Connecticut western news., 1894-08-02
A TOWN WIPED OUT.
PHILLIPS, WIS, FLAME SWEPT AND
 LEFT IN ASHES.
Fourtess Persons Known to Have Per. ished In the Fire That Licked SD a Thriving Tow~ In Tow nears-RsIlsf For the sufrerers.


 Thriving Tow@ In Tow Hear.- Relief
 For the suf.rers.
 PHILLIPS, Wis, July so-Relicf trains have fairly poured into Phillips untn there arc supplies of food hero now sum. ciont to last the fro sufferers a month. The relief committee asks especially for clothing md money and these will be amply provided by the people of the state without outside help.
 Four bodies were rescued from the lake. Relief supplies came from Milwaukee,, Ashland, Marshfield, Stevens Point Su. perior and other places. Mon wore set to work building n large meas tent wherc tho homeless people will be fed, and put. ting up temporary structures, where they can sleep.
 The dead SO far as known number is, but the exact number will probably never be known.
 owing to the arrival of parties of tramps and rough oharacters- who threatened trouble. A box car has been turned into a jail, special deputies sworn In, and all lawlcssncss will be HupIs-ossed.
 The terribio soene horo boggarS all dc soription. The blackened faoes of those who fought to save their homes stare with bloodshot eyes at the hoaps of ruins which mark their once happy homes Not since the terrible forest fires destroyed Peshtigo has anything occurred which will com. pare with the scene of ruin hero. A committee of citizens from Ashland has arrived with n special train of pro. visions' It was the first material relief to arrive, and it arrived just in time to keep tho people from actual suffering for of out in small quantities, SO as Co make them last As long as possible Men and women walk the strccts all begrimed, wrlnging their hands and bomoaning thoir sad fate.
 Hut Few uattdinE. ptenaan-
 One church, town hall and some small buildings are all that Is left standing. They werc immediately converted Into shelter for the destitute, but only a few of | the womon and childrcn could crowd into l them. A vast majority had to remain without shelter and food all night but tants were brought in from neiRhboring towns, and improvised huts arc being util- ized today.
 Two moro bodies have been recovered from the river, whore the terrible holo- caust oocurred--those of Mir James Locke and ono of his ohildron. II | men, women and children took refuge was showed from the shore. Beforc 10 had gone far the suction of tho flames drow it right up Into regular furnace of fire The boats were either overturned or the people 1 jumped. It is now estimated that 1b lives were lost at this plaoo. It is supposed that the bodies of several | children arc buried under the ruins of the wagon and footbridgo which, it is claim ed, gave way while they were trying to escape from the flames to the peninsula which runs out into the lake, approach ing closely the location of the John R Davis Lumber oompany's plant
 Mrs Cliss, who was picked up after oliuging to an overturned boat for an hour, is doing nicely, and N Is thought sho will recover
 The list of the larger losses approxi. nately is:
 John R. Davis Lumber company. $500, o00 Fayette Shaw Tannery company, $lb0 900; Wisconsin Central Railway conn pany, SEQ, 000 Jump River Lumber com. pany, s20, 900; oity and county property. s7b. oo0.. Fifield Manufacturing company, ss,oo0; Duluth South Shorc and Atlantic Railway company, sio 900; F. B Hunt SEQ, GOO; c. c. Kcliehcr. SIS, GOO, Jacob Rasmussen. si0. 900; Giles House. SIS. OOo This is not counting the half million loss | to the residence owners.
 The list of dead recovered from the river is as follows:
 Mrs Dave y3ryden and two children, | James K. Ioko and two children and Frank Cliss and one child There arc three still in the water.