St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-05-15
The EFLAMING FORESTS
Are Still Creating Havoc in
the Fire-Afflicted Dis
triets.
The Lower Peninsula Of Mich
igan Is Afire Over a Vast
Area.
Two Million Dollars Will Not
Cover the Estimated
Loss.
Rain Would Prove a Precious
Boon in Many Local
ities-
Special to the Globe.

CARLTON, Mimi, May 14.-Forest
fires in this vicinity are still raging, and
in many localities have cut off travel on
public thoroughfares for hours at a
time. The only cessation being when
change in the direction OF the wind
would take place, or coming up on
places where previous fires had
burned everything. Indications are of
of rain, which is much needed.
BIG RAPIDS, Mich, May 14.-The
forest fires in the lower peninsula are
still burning from Manistee to Huron.
The loss from these conflagrations is
"lready estimated at S2,000,000 or more,
with probability that it will be
doubled, unless checked by rain. Some
OF the losses in detail are as follows
NewaygO county. 100000: Mecosta
county. county. $4,000; Lake Ike county, 5000:
Osceola county, $50, 600; Oceana county,
$50, 600: total for five counties, $3O5, 200.
This is the estimate of man who has
spent great many years in this section.
Ii 1t is nearly accurate and the counties
in which most of the good pine has been
taken out are damaged over a qnarter
OF million, the loss of the upper tiers,
where there are vast acres of unbrOken
forest, will far exceed s., ,0O0,O
LUDINGTON, Mich, May 1.-The last
one of the inhabitants of Walkervllle,
which burned Sunday night, 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.
BALDWIN, Mich, May 14.-Over one
hundred homeless, houseless women
and children are here, sheltered and fed
by charity, while the men have re-
turned to their late homes, whence they
were driven by the fire, to see if any
thing remains worth saving.
HART, Mich, May 14.-Fully two
score of families are here destitute, hav-
ing walked twenty miles to escape the
fires, leaving homes and everything be-
hind them.
TWIN LAKE, Mich, May 14.-By hard
work, the men, women and children
helping, this town has yet been saved
from the forest fires. The loss so far to
the mill and timber is about $4,000.
The fires are still raging in almost
every direction, and the danger is not
over. Three families have been burned
out. The men that were fighting the
fire were nearly hemmed IN, aud came
near sutfocating.
WHITE CLOUD, Mich, May 14.-Re-
cent rains have subdued the forest fires
in this vicinity. Hundreds of families
are destitute, and within twenty-five
miles of here, and many hundreds who
have nothing to eat save what charita-
bic people give them. Some Of them
are badly burned.
EECANABA, Mich, May 14.-No rains
have fallen in four weeks, and the situ-
alton is very serious. The forest fires
are now doing great damage in Delta
and Menominee counties, and are
spread over vast area. With a high
wind this city would be in great danger.
GAYLORD, Mich, May 1.-THE home
of Robert Duke, farmer of Remington.
Montmorency 5county. was burned, and
two of his children perished.
PITTsBURG, Pa, May IA special
from PunXsutawney Pa, says: A great
fire is raging along the mountains be-
tween PunXsutaWney and PellwoOd, on
the line of the Pennsylvania &5 North
western. 1t is sixty miles in length and
is still burning. Many people have
been made homeless. The officials of
the Pennsylvania & Northwestern rail-
road have repeatedly called out their
force of men to protect their property.
a daily and nightly vigil is kept along
the line III order to protect, if possible,
property that must otherwise surely
suffer the ravages OF the flames. Men
who live in this section of the noun
tains, and are acquainted with the his
tory OF the country around, state that
this is an unusual affair, and that fire
of like proportions previous to this date
never was known.