Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1881-09-07
FOREST FIRES.
Many Parts Of Michigan Being Dew
asaaaeA - Lees OF Life and GReas
Dasnage lnflicsed Already.

4 Many P0Fto OF Mlch1g0n behm& DcS
asaaaeA Lees Of Life and Ores
Damage laflicsed Already.
DKTRorr, MICH Sept 7.-Reports ar
| beginning to arrive from the northern
and northeastern part of the State show
| lug the terrible condition of affairs. Tn
long-continued drought rendered every
thing % dry as finder and numerou
'slashings,' or partly cleared tracts o
land covered with brush. decayed timbe
and other infammable materials, afforded
the best possible medium for the rapi(
spread Of the flames carried by the higl
winds. which have been prevailing. San
lilac and Huron counties, lying on tn,
shore of Lake Huron, between Port HUI
ron and Saginaw Bay. are the theatres OF
the most destruction, which is growing
positively appalling in character. A hun.
dred farms have been reduced to black
ened desert. Stock, crops, fences, all farm
buildings have been swept away, and
there is absolutely nothing left Nor is
this all; several lives are known to be
lost; men, women and children over
taken by the flames and suffocated by
the sitting heat 1t is feared that when
full accounts are received the loss of life
may prove terrible The little hamlets
of Anderson, Richmondville and Charles
ton. in sanitac county, are all reported
wiped out, while Port Hope, Verona
Mills and Badax, IN Huron county, are
reported wholly or partly burned up.
The people are focking to the shore of
Lake Huron from the interior Of these
counties as the only refuge from the de-
vouring flames, and are sometimes over
taken by the spreading fire. Not less
than twenty deaths are already reported,
but it is hoped some of these statements
may prove incorrect while it Is feared
they do not begin to approximate,
with 80 unprecedented q condition of
things. In Tuscola county, and the next
tier of counties back from Lake Huron
and south of Saginaw, fires are also ra-
ging, but with not 80 great severity.
Still, the losses here are simply over
Swallowed by the more terrible state of
things in the adjoining counties The
same state of facts are true in
Laper county, next south of Tuscola.
The whole country around Saginaw and
Bay City is also ablaze from the marshes
taking fire and reports of many losses to
farmers are beginning to reach US. The
continues exceedingly hot and
10 signs of rain. When the present
'earful condition Of things will end no.
,ody can foretell.
EAST SAGINAW, Sept. Reports of
avages of fire continue to come in along |
he Saginaw Valley and St. Louis road.
'wenty-one miles has been burned over |
n both sides of the track, and thirty |
II forty buildings burned, including |
goods, grain and stock. In |
county damage to the extent of
$50, 900 has been inflicted, and the fires |
IRE still sweeping over large area. Ow-
ng to the excitement it is difficult to ar
i've at the losses in this county. East of
his city great damage has been done,
hundreds of acres having been burned
over and many buildings burned. The
village of Clio narrowly escaped de-
to-day and is not yet out of
hanger. The Indian settlement, seven
niles below this city, is surrounded by
ire and will probably be wiped out be-
'ore to morrow night.