The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-09-07


States, Of which the lumber baron,
Fred Weyerhauser, is the head, has
lost in the neighborhood Of 81 ,ooo, 600
in standing pine. The heaviest losers
here are The Chippewa Lumber &
Boom Company, Chippewa Falls,
$5ooo, 900; J. r. Davis Lumber
Company st,ooo, 900 White River
Lumber Company, Mason, Szoo, 900
Lake Superior Lumber Company, Ne
bogomain, $4,000 Jump River
Lumber Company, Prentice, S7co, 900;
Wisconsin Central Railroad, s5o,o5o ;
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis 81
Omaha, $Ioo, 900 Jacob Linerkunel,
Chippewa Falls, $40, 900 Owen Lap
pin, Chippewa Falls, 5000 town
Of Phillips, s7oo, ,ooo
The losses to the lumber companies
are mainly standing pine, on which
there was no insurance.
BAY CITY, MrcH., Aug Unless
rain comes at once great suffering will
be entailed o. those who have homes
in the path Of the FIRE. Or. McTavish
drove out into the country and report.
ed that eight families had to take
what little household and personal
goods they could find and move into
the village Of Kawkawlin. The prairies
between Bay City and Saginaw have
been burned over, and the fire is now
confined to the black loan surface.
which burns like punk, and the sitting
smoke that is produced is blown over
both Bay cities, which have been
enveloped all day owing to gale from
the southwest.
A resident Of the southeast part OF
Bay City was informed that some
timber land belonging to him near
Midland was being damaged by FIRE.
He drove in that direction, but on
account Of fire and smoke could not
get within two miles Of his property.
In Monitor and Beaver Townships
farmers have been fighting fire steadily
for forty-eight hours. Reports of the
loss of life have been brought in, but
are discredited.
IsHPEMIYG, Mich, Aug. go
Smoke settles at night in dense pail
over the cities and villages, being at
times so dense that an arc light is
invisible at $50 feet distant, and
nothing can be seen across the street.
The season has been unusually dry
and fires have been burning most of
the time since May. Considerable
damage has been done in every county,
but Ontonagon County has suffered
the heaviest loss, and it is in this
county that the heaviest reserves of
pine are growing, as it was opened to
settlers and lumbermen but a few
years ago.
The Diamond Match Company has
been the heaviest loser by fire. OF the
25o,ooo,ooo to 800, 900 feet Of
standing pine burned in Ontonagon
County, the Diamond Match Com
pany has lost over 100, COO, 900. The
lumbermen have already put crews
in the woods cutting damaged pine.
The Diamond Match Company will
cut at least 100, 100000 feet and as
much more as possible, as against
$4,000, 900 last season.
HARRIsvTLLE, Mich, Aug go
Forest fires, which have burned with
intermittent vigor, have thoroughly
swept all of the locality between this
city and West Branch, eighty-iour
miles distant, along the line of the
Michigan Central Railway. Many
families have lost everything, and are
suffering from exposure and hunger.
Crops, fences and entire sections and
townships Of valuable lumber have
been swallowed up, and the only
salvation for the little property re-
naming is rain.
GLADwIN, Mich, Aug. 90
Stevens Station, small mill hamlet
between here and Pinconning, has
been practically destroyed by fires
which have been raging for the past
ten days. A train which ran through
the place was set on fire in several
places and many windows broken.
SEATTLE, WASH, Aug. 3o.-Forest
fires are common enough in this coun-
try, but in FIVE years there has been
none to equal that which now prevails.
Navigation on the sound has been
rendered somewhat dangerous by rea.
son of the smoke. Several towns on
the sound have been threatened with
total destruction, but SO far the dam.
age has been light.
The fire departments at Whatcom
and Bellingham, as well as citizens,
have been constantly fighting FIRE for
the past forty eight hours. In What
com several houses in the outskirts
have been destroyed and many bridges
burned on country roads. The dam.
age to standing timber which has been
destroyed by the flames cannot yet be