Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-10-08
GREAT NEED FOR AID.
Gov. Scofield Asks Help for Losers
by Wisconsin Fires.
Nine Known to Have PerIshed in the
BInzing FOrests-Over 100 Are
Observation-Disclosures Are
Absolutely Destitute.

Cumberland, Wis, Oct. 3.-From re
ports received here, nine people have
perished.
A dispatch from Rice Lake says that
many unidentified bodies have been
found charred in the woods, and that
so far as heard from there are over 100
persons missing. Advices from Rice
Lake state that the fires in the neigh
borhood are worse than ever, and that
the loss of life will be much greater
than it was supposed it would be.
The property loss in this county will
aggregate S4OO,OOO besides the farm
buildings and crops. y large amount
OF stock has been burned and much
hardwood timber has been destroyed,
Gen. Boardman and party, from
Madison, representing the state relief,
arrived here Sunday morning and aft
er taking census of the fire district
drove to Rice Lake. He has listed "a
destitute families in Turtle Lake, 50
families in Cumberland, 40 families in
Stanford and Rice Lake, and 30 fami.
lies in Clinton and Barron, also 10 fami'
lies in Cumberland, all of which need
immediate assistance. He has ar.
ranged for the distribution of relief
from Turtle Lake, Cumberland, Rice
Lake and Barron and supplies will be
forwarded Immediately to these
points. The danger is now mostly
past, though it is still unsafe to travel
through some fire districts in the vi,
cinity of Cumberland.
GOV. scofeId's Appeal.
Madison, Wis. Oct. 3.-In response
to calls for assistance from the forest
fire sufferers of the northern part of
the state, Gov. Scofeid has issued the
following public call for their relief:
ITO the People of Wisconsin: Forest
fres have again devastated a portion OF
our state and rendered homeless several
hundred people, and a request has come
for assistance. These people require cloth
Ing, food and shelter, and they will have
other needs than these which It will be
necessary to meet in order to enable them
to undertake again their own support. The
people Of Wisconsin have always given a
ready response to calls of this kind for
help, and feel confident that this demand
upon them will be generously met.
Col William j. Boyle, Milwaukee, will
receive contributions of provisions, cloth
Ing and money for the fire sufferers, and Il
hereby appointed to take charge of the
tion. The people in any part OF the state
who desire to help the fire sufferers can
communicate by telegraph mall with
| Col. Boyle at Milwaukee,"
Send Supplies TO Milwaukee.
Milwaukee, Oct. 3.-Col. William ].
Boyle. who has been appointed by Gov.
Scofield to receive contributions and
take charge of the relief work among
the families who have lost everything
by the forest fires i'll northern Wiscon-
sin, has completed his plans for the
work. Quarters will bc opened in this
city to-day, where supplies of clothing,
food, furniture and money will be re-
ceived. The first shipment of supplies
will go north over the Chicago &c North
western road at six o'clock tonight,
and other shipments as fast as carload
lots can be made up. Col Boyle says
that supplies from all over the state
should be sent to Milwaukee to be dis
tributed Systematically from here.