St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-12
RUINS WIDE REALM.
Smoke and Fire Still Covering Northern
Wisconsin With Their Gloomy
Magnifcence.
Numerous Lives Lost, Hundreds Of Cattle
Destroyed and Growing Crops
Burned Up.
Probably a Thousand Families Left
Destitute by the Awful
Visitation.
Drowning Accidents in Ohio and New
York Destroyed Two
Families.
The Wisconsin Forest Fires.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Aug. 11.-Ihough
the forests in the northern tier of counties
of this state are still ablaze and are likely
to remain on fire until rains quench the
flames, the danger to the villages and towns
dotting them is over, unless heaVy gales
should again sweep down upon them.
While not over a dozen cases of human ere
nation are reported, it is believed that
many backwoodsmen and families remote
from settlement cannot possibly have eS-
capped. The fatality to cattle has been ter
rible Hundreds of charred bodies lie on
the blackened track of the devastating fires.
1t is estimated that in Calumet, Clark,
Marathon and few adjacent counties, 500
families are
RENDERED HOMELESS AND DESTITUTE
and will suffer unless immediate relief is
sent them. Many of these people had mar
row escapes from death, having hidden in
wells or submerged themselves up to their
neckS in streams with wet blankets cover
ing their heads until the fires passed.
In some places the FIRE SwoOped down
so suddenly upon the people that
they barely had time to seek safety. In
other places the roar Of the flames was
heard and the terror-stricken people fled
madly before the fire to nelghborlng villages
and towns. The loss cannot even be eS-
timated Hundreds of homes, dozens of
sawmills and lumber camps and millions OF
feet of timber are in ashes. Acres of ripen-
ing grain were laid waste. Hundreds upon
hundreds of cattle were
BURNED TO DEATH.
To-night's advices are that the fires are
Rbating considerably by running into clear
ingS and because the winds have died out
However, fears are entertained of repeti-
ton should high winds prevail again before
rain appears. Along the valley division OF
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul heavy
rains to-day extinguished all the flames
saving the largest cranberry marshes in that
section. To-day the suffocating clouds of
smoke from the burning forests were borne
by north winds down as far as Milwaukee
on the lakes. For miles from shore near
Green Bay, Sturgeon Bay and even further
south the
SMOKE CLOUDS ARE so DENSE
that the sun is obscured and vessels can
navigate only by continuous blowing Of
whistles it being impossible to see 400 feet
ahead at midday. A dispatch from Green
Bay says fire is still raging throughout the
woods in that vicinity. Reports from the
towns of Eaton, Bellevue and Depere re-
veal much loss and distress. Nineteen
families in the vicinity of Woodruffs old
mill were burned out. The Classen family
of five saved their lives by getting into the
well. The damage at Pensaukee is eSti-
mated at $50, 900. Reports from Laney
and Angelica, in Shawano county, say
that
THE FIRE IS VERY BAD.
Five families were burned out and their
crops destroyed. The mill near Angelica
was burned. Fred Regain, near st. Nath-
ans, Oconto county, lost five buildings and
his crops. Several of his neighbors suffered
likewise. The bridges on the Little
Suamico river are gone. People in
the burned district 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
q hard time now. Several families were
burned out in the town of Denmark and
STRIPPED OF THEIR POSSESSIONS.
Around the postoffice the residents all
packed their goods and there was regular
exodus to Green Bay and Manitowoc. The
streams are drying up and cattle are dying
of suffocation. Their bodies can be found
Oh the roads at intervals. Twelve miles
from Green Bay in the town of Humboldt
the fire is raging fiercely. Several residences
were burned yesterday. Trenches as fire
breaks do not stop the flames. People in
the threatened towns sleep out of doors,
ready for any emergency. A large load of
provisions was sent the sufferers from Green
Bay to-day and contributions would not
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