The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-08-15
Two CENTS.
THE BIG FOREST FIRES.
A LARGE SECTION IN THE NORTH
HEST A SEA OF ELAINE.


Not Living Creature Of Any Kind
seem in a six Miles Trsyel-Raiy
Quenches the FIam lin Lever Mi.
sias ifgan-A Tale too Terrible 10 Gre
CHICAGO, Aug IA. "A Green Bay, w
despatch, dated yesterday. says "a
night long the fires in the northwestern
| section of Brown County have been raging,
and the reflection of the dames has been
painting the sky bright red. East Of
! Green Bay the country has been cleared
of timber and is occupied by farm houses.
Everyone is suffering from the drought
+ and the crops are very poor In the
| township of Bellevue the ravages OF the FIRE
became apparent. Little patches Of burnt
I timber stood among the surrounding pine
forests. The ground in places was COW
cred by the gray ashes Of the brush and
leaves which had been consumed The
woods locked as though nipned by an
early frost The leaves on the oak and
/ hickory trees were brown and faded from
the effects tthe heat, while ia the portions
Of the woois where tbs fire had swept
awsts TIE isaves and small branches the
greas .reys stood grim and bare. In my
SIX .issla rlls | did not see a single bird or
living thiAg OF any kind. The township of
property has been great. Cd Monday mr..
Harry Woodruff of Woodruff Mills at
Lilly Lake, left his house with number
. OIL barrels OF water for james Ciansen, q
German neiglbor. Returning at a SLOW
frot he saw the smoke approaching and
whipped up his horses. sat one moment,
said, Mr.. Woodruff, ssthere was not a sign
Of Ere. Five minutes LATER it seemed
as though 1.-The woods ala around me-
were blazing" He started the team
towards home ct a mad galIop. barely
escaping with his life. There the fight
with the fire began. He wetzdown his
house, barn and the cid mill With water, of
which he had laid in good supply, and as
the fire brands came around extingulshed
them. In less than am hour the fire had
swept op and left him out Of idanger- He
went to Clansen's place TO render what aid
ne could. : House, barn. and wheat farm
had been swept away, and all around were
strewn the dead bodies Of pigs, sheep and
cattle. The Clansens did NOT save q dol
lars worth of property, and had no insur-
aace All through Eaton Township a SIM
liar tale is told. Most of the families in
this bells Of fire have taken reEugs with
friends, but one old German has con-
stfucted q kind of shanty out OF half
burned logs, and is living on the remains
of sheep which mad been killed By the
flames aad some provisions given MIN by
charitable neighbars. In Depere and Belvi-
adere townships, the loss was sven greater
than in Eaton. The Inhabitants are Tor
rather were, for it seems US though they
had now deserted their townships1 mostly
Poles. whe have carried No insu saE.ee, and
sswsdes Wig have something coming from
that source. InA Bellevue township. the
tleyastatit n is complete and the suffering
terrible. Many OF the burt-ou5 people
Rave been Injured in fighting the Hames.
z DETRoIr, Mich, August 4-Lespaseh
TO the tribune from different parts of the
NORTHWESTERN portion OF The Lower PENN
sglar report heavy showers which etfscsu-
ally put stop TO the forest fires in many