The record-union., 1893-09-18
Forest Fires in Wisconsin Doing
Terrible Destruction
FLAMES COVER AN AREA OF TWO
HUNDRED SQUARE MILES.
An Epidemic of Yellow Fever De-
clared at Brunswick, Ga.-Eleven
New Cases of the Disease Reported
Yesterday Hundreds of People
Rush to the Trains to Desert the
Stricken City.
Special to the REcoRp-u UNION.

ASHLAND wis.,, Sept. 17.-This has
been an exciting day for Ashland. At
noon the people were called out from
worship by fire alarms. Cinders and
smoke became almost binding all over
the city. Over thousand volunteers
were added to the fire department to fight
the flames, which rushed in on the city
from the Odanan Indian reservation. AT
O'Clock there was wild cry of despair
among the people living near the Mil
waukee, Lake Shore and Western Rail-
road shops. The water works had given
out. Chemical engines were brought. but
it was useless to try to stop the flames, as
high gale of wind was blowing. The
coal shops caught fire, and dead loco
motives were fired up to run all rolling
stock TO the lake. Household goods were
burned, and over hundred families are
already homeless. Twenty men were
overcome in fighting the flames and taken
to the hospital. Three families near Ma
rengo perished. There was no help to go
to them.
| At Parishville the large iron plant is
burning. A large number of women and
children who rushed to the lake FRONT
were only saved by desperate effort
with patrol wagons.
The fire is thasame that has been rag
ing further south all week, and the heavi-
est part did not reach here until to-day.
Settlers arriving have pitiful stories TO
tell, and are being cared for by those who
| still have houses. A man named Egstrom
was driven crazy by the loss OF his wife
and family of two children. His hair and
eyelashes and clothing were burned from
his body when discovered.
A hn ncfjY fnd ~ fIpn
now covers nearly 200 square miles, and
is sweeping north. The damage to stand
ing pine will be very heavy, and approx
mates not less than S5,000,000.
A woman and baby, supposed to be the
wife of q settler, were picked up in an in
! sensible condition tonight near White
River road. The child died soon after ar
irving here The mother is in delirium,
and it is supposed that the husband per-
ished at the Odanan reservation.
Indians are camping on a raft in Bad
River, and are hemmed in with an arch
way of flames. All communication is
cut off from the surrounding small towns
to-day. 1t is impossible to give details of
to-day's holocausts and the losses, but if
rain does not come tonight the death list
will run up high.
A number of small towns and villages
throughout the burned section that may
have shared in the disaster are Marengo,
White River High Bridge and numerous
others. If the path of the flames took in
such settlements as these, then woe and
death have surely been left in its wake.
Parishville, which is reported on fire to-
night is composed of about 100 build
ings in addition to big plants of the
Parish Manufacturing Company, en-
ployed in the making of mining and saw
mill machinery. In Ashland itself there
is no immediate danger of a general con-
hagration unless a cyclone whirlwind
fire should sweep the city off the face of
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