The herald., 1893-05-22
The Horrible Fate of a Party
of Lumbermen.
A Forest Fire Hens Them In
and Cuts Off Escape.
Three Burned to Death and Eight
Suff0cated in Well.
Particulars of the Saginaw, Hrich., Con
fagration Fatal Flames in st.
Louis-Other Firss-Three Chill
dren Cremateds
By the Associated Press.l

BY the Associated Press.l
LAKE Cry, Mich, May 21.-A forest
fire destroyed Louis Sands lumber camp
near here yesterday afternoon. Out of
the total crew of go men, 40 escaped un-
injured. One, Edward Sullivan, was
seriously burned and 10 are dead. OF
these eight took refuge in a we'll and
were cremated there by timber and
curbing falling on them and burning
Two tired to run the gauntlet and were
burned to a crisp. The dead are :
Michael G. Pagen, Charles G. Taylor,
James Hugh, Edward Roarabach, mar
ried; Samuel Campbell, foreman John
Hill, Fred Sager, Hans Jacobson. mar
ried; Frank Sangreen, Mike MuIholland.
Ghe property loss consists of three
horses, 40 hogs, camp tools, etc also IL
cars loaded with logs owned by the
Thayer Lumber company.
FULLER PARTICULARS.
Fuller particulars of the burning of IL
men at Sands lumber camp show that
the men had assembled at dinner and
forest fires, which were burning all
round, entirely cut off escape. Real
izng their danger, the men rushed out
of the building, but the smoke 30 blind
Ell them that they broke bewildered.
They ran hither and thither unable to
find means of escape, and their horses
stampeded owing to the confusion.
Eight OF the men jumped into well to
escape the flames, and there died of
suffocation. Their bodies were brought
to he surface today. The others rushed
to the woods, and some thus escaped,
but the bodies of two were afterwards
found burned to a crisp. One man
reached Lake city terribly burned and
there died in fearful agony. Eight
teams of horses were cremated. The
bodies of the burned men were brought
to Lake CITY, where they await burial.
Most of the unfortunateH were strangers
here, and their bodies will beshipped to
friends where known. The fire in the
timber near the camp of Blodgett, Cum
mer n Go "a dipginga ia under control
and no further damage is feared there.
THE SAGINAW coNFLAGRATroN.
SAGINAW, Mich, May 21-The report
Of the fire yesterday, in these dipatches
last night, was substantially correct.
The scene was one OF indescribable ex-
element, the people becoming frenzied
in their desire to remove their house.
hold effects from the devouring ele-
ment, which rushed madly on ita Jour
ney OF destruction, burning everything
in its path. Strong hands and willing
hearts rallied to the aid of those whose
homes were in danger. Dfays, delivery,
wood, ice aud coal, wagons, buggies,
hand-carts, cabs, and everything in the
shape of vehicle was pressed into SER
vice to move household goods bevond
the reach of the fire. Vehicles loaded
with household goods and the horses
on frantic run, were rushing in all di-
rections, and the vacant lets were soon
occupied. In many cases property after
being removed to supposed places of
safety, was found to be on fire and was
destroyed.
The body of man supposed to be
John Clarke, who perished, was identi-
fed this morning as Robert Turner, aged
SO years. Clarke is still unsccounted
for. There will be some destitution, but
the majority of the Losses sustained are
by people in comfortable circum-
stances. The people OF Saginaw will
take care of the needy ones and no ap-
peal will be made for outside aid. Close
estimates place the number of buildings
destroyed at 275, and the total loss sus-
tanned at 100000. The total insurance
win aggregate about $6O0,00
FATAL FLAMES IN ST. LOUIS.
ST.. LOUIS, No., May 2l.-Fire at mid
night destroyed 5000, 1000 worth of prop
erty and caused loss of life. The fire,
which was incendiary, completely de-
Htroyed three story brick block occu-
pied by the @. NJ. Crumm company.
One hundred and fifty horses were
burned to crisp and an entire lot of
buggies, phaetons and other vehicles,
harness, etc., destroyed. On the second
floor James Quinn, foreman, wife and
eight children were asleep. All had a
narrow escape except Eddie, 7-year old
son, who was fatally burned. Insur-
ance, SIP 600.
FIRE AT PROVIDENCE, R. I.
PROVIDENCE, r. l., May 21.-Fire this
evening burned the Slater Mill and
Power company's building. The losses
so far as ascertained are: Waterman
Machine and Tool company, S75, 900,
partially insured; Diamond Machine
$75 600, partially insured
American Tubing and Webbing COM
pany, 5000, fully insured; Reynolds
Jewelry company, S20,-
600. fully insured The losses of the
Rhode Island Electric company and
smaller concerns aggregate about $50, 900.
THREE CHILDREN cREMAT.D.
BUFFALO, N. Y, May 2l.--A cottage
by John Downey, wife and five
was burned to the ground this
Three children, John, aged
7, ANNE, aged 8, and Frank, aged 4,
perished in the flames.