New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-05-13
THE BLAZING WOODS.
In Numerous States are Resistless
Flames Sweeping Through the


In Numerous States are Resistless
Flames Sweeping Through the
Forests. Ill -
LUDINGToN, Mich, May 12.-Walkerville.
small town in Ocean county, the terminus
OF Butler d Peters logging road, was al
most totally destroyed by forest fires yes
terday. The hotel, stores, livery barn,
saloons, blacksmith shop and all but few
dwellings went up i'll smoke. Five hun
dred thousand hardwood logs also burned
Fires are raging in the woods over the
country and doing incalculable damage
kltzlnger's mill at Freesoil was also de-
stroyed
GRAND RAPIDS. Mich, May The Chi
cago & West Michigan station at Shields,
near White Cloud, was destroyed by forest
Tires yesterday afternoon. Eighteen Chi
cago West Michigan freight cars were
burned at Lilley Junction. At Bightley,
on the Chicago & West Michigan, 1000, 600
feet Of logs owned by Dunshern, Bolinder
& Co. of Muskegon were DESTROYED yester-
| day.
Saturday the people of Deer Lake were
panic-stricken by the neSr approach of the
names from the burning forests, and par
ties in this city interested in lum-
ber'ng there sent special train with
fire engine we'll manned to render assist
ance. Upon arriving at about o'clock
this morning they found the danger averted
by change of wind, although the inhabi-
tants of the little village IN the woods h ad
had narrow escape. They had packed up
all their household goods and effects. The
town was threatened by southwest wind
which had driven the fire to the north
ern edge and burned space to the
northward when it shifted to the north,
thus saving the town. All the telegraph
offices in the smaller being closed, it is inn
possible to get reports of damage or the
aversing of damage elsewhere, but in this
city copious rains have been falling nearly
all day and it is hoped they reached to the
smaller towns to the north.
OIL CITY, Pa. May 11.-Four gas wells,
eight oil wells several tanks and about five
square miles of forest have up to this even
ed Friday morning between Coal Hill and
President and broke out atresh to-day. COW
ering three square miles this afternoon.
Gangs of men from the surrounding coun-
ties have been sent TO fight the fire. No
estimate of the loss is as yet even approxi-
mated.
DETROIT, May l1.-Each additional re-
port from the region OF the forest fires
shows that the damage instead of being
exaggerated, has been under estimated.
Merely, Mecosta county, telegraphed to-
day that Altoona, a small village ten
miles from there, was in ashes.
Big Rapid, MecOsta county, report that
bad fires are raging in several places in the
county. a report from Pear lake, a small
settlement in the northern part of the coun-
ty, states that several houses were set on fire
by sparks blowing from the forest fully half
a mile away, and the people were driven
into the lake tor shelter. Harrison, the
capital of Clare county, has had
twenty four hours of imminent danger.
and summoned help from Clare and other
villages. Clinton, a small station on the
Toledo. Ann Arbor & North Michigan rail-
road, was wiped out yesterday afternoon.
and Hyde Bros 1000 900 feet burned. Far
we'll was burned yesterday, with all the
houses in the settlement.