The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-10-27
Commenting on this meeting,
Louis Democrat saws:
FIRES.

This is eminently q season of fires.
From every part of the land come re-
ports of destructive CONGREGATIONS.
We could fill our entire paper this
week with reports of fire exclusively,
and the one-half would not have been
told. While Chicago was burning,
largo portions of the pineries of Mich
igan, Wisconsin and the country bor-
dering both sides of the chain of lakes
were swept in many places by the de-
vsstating fiend, and towns, villages and
human life were overwhelmed and de-
stroyed, while many cities and towns
east and south, woodlands and prairies,
have been the scenes of a fiery holo-
caust and human suffering. All that
portion of Michigan east of Saginaw
Bay and north to point forty miles
above Port Huron has heen swept.
The villages of Forrestville, White
Rock, Sand Beach and Huron City
were totally destroyed. White Rock
Falls, Port Hope, Port Austin, and PORT
Crescent, partially burned. They were
all flourishing villages. From Wiscon.
sin come the tidings of the destruction
of Pestitigo, Menekaunee, Menominee
and saw mills, lum Der, farm-houses, and
immense property of all descriptions
Manistee, Michigan, city of 1900 in
habitants, was almost entirely con
sumed. The reports of mortality IL
Wisconsin are frightful, and the great
est suffering prevails. Windsor, On
tario, suffered to the extent of S150,O0(
on the 18th. Several cities in Indian,
have sustained serious damage. On TIT
2lst, attempts were made, by incendisr
les starting fires in five different places
to burn San Francisco, but the fire
were extinguished before they did mucl
damage. A large portion of Cameron
Missouri, was laid waste on the 10Th
The woods are on fire in several place
in Kentucky, and great damage has beer
already wrought. In Campbell county
at last reports, the flames were spread
ing rapidly and the greatest consterna
ton prevailed in many quarters. II
our own State, the prairie fires hav
never been more general or destructive
The following account of the suffering
at Pestigo is only an illustration of lik
scenes of torture in hundreds of othe
localities in the burnt districts of Mich
igan and Wisconsin:
At small settlement called Bireh's cree
every house Is burned and ten or twelve live
were lost. Peshtigo was totally destroyed
and hundreds were burned or drowned Il
trying TO escape the damesl
Many were badly burned about the hea,
and face, while In the water, aud many wer
drowned. Others, women aud children, die
from tho exposure. Those who lived oul
one or two streets from the river were strlek
en- down by the flames and burned 10 dealt
before reaching the water.
In the morning the streets wsre strewn witt
dead bodies. Eight or nine bodies In one cor
ner were found near together. One famil,
consisting Of father, mother and six children
j was found dead together within three feet o
water. It Il impossible 20 give any correc
estimate OF the ioss Of life. Fully seventy
ave people are known 20 be lost by IRE an
drowning. IL Il supposed that the inmates Q
the Peshtigo ccmpany's boarding house, on
hundred and upwards In number, nearly al
psrIGhed. Every report from the peighborin:
1 settlements brtngs information Of house
burned and many lives loVts Goe = Stngl
ihOuspVSguStrs VsSHatpF.