Connecticut western news., 1871-10-27
More Forest Fires.
EXTENSIVE RAvAGEs OF THE FLAMES IN YVES
 TERN NEW YORK.

| QfeS prevail III tu0 SWdulpS anu WOOuS O1 Monroe, Orleans, Niagara, Genesee, Way ne and Seneca counties. The wind has been blowing gale since yesterday morn ing. Much uneasiness is felt throughout the burning district. The smoke obscures the sun to such an extent that lights are used in buildings today in this city. Rain is very much needed. Reports are con- stantly coming in of fires in all directions.
 SECOND DISPATCH.
 The city is enveloped in smoke. Reports are constantly arriving of fires in the woods throughout the country. Two farm houses and other buildings near Walworth, Wayne county, are reported burned. Several houses, straw and hay stacks, with the large woods opposite Seneca Point, Canandai' qua Lake, were burned. It is also repor- ted that man was burned to death. It is rumored from Albion that the Prussian settlement there had been burned. The wind subsided this evening. The country is very dry, and there are no hopes of extin- gushing the fires until the fall of heavy rains.
 IN EASTERN NEW YORK.
 AUBURN, N. Y., Oct. 23.-About three acres of forest, known as Chestnut Ridge, near this city, burned yesterday. The flames were subdued by the people. The Montezuma marshes, ten miles northwest, in Cayuga county, have been burning several days. The malshes are two miles wide and about twelve in length.
 RoNDoUT, Oct. 23.-A large fire is rag ing in tho Shawangunk mountains, near Port Hixop. Several hundred acres are already burned over. A large fire is also raging in the woods at Flatbush, near Ron- dout.
 TROY. Oct 23.-The woods near Shaker settlement, six miles from here, are on fire Considerable damage is feared.
 PoUGHKEEPs1E, Oct. 24.-The atmos-
 phere tonight is dense with smoke from the burning mountains and forests in Ul- stcr county. It is reported tue Flatbush fires are extinguished, but that the Shawan- gunk mountains are still burning.
 X troy dispatch of last night says:-A
 serious fire is raging in the woods ut Wiska- ! yuma, the Shaker settlement about eight ) miles west of this city. The fire began yesterday afternoon and has burned ever since. There is reason to believe that it 3 was started by one of the numerous gang
 of roughs from this city and West Troy, 7 who resort to the Shaker settlement every x Sunday for thievipg purposes. Severa dwellings and barns have been destroyed and there is good ground for experimenting e that large losses will be entailed before il /. will burn itself out. ROCHESTER, Oct. 24.-Reports from tho
 fires in the forests of Western New York received to-day, show that in some locali
 ties the flames were raging with unusua !, vigor yesterday. Authentic reports O. = buildings burned and losses of life are re
 ceived. The buildings of Supervisor Hamp
 ton of Ossian, Livingston county,F were 5 burned yesterday. There is but little wint }. to-day, and the city is free of smoke There are about one thousand acres of lant burned over in Orleans county. Rain il very much needed.
 A dispatch from Niagara Falls states tha
 the woods between Lasalle and .Tonawands @ are on fire, and were burning all day Mon !, day and were spreading. Fires are also s burning in the rear of Chippewa, Ontario. THE MOUNTAINS ON FIRE IN PENNSYLVANIA. HARRISBURG, Oct. 24.-The mountains above Dauphin have been on fire since
 Friday last. The operator at Dauphin re q ports that the fire extends two miles from , the river and the entire breadth of Peters mountain. The country surroundings. !, shrouded in smoke
 IN WISCONSIN,. , MILWAUKEE, Oct. 24.-A dispatch iron , Beloit says there are large fires in tho 3 woods seven miles east. Barns, stacks
 etc., were burned near Roscoe. Othe t fires are reported. The city is filled witt l. dense smoke.
 l. IN MICHIGAN.
 e DETROIT, Oct. 24.-The Michigan stat' l relief committee has issued earnest appeal to the people of the United States for in t stant and plentiful aid for l2, 900 to l5, ,0O' n people of the state of Michigan, who hav  F. and cattle. The fires are still burning ant
 new ones are springing up. The area o = ruin and devastation is daily increasing, ant e much suffering exists.
 , LARGE COAL FIRE IN TROY. , TROY, Oct. 24.-The coal in the larg a storehouse of the Troy gas company amounting to several thousand tons, tool n fire Sunday from spontaneous combustion " and has been burning ever since. Tn z roof of the building was destroyed tonight ,. Loss S2O,O0O. The coal is still burning.
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