Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-09-09


below, and great suffering viii result. saw
many families who have not had one meal
since Monday, and don't know where they
will get one. Their teams are all gone, COWS
and other stock burned, and desolation stares
them in the face.
EAST SAGINAW, September Sth.-Reports
show that in Millington township, Tuscola
county, twenty-one families are left homeless
and houseless. la Denmark, Guilford and
Tuscola townships, same county, twenty or
thirty families are burned out, and acres
of timber, crops and miles of fence burned.
In this vicinity the fires are chiefly confined
to Buens Vista, Blumfeld, Bridgeport and
Beeohrun townships on the east, and Rock
vile, Bailwaukee and Saginaw towns, on the
west-in all of which number of buildings
and large quantities of property were swept
away. The Indian settlement several miles
below this city, surrounded by dense forest,
is reported to have been burned. There we're
thirty families in there, and no possible way
of escape. Heavy fires are also reported in
Isabella county, doing great deal of dam
age.
TOUCHING CRY FOR HELP.
DETROIT. September Sth.-The following
appeal has been issued by committee of
citizens of Port Huron, headed by Senator
Conger, Mayor Carlton and others:
To the people of the United States A
most appalling disaster has fallen upon a
large portion of the counties of Huron and
Sanilac nifh
ton of country recently covered with forest
and now occupied by nearly $4,000 people,
largely recent settlers, and either poor or
10 very moderate circumstances. In the
whole of this section there has been
but little rain during the past two months, and
everything was dry, when on Monday, Septem-
Der oh, hurricane swept over it and carried
with it sheet of flame that hardly anything
could Withstand. We have advices Of 200
persons burned to death, many Of them by
the roadside or in the fields while seeking
places of safety, and it is probable that twice
this number has persisted. We have reports
from twenty or more townships, in which
scarcely house, barn or supplies of any kind
are left, and thousands of people are destitute
and helpless. All Of these people require
assistance, and many of them must depend
upon charity for months to come.
We are doing all in our power to
succor them, but the necessities are so great
that contributions from charitable people
throughout the Country will be required to
keep them through the winter We there
fore appeal to you to send money, clothing
bedding, provisions, any other supplies
that will help maintain the sufferers, aCd ell
able them to provide shelter for themselves
and begin work again on their farms Con-
tributions will be ssnt to Mayor f. C. Carl.
ton, Chairman of the Relief Committee ap-
pointed by the citizens of Port Huron, who
have sent agents through the burned district
to ascertain the wants of the sufferers and
distribute supplies.
STILL FURTHER CASUALTIES.
DETROIT, September Sth.-The following
additional particulars have been received
this afternoon from Lexington, Sanilac
county. and the following additional casual
ties are reported: In Moor township, Mrs.
Strong and two children Humphrey, the
stage driver; Mrs. f. Dennison, child and
sister Paul Wetzel wife and FIVE children,
and Geo. Krolch, who went to their rescue
Twenty persons are reported burned to death
in Custer township. In Bingham township,
Thomas Barnes, wife, sister, mother and two
children. In Austin township, one old man
named Payne, Michael Welch, wife and two
children. Nearly every farmer in that
township has lost either his house,
barn, crops, or all of them The
loss of life and property is immense Dead
bodies are being brought in from all direc-
tions. 1t is estimated that 800 beings have
perished, and 5000 are homeless and in
immediate want of assistance. The farmers
in the newer townships lose live stock, houses
barns, crops, everything. A farmer who just
came in from Austin township said that his
family of eight children are in field of
buckwheat, but says the whole country in
that part is totally destroyed and many lives
have been lost. The loss in live stock is sim
ply immense. The older-settled townships
escaped with little loss OF life, bat in most of
the newer townships nothing remains but
fre-swept, blackened willerness.
A dispatch from Marlette, Sanilac county,
says: A terrible state of affairs exists at
this point. Mcintyre, section OF country
lying to the north and east of this place, has
been on fire, and the number of families rem
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to this time seventeen persons are known to
have met their death by fire. A horse of
Ira Humphrey, the mail carrier between this
place and Davis Corners, came home badly
burned, with a card attached to the saddle
written by Humphrey, stating his peril by
fire. A relief party found him in the road
dead. He was entirely denuded of his
clothes, either burned off his person or torn
off by himself in his desperation.
WHOLE FAMILIES DESTROYED.
In the township of Argyle, Huron county.
the following were burned to death Paul
Whitesle, wife and FIVE children; George
Gratch, wife and three children Mrs. Nor
ris Welsh and two children; James Gibson
and two women, recently from Canada.
names unknown. There were several so
badly burned that they cannot live. In
some sections the fire swept everything before
it, and spread with such rapidity that the
people were obliged to flee with only their
clothing on their backs.
RELIEF AT LAST.
EAST SAGINAW. September Sth.-The fires
have been checked east of this city by the
rain of this morning.