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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1894
Page
8
Citizens of Pine City and nearby towns mobilize in a relief push after the Grindstone River fire. Committees coordinate food distribution, burial details, and transport of bridge materials to Hinckley and Miller, with hundreds displaced and dozens dead. Bodies removed for identification and hurried burial as volunteers map the devastated landscape.
Relief efforts surged after forest fires along the Duluth road killed hundreds in Minnesota. Tams Bixby activated state relief in the absence of the governor, while J J Rhodes and J H Burwell briefed robbers on the gravity of the disaster. Mayor Smith and Secretary Costello organized a relief meeting and churches opened to receive contributions. Wagons arrived at Union Depot with blankets, cookware, utensils, bread, pork, beans, tea, sugar, and other essentials. A relief train ferried supplies and tents for the homeless, with soldiers from Fort Snelling assisting. Citizens and business groups raised nearly $4,000 in cash and formed a large committee to manage donations.
Sept 2 Uvallog Tex reports a sudden Leona river flood submerging homes and causing multiple drownings. Identifyed victims include Mrs Hatch Miss Edwards and a Maley child among others. Rescue efforts forage through wrecked streets amid earth tremor and cracks by river. Southern Pacific losses run to 40 miles of track plus bridges with property damage exceeding 2 million dollars.
Southern Pacific officials say reports of extensive track damage and a loss of 1 250 000 are exaggerated. They cite Texas dispatches showing bridge damage from cloudbursts near Uvalde and rivers Leona Hondo and Secor, with repairs underway and a temporary office opened at Secor bridge to obtain accurate updates.
In Eau Claire Wisconsin on September 4 the Omaha train brought twelve evacuees from the burned Bashaw area to Rice Lake after the conductor reversed to collect refugees. Northwestern Lumber reports fresh fires along the Eau Claire river. A company official notes selling 50 million feet of pine nearby and fears no green trees remain before rain. Baronette Lumber plant owner reports a loss of 250000 dollars.
Forest fires on Saturday and Sunday caused about 1 million dollars in new losses across the region. Washburn narrowly escaped total destruction, saved only by heroic effort, remaining precarious with smouldering fires around it. Brule dispatches report dark smoky scenes. Sawmills shut down. workers stay to fight fires while passenger trains are suspended on the Duluth line, with freights to Pine City and relief convoys operating.
Multiple court notices from Davison County South Dakota dated 1894 announce summonses in circuit court actions over Elvira M Wilson estate and a Theodore F Mentzer case, plus a mortgage foreclosure by Northwestern Mortgage Trust Company on property in Mitchell. Also included are a small claims summons in Justice Court, a county Republican convention notice, and various health and product ads.
Jacob Koch, a farmer east of town by the river, reports discovering ten acres of peat two to five feet deep. He says it could serve as fuel now and may, with little disturbance, become a coal stratum in centuries.
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