The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1873-07-17


move their furniture and stocks,
! and assisting in all other ways
possible. Many Of those volunteer
assistants and many of those
whom they assisted, toiied in tho
most ferocious manner, oblivious
| Of the Init of physical possibili-
ties, till Suddenly overborne, and
drenched with perspiration, they
staggered pway or wero carried to
places Of safety. 7
The time Of greatest alarm
when the coufagrstiou rode ON the
high tide OF triumphant power,
and 1t looked as II it would level
everything as far as to Coldbrook,
began three quarters Of an hour
after the fire broke out, lasting
from five o'clock to half past = one
long, dreadful half hour. During
this lime more than q hundred
families, mostly poor people. and
principally Germans and Holland!
ere, were distractedly hauling their
household effects out of doors aud
pitching them ont of windows,
with the usual proportion Of ruin
Gus excitement, often working, by
breakagc or otherwise, the deinol
ition OF the property they strOye to
save. 1t was hard sight to look at
poor men and women red in face,
reeking with sweat, exerting
themselvessto desperation, over
loading themselves and rushing
'franticalIy with their furniture,
bedding, trunks, babes and cradles
to places OF apparent safety, and
on returning With another load
finding they must CARRY them
further away.
The household goods Of at least
one hundred families were 80 re-
moved, so,ne of them once, some
twice, and some actually three or
-four times, till driven at last to
the foot Of the steep part Of the
fluff before them as o barrier to
all furthur efforts they fed for
their own lives in agony, leaving
everything they had to destruc-
tim. Perhaps one. third as many
more families managed 10 save
some Of their things. Few, ifany,
saved any considerable portion.
These, nc stated above, wero the
saddest results of all tho sweep
ing away OF eve'ything belonging
to such great number Of poor,
laboring, Industrious men and wo
men.
lflivcs had been lost it would
have been sadder; tnt there we're
none, Notwithstanding a prcva-
lent report to that effect Sunday
night.
The savageness of the fire in
tensitied tho heat OF an already
terribly hot afternoon this, with
the internal heat OF violent ex.
ertioHs OIL the part Vt some, threw
them into a condition similar to
that Of sunstroke. Tho worst
case Of this sort was that CT Will
liam Osborne, a fireman on the
steamer Louis Campau, who had
to be sent home at about half past
five.
Another case was that Of Mrs.
IIorbstrit, wife OF the teDan, Of
Mr.. Boxheimer's house, who hed
from her strife to save things
most valuable to her, barc-tooted
and half clothed, to sink in alarm.
ing exhaustion as soon as she
reached a place of security.
| Worse still than her experience
was that Of the wife Of George
Rnby, an occupant OF part of one
Of Mr.. Christ's houses, on Ottawa
street. Her hair was singed and
she was quite badly burned about
the head, neck and arms. She
was removed to the shade OF a
house, then again to the house of
Mrs. Rnllyea, on Bronson street
were she now is, and is doing
we'll. Others were burned, strain
ed or otherwise lnrt, in less de-
gree, f.fu
From half past Eve to six O'Clock
The wind veered moro to TIE west
or nearly as it was at the start Of
the fire. This deadened the
Roadway Of the fire working away
to tho northward, and sent
it more against the blnH, and
gave thc Champion Extinguisher
opportunity to work along the
nor,l. eide Of Trowbridge street,
OH houses where rparks flaehcd
up. The sontb side If this street
10 tho northern limit Of the Ere.
| BY quarter past six O'clock or,
to speak with moro certainty by,
halt past six, the final limits OF
the confagration became plainly
marked out, AID a sense Of bless
cd relief came over the entire
community.
I The engines remained at the
work, playing on the most threat
ening ruins stilI blazing and
guarding weak points, till some.
| time after the heavy rain being
falling. which was about bslfpast
ten o'clock.
The sufferers and their late
locations are described as follows,
90 far as it has been poesible 10
ascertain them: The great mum.
Der Of German and Holland FAM.
lies bnrnt out, and some few Irish
and Am orleans, Immediately be-
came % widely scattered, having
no occasion or no heart to remain
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