Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1871-10-21
THE FIRE.FIEND INSATIATE

DETROIT, MICH, Oct. l2.-The Cut
ter Fessenden reached Port Hpran
this morning with seventeen more
refugees from the lake shore, two of
them fatally burned. Port Austin
has escaped the flames so far.
About two o'clock this morning an
alarm of fire was given in Windsor,
opposite Detroit, and in q few mo-
ments the flames spread In every d.
rection, consuming the principal bus
mess portion of the town. The Great
Western depot was saved through the
exertions of the railway employees.
There was no wind or probably not q
building would have escaped. One
man was arrested, it is said, in the act
of firing a building.
DETROIT, Oct. l1.-News has Just
been received that the greatest p0r-
ton Of the city of Manistee, EIichi-
gan, has been destroyed by fire. Man
istee is on the east coast of Lake
Michigan, place of 4, 900 inhabitants,
and one OF the greatest lumber pro,
ducing towns I'm the State. There is
no telegraph within thirty miles.
WINDSOR, ONT., Oct. IA fire
broke out last night in McGregor
Bank, opposite HUNS House, burning
the whole block up the Western Hotel.
The East Hum House Is now on fire.
The pOstotfice and telegraph offices,
the Great Western Railroad station,
and many other buildings have been
destroyed. Detroit fire engines have
arrived, and the flames are being sub
dued.
KINKARDINE, Oct. ia boat
containing two men, woman and
nine children, and the dead body ola
child who had died from exhaustion,
arrived here yesterday from Sand
Beach, Michigan, having left there
Monday to escape the fires raging In
in the neighborhood. The high winds
and dense smoke prevented their
reaching the shore until they made
this port, having been without food
the whole time.
CHICAGO, Oct. ia message has
just been received from Green Bay,
stating that steamer had Just ar
rived, bringing a report that 1926 bodies
were burned at Peshtego last night
and as many more are missing Sew
enty-five persons were burned to
death at Little Sturgeon Bay. The
suffering throughout the north is ter
rible, and with the exception Of the
loss of property, Is almost as appal-
ling as the burning at Chicago.
CHICAGO. = LATER = Information
just received here states that fire
broke out in the town of Manistce,
Michigan, at 10 p. NJ, last Sunday
night, or about half an hour later
than the great conhagration here, and
ragged until A. NJ. Monday, destroy
ing two hundred buildings, six large
mills and vessel lying at the dock.
One half of the entire town is burned.
Loss estimated at Sl,300,0O0.
Further accounts from the horrible
calamity at Pesthieo relate that $50
men were burned to death in large
barn, in which they had taken refuge.
Hundreds of people We're driven by
the flames into the river, where most
of them persisted.
A dispatch from Green Bay, dated
10 A. NJ, yesterday, Ql,) says the
newspaper accounts cannot be exag-
gerated. The loss of life on the Lake
Shore Is fearful.
A later dispatch from the same
place states that on Sunday night at
0 o'clock fire broke out In the Bel
gian settlement of Brussels, in door
factory, destroying $50 houses, all but
five that the place contained. Nine
persons are missing and are supposed
to have persisted in the flames. The
inhabitants lost everything, and stun
ned by their losses, are camped upon
their desolated homesteads, destitute
OF everything.
TORONTO, Oct. Disastrous fires
continue 10 rage in the woods of West
ern Ontario.
WAsHINGToN, Oct. l2.-Secretary
Boutwell, has ordered Revenue Cutter
Fessenden to go to the relief of the
sufferers by fire along the shore of
Lake Huron and Saginaw Bay.
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