The Death List At High Bridge

Ashland, Wis., Sept. 6. - The bodies of the eigut persous who lost their lives at High Bridge, Wis, have been identified as follows: Maggie Bargreen, married, a;edl5; Isaac Towney; Mrs. Ida Towney; Elisha, 6 years oli); Walter Graft, 18 mouths old; Willie Towney, 18 years old; Jíssie Towney, 4 years old; Frank Bar grjen, a sou-in-la w oL Isaac Towney. Three or four raonths ago he married the 15-year-old daughter of Isaac Towney. The details are as follows, given by John McLean, a neighbor: "The whole of them were at dinner," said McLean as he stood beside the corpses by the side of the fatal well, where they had sought safety and founrt death. "They had no uneasiness whatever for the house or for their lives. After diuuer Towney said to tne: 'I wish you would go acrosa the road there and keep the flra trom that lot ol 4,000 cedar post. Bargreen will be over shortly and I will send him over to help you.' I worked awhila and fouud it useless to try to save the property aod starteC back for Towney. "Then the üre carne. It carne, too, lika a tornado. It laaped from tree to trea, drivt-n on by the strong soutiiwest wind. The flumes shot hih above tne tree tops. It was impossible to get to Towney's, and I rau. I was joined by auothar homesteader, E. D. Elly, and we tried to get to his bouie or miue. Ws got lost, and ran blindly until late at night, when we struck the railway tracks. We lay down to keep from smothering, and stayed there until morning. "After dinner Bargreen and his wifejmuat have left iheir home, forty rods or more distant, and gone to Towuty's. The .two men unhitcüed their hurses, turned them loose and then started to savethemBelves and their families. One of the horses and the wagon were fouud burned to a crisp not over ltO .eet from the house. Tne roaring sheet of ñame struck Bargreeu's house and it must have been consumad instantly. WUhiu tvventy feet of Towney's house is a fifty-foot well. It containeci a toot or two of water. A milk house had been partially built ovr it. 'Into this well when the fire was upon them, bed clothiug, feather ticks and clothing of all kinds were thrown. A ladder was let. down and into tuis deathtrap the families of Townuy and Bargreen descended, Bargreen apparently being the last to desceud. In an instant the house was in ñames, then the milk house, and then the flaines swoopod down into the well. A merciful death in the form of 8uffocation my havo preoeded tha r.rftmation."