The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-05-07
THH BURNING FORESTS,
Additional Accounts Of the Great
Fires in the Northwest,
DULUTH, MINI, is HEMMED IN
BY Sea of Flames-Farms DeyAs-
tated, Travel Interrupted and
Lives Lost-Raip, but not
Enough to do Good,

ST, Paul, MINI, May 6,-Furious for
est fires are raging in Northern Mime
sofa and Northern Wisconsin and an
immense amount Of damage has been
done, For miles on three sides ol
Duluth the fire RACES, and many country
residences have been destroyed by the
flames, On the Hermantour road near
Duluth, every dwelling for four miles
has been destroyed. 1t is feared that
some lives have been lost, as Incoming
farmers report a vast sea Of fire which is
sweeping everything before 1t, A high
wind is blowing which makes II impos.
sible for any headway to be made
against the Are, 1t must simply burn
'hntil there is nothing for 1t to destroy,
Several houses were burned yesterday
near Spirit Lake. A large number Of
telegraph poles have been burned and
communication Is interiered with. In
some places, too, ties on the track have
burned out making 1t dangerous to
move trains. South OF Ashland for l50
miles the forests are ablaze. On the
Fond Du Lac Indian Reservation, over
$4,000 worth oil skidded logs went up.
Other losses aggregatiug $4,000 also oc.
CURED on the Reservation,
Cumberland, Wis, is almost wholly
surrounded by fire, The losses aggre.
gate $4,000. North OF Grantsbars,
Wis, the fire has swept the country,
destroying everything In its path. Along
the Northern Pacific in the neighbor.
hood OF Cromwell and Tamarack forests
and whatever else comes In the way Is
being burned. It hoped a heavy rain
will come soon to put a stop 10 the
further spreading OF the fire. Near
Hlnckley, Minn., Thomas Campbell and
Ernest Lowell were surrounded BY fire,
and finally their outfit was burned about
them. They took refuge on half an acre
OF plowed ground, but were terribly
burned and will die. -Four yoke Of cat
tie perished.
A dispatch from Duluth, Minn., says
that there was quite heavy rain for q
few minutes ln that vicinity yesterday,
which cleared the atmosphere In Duluth
OF the heavy smoke, and checked some.
what the forest fires in that neighbor.
hood, but the shower was local, and the
fires In most directions are still raging
A lumberman who arrived yesterday
from Ashland, Minn., on the Northern
Pacific railroad, said there was but little
rain there, and It didn't do any good.
Near Carlton Station, Wis, the house,
barn and entire plants Of the brick yard
II +. Fl. Assygar were destroyed. Su.
perintendent Green, OF the Northern
Pacific, 10 in from Brainard. Hereports
little rain in that direction and the coun.
try covered with smoke from the burn.
ing woods. An engineer on the night
train on the st. Paul & Duluth road,
which arrived here yesterday morning,
says that on the run from Mission Greek
To near Duluth, sixty miles, there was no
need OF headlight, the tracks being
lighted up by the flames. The damage
to settlers and farmers and to lumber.
men will be great. A good deal Of stock
Is probably destroyed, Several lumber
camps have been burned out. Every.
where the cry is for rain.