Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-08-04
SMOKING RUINS.
All That Is Left of Mammoth
Plants in Minneapolis.
bhevlin- Carpenter Lumber Yards and
Omaha Railroad Shops Are Burned
Loss, S5OO,OOO-The Situa-
tion at Phillips, wis.
COSTLY BLAZE AT M1NNEApoL1s.

of the Shevlin-Carpenter company on
the west river bank Monday after
noon. 1t proved to be the third big
blaze in the history of the city. 1t de-
stroped 5000, 900 feet of lumber, the
Office of the Shevlin Carpenter COM
pany and twenty-five freight cars the
round-house, and the gas works of the
Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis & Oma-
ha Railway company. The loss is
$500, 900, and the insurance 20 will amount
to S350,000. The Omaha company is
protected by a'blanlSet insurance.
The fire started shortly after 8
o'clock and owing to the long drought,
rendering everything as dry as tinder,
spread with alarming rapidity. A
strong northwest wind was blowing
| which swept the fire down the river
toward the sawmill. The entire fire
department was soon on hand and
| seven engines came from st. Paul in
response to a call for aid.
At 4:30 the Omaha roundhouse was
on fire and only with the greatest diff
| fculty were dozen engines got out
| and run down the track. Meantime
| line of freight cars caught fire and the
| efforts of the company were directed
| to saving them All were hauled away
but twenty-five, some of which were
| loaded with merchandise. The round
house was totally destroyed.
About o'clock two gas tanks near
the roundhouse exploded with ter
rife roar, stampeding the crowd and
spreading the fire. Soon after the
boiler of stationary engine exploded
and several men had narrow escapes
from instant death. At $50, just when
1t seemed that the fire would sweep
| down into the business district, the
wind shifted, and the danger was
practically over Only by the almost
superhuman efforts were the Omaha
offices, the big warehouses and the
Star elevator saved.
PHILLIPS, Wis, July 31.-For miles
around here the forest fires cont inue
to burn. Early Monday morning a
fire to the northeast swept in on the
| back tack and threatened to destroy
the poor farm, the fair grounds and
all of the timber along the east shore
OF the lake. An alarm was sent in
from the farm and $50 men from Phil
lips with buckets, shovels and axes
reached the scene none too soon.
The fire was coming over the
hills with a roar and in a short time
with the freshening wind blowing
from the east would have swept
through the poor farm and burned the
sick and crippled men who are in
mates of the place. A fire brigade ar
rived also from Prentice. 1t stretched
over territory quarter of a mile
wide, and fought fire by cutting the
brush around the farm and backfiring
. it. After several hours work the dan.
ger passed.
Phillips is now the safest place in
| this section for the simple reason thai
, there is nothing to burn except the
earth and few struggling trees or
the outskirts of the town. The peo
pie of Phillips scattered to all points
in the surrounding country and are
coming back slowly. 1t will be impos
sible to say how many have been lost
{ until all still alive return and the
: noses are counted. Some of the eye
r witnesses OF the fire say numbers O.
r people who sought safety on the log:
| in the lake just off the shore mus
= have been overcome by the heat and
. drowned.
Z The search for the bodies of tn,
missing has only resulted in finding
thirteen So far. The search is still
1 continued. The body of a child o
t Frank Cliss was found Monday. The
: bodies of Mrs. Dryden and her TIVE
. children were buried Monday and tn,
y bodies of Frank Cliss and his chile
Y were shipped away for burial.
, The people have little or no clothin.
\ and the supplies which were sent will
/ the first relief are not nearly enough
, to fill the demand. Bed clothing i
a exceedingly scarce. The committe
also asks for contributions of hay an,
oats for the horses as the grass an,
crops throughout the entire countr
= have been burned.
The relief continues to pour in her
from all points of the state. Eightee
. full carloads have been received thu
!, far. The donations of provisions an
clothing which have been receive
have come from:
Weyauwega, Unity, Chippewa Falls, Ea
: Claire, Portage, Stevens Point, Montello. ColC
L ma, Loyal Marshteld, Colby, Milladore, Al
Q burndale, Prentice, Rib Lake, Merrill, Rhine
n lander, Hewitt, Spencer, Oshkosh, Milwaukee
, Dale, Amherst Junction, Sheridan, Stockton
. Neenah, Waupaca, Wausau, Watertown. Asl
l. land, Washburn and Fiheld, all in Wisconsin
g Chicago, ILL.,, and Bessemer. Mich.
IS PRENTICE, Wis, July S1.-There is n
t sign of abatement in the forest fire
r. which are raging around this cit.
l. The farmers from the country to tn
o west-bring in reports of fires in the
d part of the country and to the soutf
IS The wind was not strong, but the fire
d Travelled fast and at IL o'clock the
IS were dangerously near the city, br
t. they were kept off by gangs of fgh
It ers who worked persistently. Some {
a the farmers west of here have move
their families into this city.