FOREST FIRES
TOWNS WIPED OUT.-FOUR HUN-
DRED KILLED.
Appalling Loss of Life and Enormous Dam.
age to Property Caused by Forest
Fires Raging.
The town of Hinckley seventy-five
miles from St, Paul on the St Paul
and Duluth road, with a population of
1,000 to 1,200, was wiped out of exist-
ence on Sunday night by a raging for
est fire, which swept down on the
doomed village. The smaller towns of
Mission Creek and Pokegams, near
Hinckley, were also wiped out.
The loss of life is variously estimat-
ed at from 100 to 400 and it is almost
certain that the loss will equal 200,
The death list increases every hour.
The vast valley between the Kettle
river and Cross lake is laid waste, in-
cluding several villages and settle
ments. Besides the towns that were
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their eyes filled with ashes and cinders,
the distance, seventy miles, from the
nearest blazes of magnitude and the
light of day was long before four o'clock
completely obscure so that lights were
turned on all over the city. Eleetriel-
ty, however, gave but a feeble blue
glimmer,
Late Monday night news of the
most startling character came in from
the line of the eastern Minnesota road.
The towns of Sandstone, Partridge
and Mansfield, with a combined pop-
ulation of 1,600 people, were wiped out
and the inhabitants were not to be
found. The reports of fatalities in the
towns on the Eastern are so fearful
that the railroad officials refuse to an-
nounce them, believing them exagger-
ated,
Up to noon Monday the known
dead were about 400. The full facts
cannot be known until a thorough
search has been made in the forty
miles square of fireswept forest. The
loss of stock, horses, cattle and hogs
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Attorney at Law,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Office on second floor of Furet's building. north
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PENNSYLVANIA R. R.
and Northern Central Railway,
Time Table, in effect May 27, 1804
TRAINS LEAVE MONTANDOR, EASTWASRS
9.18 a. m~Train 14. (Daily except Sunds
For Bunbury, Willkerbarre, Hazleton, Potteviile
Harrisburg and Intermed iste! stations, Brrivinig
at Philadelphia at 500 p, m., New York, 0.50 5
m., Baltimore, 2.10 p Washington 4.80 p. m,
couneciin al Philadelphia for all sex-shore
points, Brough passenger coaches to Phils-
delphia and Baltimore Parlor cars wo Fhiladel.
" ~Traln 8 Dually except Punday.)
ur # intermedinte slas
#1650p m., Kew
7; Washing
to Philadel.
reduced to ashes, farms were swept | will be total and the district was a fa- | J. L.8¢p
clean by the flames. mous dairy region. In many miles
Whole families have been cremated. square every vestige of vegetable mat-
In some instances only one or | ter was entirely burned away, leaving
ANGLER,
| QPANGLER & HEW £8,
two persons escaped from a neighbor-
hood to tell of the destruction. The
dead are being picked up by the score.
A passenger train was caught by the
fires. Mrs. Lawrence, an escaped pass-
enger says: The first evidence of the
fire was noticeable about ten miles
north of Hinckley when the air be-
came almost suffocating. One mile
north of Hinckley a number of per-
sons, Mrs. Lawrence estimates the
number at fifty, rushed toward the
train screaming frantically, The en-
gineer, seeing the danger they were in
if they remained, stopped the train to
let them aboard. The heat became in-
tense and the whole volcano of fire
seemed to burst out in a mighty effort
to wipe the train and its occupants off’
the face of the earth. Mrs. Lawrence,
describing the scene said:
“At the first rush of the flames to-
ward the cars the window panes went
out with a crash and the train began
to return toward Skunk Lake. Peo-
ple screamed and men jumped through
the car windows. The wild panic was
horrible. There was no humanity in
it. Every fearcrazed person was for
himself and they did not care how
they got out of the swirling, rushing
broken rock covered by a few inches of
ashes and dust.
It is now the generally accepted be-
lief that many more people would have
been saved at Hinckley had they gone
to the river or stayed in the gravel
pits, but every one was panic-stricken.
Many who started for the gravel pit
lost heart when they got there and
pressed onward to the river and then
many of the latter pressed on beyond
the river to a neighboring swamp.
All these latter lost their lives.
At one o'clock Monday afternoon a
baggage car came up from Pine City
loaded with provisions. The car was |
guarded by soldiers of the First regi-
ment. The men who had been work- |
ing since Sunday in the cemetery |
without food were first attended to. |
Then the crowd of homeless refugees |
Many of them had not eaten since
noon last Saturday. |
It is difficult to portray the situa- |
tion at Hinckley. A few refugees, a |
half score of searchers, a team or two |
transporting boxes containing dead |
bodies, the place where a town had |
been—that is the picture.
The gravity of the situation from
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LEWISBURG ARD TYRORE EAILEOAD,
avalanche of flame. My dress caught | the forest fires continues to increase |
fire but I extinguished the flames. every hour. The long continued |
“I saw two Chinamen. They were | drought displays no signs of abate- | : . a 4
paralyzed by fright and made no effort | ment while every morass adjacent to | Invitations, Etc. 151 , 23 Bieh 8 5 $ 4
to get away but simply hid their heads | the city isaglow with flames, A dense | {22 381 Y ickaby i a
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; i BELLEFONTE, PA. | tward, Eastward
Note Heads, Wedding Rew building, new a thro Gt, sles ay a BTA IONS A MNF M PM
heal, electric bells and all modern
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under the seat and were burned to | cloud of smoke envelopes the country | BFEING MILLS HOT Ei
death. Istood it as long as I could | for many miles, obstructing business |
sad then I rushed out of the car, jump- | and offeri ng constant menace to travel |
ing over one or two persons who were | at Ishpeming, Mich. Dirt and ashes |
lying on the ground injured. Some | are falling in showers. The volunteer | | NEW BROCKERHOFF HOUSE
of the people jumped into Skunk lake, | fire brigade is divided into convenient |
but I simply ran along the ties. The | squads which are doing effective work. | V E T H EM |
fire had burned away and after run- Much credit is due to the railroad | WE HA
ning until my strength gave out I fell | for its service to the suffering. Box | ca : : :
down between the rails. I expected | cars are furnished and into them the | And it is only necessary that you come and inspect the amir i 8 5 Bellefo 0
every moment that my dress would be | household goods of the homeless are | > g : | EDWIN RUHL A Ln FL yars Zr Sous
burned from my body. I put out being taken. Noone is yet reported |
flames on my dress half a dozen times, missing from Ishpeming, but the rap- |
and I had to hold my hands over the | id approach of the destructive element |
baby’s face in order to keep it from | and the inflammable condition of veg- | An inspection will convince you that we have g For rates; maps, of
suffocating.” etation covering the immediate sur- | . . ¢ 3s 2 y al BS. HAKTER Shot. E&. Want, 2. A.
Monday Mrs. Lawrence was |roundings, together with a vitiated | finest and largest line of goods brought a | A TARTER, ortonEsn 8. M PREVOST
picked up in the middle of the track | atmosphere and a temperature regis- | : HI BE1Y, PA
about two miles north of Hinckley by tering at blood heat, cause the most |
a relief party from Duluth, which profound solicitude.
made the trip on a hand car, mes fp ct i
Bulletins from the fire district show While in Chicago, Mr. Chrles IL. |
that damage by fire has not been ex-| Kahler, a prominent shoe merchant of |
aggerated. Duluth reports that mill- | Des Moines, Iowa, had quite a serious |
ions of dollars worth of property has | time of it. He took such a severe |
been destroyed and that 300 lives were | cold that he could hardly talk or navi- | :
lost. gate, but the prompt use of Chamber- | prices,
In Wisconsin the towns of Barothete, | lain’s( ‘ough Remedy cured him of his |
Granite Lake, Cumberland, Pineville, | cold so quickly that others at the hotel |
Comstock and Forest City have been | who had bad colds followed exam le | & K
burned. Beventy-five houses were de- | and half a dozen persons ordered I Harper -— reamer. e
stroyed at Shell Lake and Spooners is | from the nearest drug store. They study with the microscope. : pense to yourself. We start you, furuish
threatened, were profuse in their thanks to Mr, | = Sr | 3 CR ons 13 the Laboratory. Land | everything needed to carry on the bus
thorough course in the Laboratory, yess successfully, apd guarantee you
The rain was pouring down in sheets | Kahler for telling them how to cure a hess Snucoe :
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at Hinckley. At the cemetery, a mile | bad cold so quickly. For sale by Wm.
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and a half from town, a half dozen Pealer, of Spring Mills and 8. M. sSoampanied the Field ihe Shop. pation you are in need of ready money, and
men were digging a trench. A heap | Swartz Tussyville,
of bodies lay on a knoll in the middle
of the cemetery. There were ninety-
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six naked bodies, men, women and
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hair singed from heads. Old, young, Avoid wus uttosted on: Sata ; i and applied, : :
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When the officer was en route with i = JE i with study, three yearn’ course; New bul
a promiscuous heap. In another cor- nis prisoner 10: Lewistow Buck. al ing and equipment,
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were interred late that afternoon. train while it was in motion at bow (ring), will never have oc. cal and practioal, including each arm ofthe
Never in the history of Minnesota Mpaburg, vad made good his escape in casion to use this time-honored 13. PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT: Two
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tcp at sto oe | ack wate on more than. one J 1. 1 is the ony bow ta raf ET
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the Michigan pineries in October, 1871, | %erious charge. His wife and two cannot be twisted off the case, | ment week June .
bony and is found only on Jas,
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twenty-three years ago, has there been | *™ p GRO. W. ATHERTON, LLD. Pres,
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fires of Sunday and Monday in north- Union Co, Deaths. this trade. mark. Nothing Spjicals se Strongly te 3, Jictasrs { HAVE HAD THE
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affection as her Jdeughter Jost budding into
ern Minnesota. While the property | In New Berlin, on the 20th of Aug., daughter. Blaticha, now 15 Tor of ait. Dol
nally, sent free on request. eh toritbly ni od with nervousmom, and E X p E R | E N C E
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id have had that temible affliction. ° o ]
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loss has not been so great in the aggre- | John Moyer, aged about 76 years.
gate, reaching at this time not over | In White Deer township, on the 15
$200,000 at the outside, the loss of life | of Aug., John L. Ranck, aged 71 years,
has been fearfal. At a late hour Mon-| Ag Mazepps, on the 19th of Aug.
day it was estimated that between 500 | Simon Snyder, aged 85 years. TAT os
and 1,600 people had been burned to| In East Buffalo township, on the : 2 ‘advises
death or suffocated, and the wide dis- | 25th of Aug., John Wertz, aged 84| The postoffice Soputtment ise
in these figures is but a proof | years. that the act of congress making the | weighs
Sv peney ow 25th first Monday of September a legal holi- | tome of &"V
of the utter impossibility of getting re- | In isburg, on the of Aug. ad beliool
liable information.
ww dance ar cisely ony | years. 1 know how to build vehicles
orgies di Ae 3 n the most durable manner, of best
Saturday afternoon all wires went
down and it was Sunday night before
they were even partially replaced.
Both telegraph companies had twen-
ty-five miles of main lines destroyed.
Sdon after noon Saturday there sprung
up a fierce wind that blew vast vol
umes of smoke into Duluth, while
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Resumed Work at Milton,
Several departments of the Milton
ear works resumed work W. y
giving t to about 300 men,
They are working on a contract of 600
for the N ‘ork, que-
as 4 ew York, Susque-
District of Columbia only, and not to
the various states wo that Baturday,
September 1 will be observed as desig-
nated by the legislature of this state as
a legal holiday.
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