Hinckley, MN forest fire - list of dead, Sept 1894

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 touwn, none of them 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, CHARLES, cashier in bank.
ANDERSON, JOHN, wife, and two children.
ANDERSON, EMILY.
ANDERSON, Mrs. ____, and five children.
ANDERSON, NELSON.
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 two children.
COSTIGAN, WILLIAM, wife, and three children.
CRANSTON, ANDREW, wife, and three children.
CROMBY, JERRY.
CROWLEY, JOHN.
CURRY, MICHAEL.
CURRY, Mrs. MICHAEL, and two children.
CURRY, son of Michael Curry.
DOLAN, EMMA.
DONOHUE, Mrs. MICHAEL, and two children.
DUNN, THOMAS; telegraph operator.
FITZGERALD, PATRICK, wife, and child.
FITZPATRICK, MICHAEL, wife, and two children.
FOUR CHILDREN of Nelson Finsk.
GINDER, Mrs. WILLIAM, and son.
GORMAN, Mrs. THOMAS, and three children.
GRAY, WALTER.
GESSINGER, Mrs. CATHERINE L.
GESSINGER, CALLIE.
GESSINGER, 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.
KANZ, DAVID.
LYNN, Mrs. ____, and four children.
LAMBSON, ____.
LOVELL FAMILY, five in number.
LIEB, Mrs. LOTTIE.
MATTISON, MATTHEW.
MARTENSON, Mrs. MARTIN, and four children.
McIVER, Mrs., and four children.
McNAMARA, child of John McNamara.
McKAY, Mrs. ____, and child.
McNAMARA, Mrs. JOHN, and two children.
MURPHY, PATRICK.
NESBETT, WILLIAM.
NELSON, OLE.
NELSON, LEWIS.
O'BRIEN, BELLE.
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.
SCHAMALLING, WILLIAM.
SCAMMON, LOUIS.
STANO, PAUL, a tailor.
TRUTTMANN, ____, Diamond Bluff, Wis.
TURGEON, R. T., a barber.
WESTERLAND, Mrs. JOHN.
WESTLUND, JOHN, and wife, and child.
WEBSTER, Mrs. LEE, wife of Major Webster.
WIEGEL, ANTHONY, wife and children.
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, THOAS, wife and three children.
WHITNEY, 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 bing badly, if not fatally, burned.
ENGLAND, P., wife, and seven children.
FLINDERSON, C., wife, and two children.
GREENFIELD, M. E., wife, and four 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 FABE, Mrs. DAVID.
PETERSON, EMIL.
SWANSON, AUGUST, and son.

The New York Times, New York, NY 5 Sept 1894
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Transcribed by Tim Taugher. Thanks, Tim!