in. tomorrow.

Tents were delivered here today by Capt. W. H. Hart, brigade quartermaster, of St. Pool, and set up as follows: Fifty tents set at Pine City in the city pard, ten tents delivered to the local committee as a reserve eighteen tents delivered at Hinckley, ten of which were set up and eight held as a surplus, two delivered at Mission Creek.

Gen. Bunker had the St. Paul troops on duty on the arrival of the train with tents. Capt. Hale therefore placed his at the service of Capt.

Hart, to set up the tents. The St. Paul squad assisted in setting the tents at Hinckley and then returned to St. Paul at 7 p. m.

THE WORK OF RELIEF. It Is Going on Briskly From Pine City. Special to the Globe. Pine City, Sept. The first through train since the devastation was the St.

Paul Duluth special that left St. Paul at 4:15 this evening. In addition to an investigation committee from Minneapolis, it had on board about 100 sightseers and committees from benevolent societies. The passage of the train was looked upon with delight by people who had been shut out from the world for days that have been tilled with thrilling experiences, On the train was also Bishop M. N.

Gilbert, of St. Paul, who came here as the representative of the relief committee of twenty-one appointed by tbe chamber of commerce today. Bishop Gilbert will offer his services to the people here and will gather tho facts wanted by his committee at St. Paul. He is iv conference with the committees here, and will remaiu on the scene as long as his services are needed.

Mrs. A. K. Barnum and Mrs. John W.White, of St.

Paul, arrived this morning and are already busy relieving the worn-out women the hospital. The St. Paul citizens are still showing their generosity and winning everlasting gratitude by caring for the distressed. A carload of provisions and supplies arrived on? a leiief train early in the day, and the special train arriving at 7 this evening brought a large supply of fresh bread and other edibles. The supplies were all sent in care of the committee on provisions and supplies appointed Sunday.

St. Paul Lodge i 69 of Elks turned over £100 to the relief committee, and Supreme Ruler £. H. Dearth will be here tomorrow to inquire what further funds the Elks should contribute. The Odd Fellow lodges of St.

Paul sent Assemblyman W. R. Johnson and a committee here to make Investigation is to the needs, of the people, and ascertain what members of the order or family connections are dead or Injured, Dr. Butnside Foster, of St. Paul, arrived here this evening and will Continued on Fourth nffhHUMw na iii.

ami i miiiawii Haiw'ffl i 1 I THE ONLY DEMOCRATIC MM In the Northwest, which pleasej all classes by its fairness, is the Globe. NELSONSPEAKS, Arrives From Alexandria and Issues a Proclamation for Relief TO THE FIRE SUFFERERS, St. Paul Citizens Form Reliel Committees to Raise Large Funds. SEVERAL MEETINGS HELD. Various Civic Societies Go Actively Into the Work of Raising Funds.

TWIN CITY MAYORS CONFER, Voluntary Aid Telegraphed by Mayors All Over the Nation. Gov. Nelson arrived in the city last night from Alexandria, where he had gone Saturday to be with his family over Sunday, and at once issued ths following relief proclamation concern- Ing the great calamity at Hinckley and other Minnesota localities: To the People of Minnesota: Information of an official character has reached me that the villages of Hinckley, Sandstone, mission Creek and the neighboring towns and farms have been destroyed by forest fires; that linndreds or lives have been sacrificed, and suffering and destitution ara on every hand; that the survivors of this terrible devastation are in Immediate need of food, clothing, shelter and ever that makes existence possible. This appalling disaster appeals to every heart of generous impulses, and the case is one that demands the immediate and liberal assistance of 'all 'good citizens of this state. Now, Therefore, Knute Nelson, governor of the state or 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-spirited citizens, to ail' municipalities and to all religious and benevolent Institutions of this state, to take Immediate action towards securing contributions for the relief of the prevailing distress.

7 I hereby appoint the following state commission authorized to receive contributions of money and supplies, and to expend and disburse the same: C. A. Pillsbury. of Minneapolis. Kenneth Clark, of St.

Paul. Charles H. Graves, ot Bulnth. Matthew G. Norton, of Winona.

Hastings H. Hart, of St. Paul. In witness whereof I have here. unto set my hand, and caused to bo affixed the great seal of state of Minnesota, at the capitol, In the city of St.

Paul, this 3d day of September, A. D. 1894. LGrcat KNITK "NELSON. By the Governor.

V. P. BROWN, Secretary of State. ma irons aiEET. Smith and Kustis Confer With Tarns Bixby.

A meeting was held yesterday at tha quarters of the Republican state central committee, in the Endicott arcade, in which Tarns Bixby, as Gov. Nelson's private secretary, Mayor Eustis and Charles A. Pillsbury. of Minneapolis, and Mayor Smith, of St. were in conference.

Its obiect. it was learned, was to have the mayors of the Twin Cities agree upon some plan of relief for the fire sufferers, that would be In harmony with the plan to be pursued by the chief executive of the state. OVEIt $4,000 RAISED. St. Paul Arousad to tho Relief of Kiro Sufferers.

As report after report came over tha wires telling of the enormity cf the calamity which had befallen tho people of Hinckley and of other Pine county towns, the population of St. Paul woke up to a man In the Immediate work ot doing all that was possible fcr the relief of the sufferers. Never was there a more spontaneous outburst of like char, acter. and never a more liberal spirit of giving. And yet only a beginning has been made, and the work wiil be kept up.

Early yesterday morning the members of the chamber of commerce and citizens in general held a meeting and started the work of relist. E. W. Peat was chosen to preside, and J. I.

Beau- mont acted as secretary. Mr. Poet In brief outlined what had already beta done to relieve the immediate wants and urged prompt action, saying that the governor would undoubtedly call on the people of the state before night, by proclamation, fur general contributions. Y. As soon as Mr.

Peet had finished his remarks, C. W. Haekett urged that action be taken at once -and that a committee be appointed, to consist of twenty-one or more members, to act as A General Committee for the soliciting of aid and 10 look after the distribution of supplies. Mayor Smith stated that be had thought of calling a special mealing of the city council cad ask that a special.