Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-05-13
FILLED WITH FIRE.
IMMENSE AREAS or COUNTRY IN THE
NORTHWEST AFlAME.
Towns swept from the Face of the Earth
The People Panic-Stricken-The
Losses IncnIculabie.
nv telegraph 70 tho Dispatch.

DETRorT. Mich, May 12.-The hoped-for
security from the recent rain did not ma.
terialze for the panic-stricken inhabitants
Of the burned district in this State. Some
idea of the vast area Of the fire district
can be gained from the fact that almost
any two of the dozen counties now filed
with fire is as large as the whole State of
Rhode Island. The Toledo, Ann Harbor
and Northern Michigan railroad has been
obliged to abandon all attempts to run
cars north of the Glare county line.
MARROW ESCAPE PROM CREMATION.
A freight train and crew had a narrow
escape from cremation yesterday. The ties
in many places were so badly burned that
the rails spread when the tram went over.
When near Moore's siding one Of the cars
in the centre of the train was derailed and
the train crew were obliged to abandon
the rear part of the train, after working
until the cars began to smoke. Before
they reached Farwell there was another de-
railment and all but three Of the eighteen
cars of the train were left to their fate.
Three of the trainmen were badly bis
tered.
MANY TOWNS DESTROYED.
The wind shifted and drove the fire TO
tib SOulINtel anu lElO 4NthhNEOs 1lttO7iH,
and Oceana counties. Cooks station and
Barton, both in the line of the fire. have
not been heard from and are supposed to
be destroyed. West Troy, few miles
north of 0tia. has been enyironed by fire
since early yesterday morning and is sup
posed TO be in ashes. Reports from Cadil-
lac. Wexford county, state that the inhabi-
tants of all tho villages in the county
have been out fighting the fire for the past
fbraa 40 as,A 4bat pf tho arp0llgr
places are wiped of the face of the earth.
Where Nivarna and Fremont, on the Flint
and Pere Marquette road. once stood there
is nothing now but piles Of ashes. The
village of Lake has not been heard from
since ITS last appeal for help.
EXTENT OF THE DISASTER.
The fire is sweeping through the woods
near Red Cloud, Newaygo county, while
more than 100 miles away across the State
the little hamlet of Taft is in q gulf Of
fame. Monitor, in Wexford county, above
Cadillac. is cut off from communication
with the outside world The latest news
from Travers City Is TO the effect that the
entire population is out fighting the fire.
Millions upon millions of logs are burning
all over the centre of the State.
EVERYTHING AS DRY AS FINDER.
PExB1NA, WIS, May 12.-Forest fires
have broken out along the line of the 500
road between this place and Hermansville
and are burning with a vigor that bodies no
good TO the cedar interests unless rain
desconds very soon. Just across the Wis
consin line from the station of Menominee
river on the 500 line Of fire can be seen
from the road which burns north as far as
the eye can reach, and from the immense
volume of smoke which arises 1t is plain to
see that the fire runs back long distance
north from the railroad. There has been
no rain Of consequence in this locality
for two weeks or more and everything Is
| as dry as finder.