The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-10-12
TIE nrcnIoAN nrRNr DISTRICT.
Authentic Statement of the Present Situa-
ton There-Need ofRellef for the Winter
Charitable Action Already Taken.

tion There-Need of Relief for the Winter.
Charitable Action Already Taken.
The exciting events of the past ten or
twelve days have drawn public attention
away from a matter which in the earlier
part Of the month was topic of general con-
versation, and one which in another way
than these more recent events called forth
the general sympathy of the people in this
and other sections Of the country, namely;
the catastrophe oftle Michigan forest fires.
In the nature of the case the situation in
the devastated region remains substantially
unchanged, and will remain so till after the
black embers and the gray ash heaps of the
great confagration shall have many times
been whitened by winters SHOWS, and until
the kindly minStratiOns of another verna
season shall clothe the landscape afresh
and open opportunities TO the industrious
hands of the farmers and builders of the re-
gion, But the powers of nature and
the activities of man cannot effect a COM
plete restoration, More than $50 graves al
ready mark the pathway of the destroyer,
and there yet lie on beds of suffering vic
tins of the flame whose recovery is impossi-
Bile, whose sepultureS are vet to he added to
this number, which finally will amount to
nearly 300. The grass and flowers of the
coming summer will ovGrsprcad and adorn
them, and the lapse of time will mitigate
will plant thc fields and gather The harvest
where tbosc Who hove Gror;s hcJ orco 10
bored Int the same scenes Of domestic lilc
and tbe same banniness viii NOT return
In conversation with Mr. J Z. Sanborn, the
collector of Port Huron, who is Of the local
his civ ON husinnss NOT cnnncctnd With tba
organization. Inflammation Of interest con.
crrning the prrsent stotn of affairs i'm the
burnt region has been gathered
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IhEslkiOhhN COUNTRY
is q region the outer limits of which de-
scribe an area of from 1000 to 2,2O square
miles. Ofthis from 1000 to 20 square
miles have been rayaged by fire and made a
desert. The flames i'll their progress did
not make a clean sweep on all sides, but
pursued irregular pathways, spreading out
latcrallY i'm many places, and in others
leaping over considerable spaces through
force of the prevailing gale, which carried
the burning embers over the less COmbusti-
BILE tracts and lodged them where dry ma
terial was abundant. Tins new fires kept
springing up irregularly to the leeward OF
those which first began to rage. The region
WIS, III luCl, pIOlNTtu lOT inns tODUaHfallOI
by one which swept over il in lS72 Then
he country was very sparsely settled, and
the destruction, besides the forest of pine
trees and some harder woods. was
almost wholly of saw-mills and
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har tae Liioi S Slrai nie an tinu stueh 'iI-
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nr. od % so w. W mVl'iiJsI was
ctfSot OF this to
~ ~ uo'l"la Mes ~ iaoi''.a,e
ne ira enI p ~. el nG, ni,,'
farnns in l,rao+ ,,,',,,Lon 10 muivtu
Iaid ont pt M H.
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fancv nf III so,tlo n'"nei ntGolo,.E ~ 'nt
tbc soii in d;ff,ro,,t 4es my ~
woodland oro iof, pn,,,o, us y, t''c VIZ
or Las~oc ono NV; vi ~ anu ar
other mi of cLorrad IA drinI ",'a o "'
branches ronstitntinr so n,arv s,,o "''a'
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and smcri ',,v VIII ueSorL 'uleiGi
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oil tbo Lose hot ,.os t,nl, ,ian,
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THE REGION ThAVERsEp'
The region traversed is about sixty miles il
and from thirtv-iyr Ia fifty miles in width