Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-10-13
, The Fires in North Michigan
West Ontario in Flames.

DETROIT, MICH., Oct. 12.-The Cutter
Fessenden reached Port Huron this morn
ing with seventeen more refugees from tn
lake shore, two of them fatally burned.
Port Austin has escaped the flames so far.
About TWO O'Clock this morning an alarm of
fire was given in Windsor, opposite Detroit,
and in a few moments the flames spread in
every direction. consuming the principal busi-
ness pstion of theto The Great Western
depot was saved through the exertions of the
railway employees. There was no wind or
probably not building would have escaped.
One man was arrested, it is said, in the act
of firing a building, lie was lodged in
jail. ,. ....
A Town of 1000 People Consumed.
DETROIT. Oct H.-News has Just been
received that the greatest portion of the
city of Manistee, Michigan, has been de-
-stroyed by fire. Manistee is on the east
coast Of Lake Michigan, a place of 1000 in
y habitants, and one of the greatest lumber
producing towns in the State. There is no
telegraph within thirty miles.
Later-The windsor Fire Subdued.
WINDSOR, Or, Oct. ia fire broke
out last night in Mc;iregor Bank, opposite
HUNS House, burning the whole block
up to the Western Hotel The East Hum
telegraph Offices, the Great Western Rail-
road station, and many other buildings have
been destroyed. Detroit fire engines have
arrived, and the flames are being subdued.
Deaths by Fire and Flood
KINKARDINE, Oct. IA boat contain
ing two men, woman and nine children,
and the dead body of a child who had died
from exhaustion, arrived here yesterday
from Sand Beach, Michigan, having left
there Monday to escape the fires raging in
the neighborhood. The high winds and
dense smoke prevented their reaching t. %
shore until they made this port, having t.,aen
without food the whole time.
The Chicago Calamity Ee,fnsed.
CHICAGO, Oct. II A message has inst
been received from Greer. Bay, stating that
a steamer had just, arrived, brinqinga a report
that 325 bsdies Were burned at Peshtego
last night and as, many more are missing.
'Seventy-hNe pF 1rSons were burned to death
at Little lSt ngecn Bay. The suffering
throughout ihe north is terrible, and with
tne exception ofthe loss of property, is al
most as Appalling as the burning at Chicago.
Two Hundred Buildings burned at
srr Manistee. e-.
-LATER-Infornatio lust re-
dslved here states that fire broke out in
THE town of Manistee, Michigan, at 10 p
NJ, last Sunday night. or about half an
hour later than the great cOnfagration here,
ana RACED until A. NJ. Monday, destroying
two hundred buildings, six large mills and a
vessel lying at The dock. One half of the
entire town is burned. Loss estimated at
$500, 900.
Hundreds Driven into the River and
Drowned.
Further accounts from the horrible Ca
lamity at Pesthigo relate that $50 men were
burned TO death in a large barn, in which
they had taken refuge. Hunreds of people
were driven by the flames into the river,
where most Of them perished.
A dispatch from Green Bay, dated 10 a.
m. yesterday, Ql,) says the newspaper ac-
counts cannot be exaggerated. The loss of
life on the Lake Shore is fearful.
Silly Another Town Consumed Utterly.
A later dispatch from the same place
states that on Sunday night at o'clock a
fire broke out in the Belgian settlement of
Brussels, in a door factory, destroying $50
houses, all but five that the place contained.
Nine persons are missing and are supposed
to have perished in the flames. The inhab-
ttants lost everything, and stunned by their
losses, are camped upon their desolated
homesteads, destitute Of everything.
West Ontario Afire.
TORONTO, oct. 12.-Disastrous fires
continue to rage in the woods of Western
Ontario.
Government Aid.
WASHINGTON, Oct. I2.-Secretary Bout
well has ordered Revenue Cutter Fessenden
to 60 TO the relief Of the sufferers by fire
along the shore Of Lake Huron and Sagi-
nav Bav