Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-10-02
VAST SEA OF FlA7
FRlGHTFUL DEvAsr.
THE NORTHWEST ION
Millions Of Feet of stand,n.
in Minnesota-Duluth In So. Blu
and the Fog Horn Neces,.r.' oark
Vessels. " q

VI otanulng Tmhe,
In Minnesota-Duluth In sem,'n HaI
and the Fog Horn Necessary ~ ark
Finiayson's Night of r.no.
Away from the scene ~ d.
by fire in the Northwest tha es vast
has been but little understood sl.na
four in the shade, l12 in tba Mn
the torrid tale told by Twin i sum-
mometers. The public scho 10y I
closed for . week. It has bo
Work S, t" check the fires in forest,
fields, and they are still burns burns
many places furiously. The n.aa
damage so far reported is At p sres
OAK, the business portion Of M a'
town being speedily reduced ~
The total loss Is figured at $50 o, az
most wholly uninsured. M, V'ooo y:
business house remains. Tho h" :" s,l
burned were one bank, one cbnr u,.al
hotel, several general storas '':.
their stock, and two or three du "'In
The country adjacent to Brad,en "e ~
to have been almost entirely devas,s
over an area twelve miles wide hr "a
ty-tive long, the destruction being wv
entire to crops and farm pronertn oa
The fires in North Dakota aro ~.
we'll under control, except around na
where several miles Of wheat tisl Hs
reported burned over. Otto Frodn .us
Engaged in blowing a fire-breaE
Overtaken and burned to death ~.
with his team N0se'
Finlayson, Mimi, had a nigh, NJ
ror. The village was thrown jn,o
widest state of excitement bv ,To
port that q windstorm was drv;r
forest fire directly toward the town
complete destruction was threa,.n
The news had scarcely reached
citizens before the smoke and e.
of burning pine trees came On
wings of the wind. Telegrams .,
ut once despatched to tho officials y,
st. Paul and Duluth Road to s,on
limited train going east at Finlaprl
and hold it until the women and u
iren OF the town could be sent aw1
This was done and tho train was N
until the weaker ones of all the famiI
were placed aboard and sent down
road.
The flames had reached the ou,sk
Of the village, and the male members
the families commenced the WORT
saving the buildings. All night il
they battled with tho flames, and. aid
by the cessation OF the wind, NJ
finally successful The fires aron
Pine City have been quenched.
At Hinckley, Mimi, also, the fire co
pany and citizens did battle with
fierce fires. Scorched by the flames !
sutf'ocated In the binding smoke, N
have fought an entire day for tn
homes. The wind subsidized and the fl
died down, but again Q stiff breeze. viii
soon blew into gale, sprung up in
southeast and famed the smo deri
fire into fierce life. TIE inmates of ;
hammers lumber camp escaped bv Q,
ting in the river and staying there
night. a party of six men started fr(
one of the Brennan Lumber Comps
camps to go to another:about two mi
away. an Sullivan, his brother
Mora, and Tom johnson, of Eau Clai
were of this party After going sh
ways they got in front of the fire
Dan Sullivan, missing his brother, vd
back with johnson to look for hi
| That was the last seen of them till tn
remains were found by John Brode a
their campmates The bodies were lyi
nbout twenty-four feet apart Sulliv
was burnt to q crisp, but Johnso
body was only badly scorched.
Fine ashes and burned leaves fell
shower over Duluth, while the sky
SO colored and the sun so obscured Il
the Government fog whistle at the h
Dor mouth was forced to blow to gu
In vessels. East, toward Ashland, f
are doing immense damage to settl(
and crops, besides wiping out vast Qu1
titles Of standing pine. THE intens
hot weather has made the wooded !
gions like finder. The range OF the fl
Is toward Ashland, and their progr(
is aided by the fact that week ago.
heavy wind blew down much timber. +
foliage of which has now dried out SUI
riently to aid tho flames.
Passengers arriving in Duluth try
the south say that all along the lineI
tho St Paul and Duluth Road fires
raging and great damage has been dol
the towns of Barnum, Mahtowa, sly
gcon Lake and Kettle River. In
standing timber near the railway on
line Of the Eastern Minnesota. north
liinckley. considerable valuable tim9
has been ruined and fires are s.
raging.
On the Northern Pacific, east iowa
Ashland, fires are doing immense oa|
age to settlers and crops, besides wip,|
nut vast quantities of standing pl1
Near Iron River. thirty miles east
Duluth. where there are many sett z
they are losing valuable property WI
working hard to save their houses
The fire destroyed several huhc'
,cres of gram near Nicholson. NJ
The heavies losers are w. Grams a
lohn Swcetman. A man and
whose names are unknown were ia' .
burned while p owing fire. break !
our horses they were using were !
burned. The Ere caught from 80
freight train.
A large area of South Dakota, al
days OF sweltering,hcat and fire tgnsli
was visited by soaking rain WI
brought relief to people almost 10
last stages of exhaustion.
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