The Lincoln County herald., 1871-10-19
A CYCAONE o. FIRE.
w.ose Counties N WISCONSIN Devas-
txted-ADps3sinS Less Of iife-sOo
Persons AOaSied Alite.

MILWAUKEE, Oct. l1.-Specials to the
Daily News from Green Bay reports the
loss Of life BY toe burning Of settlements
iu the lumber regions as appalling. At
Peshtigo, 500 are knowo to have per-
ished. Al Williamsport, Door county,
IS we're burned. At t}rush creek, Cconto,
county, ~ sess burned. Individual
cases and single faniliee SAo sste de.
stroyed ure reported 10 oil directions.
At Peshtigo the flames swept from the
woods upon the town Sunday night, and
the population had aot tino to get out oS
their houses. Some, Who lived not ten
rods from che river, we're overtaken BY
the flames before they reached it, and
fell, burned to death. One boarding
house containing upwards Of hundred
vas burned with ali it's inmates. The
population that could reach and enter the
water stayed there until morning, and
we're saved, though receiving severe
burns about their heads.
The reports would seem to be incredi.
ble, but they are also fully truo and
numerous fro II all the northeastern part
Of the state. Authentic intelligence OF
at least 6vo hundred human beings
roasted alive have been received. and 1t is
not improbable that the number will be
doubled.
GREEN BAY, Oct 1l.-As reports
come in from the burned districts OF
northern Wisconsin, all previous accounts
of the loss Of life aud property are
dwarfed by the actual reality. From
four to Eve hundred lives are believed to
be lost, and the destruction Of houses,
fences, mills and farm products is be,
yond all estimate At present the ragged,
, hungry and frightened people from the
burned regions are throneing Green Bay
for succor. Every effort is being made
by the citizens for their relief. A hos
pi,al and eating house have been estab.
D iished, ard a depot has been opened for
contributions in clothing aud provisions.
A steamer arrived this merning with n
e large number Of refugees from Peshtigo
!. and other places on the west shore OF the
| bay, and others struggling in from elso'
4 where.
y A lot Of provisions, clothes, surgeons
" and nurses left last night for Peshtlgo,
. and to day steamer was sent with pro-
II visions aud surgeons to points on the
east shore. The women Of this city are
at work making up clothing, and are do.
!. ing all 10 their power to relieve the suf:
ferers. Help is wanted from the state al
large in provisions, clothing and money
d Not the least item of suffering is that Of
b. the cattle of the destitute sufferers, the
vs. hay being mostly burned and the coun
l. try SO ravagcd by fire as to make grazing
impossible.
~ Fresh news is constantly coming in o
n deaths by fire. Intelligence to day from
Doc. county istn the effect that upward
Of thirty persons were burned IN tn
y. town Of Foresville, and Of Six families II
h, one neighborhood one person escaped
90 The list of lives lost at Peshtigo and tn
~ sugar bush in Oconto county, is hourI
It, augmented. 1t now reaches upwards
tho 300 At Williamsonville, in Doc
lot county, 55 are lost as far as heard from
are and only two uninjured in the whol
-. town. At Birch creek, Oconto count
thirteen we're burned. Individual cast
and in families arc reported all over Il
IN country. The rain Of Monday nigl
lasted few hours and arrested the hr
''o There has been no more rain, though Il
ar sky is heavy and hopes are felt that
Us will rain to night. A high wind wou
in probably fan the smouldering fro in
NIT life again.
INV JAYNEsv1LLE, Oct. 11.--A special frc
'San Green Bay to day to tho Gazette say
the .The news is coming in from oil quartz
urs and it is impossible to give detail
o,.. account this forenoon. At Peshtigo a
, vicinity tho dead will number upwards
A''N 400, The survivors are in destitute CT
was ditiou, and are coming in by every be
rson Not a laudma is left to show where
Both village stood. All the cattle and hor
ville are burned. Sixty horses at Williams
:. :. Vile were burned.
~ 'n Sixty.four miles east of Little st
trial. peon, fifty five dead bodies have b
0 the collected. Only two persons in the pl
from escaped uuhurt by going down
The news from the farming country
'''"' fearful and beggars description. .
cards Further accounts from the horr
,g all calamity at Peshtigo relate that 100
lttiug wero burned to death 10 largs s o.l9
" Of people were driven by the flames
the river, where most Of them per
ide of JAYNEsyILLE, WIS.,, October i
lrday, Hotsi"S' S'.' a1o Gu. Rsn ;n rslst;or IA
yer Wisconsin 6res to night: The appal
istant calamity has not been exaggerated
Gen three thousand men. women and chill
freed are no" des'l}p'e' .ne 'oss VI snn '
NIL sons have been burned at Peshtigo
issued vicinity, and three hundred on the
Bal. ern shore, Scores, Of men, women
10 ex. little children arc now 10 :empo
ed for nosp''a's; no oI."s nuSa;a 49,. a,
''nen' and provisions Of all kinds. not COZ
bonds, building materials, and everything ne
in the by family 70 commence life with.
hc has teople sre responding nobly, but Chi
~ ~ l>. ac.Aaa .aual, hainn Reca