Los Cerrillos rustler. (Cerrillos, N.M.) 188?-1891, 1891-05-22
SMOKY REGIONS.
Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula
OF Michigan.
INCREDIBLE DEVASTATION REPORTED.
nalroad Property Not 10 Badiy Hurt-fri-
xzte Property suffers Most-slKty Miles
OF Tirs In OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ahle Distress

III NNAAH my
fires In the upper peninsula are still
burning from Manistee 10 Huron. The
loss from these coniiagrations Is already
estimated at s., 900, 600 or more with a
probability that IL will be doubled I'M
less checked by rain.
Some 81 the losses In detail are as
follows: Newaygo county, SloO, 600;
Meeosta county. $4,000; Lake county.
$4,000; Osceola, $50, 900; Oceana, s30,-
GOO. This II the estimate of u man who
has spent a great many years in this
section. II Il Is nearly accurate and II
the counties in which most of the good
pine has been taken out are damaged
over a quarter of a million the loss of
the upper tiers where there are vast
acres OF unbroxen forest will far exceed
s., 900. 600.
The last n Of the inhabitants Of
Walkerville, which burned sunday, has
been heard from and the first report of
a number OF lives lost proves untrue.
Those who escaped had nothing but
their wearing apparel and are in desti.
tute circumstances
over 100 homeless, houseless women
and children are at baldwin, sheltered
and fed by charity, while the men have
returned 10 their late homes whence
they were driven by the fires TO see If
anything remains worth saving.
fdE WISCONSIN, FIRES.
81. PAUL, Mimi, May 15.-Railroad
dispatches from the districts Of Wiscon-
sin affected by forest fires show that
a. .g4.ua... .Hhfl. not NJ nrnkRnt
threatening to railroad companies, Is
most grave.
Superintendent Kimberly states that
the greatest damage 70 Northern Pa
cifc property was in the vicinity OF the
Northern Pacific junction, where sew
eral miles of telegraph lines were des-
troyed. The lines were repaired and
are now working. The fires are still
raging, but at a distance remote from
the railroad property.
East of Ashland the forest fire was
raging this morning. Back firing and
cutting were resorted TO and last even
ing the flames seemed somewhat sub
dued, but at 6 o'clock, just ms darkness
came, the wind frcshened and the blaze
burst out afresh. Two miles east o
Ashland the forest il u mass OF flames
Fire shoots into the air seemingly l0t
feet high, and the smoke is SO dens'
that il hangs like a pail over every
thing. A fierce fire can also be seeI
across the bay where last night it wa
reported that danger was past
Railway officials state the losses I
the companies will be not worth men
tioning, but that the loss to privat
property holders along the roads vii
be terribly heavy. Thomas l.. Costello
an extensive lumber owner along h
line of the Omaha, places his loss q
5000, 600.
The distress among settlers along tn
lines OF the railroads is great A
though many families stayed by the
homesteads until the flames were q
their back doors il is thought that n
lives have been lost. Duluth, Ashlan
and Superior are full Of people drive
out of the woods.
THE PENNSYLVANIA FINES
PUNxsUTAwNEY, Pa, May 10
great fire is raging along the mountain
between Pu-nxsutawney and Bellwoo
on the line of the Pennsylvania
Northwestern. II is sixty miles
length. Many people have been mac
homeless.
Officials Of the Pennsylvania & Mort
western have repeatedly called OF
their force of men TO protect the
property. A daily and nightly vigil
kept along the line in order TO protee
if possible, property that must othe
wise suffer the ravages of the flames.
Men who live in this section of Il
mountains and are acquainted with u
history of the country around sta
that this is an unusual affair and that
fire of like proportions previous to I'll
date never was known.