The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-05-20
SURGING SEA OF FIRE
PILES OF ASHES MARK THE SITES OF
FORMER VILLAGES.


not materaliZe for the panic.ctricken
inhabitants of the burned district in
this state. Some idea of the yastness
Of the tire district can be gained from
the fact that almost anytwo of the dozen
counties now filled with fire is as large
as the whole state of Rhode Islsnd.
The Toledo, Ann Arbor and Northern
Michigan railroad has been obliged to
abandon all attempts to run cars north
of the Clare county line. A freight
train and crew had a narrow
ESCAPE FROM CREMATION
yesterday. The ties in many places
were so badly burned that the rails
spread when the train went over.
When near Moore's siding one of the
cars in the center of the train was de-
rallied and the train crew were obliged
to abandon the rear part of the train
after working until the cars began to
smoke. Before they reached Farwell
there was another derailment, and all
but three of the train of eighteen cars
were left to their fate. Three of the
trainmen were badly blistered. The
wind shifted and drove the fire to the
southwest and into Newaygo, Mecosta
and Oceana counties. Cooks Station
and Barton, both in the line of the fire
have not been heard from and are
SUPPOSED TO BE DESTROYED.
West Troy, a few miles north of Otis,
has been environed by fire since early
yeste day morning and is supposed to
be in ashes.
Reports from Cadillac, Wexford
county state that the inhabitants Of all
the villages in the county have been
out fighting fire for the past three days,
and many of the smaller places are
wiped off the face of the earth. Where
Niyarna and fremont, on the Flint and
Pere Marquette road once stood, there
is nothing now but piles of ashes.
The village of Lake has not been
heard from since its last appeal for help.
Fire
SWEEPING THROUGH THE WOODS
near Red Cloud, Newaygo county,
while more than 100 miles away, across
the state, the little hamlet Of Taft is in
gulf of flame.
Monton in Wexford county, above
Cadillac is cut off from communication
with the outside world.
The latest news from Traverse city is
to the effect that the entire population
is out fighting fire. Millions upon mil
lions Of logs are burning all over the
centre of the state.
FOREST FIRES IN WISCONSIN.
PcNBINA, WIS, May 12.-Forest fires
have broken out along the line Of the
500 road between this place and Her
Evansville, and are burning with yigor
that bodies no good to the cedar inter-
ests unless rain descends very soon.
Just across the Wisconsin line from
the station Of Menominee river, on the
500, the line of five can be seen from
the railroad, which burns as far north
as the eye can reach, and from the i'm
mense volume of smoke which arises 1t
is plain to see that the fire runs back q
long distance north from the railroad.
There has been no rain of conse-
quence in this locality for two weeks
or more, and everything is as dry as
tinder.
A RAGING SEA OF FIRE.
WHITE CLOUD, MICH, May 12.-Fiye
upper townships in this county have
been q surging sea Of fire ever since
Sunday, and it is believed that not a
single one of the small hamlets is left.
Fields Station, with its four saw mills
and general store, is no more, and 800
people who lived there Sunday are to-
day without home or a roof to cover
their heads. Otia, or Dingman, as it Is
known to the postal authorities, is but
collection of smoking ruins, with 2O0
people who called the place home
standing around in despair.
Park City, in Lincoln township,
WENT OUT IN FIRE
and smoke yesterday morning. Moth
ing is left of the cluster of small houses
that marked the place. Lily Station Is
hardly worth the name OF station, as
only small hotel and smaller rail-
road station are left to mark the town
site. Freight cars without number and
logging trains melted away into ashes
on the tracks, where they stood await
| ing their loads of lumber.
DESTRUCTIVE FOREST FIRES.
WARREN, Pa, May 12.-Forest fires
in this section have caused aheavy loss
to the oil men. The fire started Satur'
day afternoon, and strong wind blow
ing encouraged it yesterday afternoon
and to-day, when great damage was
done. 1t was fiercely fought and final
ly extinguished. The loss to tanks, oil,
rigs. and to oil property aloneis estlma-
ted at fully S150,OO0.
BEYOND HUMAN CONTROL.
HUNTINGTON. Pa, May 12.-0ver
four thousand acres of valuable timber
lands are aflame within radius Of sew.
en- miles of this place, and in distant
parts of the county woodland is being
swept away to an alarming extent.
Mountain fires are beyond all human
control and can only be extlngulshed
by rainfall.
The farmers in the whole burning
district have sustained irreparabie
losses to fencing, and hundreds of acres
of growing grain have been ruined.
The fires originated from either rail.
roads or wandering bands Of Gypsies.
THE DAMAGE ENORMOUS.
BELLEFoNTE. Pa, May l2:-The
damage done by forest fires that nave
been raging throughout the county mas
been something enormous. All along
the Buffalo Run railroad, through near
ly every patch of timber, the IRE mas Ia
ragged, burning miles and Wlies OF renee,
orchards, valuable standing and cut
timber. A number Of logging camps
have been completely destroyed. Ihe
fires still continue to rage with unaoa,
ted fury in many places not yet burned
over. it being q hopeless task to hg9t
them. The loss will run into hundreds
of thousands of dollars.
A Startling Discovery.
CINCINNATI, May 7.-Dr: w. Diekore,
the analytic chemist, who is examining
the yiscera of w. B. Snooks, the dead
groom of the unfortunate Snooks-Herr
Wedding feast, says there have been zen
many such cases in the ono yaliey sa aho mo
nowhere else, and that he is satisfied tne
poi ,ioning came through milk used at
the wedding. the milk having become