Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-10-16


trom farming community and from
farmers supplies, and Is also without
railroad connections; and consequent.
ly her case is not onlya needy one but
also perilous. Luckily, a government
vessel Is at hand with an able and eff.
cient crew to help them.
MENoAGINEE, October 8, 1s7I.-The
village of PeshtigO is burnt TO the
ground, and from 1000 TO 1900 persons
are out of employment. The fire was
seen last night at half-past eight, and
at ten p. M, every building was on
fire, together with the great Peshtigo
manufacturing cOmpany's pail and
tub factory. The wind came from the
southwest, and was heard coming an
hour before it burst upon the town,
and many were awakened from sleep
with barely time to hasten TO the
river and sink themselves in the wa
ter to save their lives. No mortal
man could live in such a heat. The
flames rolled mountains high, and
swept every building, stable and
fence, and left a scene most horrible
to behold. Mr.. J. J. Taur nearly
persisted in saving his fam
! iiy, and lost three in the
| flames, and. Mr.. Beebe's family
one child; and some one took this
child to the river. The whole town
ran for the river, hanging on 10 logs
and bOoms, and had frequently to
duck their heads to save their lives.
As many as seventy FIVE are supposed
I to have been burnt 10 death. Children
and mothers, and husbands and wives,
are separated by the fire-kiDg, never
| TO meet again. The people have been
| fighting for two weeks the sugar bush,
| south and west of the town-and then
the FIRE king moved on the town,
blowing great billOws of flame. The
flve-story factory of the Peshtigo
Manufacturing company was lost,
with all the stock and machinery and
stores and warehouses, and the Pesh.
| tigO house, all the stores and property
! to the amount OF five to ten millions.
| L lust heard of thee death of seventy-five
persons, who could get to no water,
and were strangled and burnt TO
death. Horses, cattle and wagons,
and all movable property, were burnt,
and many are on board this boat, the
st. Joseph, with heads burnt, and
ewes burnt out, and ears of. Some
saved themselves by hiding in wells
and burying themselves in the sand,
and in one case five women persisted
by a log turning, when they all
sank to rise no more. Fires areraging
near this place, and one hundred or
more are fighting the flames of,
and all men who can are helping their
neighbOring families, 6nd-many en-
tire families are burnt. The loss can
not be cOuatod. at small village,
eighteen miles from here, Burch
Creek, eighteen persons perished; and
it is siCkening to see the sufferers come
with eyes out and iesrfully MANNED
some Of them f. life. Many children
were lost wandering frOm their homes
to the river. The whole west coast is
on fire from Green Bay to Menominee.
The manufacturing company were
making from one TO to three thousand
pals daily, and the whole farming
country and numbering for miles
around PeshtigO are burned over.
The streets are hard as brick, and
some uTediet that il never will be re-
built. We shall probably hear OF
other and more dreadful losses. Other
towns are threatened-Depere, Fort
Howard and Wrightsto yn. Fires are
raging in and around them, and
God knows when all this will
end. One good rain would stop
all; but for weeks no rain has visited
this section. After a while a more
complete list of the lost and damages
will be published, but at present all is
agony and confusion. Ii was said, in
thirty minutes after the awful roaring
was heard from the woods, the whole
town was in flames, and in PeshtigO
no lumber was TO be found to make
cofins 20 bury the dead. One man
was passing the beDzine house with
his family when il exploded, and his
whole family was lost except himself.
This boat is full Of the wounded and
sufferers. The people Of MaTinet and
Menominee have all done their duty
to the survivors, in clothing, food and
money, and many man took of his
coat TO give to his neighbOr who had
lost all. The steamers are held here
to take the people from here to Green
Bay. But while I write rain begins
to pour down, and the ravages of the
fire king may be checked. We are
safe in Fort Howard.
AENEKAUNE DESTROYED.
At daylight We got more definite
information from the scene of devss-
tation at the mouth of the river. Ev-
erything OF any particular value was
destroyed. Spauldiug, Houghteling
& Johnson's mill, valued al $500
(knOwn as the New York mill),
the Exchange House, Mill COmpany's
store and boarding house. DR.. Sher-
man's drugstore, John LindquisPs
store, Doyle's shoe shop, and many
other places of business we are not
now able to call to memory, together
with sll the dwellings of any note,
were in ashes. The luckless inhabi.
tants are houseless and homeless.
BURNING OF MINIsTEE.
MINISTER, October 1.-The fire
which broke out In the pineries north
east Of here last week was almost SUBJ
dued, when heavy gale sprung up
from the southwark, driving the
flames and cinders toward Clifford &
RuddOck's mills. This the fire COM
pauy checked; but on Sunday eve
ming FIRE broke out near Canfield's
mill, which is situated at the mouth
of the river, and so intense
was the heat that men could
not get within a thousand yards of
it. In less than half an hour the mill,
together with about twenty dwelling
houses and bOardinghOuses, were to-
tally consumed. "A hill intervening be-
tween this and the town, the fire could
run no further, and people were al
ready ycongratulating themselves upon
the narrow escape Of Mani5tee, when
bright light was noticed northeast
from the scene, and, repairing to the
spot, We found a number Of dwellings
wrapped in flames, and a regular equi-
nocfial osie bloWing-thus making il
beyond human control to stay the
cOnfiagration. The damage at pres
ent is inestimable, but the largest part
OF the town which is on the south
side, is destroyed, while 80 far twenty
seven buildings are totally gone on the
north side.
The loss, as near as l can learn,
amounts TO one million three hundred
thousand dollars, with only about
one-fifth insured.
The latest reports from the terrible
fires in Northern Wisconsin and
Michigan, represent the loss of lie as
being fearful. Some seven to eight
hundred dead bodies had already
been recovered, and It IL believed that
the number viii reach fully one thou
sand, and the wounded fully two hun
dre3. This comprises fully three
quarters OF the population.
A. AND c. RAILROAD.
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