The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-05-15
FIRE EATING TREES
Forests of Michigan and Wis
consin Going Fast.
DESTRUCTION OF LITTLE TOWNS
Duluth and Other Cities on the Lakes
Crowded with Destitute Fugi-
tives-No Rain Yet.

NEw YORK. May 14-Brfdget Clarke, is years
old. was suffocated and burned 70 death, and
Mary Colbert, her husband Maurice, and Mary
Meyler. injured at fire in tenement house on
Third avenue tonight.
cIScISsATI, May A-FIre in the malt house
OF Moerlein's brewery tonight caused damage of
$4,000.
PHILADELPHIA, May 1.-THE Belmont Oil
Works, a branch of the Atlantic Refining Com
pany, were almost entirely destroyed by fire
this afternoon. Up to a late hour tonight the
fire still burning, but 1t is believed 70 be IN
der control, although the proximity of twenty
or more tanks of oil, benZine and naphtha con-
stitutes element of great danger. The loss Is
$4,000 so far.
ST. PAUL. May i4-Raiiroad dispatches from
the district affected by the forest fires show
that the situation, while not at present threat
ening TO the railroad companies, is most grave.
Two miles east of Ashland the forest is seeth-
ing mass of fire. fierce fire can also be seen
across the bay, where last night it was reported
the danger was past Railway officials state
that the losses TO the companies will not be
worth mentioning, but the loss to private
property holders along the roads will be heavy.
Thomas N. Costello an extensive lumber
owner along the line of the Omaha road, places
his loss at 100000 The distress among the
settlers along the lines of the railroads is great.
Duluth, Ashland and Superior are full of people
driven out of the woods. Thousands OF dollars
worth of valuable pine is utterly wiped of the
earth. Five miles from South Superior the
country presents most desolate appearance in
the expanse of charred stumps, and for miles
and miles spiral columns of smoke creep up
ward and mingle with the murky atmosphere
already overhanging the scene. The dispatches
of the Duluth Railway Company from Black
River Falls state that the city is surrounded by
fire, though it is not thought the town is in
danger.
WEST SUPERIOR, Wis, May IA report came
tonight from Pike Lake that two settlers were
missing, and il is feared they have persisted in
the forest fires. kd
MARQUETTE, Mich, May 14.-Forest fires are
raging about Austrian, Alger county. The viii
lage is in serious danger. special from Besse-
mer says fires are raging all over Gogebec
county, and the loss in standing pine will be
very heavy.
PETALUMA. Cal, May IA dispatch from
Tomales this morning says fire broke out in the
Union hotel last night and burned ii, livery
stable adjoining, meat Market barber and tin
shops and a saloon on the east side OF Main
street. The loss is about $40 900, and the amount
OF insurance is not stated.
GAYLORD, Mich, May 1.-THE home of Robert
Duke, farmer of Remington, Montmorency
county. was burned today and two OF his child
rem persisted.
EscANABA, Mich, May 14.--No rains have
fallen in four weeks, and the situation is very
serious. The fires are now doing great damage
in Delta and Menomimee counties, and have
spread over a vast area.
WHITE CLOUD, Mich, May 1.-THE rains have
subdued the forest fires in this vicinity. Hun
dreds of families are destitute within twenty
five miles of here, and many hundreds will have
nothing to eat save what charitable people give
them. Some OF them are badly burned.
LUDINGToN, Mich, May 14.-The last one OF
the inhabitants of Walkerville, which was
burned Sunday, has been heard from, and the
report that number of lives were lost proves
untrue. Those who escaped saved nothing but
wearing apparel, and are in destitute circum-
stances Several points in this section report
homeless and destitute people coming in each
day.
PUNxsUTAwNEY, Pa, May IA great fire is
raging in the mountains between here and Bell
wood. II is sixty miles in length. Many people
have been made homeless.
BozENAN, May H-The Montana elevator was
burned today. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.