The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-05-25
FOREST FIR E FA + LlTIEs.
FIERY DESTRUCTION OF a LUM-
BRR CAMP.
"a Disaster With Eleven Victims.
S Eight Being Suffocated in q Well
Where They RadThrown
Themselves for 81
Safety.@.ss Is
Thought They We're Safe.

Lake City, Mich, May pa forest
fire destroyed Louis Sands lumber camp
near here this afternoon. Out Of total
crew of sixty men, forty -nine escaped un-
hurt. One. Edward Sullivan. was serious
%ly. burned, and ten are dead. OF these
eight took refuge in a well. and We're
cIemated there by the timber and curbing
falling i'll on them. and were burned.
The dead are: 34
Michael G..Pagen.s
Charles G. Taylor. ,.s,s
James Hugh Tx
Edward Roorabach: married
Samuel Campbell, foreman Of camp. :.
John Hill. i:
Fred Sager. II fIis.:
Hans JACOBSON; married. 4! = 4
Frank Sangreen.
Mike AIulholland.
The property loss consists of three
horses, forty hogs, camp tools, etc.; also
eleven cars loaded with hogs owned by
the Thayer Lumber company.
Detroit, Mich, May pa dispatch to
the Tribune from Cadillac. Mich, gives
fuller particulars of the burning to death
of eleven men at Sands lumber camp
yesterday. The men were assembled at
dinner, and the forest fire. which was
burning all around, entirely cut off all
ger, rushed out Of the building in which
they had been sitting, the smoke so blind
ed them that they became bewildered.
| They ran hither and thither. unable to
find means of escap, and their horses
stampeded owing to the confusion. Eight
of the men jumped into a well 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
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 have been
taken to Lake City, where they await
burial. Most of the unfortunates are,
| strangers here, and the bodies will be-
| shipped to friends. where known. The
| fire in the timber near the camp of Blodg-
EFT, GUNNER & Diggins is under con-
| troll, and no further danger is feared,
| there.
Fire broke out near Tustin. and ran.
two and half miles in eight minutes.
! The farm house of a man named Ander-
| son was destroyed. Mrs. Anderson and.
her two children persisted in the house.
Tie sawmill boarding house belonging to-
Edgar N1orgareidge, on the Toledo &
Ann Arbor siding. four miles from here,
was destroyed by fire. Loss $4,000; no
insurance The mills at Lake City We're
shut down yesterday to fight the fire.
! The city was in imminent danger.
Property Destroyed mt Rock Creek
Rock Greek, Mimi, Special, May 22.-
Forest fires have been raging here the
last two days. This afternoon the wind.
came strong from the northwest and the
fire soon made this city visit Calls
were made from towns north and south
for aid and a construction train from
Hinckley was rushed through, but in
vain. The residence Of Mr.. Edgerton
and the station building were about the
first houses burnt. The household goods
are scattered throughout the neighbor-
ing fields. Barns and sheds were also
burned. There was no insurance on any
thing burned. The loss is about 5000.
If the wind should change from the south
it may give the wood and lumber yards
u close call. They contain about 1000
cords of wood and large quantity Of
l hardwood lumber. ..=