The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-11-03

he tried to climb the fence, he went Daci
and got into the barrel again. The fathel
and mother were burned. The boy wal
found there, two days after, alive. The
Davis family found refuge in well. Tn En-
curbing burned, and the whole family of siS
persons were lost. They were not found fol
three days. One woman with babe ter
days old, and four other small children, dis.
played more bravery than many general
on battlefield. She gathered her children
around her, picking the Goals Off her family
as they fell. She WAS badly burned, and
one of her children has since died but the
babe escaped. Mr.. Tanner, son-in law Of
A. H. Hart, of Calumet county, tried to save
his wife and two children when his wife
fell dead, he took child under each arm
and started on the run, His children d cd
in his arms, and then he drew knife and
tried to take his own life. After stabbing
himself twice, limb of tree knocked him
insensible and thus his life was saved.
Passing on to Peshtigo, we found the re-
ports published had given but a faint idea
of the loss. Not stick of timber was left
of the houses, and on the south side Of the
river the only evidence left that there was
once town there, were the posts of the gar
den fences, which were not burned so close
to the ground but that we could trace the
outline of the fence.
1t was reported that one house was left
unburned. This house was not completed
only rough boards encased it-and yet il
did not escape without one side being
burned black. 1t would be useless to at
tempt a description. You can imagine q
beautiful and thriving village, with its i'm
mense manufactures and busy life, now a
waste of sand, deserted. The carcasses of
fifty horses lay in regular rows as they had
stood in their stalls, with scarcely vestige
of the building remaining. The people only
had ten minutes warning Of the hurricane
of fire, and no time to comprehend the stu
alton. They rushed into the streets and
started for the river, but were overtaken by
the storm Of fire, and fell in the middle of
the streets. One man, carrying his wife,
approached the river, but the blast drove
him over some obstruction, and, falling, he
was separated from her. He picked up a
woman, supposng her to be his wife, car
ried her into the river, and saved her. 1t
proved to be another mans wife, and his
own was lost. One man was sick with
typhoid fever; young man stopping with
him took the sick man out to the back of
the house, and buried him in the sand.
He was saved, and is rapidly gaining his
health.
The half has not been told the whole
will never be known. The loss of life in
six dead bodies were found in the woods,
ard on Saturday, thirty-six. The woods
and fields are literally full Of dead bodies,
and many were burned entirely up. We
found some teeth, jack-knife and slate
pencil. 1t must have been all that remained
of promising boy. Truly, in this case the
darkness preceded the light. On Sunday
night, October 8, just after the churches
were closed, for half an hour there reigned
the stiffness Of death. The smoke settled
down so thickly that the darkness, like
Egyptian, could be felt. Then came light
gusts of wind, and in the south was seen
mers of light. The earth trembled, and the
roar of the approaching tornado and the
shock of the falling trees broke the awful
stiffness. No one could realize the approach
ing tornado and the shock of the falling
trees broke the awful stiffness. No one
could realize the approaching danger, when
in almost moment the holocaust was upon
them. The fire, in its maddening rage,
could not keep pace with the wind, and
trees and houses and men were blown down
that they might be more rapidly consumed.
Men, women and children rose again to rush
like specters through the flames, and fell
separated from each other. In this terrible
moment men thought the final day had
come when the earth should be burnt, and
they bowed themselves to offer their last
prayer. More might have been saved if
this conviction had not seized them. One
man gathered his family into his store, and
resignedly walked to and fro in the room,
awaiting the awful consequences, and if
they believed prophecy, had they not rea-
son for this belief? A day of darkness and
of gloominess,a day of clouds and thick
darkness, as the morning spread upon the
mountains. A fire devoureth before them,
and behind them flame burneth the land
is as the Garden Of Eden before them, and
behind them desolate wilderness and
nothing shall escape them. The appear
ance of them is as the appearance of horses,
and as horsemen so shall they run. The
earth shall quake before them the heavens
shall tremble; the sun and the moon shall
be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their
shining.
The best data gave the loss in the Sugar
Bush and Peshtigo at eight hundred. On
the east shore forty bodies were found in
one field. They had fled to the fields hop
ing to escape, and they ran into the worst
place possible. Small clearings were more
safe than large fields. j. II. HAUsER.