Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-09-06
MINNESOTA FOREST FIRES.
Three Hundred and Sixty-FOur Lives
Lost In Minnesota and Wis
cOnsin.
Total number dead, 364.

Total number dead, 364.
The above is a close estimate of
he number of lives lost in the for
est fires in Wisconsin and Minnesota |
on Saturday night. They are di.
vided among towns shown below:
Hinckley, Mimi, 200; Sand
stone, Mimi, 62; Miller, II; Skunk
Lake, IL; Pokegame, IS; Various
lumber camps, 80. Total 364.
Milaca, Mimi, reports a heavy
property loss but no persons injured.
At Luding, Mich, much property
was destroyed and heavy cloud Of
smoke hanging over the lake made
navigation almost impossible.
At Even. Mich, all the water in
the village was used to fight the
fires that threatened to destroy the
place. The beer depot then burned,
leaving the people nothing to drink.
The fire department of Ishpeming,
Mich, is making desperate efforts to
keep the fire from entering that city,
which it threatens to do from the
south.
All trains on the Iron Mountain
line in Michigan have been delayed
"a hours by the fire.
At Norway, Wis, heat from the
fires was So intense that potatoes
and turnips We're cooked in the
ground.
\ detachment of the fire depart
ment of Duluth has been sent to
help fight the flames that threaten
10 destroy the village of Cadotte.
The towns of Riblake, Marengo
and Bradshaw have been completely
destroyed.
\ detachment of the Chippewa
Falls fire department has been sent
to help fight the fire that threatens
to destroy the village of Cadotte.
Only one house was left standing
in the town of Baronette, Wis.
Shell Lake, Wis, had 50 dwell
ings burned.
lncendiaries attempted to aid the
work of the forest fires which inyad
ed Ashland, Wis. Five of them were
caught and narrowly escaped lynch.
ing.
At Sandstone Junction If people
lost their lives in the fire and one
| crazed by pain, committed suicide.
| The Forest Fires.
The forest fires i'll Minnesota and
Wisconsin are more serious than nj
first reported. \ wide district has
been swept by fire that came almost
as suddenly as cyclone, n dozen
or more cities and towns having been
destroyed, hundreds of lives have
been lost and thousands of people
have been made homeless. The
details of the calamity are simply
appalling and the story of disaster
told in the dispatches published
this morning is almost without pre-
cedent IN the record of thrilling and
horrible incidents.
In addition to the loss of life and
the destruction OF homes and estab
lishments representing business
activity, wide stretches of valuable
timber have been destroyed and the
losses will be counted by millions
One of the popular novelists Of the
day made one of her stories notable
by graphic description of forest
fire that came with such suddenness
and tierceness as to Overtake tour.
lists in boats and on railway trains
Nothing in that lurid and pictures
que narrative exceeds in thrilling
interest the story of the struggle
flight, and death or narrow escape
of thousands of people in the fire.
swept district in Minnesota and
| Wisconsin.
The fury of a forest fire in Il dry
season is not to be stayed by mans
ingenuity. In the old prairie fires
measures could be taken to turn the
tide of destruction, but before the
fierce blazes of the forests man stands
as helpless as were the victims OF
the Johnstown flood. Railway
trains are overtaken, whole towns
swept out of existence, isolated
homes by the score or hundred
burned, leaving no trace of those
who occupied them, and Il wide ex-
tent of country blackened to a
desert. This is the story in brief OF
the fires in Minnesota and Wis.
consin.
Probate Court meets next Mon
day.