Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-10-27
PESIITIGO.
Incidents OF the Great Fire.

nation that there was danger rom fTe
He ran to the mill, attached the hose and
commenced wetting down the mill
When the tornado came and he saw thai
all was lost, be ran to the house to save
his wife and children, in which he sue
ceeded. After the village was burned
when Mr.. Shepard supposed he had moi
an article left but the clothes they had
on, which were burned full of holes, The
servant girl went to the site Of the house
and dug up out of the sand all his best
clothing, the silver ware and most valda.
BILE goods, that she had buried without
his knowledge, while he was trying TO
save the mill. AIrF. Shepard lost some
of her clothing, as the fire did not give
the girl time to bury it deep enough.
That girl is jewel.
On Thursday, the 9th inst, Mr.. j. G..
Clement, formerly a painter in Fort
Howard, late of Peehtigo, was married
to Mss Trudell, daughter OF Theodore
Trudell of Menominee. Tho brides
mother visited them at Peshtigo on Sun
day, the Sth, and left at 4 p NJ. When
the fire struck Peshtigo Mr.. Clement
took his wife in his arms and started for
the river. They met o man with a
blackboard, going to save his wife and
family, but seeing the task was hopeless
he started to go back. Mr.. Clement
asked him to save his vile and he would
do the best he could for himself. The
man took Mrs. g. and Clement ran be-
hind, holding on the blackboard, but
finally fell in the road and died from
suffocation. The bride begged to be al
lowed to get out but was held in and
taken to the river, where she arrived
unconscious, but was restored and
saved. He was buried by the Odd Eel
lows at Menominee on Friday.
Mrs. Heldenworth, woman sick with
a fever, was on log in the river at Pesh-
tigO, with a child. Her husband had
gone back to the town for some purpose,
and when he returned his wife aId child
were gone. The TACT was that n COW
came swimming along and rolled over
the log. She caught the cows by the
horns, and the cow swan out with the
woman and child. They were found and
secured in the river again.
Many persons are said TO have been
drowned by cattle rolling the logs over.
| In the Lower Sugar Bush Mr.. G. r..
| Towsley was found lying on th ground,
child ON each side of him, the throats
of all three cut and knife lying on his
breast. The father had evidently, when
he saw that escape was impossible,
chosen to die by the knife rather than
endure the horrors of torture by fire.
About ten rods from them lay Mrs. II.
with an infant child on one arm and a
Bible on the other, and likeness OF one
OF the other children on her breast.
VIM. Curtiss was found in well with
the bucket chain around his neck.
A man, a shoemaker running for the
river at Peahtigo, found little girl tour
years of age ana took her into the water.
! She lay across his shoulder and he swan
with her about halt an hour and saved
her without injury, although he was con-
siderably bupeu himself.
Mr.. Dix got his Iamily in the river,
half clad. The baby had ON nothing but
nightgown. Somebody brought bum
die of bed clothing to the river. Dix
opened it and took out sheet The
owner wanted to take it away from him
for fear it would get burned, but he
secured it, spread it over his family and
kept it wet by throwing water on it with
his hat. He thinks he could not have
saved has baby without it..
p. nj. Brown informs us that Miss
Augusta Bartels, about fourteen years
old, daughter of Fred .Bartels, Peshtigo,
was in the Sugar Bush, visiting her grand
psrents, Mr.. and Mrs. Adam Newton. -
! When the fire burst upon them she said
there was no use in trying to live, all had
got to be burned, and threw herself into
the creek, that ran through Stephen
/ Storey's farm, where she was drowned.
The cries and lamentations of the old
people were piulut to hear.
The scene after the fire, about day
light, i'll front of the company's black
smith shop, where heap OF coal was
burning and sthe people had gathered to
TO dry and warm themselves, was heart
reudipg in the extreme. Men, women
and children were crying and wrInging
their hands, and such eXclamations as
these wero common: ''Where is my
husbands" "Where is my wife?'
"Wbere are my children !" Some find
ing their friends were dead wished they
had died too.
During the fire roofs and chimneys
blew off with the force of the wind and
showers OF burning Goals filed the
houses. .s.
Next morning many Of the survivors
breakiasted on raw cabbage field o
cabbage having escaped. The first aiC
was load of provisions from join
Mulligsn's railroad camp. Provision:
from Marinette arrived about noon, anC
from Green Bay next day.
Every one had sore eyes, and all walk
ed with their heads down, or bandagei
over their eyes.
The first ones to collect the dead an(
make arrangements for their burial, wert
b. John Mulligan and his wife. Mulligan
(who will be remembered as the prizt
fighter, but whose heart is much large
than his fists } saved his wife by carrylnl
her In his arms from Hale's place TO anC
across the bridge and into the river, F.,
distance of hall mile. There is the ad
vantage OF muscle. l'"s"l
The family of John Greyer, an oil
Frenchman in the bush, was found, tht
charred remains OF three in the ruins o
the house, and another still sitting on
stump near by, 'attla
A Swede sitting ON chair in tn
Peshtigo Company's boarding house
! was urged to flee for his life, but Sc
there and was burned with the house.
, John Plush died in his accustomel
place by the tavern door. Another maj
, died with kis, hands on the handle @
, Woodward's force pump.
i A gentleman walking through tn
= = ruins in Peshiigo saw burned pocke
: knife and slate pencil and picked ther
, up. In doing so he saw line of whit
ashes the shape offs body, and ie,
teeth. This was the earthly remnant {
boy.
We learn that woman in the Sugt
Bush, seeing the impending doom, star
ed with team and wagon with her Chi
dren for Peshtigo. On the road she four
4 tree that she could not get over an
9 Immediately cut one horse loose, got III
!, ON his back with her children and reac
Q ed the river at the village, saving the
/. all, but with clothing nearly burned o.
] Here, on the bank of the river, she gay
birth to child.
A man In Pcshtgo village started +
the river with his wife. They stumble
and fell in the dense smoke, and sprinl
at ing up again be seized, as he suppose
10 bis wife, and got her into the river.
is When the smoke cleared away, he W
IA Mortified to find that he had saw
to another mans wife, and his own w
TO waH burned 10 death. ~
n. IS. ". ID. Philbrook & Bfether had
a hip yard on the Island at MenekauI