The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-02
FLANE-SWEPT FORESTS.
Wisconsin Towns Fairly Licked Up
and Wiped Out.

A Black Murky Pail Hanging Over the
Stricken State - So Dense is the
Smoke From the Blazing Woods
That Electric Lights Are Turned on
in Broad Day-Great Loss of Life
Feared-Meager Details as Yet.
Rice Lake, Wis, Sept. Terrible for
est fires are raging in this vicinity and
the town of Bashaw, fifteen miles north
of here, is entirely wiped out. Railroad
bridges are partially burned, and tele-
graphic connections are entirely cut off
from the north. The noon passenger
train which left here at 80 reached as
far as Bashaw, but had to return, picking
I'D what people they could find.
Some of them were nearly overcome
with heat and smoke, and would
have perished had it not been for the
timely rescue. A party was sent out
from here by a special train, but only
succeeded in finding one man. whom they
discovered half crazed, wandering around
in search of his family, having got sepa-
rated from them while escaping from the
flames. 1t is thought that some are
burned to death, as no trace can be found
of them.
DENSE CLOUDS OF SMOKE.
Ishpeming, Mich, Sept. 1.-Smoke
from burning forest fires was so dense
that it became necessary to turn on the
electric lights this afternoon. There are
no very large fires nearer than Ontagon
county, but thousands of small ones are
filing the air with dense smoke. Farmers
are losing crops and rain is very badly
needed Thousands Of square miles of
the upper peninsula are covered with
dense smoke.
VILLAGE SWEPT AWAY.
Ashland, Wis, Sept. News has been
received here from the fire-swept forest
regions of Ashland county that the flames
have swept away the village of Marengo,
a thriving lumber mill place near Ash
land, Two hundred families are rendered
homeless, but no lives have been lost as
far as known. A large quantity of lum-
Der was burned in the yards. The mill
of Spencer x Co. and / ,506, 600 feet Of lum-
Der were destroyed.
SAW MILLS IN ASHES.
A great fire is raging at Washburne
The saw mills are in ashes. Assistance
has just been sent from Ashland The
wind is blowing forty miles an hour.
FOREST FLAME IN MINI EsoTA.
st. Cloud, MINI, Sept. The pine
region of Eastern and Central Minnesota
is all ablaze tonight and thousands of
dollars, worth Of property is being de-
stroyed. At last account the town of
Mllaca, Millelac county, was on fire with
little probability that the flames could be
stopped before every building on the
place was razed. So far as learned three
persons have been burned to death.
A farm house near Milaca caught fire
at o'clock this afternoon, and in the
house was sleeping babe The mother
first ran in for the little one and was
smothered in the flames. The father
followed and was burned with all his
little family. Another man in the same
nelghborhood has disappeared, and it is
feared he has also perished. The names
OF these people have not been secured.
81 Cloud was asked for help late in the
afternoon and train sent at4 80 over the
Eastern Minnesota. The train was only
able TO proceed as far as Bridgeman, as
beyond that point all bridges, ties and
telegraph poles had been burned.
The ST Cloud crew got the fire under
control around Bridgeman and was then
forced TO return to this point. All east
eln Minnesota trains are stopped and will
not be able to proceed to Duluth until ex-
tensive repairs are made.
MlIaca is a town of about 400 inhabi-
tants, in country thickly covered with
pine trees. Reports up to midnight from
Becker, Crow Wing and Aitken counties
are to the effect that thousands of dol
lars worth of property has been de-
stroyed, including hay and grain, stock,
Iarm residences, fences and woods.
TWO TOWNS GO Up IN SMOKE.
Minneapolis, Mimi. Sept. IA tele-
gram from Pine City, MINI, at / o'clock
a. m, says; Fire destroyed Hinckley at
terly. Fifty people burned to death.
Mission Creek also destroyed"