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New York Times September 5, 1894

BY TOWNS AND BY COUNTIES.

Late Estimate of the Loss in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan.
CHICAGO, Sept. 4.—Revised returns received to-night from the burned regions of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan gave the totally and partially burned towns and counties as follows:

Minnesota Towns—Totally Destroyed—Hinckley, Pokegama, Sandstone, Sandstone Junction or Miller, Partridge, Cromwell, Curtis, Cushing, Mission Creek.           

Partially Destroyed—Finlayson, Mansfield, Rutledge, Milaca.           

Minnesota Counties—Totally Destroyed—Pine.           

Partially Destroyed—Kanabec, Carlton, Benton, Aitken, Mille Lacs, Morrison. 

Wisconsin Towns-Totally Destroyed—Comstock, Benoit, Barronett, Poplar, Marengo, Granite Lake. 

Partially Burned—Spencer, High Bridge, Ashland Junction, Fineld, Washburne, Cartwright, Grantsburg, Turtle Lake, Rice Lake, Museoda, Bashaw, Shell Lake, South Range           

Wisconsin Counties—Partially Burned—Barron, Washburn, Florence, Ashland, Taylor, Chippewa, Burnett, Marinette, Prince, Grant, Douglas, Marathon, Bayfield

Michigan Towns—Partially Burned—Trout Creek, Ewen, Sidnaw.

Michigan Counties—Partially Burned—Houghton, Ontonagon, (almost total except in towns,) Huron, Macomb.

NAMES OF IDENTIFIED DEAD

The List Swelled from Its Former Lamentable Proportions.

PINE CITY, Minn., Sept 4.—The list of dead brought to Hinckley continues to swell, and will reach at least 400, if not 500, in Hinckley and neighboring towns.           

Eighteen bodies, burned and charred beyond all hope of recognition, were found in the bed of Mission Creek.  Nine bodies were also found a few miles out of town, none of then recognizable. 

The total dead in Hinckley Cemetery now numbers 263.  Some are heaped together and buried in trenches, others are put in pine boxes, and the identified ones placed in coffins.  A public burial service was held and 56 bodies were buried at once.  The Rev. Mr. Knudson of the Hinckley Presbyterian Church, the Rev. Father Burke, and the Rev. William Wilkinson of Minneapolis conducted the service.

Dead.

The following is the list of the dead at Hinckley:

ABBEY, —, wife  and two children.

AMNELSON, Mrs. ANDREW, and two children.

ANDERSON, CHARELS, cashier in the bank.

ANDERSON, JOHN, wife, and two children.

ANDERSON, EMILY.

ANDERSON, Mrs. —, and five children.

BEAN, JAMES.

BEST, FRED.

BEST, BESSIE.

BEST, JOHN, and wife.

BEST, VICTOR, aged eight.

BEST, GEORGE, aged twenty-five.

BEST, WILLIAM, aged twenty-one.

BLANCHARD, Mrs. JOHN, and three children.

BONE, M.

BURKE, JOHN, Chief of Fire Department.

CAMPBELL, THOMAS.

CARL, JOSEPH.

CHAMBERS, LOUIS, wife, and three children.

COSTIGAN, WILLIAM, wife, and three children.

CRANSTON, ANDREW, wife and three children.

CROMEY, JERRY.

CROWLEY, JOHN.

CURRY, MICHAEL.

CURRY, Mrs. MICHAEL, and three children.

CURRY, son of Michael Curry.

DOLAN, EMMA.

DONOHUE, Mrs. DANIEL, and two children.

DUNN, THOMAS, telegraph operator.

FITZGERALD, PATRICK, wife, and child.

FITZPATRICK, MICHAEL, wife, and two children.

FOUR CHILDREN of Nelson Finak.

GINDER, Mrs. William, and son.

GORMAN, Mrs. THOMAS, and three children.

GRAY, WALTER.

GESSINGER, Mrs. CATHERINE L.

GRESSINGER, CALLIE.

GRESSINGER, MABEL.

GREENFIELD, five children of Edward Greenfield.

HANSON, CHARLES.

HANSON, HENRY.

HILLMAN, S. K.

HOFFMAN, J., and wife.

JENSEN, PETER, wife, and three children.

JONES, THOMAS, Eau Claire, Wis.

SCHLAMON, PAUL; tailor.

KANE, DAVID.

LYNN, Mrs. —, and four children.

LAMBSON, —.

LOVELL FAMILY, five in number.

LIEB, Mrs. LOTTIE.

MATTISON, MATTHEW.

MARTINSON, Mrs. MARTIN, and four children.

MATTERSON, H. W., stenographer.

McIVER, Mrs., and four children.

McNAMARA, child of John McNamara.

McNAY, Mrs, —, and child.

McNAMARA, Mrs. John, and two children.

MURPHY, PATRICK.

NESBETT, WILLIAM.

NELSON, OLE.

NELSON, LEWIS.

O’BRIEN, BELLS.

PAULSON, Mrs. HANS, and four children.

PENOYER, WILLIAM, Chippewa Falls.

PERSON, CHRISTIAN.

RILEY, DENNIS.

REYNOLDS, LEVI, wife, and two children.

RICKETSON, E., Minneapolis.

RILEY, OTTO, Duluth.

ROBERTSON, NELSON, wife, and two children.

ROBINSON, JOHN, three women, and an infant.

ROBINSON, MARY.

ROGERS, JOHN, wife, and three children.

RUDOLFI, CHARLES.

SCAMMELL, THOMAS.

SHERMAN, Mrs. NOBLE, and two children.

SHERMAN, JOHN, wife and three children.

SCHAMALLINGG, WILLIAM.

SCAMMON, LOUIS.

STANO, PAUL, a tailor.

TRUTTMANN, —, Diamond Bluff, Wis.

TURGEON, R. T.,  a barber.

WESTERLAND, Mrs. JOHN.

WESTLUND, JOHN, wife, and child.

WALLACE, ANNA.

WALL, LEWIS, wife, and two children.

WIEGEL, Mrs. ANNIE.

WIEGEL, MINNIE, aged three.

The dead at Pokegama are:

ANDERSON, CHARLES, wife, and three children.

BRENNAN, A. J.

GOODSELL, DAVID.

LARSON, OSCAR.

LARSON, Miss —.

LARSON, ERIC.

MALLARD, FRED, wife, and three children.

OLSEN, CHARLES.

OLSEN, Miss NORA.

RAYMOND, THOMAS, wife, and three children.

WITHENY, CHARLES.

The dead at Sandstone are:

ANDERSON, Mrs. August.

ANDERSON, GUST, wife, and two children.

ANDERSON, FRANK A., wife, and two children.

BERGSTROM, OLE, wife, and three children.

BURNS, ROBERT.

BROAD, ALFRED, wife, and three children.

EDSTROM, E.  Edstrom’s family of six perished, he being badly, if not fatally, burned.

ENGALDN, P., wife, and seven children.

HOFFMAN, H. P.

HOFFMAN, Mrs. JOHN.

JOHNSON, J. A., wife and two children.

KALM, PETER, wife, and three children.

LIND, H., wife, and three children.

LA FABRE, Mrs. DAVID.

PETERSON, EMIL.

SWANSON, AUGUST, and son.

 

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