The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-10-16
Cities, Villages and Towns En-
,rs tireIy Swept Away.
Fun Details of the Disasters a,
H Green Bay.
The AWFUL Story OF pssH1IGo,
THE FIRES STILL RAGING.
WISCONSIN.

WISCONSIN.
villages Destroy e6-TwO Hundred and Fifty
Persons Harmed to Death and seventy FATAL
% ~ Injured. MsssA nm
Be- A CORE pondenr or the Toledo Herald writes as
- MENosnA Wis, Oct H. 1871
have just returned from what was once Peshtigo,
give The readers OF the Horatd correct account
vi me destruction of that place. The village was
hay 1t was nice lutte town or about TWO thon.
sand inhabitants, quito regularly laid ont, had fine
large Factory owned by the pcsntigo Misunderstanding
Company. sash. door and biind factory and foun.
neary every building In the town. The factory was
sevo,ed 10 the manufacture OF pats, TUBS. broom
hGndred hands In the different branches
Ine town is nearly surrounded by tine forests, the
suburban portions being built among the pines. >
The inhabitants have FOR The pass ten dag been ht-
tng dre IA the woods, trying TO save the town. ana
Aad settled down INTO Is feeling OF comparative se-
eurity since tue woods on al sides had been more
1css burned over. :
feeling OF security by noise like distant thunder,
when increased IN volume unt the crash OF falling
pa.niy heard. Soon after tornado burst upon the
town. unrooiing number OF buildings. ana quickly
followed ~ q solid sheet OF name, extending the
whole length of the village and lar beyond each
way. IN an instant the whole exposed side OF
Tie place WAS in flames. Men, women ana
children rushed into The streets. and sur
Rounded By IRE Oh all sides. were soon either
smotbered or burned to death. In the less exposed
portions TIE people fed TO The river, and jumping
Ia, laany we're drowned. Some saved their lives by
Keeping under water aud once in a while putting
their heads under as the heat became InsuGerable.
C'e,s t4ok reinso ~ wells ana cisterns and wore
W ied 10 The iceward OF the fire. and by lying on
the ground were saved although some or these
wese badly burned. There Is but one house left
standing, ana THAT Is Isolated and lately built OF
green lumber.
Is near rs can at present be ascertained 25a
lvea nave been lost, mostly women and children
Althongha good many men lave perlsned tbcfr
MIC. ~ " mar ~
wnom Will Gle, and nearly all are more or leas
the streets cannot be traced All beiile covered With
sand which was swept IN great clouds by The tor
completely covered by sand.
could I'LL columns with heartrcnding incidents
q tais CONGREGATION, but val only give iew as
his family and Ned TO the bridge spanning the river
the bridge was soon on nre ana the poor uniorin.
}Cnped into the river and were drowned. A woman
OF seeing the fire approaching pn, her little girl
aud ran 10 the river herself for security. The woman
was saved anu, az soon a. she could, found out tue
locality. and her JOY was 40 great 1T finding the
AiIie one alive ana well that she swooned, aud
recovering ciaspei her enid IN her arms and ran
TOO lew, aas were so fortunate. In many cases
whole iamiies have persne,i: In other cases men
Ane ire, working 10 save tue factories. In Other
instances nea Persned then enaeavor TO save
WAS called, little boy OF seven years Is the oay
surviving member OF o numerous family.
AS soon AS the fre had sufficiently subsidized all
! fhal were able went TO the relef Of the sufferers
direction, with their clothing ~ general thing
nearly on quite burned on. Many dead bodies were
Hound ID the river anu many more have since heel
recovered a nnInier have died rom their bruises,
while Others are Crippled or Ieariulir dislgurei
The most imagina.'ve mind cannot begin 70 realize
scribe H. The sbreks and groans Of the dying ard
/ 0 those who had los! neT ana dear friends; the
ghasy aspect oi the biacHened corpses; tue shock
ing appearance OF many wno badly burned and
almost destitute vi clothing, were running thcy
q last a n Hpai
made picture too norrid for contemplation. The
sufferers hare al been taken TO Green Bay and
oiher towns. where they viii be kindly cared FOR
AosDtaliIy Is OF the marked traits OF the West
The loss TO the Peshtigo Company, who owned the
factories and most of inc Town, besides large pine
lands is estimated az So 600 co., besides the loss OF
Their extensive warehouse IN chicago.
Me1nek2unee, town OF seven eight hundred
inhabitants, Is al destroyed but three house. FOR
tunately no lives were lost here
Mlrtletfe rs also n9arly all destroyed.
B.tsiness III this lion Is partially suspended
Az The saw mills and factories at osnkasi,, fon az
Lac aud other neighboTing towns stopped by
order OF me authorities.
Tho Dead AT pe-hiica.
Tie latest accounts from Pcshtigo add TO the lior-
ron o me disaster The propeller 81 Joseph arrived
two hundred aud eighty OF the SURVIVORS, many OF
ihebl halI cad, barefootcd and baIeheaied and
From Charles Woodward. who kept the Peshtigo
House we learn furuier particulars. lie estimates
she "sugar Bnsn' was much worse than IN The he
village. Ihey had no means Of escape while ut the
Tie sugar Bush was tarty farming settlement
seven or eight mules long ny four i've miles vida
and contained about three hundred families. IL
was estimated by competent judges on Tuesday
tlat cIgit-ientns OF Its inhabitants dead. But
about eight buildings were left. Twenty teams
went up there on Tuesday 10 bury the oead, ana up
10 four 7. H. Tuesday they had reported tie follow
llg dead IN the sugar Bush
j. n. Ill., WIFE AMI boy, ana fortg-fwo bodies
plckei up III 'front.' OF their house.
T. Kelly and one ciIit lwie and two children
eayed(.
Daughter, twelve years Old Of Fred Bartels
fuur families or Newbcrrys all gone, but one
Ooy.
!o3n church. wife and two grown cnicren.
VIE and ave children Of Charles Lcnibk.
John Smith, wife and five children.
John AiswegeT, vic and six cni,drcn.
Charles Lawrence wifi. and three children.
N MAY, wife Jtd Two children.
wife OF Peter Ieech ana two hired mon.
Father, mother, wife and child OF William Penny.
Charles Chapman wife AMI one child.
Henry Hays. wife and two Children.
JohD Pratt wie and lour children.
widow Asmer and two grown up boys.
MI woodward gives tie following addition 10 the
Sisi 81 dead ~ Pesh;igo yiliage-
John IanDer vile and Two children.
Oldest daughter of +. j. Marshall
A. A. Pratt, wife anu one child.
VIE and ave children of Donald Mcdonald.
Burning ~ Holland City.
from ire Grand Haven Herald Oct, III
Dlillg Monday Tho city OF Grand Haven was 5ul,
Oi terrible minors as 10 the fire In Holland CITY bnt
nothing definite or reliable could be learned until
the arrival AZ two O'Clock OF train from the norm