Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-05-08

| steamship State OF Florida, en- rnute
from New York for Europe. She is sew
eral days overdue at Glasgow.
THE Republican Valley of Nebraska
was visited Monday by a severe rain.
hail and lightning storm, bur no serious
! damage is reported.
DURING the heavy gale of Sunday
night $4,000 worth of lumber. belono-
ing to different parties. was consumed
at Cedar Springs, Mich.
TwENTY-FOUR buildings, including.
thu postoffice and hotel. were DESTROY
ed by fire in Presque Isle, Me-, Thursday.
Loss, $4,000.
ONE whole square of buildings at
Prairie City, Iowa. burned Sunday morn
ing, inficting a loss on the village of
100000, with but very little insur-
ance.
NORTHUMBERLAND County, Pa, has
Keen badly swept over by forest fires.
Farm fences, cordwood, railroad sills,
and other valuable property are destroy
ed The loss will foot up thousands of
dollars. The forest fires were the most
damaging seen here within half a CEN
fury.
A DISPATCH from Reading, Pa, says
the Blue Mountains along the northern
border of Berks county are on fire in
every detection Serious danger is ap-
pretended. The destruction of wool
land is incalculable No farm houses
have yet burned The people are fight
ing flames.
a DISPATCH from Scranton, Pa, says
forest fires in this region have DESTROYED
the steam saw-mill of Gage & Clemens,
at Maple Lake, as we'll as a great deal
OF lumber. FOnr dwelling houses be-
tween Moscow and Spring Brook have
ALTO been destroyed. The flames have
now attacked . large area Of stand
ing timber near Moscow, and it is
probable that vast portion will be de
stroyed.
By the falling Of the interior walls Of
building at Pittsburg, Pa, two chill
dren, Albert and Edward Wagn ar we're
buried under the bricks, and when ex-
tracted Edward was found to be IA
tally injured, while Albert was badly
bruised.
A FIRE at Glens Falls, n Y, Monday,
which was famed by a strong gale, de-
stroyed Little's Opera House, the Glen's
Falls Opera House, Presbyterian church,
Union Hall building, and thirty business
places. A portion of ''murderers' row"
occupied entirely by saloons, was de
mOlished to prevent a spread Of the
flames. The loss is 5000, with SEC, 1000
insurance.
A FIRE in New York, Wednesday, de-
stroyed half million dollars worth of
property. The following are the losers:
Van Valkenburg & Leavitt, dealers in
domestic goods, loss $3.50, 900, insurance
100000; second and third floors, B. Ell.
Saith & Co., cotton goods, $25, 900 fully
insured; fourth and fifth floors, Lewis,
Cox & Co., agents for Brighton mills,
$4,000, insured; damage to mills $780,
900, probably insured.
EMPORIUM, Pa, dispatches state that
forest fires have swept over more than
$4,000 acres, destroying, as far as ascer-
tanned, four large mills and some thirty
other buildings, besides an immense
number of lumber logs. The people
everywhere are fighting the fires. The
heat is intense and the air is suffOCating,
while the smoke obscures the sun. The
loss on mill property, timber. etc
amounts to 100000. The damage 10
standing timber cannot be estimated.
A HONTsDALE dispatch says the fire
which totally destroyed the village of
Bristim, is supposed to have originated
half a mile west of Hoover, Hughes &
Co. s mill, where some Hungarians set
fire to the brush to clear piece of
ground for cultivation. The wind car.
ried the flames to the sawmills, and they
were quickly swept away. The progress
Of the fire was then very rapid through
the town, and the inhabitants were com
PEELED to fly in every direction, and in
many cases without sufficient clothing.
When the first alarm was received the
business people placed every team at the
disposal of their neighbors, and every
bar-rOOm was closed.