Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-10-26

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 a vestige
OF the building remaining. The people only
had ten minutes warning of the hurricane
Of fire, and no time to comprehend the situ-
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, supposing 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
creases every hour. On Friday last twenty
six dead bodies were found in the woods,
and on Saturday, thirty-six. The woods
and fields are literally full of dead bodies,
and mrny were burned entirely up. We
found some teeth, jack-knife and slate
pencil. 1t must have been all that remained
OF a promising boy. Truly, in this case the
darkness preceded the light On Sunday
| night, October Q, just after the churches
| were closed, for half an hour there reiened
| 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
through the smoke and darkness faint glim-
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
| inc rnad0 he % Ton
trees broke the awful stiffness. No one
could realize the approaching danger, when
in almost a 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 moro 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 il
this conviction had not seized them One
man gathered his family into his store, anG
resignedly walked to and fro in the room
awaiting the awful consequences, and i
they believed prophecy, had they not rea
son for this belief? A day of darkness anC
of gloominess, a day of clouds and thicl
darkness, as the morning spread upon th'
| hountdlns- a nre deV0ureth before them
and behind them flame burneth the lanC
is as the Garden of Eden before them, anC
behind them desolate wilderness; anC
nothing shall escape them. The appear
ance of them is as the appearance of horses
and as horsemen so shall they run. Th
earth shall quake before them; the heaven
shall tremble; the sun and the moon shall
be dark, and the stars shall withdraw thei
shining.
The best data gave the loss in the Supa
Bush and Peshtigo at eight hundred o.
the east shore forty bodies were found il
one field. They had fed to the fields hop
ing to escape, and they ran into the wors
place possible. Small clearings were NOR
safe than large fields. ]. II. HAUsER.