The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-11-28

house, but seeing his father and mother
in a green turnip patch, attempted to 70
to them but getting badly burned as he
tried to climb the fence, he went back
and got into the barrel again. The
father and mother we're burned The
noy was found there, two days after alive.
The Davis family y sought refuge in n we'll
The curbing burned, and the whole iami-
ly OF SIX persons were lost. They were
not found for three days. One woman
with babe ten days old, and four other
small children, displayed more bravery
than many general on battlefield. She
gathered her children around her and
picked the Goals off her family as thew
ieli' She was badly burned, and one Of
her children since died but the babe es.
capped. Mr.. Tanner, son-in.law of A
IL. Hart, Of Calumet county, tried to save
his wife and two children when his wife
feli dead, he took child under each arm
ana started on the run. His children
died In his arms, and then he drew n
knife and tried to take his own life
Alter stabbing himself twice, and before
he could accomplish his design, limb of
tree knocked him insensibie, and thus
his life was saved.
Passing on to Peshtigo we found the
reports published had given but a faint
idea oil the loss. Not u stick of timber
was left Of the houses, and on the soutb
sac ol the river the only evidences left
'na' 'here was once town there. were
the posts OF the garden fences, which
were not burned so close to the oround
but that we could trace the outline of tho
fence. - 'N'
1t was reported that one house was
lett unburned. This house was not com.
pleted--only rough boards inclosed it
and yet it did not escape without one
side being burned black. 1t would be
useless to attempt description. You
can imagine beautiful and thriving
village, with its immense manufactor;es
and busy life, now waste ofsand desert.
cd The carcasses of fifty horses Law in
regular rows as they had stood in their
stalls. with scarcely vestige of the
oui'uins remaining. The people had
only ten minutes warning of the hurri-
cane ol fire, and no time to comprebend
the situation. 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 oh.
structlon, and, falling, he was separated
from her He picked up a woman. sun.
posing her to be his wife, carried her to
the river and saved her. 1t proved to
De another mans wife, and his own was
lost One man was sick of typhoid fever
a young man stopping with him took the
sick man out back Of the house and bnr;.
ed hlm in the sand. lie was saved. and
Is rapidly gaining his health
Inc half has not been told the whole
Will never be known. The loss oflice in.
creases every hour. On Friday last
twenty-six dead bodie, were found in tbc
woods and Saturday thirty..ix. The
WOODS and fields are literally full of
dead bodies, and many were burned en-.
.'rely' we found some teeth, lack
knife' and late pencil. 1t must have
pec'' al that remained ola promising
boy. Truly in ihi, case the darkness
preceded the light On Sunday night.
Oc'ooer - INST after the churches were
closed for half AN hour there reipncd tbe
stiffness OF death The smoke settled
down 50 'hickly that the darkness, like
Egyptian could be felt. Then came ligbt
gusts OF wind and in the south was seen
through the smoke and darkness faint
gllmmers Of light. The earth trembled
and the roar Of the approaching tornado
ana the shock Of the falling trees broke
the awful stiffness. No one could realize
the approaching danger when in almost n
moment the holocaust was upon them
The fire. IN its maddening rage could not
keep pace with the wind, and trees ana
houses and men were blown down that
taey might be more rapidly consumed.
men, women and children rose again to
rush like spectres through the flames, and
ieii separated from each other. In this
terrible moment men thought the final
DAY had come when the earth should be
burnt, aud they bowed themselves to offer
their last prayer. More might have been
saved II this conviction had not seized
them. One man gathered his family in.
to his store and resi gnedly walked to and
'ro IN the room, awaiting the awful con.
sequences and if they believed prophecy,
nad they not reason for this belief? A
day OF darkness and of gloominess, day
oil clouds aud OF thick darkness, as the
morning spread upon the mountains. A
ire devoureth before them, and behind
them hame burneth; the land is as the
uarden OF Eden before them, and behind
them desolate wilderness, yea. and
nothing shall escape them. The appear.
ance o' them Is as the appearance of
horses aud as horsemen, SO shall they
run The earth shall quake before them
the heavens shall tremble, and the sun
and the moon shall be dark, and stars
shall withdraw their shining.
The best data give the loss in the Sugar
u9" """ eshtigo at eight hundred. On
the east shore forty bodies were found in
one field. They had fed to the field hop.
ing to escape, and they ran into the worst
place possible. Small clearings were more
safe than large fields.
Thrilling Incident OF the Michigan
Fire.
Mr. James Langworth, of St. Charles,
Saginaw county, Michigan, thus details
his experience concerning the fire in that
district:
MIR. Langworth states that he lived
about four miles south of St. Charles,
owning farm Of ninety acres. He had
four stacks of hay near his barns, six
acres of corn in the stock, a stack of
wheat, thirty bushels of thresbed wheat,