Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-10-25
Nlist,Ilansous Rsaains.
The Late Carnival Of Fire in Wisconsin,
Michigan, and Minnesota.
THOUSANDS OF LIVES LOST.
Town, Village, Wood and Prairie a
blackened Ruin.
WISCONSIN,.

The accounts of the appalling calamity
which has fallen upon the east and west
shores of Green Bay. Wisconsin. have
not b-en exaggerated The burned dis
trict comprises the counties of Ocouto,
Brown, Door. and kewaunee. and parts
of Manitowoc and Outagamie. The
great loss of life and property has result
ed from the whirlwind of fire which
awept over The country. making the roads
and avenues of escape impassable with
fallen timber and burned bridges. The
previous long drought had prepared
everything for the flames. The loss of
life has been very great. The first esti
mates were entirely inadequate. and even
now it is feared that it is much greater
than present accounts place it. 1t is
known that at least one thousand persons
have been either burned, drowned, or
smothered. OF these deaths, six hun
dred or more were at Pesh'igo and ada
cent places, and the others in kewauuee.
Brown, and Door counties, i'll the latter
of which the Inhabitants have fought the
fire for H. arly three weeks, during which
time there was not an hour of ordinary
security tor life, showers of burning
leaves and cinders falling when least ex-
pected The fire swept Door county on
every side, destroying everything north
of the Two Rivers Not less than 5000
men, women, and children have been
rendered entirely destitute. Mothers are
left with fatherIess children. fathers with
motherless children children are left
homeless orphans. Distress and intense
suffering are on every hand, where but
few days ago were comfort and hapri-
ness. The suffering at PeshtigO has
been terrible, in one place no less than
fifty persons being burned to death. and
in another over thirty Hundreds, it is
thought, have been drowned in attempt
ing to escape the flames. No pen can
describe or exaggerate the horrors Of the
Peshtigo calamity. Those who escaped
have lost everything and the destitution
at this season will be great.
Partiou uIars of the Disaster.
The following accounts of the fires in
the counties above named have been ta-
ken from the late Wisconsin papers, all
of which give frightful details Of the de.
struction of life and property. The
Marinette and Peshtigo Eagle (extra) Of
October IL thus describes the scene at
Peshtigo: Yesterday morning we visit
ed the site of what was once the beauti
full and thriving little village of Peshtigo
1t contained about 1,50O people, and
was one of the busiest, liveliest, and
one of the most enterprising communi.
ties along the Bay Shore. Standing
amid the charred and blackened embers,
with the frightfully mutila:ed corpses of
men, women, children. horses, oxen.
cows. dogs. swine. and fowls-every
house, shed, barn, clubhouse, or structure
of every kind swept from the earth as
with the very bosom of destruction-our
emotion cannot be described in language.
No pen dipped in liquid fire can paint
the scene; language in thoughts that
breath and words that burn gives but the
faiutest impression of its horrors.
'Fron the survivors we CLEAN the fol.
lowing in reference to the scene at the
village and in the farming region con
monty known as the Sugar Bush. -
Sunday evening, after church. for about
half an hour, death. like stiffness hung
over the doomed town. The smoke from
the fires in the region around was 60
thick as to be sitting and hung like a
funeral pail over everything. and all was
enveloped in Egyptian darkness. Soon
light puas of air were felt; the horizon at
the southeast, south, and southwest began
to he family illuminated perceptible
trembling Of the earth was felt, and a