St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-09-23
The FORESTS AFLAME
Great Fires Burning in the
Woods in Minnesota and
Wisconsin.
The Village OF Finlayson,
Minn., Supposed to Have
Been Destroyed.
Women and Children Sent
Away--Sandstone in Great
Danger.
Two South Dakota Towns
Said to Have Suffered :
Seriously.
Specials to the Globe

| specials 10 the Globe.
HINCKLEY, Mimi, Sept. 22.-Fores6
fires are raging all around us, and the
village would have certainly been swept
| out of existence to-day but for the
| heroic and uDtiring efforts of our fire
company. which has been OH duty con-
tinually for the last thirty-six hours,
and will have to be out all to-
night. The dense smoke and heat
drove many of the citizens
from their homes on the outskirts to-
day. The Brennan Lumber company
has large force ditching around its
lumber yards tonight. Bush fire will
cease if the wind is favorable. Finlay-
son is reported destroyed, and all
the women and children of
that place were sent down here
on the st. Paul & Duluth
limited this afternoon for protection.
Sandstone is in imminent danger. A
large number of buckets were sent there
from here to-day. A great quantity of
hay has been destroyed and number
of cattle belonging to our lumbermen
are lost and supposed to have been
burned. The village is safe for the
present, but there is a terrible fire
about mile west which may destroy iti
before morning if the wind gets in that
quarter. Finlayson sent for assistance
but 1t could not be given on account of
our situation.
HURON, S. D., Sept. CIT is reported
here tonight that Villas, Miner county,
and Bradley, Clark county, were badly
damaged by prairie fire this afternoon.
The wind has been blowing all day at a
velocity Of forty miles an hour, carry
ing the fire over the wide fire breaks
and plowed fields. The destruction to
crops and farm property at Villas and
Bradley is said to be very great, but no
particulars are obtainab!e tonight.
HOWARD, S. D., Sept. 22.-For the
last two weeks it has been very dry in
this locality aud and heavy wind has
been blowing almost continually, and as
result the grass and stubble have
become very dry. Scarcely a train
passes without setting the grass en fire
at some point. To-day while nearly the
whole town was out to put out fire
south Of this place the train set another
one farther west. The wind was blow
ing so hard that it was almost impossi-
bic to stop it, and even then not until
many thousands of dollars worth of
grain in stacks was bnrned.
CARLTON, Mimi, Sept. 22.-HeaYy
forest fires have been raging all day with
in few miles of this place, burning
over sections that escaped the ravages Of
last springs fire. The late intensely
hot weather has rendered the whole
region like finder box.
ASHLAND, Wis.,. Sept. 22.-Forest
fires are doing immense damage in this
section. Several homesteaderS near the
reservation have lost their shanties and
barely escaped with their lives. Timber
is very dry and burns like shavings.
Reports from down the Omaha road say
that the damage will be the heaviest
ever known unless the flames are
checked. Over hundred acres are
said to be a mass Of flames about three
miles from Cable. The telegraph wires
are down.
TURTLE LAKE, Wis, Sept. 22.-The
village of COmstock was nearly de-
stroyed by fire to-day. The fire caught
from the forest fires raging in this
nelghborhood. Comstock is near the
city of Cumberland, which is in great
danger of scOrching. If no rain falls
soon there will be still greater loss Of
property, as it is Impossible to stop the
fire.
CAKES, n. d., Sept. ga disastrous
prairie fire started east of this place at
8 o'clock. The damage to shocked and
stacked wheat is very heavy. The area
covered by the fire amounts to thousands
Of acres. The fire is still burning. One
man has been burned fatally.