The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-08-12
THE FOREST FIRES.
A Terrible Tale of Destruc-
ton in Wisconsin.
THE LOSS CAN'T BE ESTIMATED
Homes. sawmIlIs, Timber. BipeaiHg
. Grain Laid Waste aad in
Ashes
III. wisconsin Fires.

MIIwAUEEE, Wis. August liza dis
patch from Green Bay says the IRE IS
still raging throughout the woods in
that vicinity. The reports from the
towns of Eaton, Bellevue aud Depere,
tell OF much loss and distress. Nineteen
families in the vicinity of WoodruiFs
old mill were burned out. The C'ausen
family OF five saved their liyes By
getting into 3 well. The reports from
Laucy and Angelica, in Shawano
County, state that the ere is very bad.
Five families we're burned out and their
crops destroyed. A mill near Angelica
burned Fred Regan. near ST. Nathans.
Oconto County, lost i've buildings, and
his crops. Several Of his neIghbors
suffered likewise. Bridges on the
Little Suamico River are gone.
The people in the burned dis
trict are terrified. The roaring
of the flames in the woods Can be heard
two miles away. Big Suamico Is out of
danger, but little Suamico is having 8
hard time now. Several families were
burned out in the town of Denmark
and stripped of all their possessions.
Around the postoffice the residents all
packed their goods and there was a
regular exodus 10 Green Bay and Man
itowoc. The streams are drying up
and cattle are dying of suffocation.
Their bodies can be found near the
roads at intervals. Twelve miles from
Green Bay, in the town of Humboldt,
the FIRE is raging fercely. Several res
licences were burned yesterday.
Trenches and fire breaks do not stop
the DANES. The people in the threat
ened towns sleep out OF doors, ready for
an emergency. Large loads of provi-
sionS were sent to the sufferers from
Green Bay. and contributions would
not come amiss.
DANGER LESsEsISG.
Though the forests in the northern
tier of counties in the Stare are still
ablAze and are likely to remain on fire
till rains quench the flames. the danger
to the villages and towns is over, unless
heavy gales should sweep down upon
them. While not over a dozen cases OF
human cremation are reported, il is be-
iieved that many backwoodsmen, ana
families remote from the settlements
cannot possibly have escaped The
fatality to live stock has been terrib,e
Hundreds of charred bodies of cattle lie
on the blackened track of devastation.
Ii is estimated that in Calumet, Clarke.
LAaA9AnOn au1 lev a4laCCnk COulAtCcs
500 families are rendered homeless and
destitute and will suffer unless immedi-
ate relief Is sent them. Many of these
people had narrow escapes from death,
having hidden in wells or submerged
themselves up TO their Recks in the
streams with wet blankets covering their
heads until the ire passed. In some
places the FIRE swooped down so sud
denly upon the people that they
barely had time to seek this method OF
safety In other places the roar of the
flames was heard for miles. and the
terror-stricken people fled madly before
the flames to neighboring villages and
houses. The loss cannot even be esti-
mated. Hundreds OF homes, dozens of
saw mills and lumber camps and mil
lions of feet of timber are in ashes.
Acres upon acres OF ripeniDg grain
were laid waste. To-night's advices
are that the fires are abating consider I
ably by running into clearings. and be-
cause the wind has died out. How
ever, fears are entertained Of 4 repetition
should high winds prevail again before
rain appears. Along the Valley diyi-
sion Of the Chicago, Milwaukee & 81.
Paul railway, heavy rains to-day ex-
tinguished al the flames, saving the
largest cranberry marshes in that sec
ton. To-day. suffocating clouds Of
smoke from the burning forests were
borne BY the north winds IS far south
as Milwaukee. On the lakes near Green
Bay. Sturgeon Bay, and even farther
south, the smoke clouds are so dense
that the sun is obscured and vessels
experiences difficulty in navigating, it
being impossible to see 400 feet ahead at
midday. ~ -