Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-10-25

rnE WHOLE TOWN Ran FOR TIE RIVER,
anging on to logs and brooms, and lad
to duck their heads to save
heir lives. As many as - are tuposei
Q have been burnt to death. Ghiidlcn
nd mothers aud husbands and wives are
eparated by the fire king, never to meet
gain. Tie people have been fighting for
wo weeks the sugar-bnsh ,oafh ani west
,f town---and then tie FIRE king moved
n the town, blowing great billowso flame.
The 6ye-stOry factory of the Peshtigo
Manufacturing Company was lost, with
oil the stock aud machinery aud stores
and warehouses, aud the PeshtigO House,
all the stores, aud property toihe amount
of fye to ten millions, Ho,seScpttle and |
wagons aud all movable property were
burnt, and many persons who wereisaved
had their heads burnt, and eyes burnt out
aud ears burnt off,. Some ss,cd them
selves by hiding in vel, and burying
themselves in the sand and in one case
FIVE women pcrished by log turning,
whom they all sank to rise no more.
Thirty minutes after the awful rollinp
was heard from the woods the whole town
of Peshtigo was in flames. No lumber
was to be found to make collins for the
dead. The steamers are held here to take
the people from here to Green Bay.
A small village, twelve miles from here
.bf1S persons perished at Burch Greek,
and it is sickening to see the sufferers
come with eyes out and and fearfully
manned, some for lift. Many children
we're lost wandering from tier homes to
the river. The whole west coast is on
fire from Green Bay to Menomihee. ''
DErRoIr, aOct. 13,-Mcasur,pg the
quality rather than the quantity, and pro-
portioning the number Of people involved
in loss and distraction oflife ana proper.
ty, in the counties Of Huron and Sadilac,
has been visited with calamity surpass
that Of Chicago. Port Huron is already
hospital for the MANNED and an asylum
for the destitute. Thompson's Hall, ;
long, low attic in wooden building OF
Sixth street is the reDdezyous Of ehe,poo
wretchcs brought in here from the nortl
in tugs, steamboats, and scows. gsr,4 s
FOURTEEN VILLAGES BURNED! 40
At Forrestviilo the catastrophe wa
similar to that at White yRoekl Ther
was no hut at midnight, of the impendini
disaster; but shortly after thatr time
rushing, roaring fame was heard and sec
fifty feet high, leaplng from stumpt
stump, from house to. house, until in a
incaedible short space Of time the whol
village was in flames, The fire fellows
clhse upon the track of the fpgativesaqr
: til they reached the lake. The boardel
at the hotel had scarcely time to escap
4 from thci. BEDS. The very air seemed t
be ON fire. '3' l''
Il Il
The towns Of Verona, New River, San
} Beach, Huron City. a portion of POI
Hope, Crccent. Centre Harbor, Eli
, Creek, White Rock, Paris, Cracow, NH
den and the Polish settlement near Fe
restvlle. have also been destroyed; tho
on the lake to the waters edge. = The'
towns represent population OF atlaiea
5000 people The loss of property amoun
$ to from $780, 600 to S2,Q00,000, .,
e including lumber and timber destroyed
! Ali the farms and buildings betwee
Port Hope and Forrest Bay are burne'
At Forrest Bay nearly every 'bnildir
: is burned. - '7N Il.
$ The fire which broke out in-the prem
Q scs northeast of Mani,tee last Week b;
q nearly subsidized when, on Saturday
d heavy gale sprung up from the sothwef
$ driving the flames and cnders towardG'
y ford Il Ruddock's mills. This tho fl
81 company checked, but on Sundaylcvepil
II fire broke out near Canfeld's mill, viii
"a is situated at the mouth of the riyersal,
A less than half an hour the mill, tqggeth qgel eltlh
n with about 20 dwelling houses and bear
!. ing houses we're totally eonsumsaw
N hill intervening between this and the ihteIsoc TO-
If the fire could run no further, and the p'
ID pie were already congratplating the
Of. selves upon the narrow escape Of Man Mar
N tee wher bright light was no, iced nor
O cast from the scene, where a namt
J. /, Of dwellings were found to be in fan
I, - The fire sps psead rapidly until it had
! stroyed almost the whole of the bdsln
ID portion of town, including nearly all
Il stores and saw-mills. Some 200 to LS
d people have been driven out Of their hbom
TO rFrdm the interior people are constapl
er coming to the shorejof the lake, drlN
We like cattle by theapittiless, ferocious Il
n-gi'Thc destruction Of life for the space OF
a. miles in the interior back from the sh
ri, no one dares estimate.