Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-10-31

Some, finding their friends were
dead, wished they had died too.
During the fire, roofs and chin
neys blew off with the force of the
wind, and showers Of burning Goals
filled the houses.
Next morning, many of the sur
vivors broakfeasted on raw cabbage
"a field of cabbage having escaped.
The first aid was load of provi-
sions from John Mullgan's railroad
camp. Provisions from Marinette
arrived about noon, and from Green
Bay next day.
Eaery one had sore eyes, and all
walked with their heads down or
bandages over their eyes.
The first one to collect the dead
aud make arrangements for their
burial were John Mulligan and his
wife. Mulligan (who will be remem-
bored as the prize fighter, but whose
heart is much larger than his fists
saved his wife by carrying her in his
arms from Hale's place to and across
the bridge and into the river, a dis
lance Of half a mile. There is the adj
vantage of "muscle."
Mr.. f. says he met Mrs. McGregor,
wife Of the conductor, about supper
time on Sunday, carrying a pail of
water across the street. She re-
marked that Otis awful smoky; | am
afraid we will burn up" The Me-
Oregon family were ali lost.
Roche Burton, who had been sick
several weeks with typhoid fever,
was rolled in Il blanket and partly
buried in sand, but he turned over
and got the sand off, and was so
badly burned that he died the next
Thursday.
Charles Helms has since died at
Menominee, and Charles Westphal at
Marinette.
The family Of John Greyer, an old
FrenchmaD, in the bush, was found,
the charred remains of three in the
ruins Of the house, and another still
sitting on stump near by.
Il Swede, sitting on a chair IN the
Peshtigo Company boarding house,
was urged to flee for his life, but sat
there aud burned with the house.
James Carr was burned in front Of
the church, trying to escape on the
Marinette road.
Mrs. Craemer died by the stable,
trying to get away.
John Plush died in his accustomed
place by the tavern door. Another
man died with his hands on the ham
die Of Woodward, $ force pump. The
farms of Abram Place and Mr.
Philips escaped. n. Cavoit and fam
lily are living in tent.
S. V. D. Philbrook & brother had
shipyard on the island at Mene>
kaune, at which the little schooner
Stella was being repaired. Large
numbers Of people fiocked aboard Of
her, and as the fire got uncomtorta-
bly, close, some were for cutting the
lines and letting her adrift Mr.. p.
seized a handspike and threatened
death to any one who should cut the
lines and thus held the vessel till
many got on board, and, in fact, our
informant says, her lines burned off.
She drifted off into the middle of the
river, where she grounded on bar
and remained all night in front Of the
burning town.
G. +. Crickelair tells us how Chas.
Rubens, in the town of Lincoln, saw d
his family and six children. He had
house and store, and when he saw
they could not be saved, he put his
children in the well Afterwards he
took them out and put them in the
middle of a field and threw the goods
from his store into the well. In
saving the last child his face was
badly burned and shirt burned so he
tore it off. The goods put in the
well were all burned but one piece of
flannel in the water. lie has been
blind ever since the fire, and is now
in town under treatment.
Mr.. c. +. Kerner, Of this city, in
forms Us that when the roar of the
flames and the approaching tornado
were heard at Marinette, on Sunday
evening, he and the officers of the
steamer Union were at the Dunlap
House, Marinette. Foreseeing the
terrible fate Of the town, foreshadow-
ed by the glare in the heavens, Capt
Hawley and his crew at once hurried
to the boat, lying at the Marinette
wharf, got up steam and blew the
whistle to gather the people. The
women and children from Marnette
and Menekaune focked on board I'M
til there were nearly three hundred
passengers, very few being men. The
fire had reached the river at Mene-
kaune, and they dare wait 40 longer,
but cast off the lines and steamed
down the river About this time
the heat, carried by the tornado
across the river, was so intense that
the old Spoford & Gilmore mill in
Meuominee, opposite Menekaune,
was on fire. The boat had to pass
through between the two fires. The
channel is narrow, and the smoke was
so dense and heat so great that it
was almost a matter of guesswork
which way to steer.
After getting out about 300 feet,
she lost her steerage way altogether,
and preached to in the gale The
rudder was Of no use, and all that
could be done was to run until the
water shoaled, back up and run
again. Utter destruction seemed in
eVitable. Women and children pray
ed and screamed, aad no enc could
venture out of the cabin without
protecting their faces from the with
eriDg heat. But she was worked
through in safety and reached her
dock at Samuel Stephenson's pier,
Menominee. Here she and the dock
were protected by throwing water
upon them, and every soul of her
precious crew was saved. Among
the incidents related, we hear that
Mr. Jassa Snauldinp. of the mill at