Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-11-06

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OF the New YORK tribune, writing from Little
Sturgeon Wisconsin, giYes the following ac-
conn, of his trevals throurb the burnt DISTRICT
Vi mat sta'e'
The roads were represented as bad, but Ian
guage is incapable OF saving how bad. The
fire had come within stones throw Of the
hamlet, and when the scattering little pOpula-
tiOn had made ready to plunge into the protect
ing shadows of the bay, the flames were whirled
off to the northward, and the town was saved.
Not so the faTmhouses, farms and fences out
side. The wide-Spreading track of ruin covered
the greater part of the peninsula, from Green
Bay TO Lake Michigan, from the nei9hborhood
OF Green Bay on the south to Deaths Door
on the north.
The results in lie-taklng were not always the
same, but the track of the storm was one of
thorough destruction wherever human foot can
pass. In times past rough corduroy roads had
penetrated from the bay ports to the chief lum-
Der and Single mills, where little communities
Of one hundred or more clustered together, suS-
tanned by the same industry. Over six miles of
burned, obherated road, where gigantic trees
lay wrenched from their beds, torn up by the
roots and piled many feet high, the way I'D to
WilliamsOn's mill, where siXty-twO souls
breathed their last in the fiery hurricane,
Approaching the fearful spot, the evidence of
the storm and flame seem TO intensity in devas.
tation; monstrous trees, at least five or six feet
in circumference, lie in fragments where they
had been twisted off at point at least twenty
feet from the ground. The Others lying in win
rows presented a solid wall Of intermingled
roots and earth fully fifteen feet in height.
Miles of CHASTITY, blackened pine cover the
parched acres, and the stout corduroy, well pro-
tected by many inches of well-packed earth,
crumbes away under the hoOfs of the horses.
Along these miles of desolation, here and there
are pointed out the remains of lonely wood
mems cabins; the only marks are crumbling
boulders and a square of white ashes where the
walls once stood. Those men that passed over
this road on the Monday alter the sudden de-
Struction, tOiled on through devastation and
death at the rate of one mile in four hours. The
axes were kept constantly employed clearing the
way.
While the treacherous prairie winds were
blowing that obscure spark in De Koven street
into bosom Of destruction for the Queen city,
a wind tenfold more terrible had come up from
the southeast and famed the smoulderipr fires
into one mighty wave, submerging this whole
peninsula in a raging sea of fire and smoke.
Here as across the bay, the forest fires had crept
on and on for weeks and months, and on the
same Sunday night came whirling over the lake
and bay counties The whole upper end of the
peninsula is taken I'D in one countv Door
which, beginning a few miles north Of Green
bay, al the southern extremity of the bav. ends
at the Porte du MOrte-osDeofh's DoOr-on tho
The population is as sparse as fine pround is
sterile Curiously enough. the greater mart are
Belgians, Norweoians. and B0hemians all az
whom make superior farmers. and really rhev
must have some occult kpack to he able 10
prosper on such unpromising acres. Altogether
there are nearly 5000 people in lDoor comfy
mainly congregated in continuous settlements
cut from the solid forests In the clearings the
white sails of the wind mills and the suug nick
nacks of ornamentation remind one more of a
Dutch hamlet than A wild western nioneer set.
Element F "
The Immigrants comino bcra with all tho
habits Of life formcd ni,,o NJ ,a aiI to
customs of home: unlike the YSnkee settler who
seduously sets hjs face against dong ne he did
at home until the TSv is Cleo iire &c ~ o,it
taon or for mnrovennnt ''" IIa lOi pcIlect i
new countrv is ronob ana au
Deone here Int fsU ,>' miile tuese
prettv rood limitations % J,o T.. seaIs' present
Even in personal spnarei 'aS chS,Sa Ioes.
fine ,rirls Mod throngh tbo go, Su"ln@e Sio"y
fields in coarse ilte aio+h ood ~ tG ~ INC
saJofs The women ocnsral I,T wOouGn
wrinked wor like oyen AMI ptino NY