The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-05-20
BURNED TIMER. !,
ADDITIONAL ACCOUNTS OF Loss q,
THE FOREST FIRES.
territory Twenty by Thirty Miles IN
Extent Burned Over-Farm Propertv
and Millions of Feet of Lum-
Der Destroyed.

GREEN BAY, Wis, May 20. AS report,
come In from sections devastated nv tn,
forest fires OF the past few days the indiyid
nal losses and general damage are shown &c
DO greater than first reported.
In Brown county the yillapss AT D,ct
Creek, Mil Center Flintville, and littls
Snamico all suffered severely and n wa,
only through the cessation of the wind on
Saturday night that the buildings in Flint.
vile were saved.
IN oconto county there were heavy losses.
ana IN the neighborhood of Stiles, at Little
Suamico, Oconto Falls, and Maple Valley
nara work was required up to the moment
that rain came.
All through the three counties of Brown
oconto, and Shawano the damage to grow.
ing timber, both pine and hardwood
and To the fencing of farms ha.
been great Much property ba.
been destroyed in the shape Of piles of wood
posts, ties and poles. and many farms are
left unprotected against roaming cattle.
just as the busy planting season is at hand,
owing to much Of the destruction being
wrought on Isolated clearings and through
thihIy settled and remote regions, it is i'm
possible TO give specific losses or a fair state-
ment OF the damage, Among individual
losses at Suamico are John Robishaw
house and barn: at Little Suamico. Nelson
Fen, house and barns, and several Polist
families burned out William Lucen lost
his barn and its contents, Al
West Pensaukee, George Powers
barn; at Oconto Falls, Charlie.
bagley barn, and Norbert Allie, resi-
dence. At Maybe Valley, John Ramuser,
barn. These are only scattered losses Ii
the locality of each there were further and
serious losses of which no names or particu
lars have been received. 1t is known in q
general way that many families lost every.
thing, The rainstorm that set in Sunday
morning continued through Monday, and
it Is believed that the last smouldering
traces of the fires have been wiped out.
IoNIA, Mich, May 30 II Heavy forest fires
have been raging along the Big Rapids di
vision of tue Detroit, Lansing & Northern
and the Saginaw * Western railroads for
fully three days. The fires extended from
McBride's to Millbrook on the former and
Lake View to Riverdale on the lat.
tern territory thirty miles east
and west and twenty north and
south; besides destroying large
amount of timber, Thompsons mill. al
Granville, with 500 900 feet of lumber and
,O0O0 900 shingles were burned loss, S. 900
insurance, Sl,590 Fawcetts mill, nsar Me
Brides, also turned, and l,O00,0O feet oil
lumber belonging to Grossly OF Greenville A
slight rain Monday night checked the fire
Saturday nights frs ct McBride's burned
fifty three buildings in less than two hours.
Nearly the entne village was consumed,
probably worth S.. 900, with small insul.
auce.
GREEN BAY. Wis, May 2e.--Reports that
continue TO come from sections in whicl
forest fires havo been raging, show that the
destruction has been even more general an
the damage greater than has previously an
peared. At the same time, tho fact that tin
fires have prevailed in sparsely settled and
remote locations has prevented the gather
ing of much detailed information for an &C
curate estimate of the damages In thi
BROWN county the fire was confined to tn,
western and northwestern portions.