The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1870-08-23

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iaind to night are 5003 600 feel Of Saw.
ed lumber a. Chelsea, seven miles eass
q Gilillours piing ground Everything
has been burned down. although lives
may have bees saved 10y tbo persons
taking The timber RATS aud floating
down the srean. lfanside Village to
the north every house aud smelling.
works are totally destroyed 81 lives
are lost. although there arc many mar.
Tow ESCAPES recorded here Many arc
injured some seriously Loss ia this
village, $4,000 Bridges and the Cat
ineau road running northeast near the
aty is destroyed, aud every house aud
shauty between that and the mines is
totally destroyed The loss Of Tie is
not known, buta number % persons
have not been found aud are supposed
to DO dead o. hiding At rempleton,
iuther cast, all the village was burned
down IN an incredibly short space Of
time Here, aud at Gatinean Point,
several hundred persons assembled near
the waters edge, their only means OF
escape; fer ile we're hastily organized
and people taken across all the time,
and still continue crossing TO this side
Bells Corners Village uine mdes west
on the proposed Canada Central Rail
road was entirely burned, except two
churches and Que stone house. At
Down, many people were burned serl-
ously, all the workmen on the railroad
were driven ill., Some lost an they
possessed From thence to the next
clearing everything was burned down,
At Belts Corners Station the station
and cars were destroyed On Rich
mond Road, coming into Ottawa, past
Bells Corners, there is scarcely house
fence, or crop for seven miles. Hun
dreds escaped during the night by es-
Gaping to the river aud standing up to
their necks 10 the water, occasionally
wetting their heads Here there were
awful scenes. Scores Of horses and cat.
tie are described as having been driven
mad by the smoke, cinders and heat
and plunged into the flames The list
OF farmers totally ruined, 50 far ms as
certained, comprise some Is or 20 OF
the most wealthy in the district The
Packenham stage-driver could not see
the road on account of the smoke. He
drove ahead for the sand hills, but be-
! fore he could get there fire broke out
half mile ahead, but luckily burned in
another direction off the road.
Stittsyille is almost wholly destroyed
Mr. Grant, farmer there being burned
alive. Near that place, also, friedrich
Richardson and Mrs Harten are known
TO have been killed. There are Other
deaths but not yet known
The important village of Bucking-
BAN is said to be wholly destroyed
score Of other villages and settlements
further back are reported to be almost
burned to cinders, but the details are
not obtainable
At TempIeton al old man and woman
are reported to be dead Coming neal
HUI the lre spread so rapidly that
nearly all places heard from have been
destroyed, and on tho Mountain road
close by, Mr. Blink in one place and Mrs
Ha ayey in another, We're burned tc
death. ]. kearnaham, near near Ayl.
mem, is also reported dead since last
night Ia the most dangerous places
contiguous to the city in the South no
communication is possible aud Goo
knows where some Of the settlers have
gone to. As close the IRE approached
Euinch nearer HUI, md grave fears M,
entertained that tile lnmHer may TAX,
fire tonight II - il Viii take all the,
eau DO e. save lie city from total DIES
truetiop Teams are stillariyu K viii
burned oni $ ttieis all detected, aud re
port themselves homeless and Pennies
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