The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-10-21
Cyclone of Fire.
Whole Counties Deyastated-Appalling
Loss of Life---Horrors that are INDIE


Loss of Life---Horrors that are INDIE
seribable.
Especial Dispatch to the st. Paul Pioneer.1
MILWAUKEE, October 11.-Specials
to the DGiIy Ne,os from Green Bay re-
port the loss oflife by the burning OF
settlements in the lumber regions as
appalling. At Peshtigo three hundred
are known to have persisted. AT
WilIiamsport, Door country, fifty five
were burned. At Faustville, of six
families only one person escaped
At Bush creek, 0contO county, thirteen
were burned. Individual cases and
single families who We're destroyed
are reported in all directions. At
Peshtigo the flames swept from the
woods upon the town Sunday night,
and the population had not time to
get out of their houses. Some, who
lived not ten rods from the river,
were overtaken by the flames before
they reached it, and fell burned to
death. One boarding house contain
upwards of hundred was burned
with all its inmates. The population
that could reach and enter the water
stayed there until morning, and were
saved. though receiving severe burns
about their heads.
The reports would seem to be in
credible, but they are also fully true,
and numerous from all the northeastern
part of the State. Authentic intelli-
gence of at least FIVE hundred human
beings roasted alive has been received,
and it not improbable that the
number will be doubled.
GREEN BAY, October ia lot of
provisions, clothes, surgeons and nurses
left last night for Peshtigo, and to-day
steamer was sent with provisions
and surgeons to points ON the east
shore. The women of the city are at
work making up clothing, and are do
ing all in their power to relieve the
suffering. Help is wanted from the
State at large in provisions, clothing
and money. Not the least item of suf-
| fering is that of the cattle of the desti
tute sufferers, the hay being mostly
burned ond the country so ravaged by
fire as to make grazing impossible.
| IESu uEhS 10 GOAob0AtAy IA
of deaths by fire. Intelligence to-day
from Door county is to the effect that
upward of thirty persons were burned
i'm the town of Forestyille, and of six
families in one neighborhood one per-
son escaped. The list of lives lost at
Peshtigo and the sugar bush in Oconto
county is hourly augmented. 1t now
reaches upward of 800. At Williams
vile, in Door county, fifty-five are
lost as far as heard from, and only two
uniniured in the whole town. At Birch
Creek, Oconto county, thirteen were
burned. Individual cases and in fam
lilies are reported all over the country
The rain of Monday night lasted a few
hours and arrested the fire. There
has been no more rain though thefsky
is heavy and hopes are felt that it viii
rain tonight. A high wind would far
the smouldering fire into life again.
EVANSVILLE, October ia specia
from Green Bay to the Gazette says:
The news is coming in from ai
quarters, and it is impossible to give
detailed account this forenoon. A
Peshtigo and vicinity the dead vii
number upward of three hundred. Th'
survivors are in destitute condition
and are coming in by every boat. No
a landmark is left to show wher tn
village stood. All the cattle and hors
es are burned. Sixty horses in on
stable were burned at Williamsville
Sixty -four miles east of Little Stur
geon, tifty-fi dead bodies have bee,
collected. Only two persons in tn,
place escaped unhurt, by going dowi
well. The news from the farming
country is fearful, and beggars descrip
ton.
GREEN BAY, October 11.-Five hun
bred persons have persisted at Peshti
go. Newspaper reports do not exag
gerate. Down the east shore the NOR
tality is fully as great. Everything
needed, and the town is full of refu
gees.
MILWAUKEE, October ia mes
senger just in from Manistee, Mich
gan, reports that city nearly consume
by fire. A number of people iron
there have arrived in this city. Som
lives were lost.
The latest advices from Maniste
state that large sawmill and ove
!, three hundred houses were burned.