The Globe-republican., 1893-05-26
FIERCE FLAMES.
Terrible Fate of Michigan Lumber
men.
Forest Fires Overtake Them and Ten Per
ish-Mexican Gold PROJECTORS Starve
In Q Desert-Only One of the
Party Escaped.



fire destroyed Louis Sands lumber
camp near here. Out of total crew OF
sixty men forty-nine escaped uninjured.
/ One, Edward Sullivan, was seriously in
| jured and ten are dead. OF these eight
took refuge in a we'll and were Gre
| mated there by the timber and curbing
falling IN on them and burning. Two
tried to run the gauntlet and were
burned to crisp. The dead are:
Michael G. Pagen, Charles G. Taylor,
James Hugh, Edward Roorbach, mar
ried; Samuel Campbell, foreman of
camp; John Hill, Fred Sager, Hans
jacobson, married; Frank Sangren,
Mike Mulholland.
The property loss consisted of sixteen
horses, forty hogs, camp tools, etc.
also eleven cars loaded with hogs owned
by the Thayer Lumber Co. The men
were assembled at dinner and the forest
| fire. which was burning all around. en-
tirely cut off all escape. When the
men, realizing their danger, rushed out
of the building in which they had been
sitting, the smoke so blinded them they
became bewildered. They ran hither
and thither. unable to find a means OF
escape. and their horses stampeded,
owing to the confusion. Eight of the
men jumped into a we'll to escape the
flames and there died of suffOcation.
Their bodies were brought to the sur
face to-day. Others of the men rushed
to the woods and some of them thus es-
capped, but the bodies of two of them
| ga hrpr m a
crisp. One man reached Lake City ter
ribly burned and there died in fearful
agony Eight teams of horses were
cremated The bodies of the burned
have been brought to this city, where
! they await burial. Most of the unfOr-
tunates were strangers here and the
bodies will be shipped to friends. where
known. The fire in the timber near
the camp of Blodgett, Gunner & Dig
gins is under control and no further
danger is feared there.
Fire broke out near Tustin, and ran
two and half miles in eight minutes.
The farmhouse of a man named Ander-
son was destroyed. Mrs. Anderson and
her two children persisted in the house.
The saw-mill boarding house belong
ing to Edgar Morgareidge, on the
Toledo & Ann ArbOr siding, four
miles from here, was destroyed by fire.
Loss, $1,000: no insurance.
| Perished in a Desert.
MANELLOA, Mexico, May 22.-Francis
Banada, prominent rancher who lives
north of here near San Juan Sabinas,
has arrived at Manelloa and brings the
| first news of the terrible fate of party
of five mining prospectors, who left
here four weeks ago for the Sierra
San Vicente mountains in the north
western part of this state near the
Texas boundary. There have been
many reports circulated in this part of
Mexico for several months past of the
famous mineral wealth to be found in
those mountains, and a party of
young men, consisting of C. H. Lorian,
b. w. Knapp. both Americans, Cecilia
Martinez, Eustacio Lojada and Jesus
Guerrero organized themselves into a
band to try their luck in the reported
Eldorado.
The course of their journey lay
through desert for $50 miles and on
the third day after leaving Santa Rosa
their water supply gave out and their
team of horses was left behind to it's
fate. For six days the men lived on
the juice of the maguey plant. On the
seventh day two of the Mexicans were
driven crazy by the heat and thirst,
broke away from their companions and
soon became lost in the desert. Other
members of the party gradually lost
their strength and were left behind
to die. The only man that came out of
the terrible ordeal alive was Mr..
Knapp. who on the tenth day reached
the San Jose Piedras ranch, where he
received water and kind treatment.
On regaining his strength he was es-
corted to San Juan Sabinas by differ
ent route than the one which had
proved fatal to his companions. He is
now resting at the ranch of Mr..
Banada and will soon take his depart
ure for his old home in the United
| States.
|
A Husbands Fatal Mistake.