Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-11-16

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eonsin, says:
Whichever wzy you turn the woful vi
sion of destruction aud sudden death comes
before you. Even at Grecu Bay, evil
dences Of the pre,ailiug pain ana sorrow
are seen on every side Tho great staple
of fearful comment and shssddeving narra-
tive, this dreadful affiiction Of fire, Oils all
minds with sorrow and anxiety. At the
street corners lusty lumbermen, with hands
thickly swathed in white cloths. STRIDE aud
stare about siseonsolately La the hospi-
tals the seriously wounded groan out their
pitiful stories to whoever has heart to lis
ten. In this brisk little lumber town
spectersef the brswny men that built up
the prosperous country to the northward.
haunt tue streets and wait with anxious
uncertainty for the nieans of recomInenc-
ing the battle for bread and home. Ocon-
to, built at the intersection of the broad
river of the same name aud Green Bay. is.
L believe, an outpost of civilization not
within the cognizancc of map or gazetteer.
1t sustains an important relation TO the
demands of supply, Notwithstanding, and
holds by no meaus a contemplate place In
the economy of demand. Built, like
Mcnominee, on n river as it sweeps into
the bay, the town has so far escaped tho
ravages of Peshiego and Menekaunee-
the first fifteen and the latter thirty miles
to the northward. But the place has been
for weeks on the very verge of the storm.
The fires.have penetrated to it's borders.
and the smoke has clouded its streets and
blinded its people. The soil, much richer
than in the vicinity of the other towns, is
less numbered by pine AID cedar swamps.
where fires have habit of lurking for
weeks unsuspected. Hence the iInmuni-
ty of the village from the fire cyclone Of
Sunday, the Sth. This fine country had
invited thick population of Norwegians,
Belgians, French and Germans. The
cleaninss among the oaks and naples were
thorough and well cultivated, and the peo-
pie established in struggling communities,
after the fashion of the fatherlands. Rid
ing northward from Oconto. widespread
track of ruin points the way to the now
famous Sugar Bush What use to tell
of the deplorable work of the flames? Not
a dwelling stands on the ravaged cause
way of hre-a causeway wider than any
one has yet ventured to explore. Skirting
the waters of the bay on the east. and ex-
tending westward at least to the border Of
the unpcopIed regions, the fire, spurred by
the tornado. leveled everything before it.
Such utter obliteration and wasting were
never seen. Al army of 10000 could
hardly set to work deliberately, with all
the appliances of destruction, and clear
such an'extent Of country in five years.
The very soil seems burned to fine pow
derry substance not IA vestige ofthe shrub
berry is left behind. Where the timber
grew densely in tue great trunks the fire
simply burned the bark aud limbs, and
few onward to more easily consumed SUBJ
stances. For mlfes, however. nothing.
out of vast groves. is left standing. Ini-
mense trees were oyer-thrown whose roots
run up fifteen and twenty feet. intcrlaccd
in piles of earth. AS for color nothing in
the place possesses any tinge save that of
cllarred blackness. What had been great
fields of juicy clover are fats of dull ASH
ell earth.
After passing twelve miles through the
unsurpassed waste. the supreme scene Of
desolation and massacre Is reached--the
the triple hamlets known as the Upper
Middle" and Lower Sugar Bush
Dense groves of magnificent naples.
whose yearly yield, added to The thriving
stretched back ward from the
Oh either band. The hamlets
embraced altogether nearly 100 people.
Immigrants were constantly arriving. aud
the saddest part of the dreadful catastro-
phe Is that none can tell the names of half
that perished indeed, the exact numbers
in the settlements are rot accurately
known. The aearings we're broad and
and 10 one would have dreani-
ed that FIRE could surprise great host, by
no means huddled together. Each man
bad built his house near his neighbor AZ
the land limits would permit. but in ne
sense like regularly laid-out town or
village. Until Sunday night the fres hs4
been vigilantly kept away, and the IN.
mates of the quiet homcsteads retired
to rest. Some were awake, and
Dthercs were aroused when distant, omi-
nous murmur came up from the line OF
forests to the southwark. But there was
no time given for alarm or conjecture.
G treat waves Of fame with a hurtling, vo-
racious thunder, came dashing into the
clearing. 1t was literally az inundetion
IF fire. Far above the surgng billows OF
fame the dark, spreading tree-tops waved
untouched by the fire. There,
are men, women and children who did
come from that moment Of hell bpt what
can reproduce the awful picture? The
three settlements were overwhelmed in
stantly and simultaneously. Five miles OF
cleared fields and level woods were sub
merged in billows Of fame. In that hot
food four hundred people perished. There
are, however. CHASTITY spcctres Of men who
stopped one unspeakable instant to mark
the namciess wonder but they will proba-
bly, never look on the full light Of day
ngain. Their eyes, though unscarred.
seem powerless. ac
Above the uproar Of the FIRE came the
outcry Of the aged. infirn.
young, and helpless. To save his brood.
A frantic father took them TO the we'll, and
Hastily-collecte debris was hurried down,
and on these the mother and trembling
little ones were placed. lie stood guard
over his soreiy-bcset treasures. When
the calm sun Of the morning slione down
on the waste of homes, his body was found
with the head hanging over the we'll. where
four little eorpses mingled their unsightly
fragments with that Of 8 woman Else
where father. maddened with the burn
ing breath of the tempest. and evidently
1istrustful Of escape, freed his little ones
rom trouble by the sharp expedient Of
knife. The group, almost unscarrcd, we're 70
found and identified. Not rod beyond,