The daily Panola star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-31

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Themselves In the sand, and ID 6jie case
five women perished by a log turning,
when they all sank to rise no more. Fires
are raging near this place, and one hun
dred or more are ilghting the flames of,
and all men who can are helping their
neighboring families, and many entire
families are burnt. The loss IN not be
counted. A small village, eighi cen
miles from, here, of eighteen persons,
perished at Burpll Creek; and Y Issick-
ening to see the sufferers come with eyes
out and iearfully malmed---some OF them
for life. Many children were lost wan
glering from their homes to tlfe river.
The whole west coastis on fire from Green
Bay TO Menominee. The Manufacturing
Company were making from two to othree
thousand pals daily, and the whole farm
ing country and numbering for miles
around peshtigo are burnt over. The
streets are hard as brick, and some pre-
dict 1t never will be rebuilt. We shall
probably hear Of other and more dread
4 iul losses. Other towns are threatened
Depere, Wrip htstown and Fort Howard.
Fires are raging in and around them, and
God knows when all this will end. Ole
good rain would stop all, but for weeks
no rain has visited thin NC tioR3 "a tier q
while d moro complete list Of the lost aud
damages will be published, but at present
YaIl is agony and confusion. ut nHas said
In thirty minutes after the awful roaring
was heard from the. woods the whole
town was III flames, aiid In Peshtig0 no
lumber was to be found to make collins to
bury the dead. One man was passing the
benzine house with his family whenlt cx.
ploded. and his whole family wasl lost ex
cept himself. This boat Is full of thu
wounded and sufferers. The people Of
Marinet and Men0mlfIee have all done
their duty to the survivors, In clothing,
food and money, and many q man took
of his coat to give to his neighbor who
had lost all, The steamers are held here
30 take the people from here to Green
Bay. But while / write rain begins to
pour down, and the ravagcs OF the fire
king may be checked. We are safe N
Fort Howard. WIZ Hts
Direct accounts from Peshtigo inform
us that the great number Of lives lost
there occurred thus: Fires had been rag
ing around the village some days before
mad become subdued, and the people fell
secure when on Sunday, all Of q sud
den, when the wind was blowing a tor
nado, 1t again broke out from
the fires OF the camps of the bandi
working on the railroad, and ilnmed
lately overwhelmed.th village, inmates
of houseshaving only time TO escape al
they arose from their beds. The village
: could not have contained more than iiv'
or six hundred, or q thousand at th'
most, Of residents ; but 1t is estimated
!, Ii at one thousand transient men were u
!, the pIace--lumbermen mainly. The rive
1 runs directly through the village, am
: there was but one beside The peopl'
0 living in the main portion of the ylllax
i were driven by the rushing Bnlnes u
I rectly toward the river and horrible +
contemplate, cattle had preceded theI
e and blocked up the passagctD tue bridge
!. consequently human beings had 10 TAX
d to the water, when large porto
q were either burned to death or drowned
q One man, who escaped, reports. tina
he sank his,entlrc body into the watel
n occasionally raising portion Of his hea
7. to get breath, and that he saw scyer'
i women perish right alengzidc Of hin
II When rescuedllls eyes we're complctcl
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g N Y. y .,o,, !. . hoat.lood wbo esca,
!, " al came ~ down to Green Bay on ii
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