The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1893-06-01
TEN NET WITH DEATH.
EIGHT OF THEM BURNED IN AN
OLD WELL.
Terrible Fate of Unfortunate Who Took
lie u;e from Michigan Raging Forest
Fires In Deserted Pit, Never to Emerge
Again.
Flames In the Forest.

Flames In the Forest.
A forest fire destroyed Louis Sands
lumber camp near / axe City, Mich.
Out OF total crew OF sixty men forty
nine escaped uninjured. One, Edward
Sullivan, was seriously burned and ten
are deaC. OF these, eight took refuge
In well and were creniated there by
the timber and curbing falling in on
them and burning. Two tried TO run
the gauntlet and were burned to death.
The men were assembled at dinner and
the forest fire, which was burning all
around. entirely cut of escape. When
the men. realizing their danger. ru she'd
out of the iuilding in which they
had been sitting the smoke SO
blinded them that they lecame
tcwildored. They ran hi,her and
thither, unable to find Il means OF cs-
cape, and their horses stampeded owing
to the confusion. Eight of the men
jumped into we'll to escape the ilames
and there died Of sufocation. Their
bodies have since been bl ought TO the
surface. Other men rushed % the
wo IDS and some of them thus escaped,
but the bodies of two of them were
aftcrward found burned. Cne man
there died in fearful agony. Eight
teams OF horses were crenated. The
lodies of the burned ha~e been taken
to axe City. where they await burial.
Most of the un;ortunetcs were strangers,
and the bodies will be shipped 10 friends
where known. The fire in the timber
near the camp of BIO !gett, GUNNER x
Dwiggins is under control and no fur
thCr q; niger is feared there.
ssa lin W, hi. Blue.
A little spark and strong southwest
gale at Saginaw, Mich, resulted in Il
very destructive fire. In a brief period
the work of years of toll was destroyed
and the fhircst portion Of Saginaw left
mass of smoldcrihg ashes and debrs.
The fire ia sal to have started from the
chimney of Briggs Il Cooi or, on what
is known as the middle ground, and,
waited by the gaze, 1t swept down into
the dismantled mill plant of Sample X
Camp, on the docks of which were a
number OF piles of lumber. Tae Bris-
tol street bridge next caught and por'
tion of it was destroyed. Thence the
flames leapcd 20 the east side just below
Bristol street and north of the city hall,
where were located a large number
of buildings, including hosc-house No.
6, !. f. Winkler's ice-Eolses. Eleven
residences on Tilden street and on both
sides Of Washington avenue down 10
Holden street were quickly licked up.
Then the sparks were carried across
the cd bayou into the premises of the
George F. Cross I.umi ier Company, the
planning mill, lumber in the yard and a
dozen tenement Lousf melting like
snow Next came the Arlington Il
Curtis Manufacturing Company's es-
tensive plant and Passot's old soap fac
tory, all of which were wiped out Here
the fire strucA jefferson avenue, and in
an hour some of the finest residences
in the city were in ashes. The flames
made clean sweep north to Emerson
street, where the fire continued east
ward, south and along Emerson street
towarl the city limits. 1t cut wide
swath on Owen, Howard, Sheridan ant
/ Warren avenues and other streets east.
p, st. Ninccnt's Orphans Home succumbet
early, but The inmates were all remove,
to places Of safety.
In many instances houses caught fir.
aud were destroyed before the oc9u
pants were hardly aware that they Were
ir danger, aud dozens of families savct
practically nothing. 1t is impossible t.
! give a correct account of the losses ant
insurance. The former will reacl
nearly SD o. on, with probably an in
surance of S.00,e0D Fully Loco mel
employed in factories burned are throw
out of employment and hundreds O
families are homeless, as about thrc'
hundred buildings were Turned. OEl.
one life was lost. that of .'ohn Clark
employed in McClelland 8 file factory
who burned in front Of his own Eouae
A fireman named NcNally was quit,
severely burned There will lie man,
cases OF distress. but the great majorit,
of the losses are distributed anon,
people comparatively well-to-do. Th
heaviest loss is that of +. German
which too.s up 10 S35a,G0o and throw
35o men cut Of employment.
Wise ,::-in Towns DE :r"yed.
Saturday was bad day for the town
and cities of Northern Wisconsin. whic
are surrounded by the pine woods. III
wind blew gaze, and vegetation is s
! backward that everything was as DIR
as tindcr The conditions were thos
that generally obtain late in the fall
and precautions against fire are the
taken. As it was, forest fires ragged o.
along the line o. the Milwaukee. LAX
Shore ard Western Railroad from IN
tipO 10 BuckbrC ana 1fOf tlanu JUNO
tion to Wausau. The town o. fryan'
near Amigo, was entirely wiped Out
and the inhabitants forced to ilee f.
their lives Thirty buildings Were de
s:royed and not a single house OF an
Ge- -cription was left to mark the tow
sic. About one million feet of lumte
and three hundred thousand feet of log
were also destroyed. There was it'll
insurance Many Of the inhabitants {
Bryant spent last night in the wood:
1t was day of great excitement &
, Amigo. Forest fires blazed ali aroun
, and there were several alarms Of Ere i
the city. The last fire started in th
> afternoon anI swept over the souther
, portion of the city, destroying Weed
= mill and about forty houses. The dan
! age will exceed 100000 and 600 peopl
! were made homeless.
. NIi.re :. To wn Burned.
A dispatch from Rock Creek, Minn
, says that that town is dcstroye'
: Among the buildings are two cener;
stores. a derot and several residence
: The loss will probably re ch S3n,Gt
: The wind at that point blew gale, an
4 the town had not appliances for tigh
I ing fire. Rock Creek is n ruilro;
Town i'll the pine country, sixty mil,
north OF st. Paul.
PELTING HAILSTONES.