The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-05-10
VAST AREAS or FLAME.
Michigan Forests Are Blazing
From Lake to Lake:
SWEEPING WHOLE COUNTIES.
Dense Clouds Of Smoke Hang Like :
Pail and Hide the Sun.
SWEEPING WHOLE COUNTIES.
Incalculable Loss OF Standing Timber,
Lumber. Dwellings,. Bridges. and
Other Property-Towns Hemmed In
by the Hungry. Red-Tongued Fiend.

Lake, near Reed City, 100 miles north Of
here, has telephoned to this city for aid,
and 4 steamer has gone there. The forests
are ablaxe, and Oysterhout & Fox's i'm
mense lumber yards, with $250,00O worth
of lumber, are surrounded by flames.
ALLIsrox, Ont, May 9.-Losses by yes
terday' fire will aggregate $500, 200, with
total insurance of about $4,000. One
hundred and thirty business houses were
destroyed.
DErRo1T, May "A report from Marys-
vile, Mich, says forest fires are burning
all over the copper country. At ChasseH
several farm houses and barns went up in
smoke and bridge was consumed. At
Sturgeon River the Thomas Neston estate
and the Diamond Match Company lose
heavily. Lake Superior. from Marquette
to Keweenaw point, is fairly black with
smoke, and all the fog whistles are kept
blowing constantly. The loss will be very
heavy. At Tawas, on the east shore, for
two days past the air has been thick with
smoke from the forest fires raging in the
woods back Of town, and which extend
clear to the county line. Ishpefning is
surrounded by fire, but there is no danger
to the town. Telegraph poles and rail-
road ties are being destroyed. and commu-
nication is likely to be cut OF at any time.
A fire Is raging in the upper central
counties of the lower peninsula to-day,
the ike Of which has never been known
before. The line of flame reaches almost
without q break from Mason county on
Lake Michigan to Issco county on Lake
Huron, with the forests of Lake. Osceola,
Clark. Gladwin. Ogemawa and sAlcana all
ablaze Another FIRE of scarcely less size
exists on the upper peninsula. The line
of the Duluth. South Shore q Atlantic
railroad through Marquette. Houghton,
Baraga and Ontanagon counties is in the
path of the flames. Two railroad bridges
are already gone, and the telegraph lines
are in bad shape. Fears are entertained that
the fire will reach some town. Last night
the flames swept into Oscoda and burned
ont 500. 900 worth of property. Great APP
prehcnsion is felt at Au Sable. An appeal
for help has been sent to Alpena- It is
feared the city will be swept away II the
wind shifts. Additional reports now COM
ing in show that widespread district has
been devastated.
CHICAGO, May "A small fre in the
basement Of laundry on North Clark
street resulted disastrously to firemen to-
day. A DOZEN men went into the basement
to extinguish the flames, when large can
Of gasoline exploded, fatally injuring two
and painfully burninga and bruising others.
MILWAUKEE,. May 9.-Reports from
Northern Wisconsin are that heavy rains
last night have checked the forest fires in
many localities. The principal damage
has been to standing timber. The Wis
consin Central and Omaha roads have
been caused considerable trouble by the
burning of bridges. Smoke from the
forests hangs like a dense fog over the
towns, and adds to the apprehension of
the inhabitants. Fierce fires are burning
in Shawnee county.
BooNE, Ia, May 9.-An incendiary fire
at Manning this morning broke out in the
postofice block and destroyed hotel, the
postofice, three dry goods stores, three
groceries and retaurants. three saloons, q
iewelry store and clothing store, besides
the dwellings of those living in the build
ings. Very few goods were saved. High
winds caused the fire to. spread rapidly.
and the loss will exceed $l25 900 with little
insurance.
HARRISON, Mich, May 9.-Forest fires in
this section are becoming worse, with a
strong southwest wind blowing. Meredith
is in great danger of being burned, and
alarm is felt there.
MAucH CHUNK, Pa, May 9.Fire is rag
ing in the Lehigh Coal and Navigation
Company's collieries at Summit Hill. All
the miners except one, Hugh Sharp. of
Lansford, got out of the mine safely. Sew
eral sustained severe bruises while escap-
ing.