Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-10-20
THE GAZETTE.
EDAR FALLS, OCTOBER 90 1871.
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| FeA,'ful Ilo-@ef 1i1ss.
MARisEr. Oronto Co, Oct, 10.
Mayor or Mawaakec. N fs,,k
A horrible calamity has befalleD
she numbering towns on the Greer
Bay. Peshtigo village, mills and
the sugar BUSH settlement were en-
tirely swept away on Sunday night
and yesterday morning. From on.
TO three hundred lives were lost anu
bodies badly burned. Whole fam.
lilies perished, ard scores are hinp
around dead, waitiag for tire horri.
fed living to. Lnry them. Mediea,
aid must be sent at once 10 save the
people who are destitute.
I. STEPHENSON.
GREEN BAY, Oct. III.
The steamer George 4. Dunlop ar
rived from Eseanaba, brings terrible
accounts Of devastation By fire at
Menomenee and adjoining villages,
At Menekaunce l50 50buildings burned,
and at small settlement called
Bifch's Creek. every house burned,
ana ten or twelve. lives lost S Pesbti>
60 totally destroyed, anu hundreds i
burned or drowned IN trying 10 es.
cape the flames
Many were badly burned about the
head and face while in the water
Many were drowned. Others, wo
men aud children, died from the ex
posuTe. Those who lived o6Iy sne
or two streets from the river were
stricken down by the flames and
burned to death before reaching the
water. Whole families were de.
stroyed. In the morning the streets
were strewn With burned bodies. -
Eightor nine bodies insone corner
We're found near together. One fans
lily, consisting OF father, mother and
six children, were found dead to-
gether, within three feetof the wa
ter, tits Impossible to give any cor
rect estimate of the loss Of life. -
Fully seventy-five people are known
to be lost by fire aud drowning. 1t
Is supposed that the inmates Of the
Peshtigo Company's boarding house.
one hundred and upwards In mum.
Der, nearly all perished.. Every re-
port from The neighboring settle
ments bring information of houses
burned. and many lives lost. Not a
single house remains standing.
GREEN BAY, Octa 10 -ss45p. m. 4
WiIliamson's mill, at Sturgeon
Bay. Is reported burned and fifty
lives were lost.
The steamer Y nien has just arrived
from Peshtigo. with a number of
burned and otherwise injured of the
fire Of Sunday night, and the steamer
st. Jo, II ID reported, will be In soon
with nearly q hundred more. The
Dunlap House, ut Marinette, is full
OF the worst cases of burnt people,
who arrived at that place in wagons,
on yesterday and to-day.
No hres Of any importance are re-
ported since the rain Of last night
oconto and Pensankee are safe
GREEN BAY, Oct. 10--8P. M. a.
The report of the burningof viii.
liamson's mills is fully confirmed. -
Fifty.five lives lost, and ten Others
are badly burned, and only three un-
injured, one of whom is In the
city.
GREEN BAY. Wis, Oct. IL.
The Menominee il out Of dam
ger.
Spafford & Gilmore's mill is the
only building burned. A heavy rain
last night saved the place. =
Most Of Winneconne, Wis, is
burned.
Peshtigo d bnrnsd. tosethef with
90 or 20 persons. The balance saved
their lives by running into the
river and pouring water on their
heads. 8A ELAa
FoE DU Lac. WIs.. Oct. ~.
The great fires are spreading. All
day yesterday the people were fight
ing the flames two miles south and
west or this city. In the towns of
Eldorado and Friendship much dam
age has been done, 1t is feared that
IL reached the great marshes I'm the
tcwn of Lamartine. The news from
Calumet county creates much ex-
|citement and anxiety. Many rest
dences have been destroyed, as has
also hundreds Of tons OF hay on the
r1arshes. -
There is q report that Pstters, mills
In the town OF Rautonni, hiss been
destroyed. Thiswas quite village,
having over2. 900 people. : ssss
Two mills and several stores up
70 noon yesterday, had been sav.
led.
Chiffon, Gfanyille aud Clayton
have escaped. It was nearing the
village of 81 Cloud and the pe6pls
have been out fighting the fire for
| two days. .sss43
An immense fire Is burning be-
tween St Cloud and the town Of
RusssiI, IA 6hsboyEan county, ansI
I'm the town or Forest, in this
county.
Much damage has been done, and
the fire is still unchecked; there ID
no controlling 1t while the wind Ii
blowing 20 hard.
At sescn this evening rain set in
which will do much 10 relievs the
anxiety Of ali. l
NEnxAH, WIa Oct. IL.
| A large IRE between appleton and
Menaslls, ebout q miles from Me.
nasha, has destroyed . great deal oi
timber and fences. About 500 acres
have been. burned over, # y
The Ruins.
Never on the face Of the earth has
there been so extended and ghastIy
nov pfesented (iirodghont tbS de'
4royed South and North Disisons oI
iO0loaRo. Il fssE = p$fsIH
The rufia Of Pompeii, Heroula.
peum, Rome cr MoseQws did not pre-.