The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1898-10-07
Wisconsin Forest Fires Continue
and Many Lives Are
Lost.
TOWNS AND VILLAGES DESTROYED
evenly Five Families at Turtle
Lake Are Burned Out Of
House and Home.
WIRES DOWN AND REPORTS FEW
Reports From Colorado Also State
That the Fire Is Doing Dunn
agc In That Part of the
Country.

3D. raul, OCt. 5.-lne IOreSt uFeS
which have been burning in the yari-
Gus places throughout western Wis
consin for the past few days were
famed into u furious storm of flame
by Yesterdays winds and did great
damage through Chippewa. Barron,
Dunn, st. CroiN and Pollock counties.
a general destruction of telegraph
wires makes the reports very incom-
plete, but it seems that the villages of
Clayton, Alamenn and Portland have
been wholly or partly destroyed, that
Cumberland has suffered heavy losses,
and that Glenwood, Barron, Prentice,
Phillips and Turtle Lake have been
threatened and only saved by great eff
forts. Reports of loss of life are COM
ing in, but have not been verified, eX-
cept in one instance. A railroad bridge
and trestle over 700 feet long on the
500 line west of Barron were burned
last night and the trains on that road
are running from Turtle Lake to
Spooner and thence to Cameron.
Associated Press reports from vari-
ous points indicate that the fires have
been checked in places by rains and
the subsistence of the winds. A rough
estimate places the aggregate loss at
not less than SO, O0O, 900 to $4,000, 900.
Families LEFT. Destitute.
Madison, Wis, Oct. 3.-Governor
scofield today received a telegram
from j. II. Bunker, president Of the
village of Turtle Lake, Wis, saying
that, seventy-five families are left des-
titute there us IL result of the forest
fires, and asking aid. 1t is feared here
that this dispatch is only an indication
of appeals which will be received from
other points III northern WISCONSIN
when communications are restored.
Fires Nearly Abnted.
ST. Paul, Oct. "A Rice Lake, Wis.,,
special to the Pioneer Press says:
The forest fires in this vicinity are
nearly abated, but great damage has
been wrought for miles west of the
city. The body of Nels Nelson, a
farmer, was found today horribly
burned.
In the locality west of the city
teams hitchel to wagons car be found
burned to death along the road. The
highways for miles are literally Gov
cred with dead animals. The fires
seem to travel in great paths ranging
from one-half to four miles in width.
The losses farther west have been
greater than anywhere in this vicin-
ity. 1t is estimated the losses in Bar
ron, Washburn and Sawyer counties is
at least 81, 200. L%umbermen north
of this city have suffered heavy losses
by the fires. The city of Cumberland,
this county, suffered heavily. The
Beaver Dam Lumber company of that
place lost their big saw and planning
mills, lumber yards and nearly fifty
dwellings. Cumberland's loss will
reach fully 100000.
People have been driven from their
homes without saving any of their
household effects and with nothing
but the clothing they had on. Fully
fifty farmers have lost everything and
are left destitute in this vicinity. 1t is
estimated that fully 49, 900 tons Of
hay, besides grain, other products and
farm machinery, has been destroyed.
GoIarado Swept by Flalnes3
Denver, Oct. 3~.--Reports from the
westerllFportion of The state continue
to tell ofthe rayages Of the forest fires
which bid fair to derastate the greater
part of the,forests of the state. A spe-
cial from Glenwood Springs, the CEN
ter of the burning district says:
The fires in the mountains nea here
have taken fresh life today owing to
high winds.
The fire east Of Glenwood Springs is
fortunately in IN unsettled portion of
the county and aside from the inn