Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-10-19

10 persons were burned to death at
at Little Sturgeon Bay. Suffering
throughout the North is terrible.
GREEN Bar, l(WIs9) October -
The fires which are now prevailing
in the SIX i or seven Northeasterp coun-
ties OF Wisconsin have never had a
parallel since the settlement of the
country. The drought which haspre-
vailed since early in August hasdlied
up the springs and streams, and all
vegetation. andhasparchedthe ground
to the depth Of several inches below
the surface, that the sol. itself acts as
a coni1agration,l and living trees are
falling from the action Ct the fire,
which undermines them all. Barns
and their contents, hay stacks; cord
wood and other property, together
with hundreds of miles Of fences, are
burned. No resistance can be offered
to the approaching fires. ~
One hundred families .have been
burned out Of house and home. and
the refugees are ii Green Bay and
other towns, and at least one lund
red other families are in equally bad
condition. Houses, barns, farm-hous-
es, bridges, fences, and absolutely
everything has been swept away, and
the pine forests destroyed. Bears
and other wild beasts have been driv-
en- in diymay from the woods, and are
fleeing in every direction across the
fields. The entire population are
fighting the fires without success, and
many have fallen down suHocated by
the smoke and heat, and been carried
by their comrades to places Of safety
All supplies of food for men and
beasts throughout at least fifty town
ships have been destroyed, and star
walton during the coming winter
stares them in the face.
Two RIVERS, October 4.
A fire broke out yesterday noon in
the swamps Northwest from this vii
lage, and ragged like fury. 1t fired
one building in the village about three
o'clock, which was entirely consumed.
The wind bloAs a perfect tempest.
The fremen were on the ground
promptly, and stopped the progress
of the fire. Another building was
fired, but extinguished without much
damage. In the evening the scene
was grand and terrible. The whole
region was impregnated with smoke,
flames, dust, and cinders. The smoke
was so dense i'll tie afternoon that OBJ
jects could not be discovered for the
distance of a block. 1t was with
much difficulty that. the mail carrier
crossed from Monitowoc to here.
SIOUX CITY, Iowa October 5.
Reports of terrible prarie fires come
from every direction. The damage
done at Fremont, Nebraska, by the
fire is very great, Hundreds OF tons
of hay and thousands Of bushels of
grain have been destroyed. At North
Bend, Nebraska, the fire has been IA
ging all day Several buildings have
been burned. There is much loss Of
property near Bon Homme, Dakota.
A saw mill and large dwelling have
been burned. An express messenger
who came in tonight says he saw four
houses between there and Yankton
smouldering. He also reports several
buildings burned between this city
and Yankton. A large coach which
left here on Wednesday morning,
when near Yankton, was chased by
fire an hour and a half, and only es-
capped by turninginto ploughed field.
Thousands of dollars damage has been
done in Southern Dakota many far
mers losing buildings, stacks, and
everything they had in the world,
barely escaping with their lives.
TOLEDO, OHIO, October 4.
The woods are on fire on both sides
of the Toledo, Wabash and Wes-n
Railroad, the greater part of the way
between Antwerp and New Haven,
covering an area of four or-fve miles,
and about the same distance between
Antwerp and Cecil, burning down the
timber, both green and dry, burning
hundreds Of cords Of wood, end miles
of fence. at Woodburn, October 8,
three houses were destroyed, and the
steam mill was only saved by break.
ing several furrows Of land around it.
Trains have had to stop while the
heated rails were removed and new
ones put in: Corn fields and mead
ows have been! entirely destroyed,
The smoke is so dense as to make see
ing and breathing very difficult. The
fire is still raging = ss,.s, =
Commenting Oh the terrible disas-
ters in the West, during thepast few
weeks, the Augusta Chronicle says:
The kilograms of yesterday inform
us that at length the devouring ele-
ment' whitli at one time promised to
consume thegreatest city Of the West,