Telegram-herald., 1889-05-07
THE WOODS ABLAZE.
Pres Raging n Wisconsin and
AalcnesoIa Eorssts-
rILES OF IIsBERIlsDs BURNED.
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81 PAU 2-n-a. A@y e I-EioEs feress
nrss azs raxing Ia Sorthsrn Minnesota and
AQEc1eru Wisconsin. az.1 - ia31neiass
s-4oGnI ot damage bas been cane. s12et-y
bos mGea SAa nos be gtossea tor
l-ales on three siss u Dulstn t1e
Ire Tsges S4nong tbs pines ana
allgy couutEy residences have teeA
1es1royed ID TIE nanes "a tie
herul&utown Tosd. Deer Daiptn,
every dwelling foT tour uliles hAs been De-
s-loyeA Il Is teafeG also that soles ives
have beea lost. A. incoming farmers report
vast sea u TIE which Is sN eeling every
thing before X A L.gh wind Is hlo"ing,
whieh makes it inpossibis tor any heed~ as
u - made assglnsz the IRE. IL must Amply
burn until thtre j. nothing more Iof q 10 oe-
strOy. Several houses were burned sun
day mean Spirit Lake large nuiaoeT 81
telegraph poles have burned, 50 that eom-
taunicat.ou = greatly interfered with Ia
sole places, TOO. ties On the track have
bgrued oct. making II dangerous 60 move
trains The 81 Paul hssited on tie Duluth
ran through tAs frs for mile Sunday
Afternoon Every hour adds 70 the
losses Nerth OF Turtle lake, Wis, 200
cords OF wood were destroyed al noon and
al . oclook another pile or 200 cords
WGusau. Wis, the Shields sawInill Gnd
Z Ia1l.en and half feet OF Eastwood and
pine. valued III 81. 90, wers complete
ly destroyed South OF Ashland for
80 miles the forests ars Gbiaze
On tho Fond tru Lac Indian ressrva-
ton over $40 go worth % s<idded logs went
up Other losses ageregsting $1,000 also
occurred On the reservation. Cumberland
Wis is almost wholly surrounded 10y FIRE
The losses aggregate S40. .OOo and the omin
us-lOokng flames are go near the
city that the people are intensely
alarmed North N GaIesburg, Wis, the
the had swept the country, destroying
every thing in it's path Houses, barns
gTaineries and fences have been swept out
OF existence. Along the Northern Paciiic IN
the neighborhood OF Cromwell the tam
arack forests and whatever else comes in
the fires way is being burned It is cloudy
and IL is hoped heavy rain may put stop
TO further spread OF the great fire.
Near Hinekley. Minn., Thomas Campbell
and Ernest Lowell were surrounded by fire.
and finally their camp outlit was burned
about them. They TOOK refuge on half an
acre of plowed around, but were terribly
burned and will die. -Four yoke OF cattle
perished
( DULUVH, Mimi, Nay 6-There was quite
a heavy rain for few minutes in this ira-
mediate vicinity Sunday, which cleared the
atmosphere in Duluth OF the heavy smoke
and checked somewhat the forest fires in
this neighborhood, but the shower was
local, and from reports brought in the
fires in most directions are raging
as fercely as Saturday. lumber
man who came to-day from Ashasd
Dc. q
was but little rain there and il didn't dc
any good in checking the fires between
this city and that place He reports neal
Pike Lake, thirty-fve miles from here,
perfect circle of nameA Near Carl
ton Station, Wis, h.teen miles east
OF here, on the Northern Pacific.
the house, barn and entire plants Of
the brick yard of Fred H. ApyQar were dc
strOved and he saved only the clothes on his
back. Superintendent Green, of the North
ern Pacific, came Ia from BTainerd Sun.
day and reports little lain in that direction
and the country covered with smoke from
the burning woods. An engineer on the
night train on the St Paul & Duluth
which arrived here Sunday morning sayi
that on the run from Mission Creek 10 near
Duluth, sixty miles. there was no need of
headlight. the tracks being lighted up by q
vast streak of fiamo. From the indica-
tions and reports the Ere must be
in some OF the big pine tracts west,
south and southwest from here. The
damage to settlers and farmers and to lum-
bernen viii probably be great. Myers
Bros OF this city have lost several thousand
dollars worth of ties and timber back Of
West D.lluth good deal of stock il
probably destroyed Several lumber camps
have been burned out Everywhere the
cry is for rain.