The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-05-13
FIRE RECORD.
Forest Fires in Pennsylvania and
Miohipan Still Raging
WITH UNABATED FURY
An Express Train Goes Through Burned
Bridge One Man Killed and
FIVE BADLY INJURED.

Four Gas Wells, Eight Oil Wells and Five
Square Miles of Forest Burned Near Oil
City-Other Fires.
DETROIT, May l1.-Each additional
report from the region of the forest fires
shows that the damage, instead of be-
ing exagrerated, has been underesti-
mated. Morley, MecoSta county tele-
graphed yesterday that Altoona, small
village ten miles from there, was in
ashes. Big Rapids, Mecosta county, re-
ports tia. bad iircs Averaging in several
places in the county. A report from
Bear Lake. q small settlement in the
northern par u tho cornty, states that
several houses were set on fire by sparks
blowing H. from the forest, fully half n
mile away, and the people were driven
into the lake iorshc'tcr
Harrison. the capital Of Clare county,
has had tvnu,y-four hours OF imminent
danger and summoned help from Clare
and Other villages Clinton, a small
station on the Toledo, Ann Arbor e
North Michigan railway, was wiped
out yesterday afternoon. Wagner &
Pierce had two million feet of logs and
HYDE Bros. one million feet burned.
Earwell was burned yesterday with all
the houses in the settlement.
GRAND RArIDs, Mich, May 10. Tho
GMeago & West Michigan station at
Shields, near White Cloud, was de-
stfoyed by forest fires Saturday after
n6on. Eighteen Chicago & West Mich
igan freight e=rs were burned at Lilley
iunction. Al Bightley on the Chicago
%West Michigan, 1000, 200 feet of logs,
owned by Dunsheern, Bolinder & 90,
of. Muskegon, vera destroyed
BRADFoHD, Pa, May ia special
from Kane Pa, says: Since o'clock
Yesterday afternoon destructive forest
fire has been eating its way through the
Kane oil fields, destroying the best part
of the northern half OF the producing
territory G. W. Schofeld and Koester's
property, on lot 3S5, is entirely con-
aumed. Ste.theimer & Co., on the
RrSgp lease, lose sixteen rigs. Two
thids of j. =. Cappcau lease, owned by
Preston and others, is in ashes.
At this hour (1l:4O p. M the fire con-
tinues with unabated fury. Another
furious fire is advancing on Porter
phmp station from the south and north
west. Hundreds Of men are in different
T-rts of the aeld fighting the fire. A
bigh wind makes their efforts futile.
The village of West Kane is threatened
with destruction.
BUFFALO, y. ", May lO.-Advices re-
ceived last night from Keating Summit,
Pa, state that the most disastrous for
est fires known for afty years are raging
within short distance Of Austin. in the
Immense timber tract Of +. c. e NJ. w.
Goodyear, Of this city. The fire was
discovered yesterday morning. Thirty
million feet of lumber and thirty cords
of bark were burned within ten miles
" the railroad track Telegraph and
telephone service is badly crippled and
Il is impossible to get details.
SUDBURY, Ont, May 1.-THE Pacific
express which left Montreal Friday
night, met with an accident near
Straight Lake, fifty miles west Of here.
Bush fires had partially destroyed a
trestle bridge over creek and the train
was too close when the fire was discov-
cred TO permit the engineer to stop.
The engine, baggage and mail cars and
two colonist cars went into the creek.
A man named McAlpin, from Quincy,
Mass, was killed and five passengers
injured, one seriously. The cars tool
fire from the debris and were destroyed.
The first class sleeping and dining cars
did not leave the rails and none of the
occupants were injured.
On CITY, Pa, May 11.-May H.
-Four gas wells, eight oil wells, several
tanks and about five square miles Of
forest hid up TO last evening been
burned by forest fires, which started
Saturday morning between Coal Hill
and President and broke out afresh yes
terday, covering three square miles
Gangs of men from the surrounding
counties have been sent TO fight the
fire. No estimate OF the loss yet ever
approximated.
LUDISGToN, Mich, May 1O-Wallser
vile, small town in Ocean county, the
terminus Of Buffers and Peters logging
camp, was almost totally destroyed by
forest fires Saturday afternoon. The
hotel, stores, livery barn, saloons, black
smith shops, and all but few dwellings
went up in smoke. Five hundred thou
sand hardwood logs also burned. Firet
are raging in the woods over the country
and doing incalculable damage. XII
Fingers mill at Eresoil, was also de
stroyed by forest fires.