Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-06-17
FlAM E. SWEPT.

DULUTH, Mimi, June 20.--Accurate |
Information regarding the Mesaba |
range fire is now available. At Vir- |
ginia there IRE thirty-two buildings |
still standing and $40 were burned. AT |
Mountain Iron there We're six buildings |
burned. At Biwabik the damage was |
slight. Merritt has sixteen houses left. |
There are on the range about 5000
people homeless, many of them without
food or clothing. The fire is still burn
ing furiously in the forests and all
about the towns that are left, but un-
less the wind changes they are not in
danger Duluth will care for all the
sufferers. 1t has been decided not to
appeal tor outside aid.
Small fires are burning ali along the
range still and change of wind will
cause more damage, but the danger is
not imminent. The mining com.
panies suffered heavily. The camps
at the plants of the following
mines were either entirely or
Franklin, Jones, Mesaba, Mountain,
Ohio, Rouchleau, Burke and New Eng
land. The Minnewas mine escaped
and the Wyoming has not been heard
from.
The total loss as nearly as it can be
estimated is in the neighborhood of
S1.100,0 900. The insurance will not ex-
ceed S400, 900 and may fall short of that
srm. The losers are SO scattered and
everything is in such confusion that no
details of loss or insurance can be OBJ
tanned.
Every effort is being made here to
prevent suffering among the hundreds
of homeless people. General public
meetings We're held Monday and gen.
eral relief committee organized. This
committee has now in its hands about
$4,000 and a great quantity of clothing
and provisions The greater portion of
the women and children from Virginia
are in Duluth.
Several persons are believed to have
perished at Virginia. A local physician
found bones of an adult male and
female in the debris of one of the
houses, but there is too much confusion
and the people are too widely scattered
to make it possible to check up or locate
any that may be missing. A man and
at the Lone Jack mine. w. G.. Taylor,
of Virginia, was badly burned, but is
| still alive.
Trouble is feared at Virginia from
| the character of the population. AS in
all new mining towns, the men are
many of them hard characters, and
lawlessness is anticipated
The first train bearing the refugees
from the range, carrying $50 people,
mostly women and children, arrived
in Duluth at 1870 a. M, and the
wearied and hungry passengers
hurried from the coaches to the
baggage-rooms, where elaborate
lunches We're spread. OF all the
crowd the greater portion was
penniless, dependent absolutely upon
what charity might be offered. Few
had saved anything beyond thecmost
meager effects, and for the whole
train load there was but one trunk.
A most graphic description of the fire
at Virginia was given by James McCar
thy, an actor, who had been playing al
the Star theater. He was accompanied
by his wife and little child. He said
1.-THE fire had been burning about Virgini;
| for several days, but no one else seemed Il
worry, so we did not Saturday night we wer,
called out TO fight the fire, but it was easily
got under control Sunday morning it was wors,
and the town was almost surrounded b.
fire About 2 O'Clock the wind, whicl
had been rising all the morning, began to blov
perfect gale and houses on the edge of thu
town began to burn. People went mad. The.
attempted at first TO save everything ant
began moving furniture. Then they tried L
SnNrA lioht arti hut no tha fra
fiercer they were glad 10 save anything an,
escape with their lives. The town burned lill
tinder; the light frame buildings were like s.
much paper The whole town was in ruins Il
less than an hour The terrified people gath
cred about the Mesaba depot, where the officer
of the road were doing everything for thei
safety. A train of ore cars was backed int
the depot and the people loaded in All tn
way down we came through lane of fire.
Similar forest fires are burning owe
the whole upper Michigan peninsula
So far no towns have been burned, bu
three days more of the intensely no
and dry weather that has prevailed TO
the last fortnight will do incalculabl
damage.
, ASHLAND, Wis, June 20.-Forest fire
are raging everywhere in norther,
| Wisconsin and have done great damag
| W tiiiDSl' 4No rain I'D
, fallen for over a month an
the fires run through the wood
) with almost irresistible rapidity
t Iron River, a lumb bering tow
rs miles west of here, was saved Sur
day night by strenuous efforts. onl
, one schoolhouse and six dwellings wer
| destroyed. At last accounts the fir
| was approaching from the west and tn
: town is again threatened. The villag
of Sanborn, 10 miles south of this city
, was wiped out Sunday, every buildin
being destroyed.
, AT Moquah John Meagher, prom
, nent citizen, was burned to death Will
fighting the fire which destroyed h
Il homestead. Many other fatalities al
rumored, but particulars are me,
ger. AS everything is dry and he
, the worst is feared. Two children
Z names not known, We're burne
a to death at Sanborn. The Norther
Pacific bridge at Minersville is gor
, and bridge 800 feet long on the sout