Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-09
SWEPT BY FIRE.

province of Quebec, says one of the most ter
rible hurricanes of fire in the history of this
| section of the country was the fire which swept
through portion of this village, on Monday,
carrying ruin and. death in its track, both to
man and beast. Bush fires have been numer-
GUS for some time, and little attention was
given to them. The high wind, Monday, famed
the flames, until the Inhabitants, at 8 o'clock,
saw with dismay wall of flames come toward
them with steady sweep, as fast as a man
could run, and swallowing up everything in its
course. By o'clock the first farm house had
been reached. The fire ran along the rail
fences, burning the grain, and the wind sent
the sparks in all directions. So quickly was
one farm house after another destroyed, that
MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN
had barely time to escape until the fire was
upon them. As night drew on the flames in
creased in violence while the wind rose, and
over the space Of about twelve miles in length
and covering width of from three to four
miles the eye rested upon nothing but roaring,
cracking flames, and families came flying into
the village proper, in scanty DRESS children
shrieking in their terror, and many were burn.
ed todeath Forest after forest was swept
away and the smoke and flames were in one
compact volume some six miles long and
from st. Helena, St. German, st. Guillaume
and other roads came in in crowds. The fugi-
tives i'll some instances were compelled to
abandon vehicles andl take to horses backs.
Men were obliged to throw away
their coats to save their lives. House after
house and barns filled with the best crops
known for years were licked up, and when the
fugitives were all counted it was found there
were eleven persons missing, not one of whom
it was thought would escape, but towards the
forenoon most of them turned up. Several
were badly burned. J. B. Ledaux, W. P. Cur
rier, l.. @. Pierre, w. R. L. Palvin, 8. Oollette,
2. Decree, G.. Pittil, j. Paulin, L. Cliche, l..
Cliche, Jr., K. Evitde, J. B. Loisule, J. Ma
guire, T. Sole, T. Brewencu, P. Boissonnette
persons were
BURNED TO DEATH.
Pierre Currier, aged 18.
Joseph Currier, aged %.
W. Telesphore Currier, age 16.
Xavier Bosseau is not expected to survive
his burns.
1t is certain some seventy-fve families were
burned ont, representing nearly 400 persons.
1t is feared the loss of life will be much great
er than yet estimated.
KENTUCKY SHOOTING.
LOUISVILLE, Sept. 8.-W. A. Arnold, marshal
of Lancaster, and cousin to J. n. Arnold
who shot and killed r. F. Tuttle, shot and in
stantly killed Robert Boyle, step.son of Grove
O. Kennedy, in the tent during the perform
ance of Sells Brothers circus last night. Boyle
had come to the circus under the influence of
whisky all day. Becoming troublesome dur
ing the performance ut night he was removed
from the canvas, but returned, and during the
performance fred his pistol in the air. Arnold
IN attempting his arrest fired at him, the shot
taking effect near the heart. Arnold sarren-
dered himself and the grand jury now in ses..
sion indicted him for murder.
OUTRAGEOUS MURDER.
LEXINGTON, KY, Sept. 8.-Another outrage
GUS murder was committed at Lancaster, Ky,
on Tuesday night. VIM. Arnold, a relative of
Jas. 81. Arnold, the murderer of Little, shot
and killed Robt. Boyle while in the custody of
the jailer.
ROBBED AND MURDERED.
CINCINNATI, Sept. 8.-A Vincennes, Ind,
special says Samuel Perkins, young man
from Uniontown, Ky, was found early this
morning lying on the platform with cash in
his head. He died few hours afterwards.
The coroner's inquest this afternoon found no
trace to the murderer, but from the fact that
Perkins had been robbed it was evident that
he had been murdered.
STEAMBOAT EXPLOSION
SOUTH AMBERI, N. j., Sept 8.-The tug
White Fawn blew steam-cock from her boiler
to-day, fatally injuring two persons and SER
iously wounding five others.
NEW YORK FIRE.
NEW York, Sept. 8.-Fire broke out at mid
night tonight on the north side of Manhattan
market, which occupies the block extending
from Eleventh avenue to North river and be.
tween Thirty-fourth and Thirty-ffth streets
The fire occurred in the basement of Robe
Bros, provision dealers, and spread very rap
idly and the whole building was soon wrapped
in flames. Alarm after alarm was sent out
and a large number of engines were brought to
the spot, but it was soon evident the entire
building would be destroyed, as strong south
wind that was blowing swept everything before
it. 1t is thought that only the iron
frames of the building will be left. There is
about 200 stands in the building which will be
loss to stand owners of 5000 each, making
aggregate loss to them alone of $1,000, 600.
The loss on the building will be very heavy,
but it could not be learned. Michael Dolan
who occupies part of the market as q
slaughter house will also lose
very heavily. Sparks were carried by the
wind to the large hay establishment of T. B.
Clarke on the side of Thirty-fourth street
facing the market, and this with number of
surrounding stores and the hay market hotel
also took fire. At 2:l5 Am. the fire was still