New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-05-23
FOREST FIRES LAY
BARE LARGE AREA
SEVERAL TOWNS IN NORTHERN
MICHIGAN AND WISCONSIN
DESTROYED.
THOUSANDS OF#PERSONS~
ARE MADE HOMELESS
Loss to Property May Reach Several
Millions City Of Wausaukee
Hemmed In by. Flames Three
Lives Reported Lost.

SSL La LII uOitut1A M1Cu1Sdu nave
almost swept blank an area Of 100
square miles. Whether or not any
| human lives were, lost it is impossi-
Bile to say, nor is it possible to tell
at present how much damage to prop
| erty, industry and means Of comuni-
cation there has resulted.
| When communication by railway,
which will probably be within SO
hours-a forest fire story can be OBJ
| tanned which, it is believed, will rival
any similar piece of news that has
ever come out of this section Of the
! United States An Evening Wiscon-
sin correspondent spent all night and
several hours Saturday morning in an
effort to gain general review of the
fire situation for his paper and finds
that the loss will be several millions
of dollars. He has been unable to
| find any loss Of life, but 5000 people
are homeless, it is estimated.
| Epitome of the Damage.
The damage done, epitomised as
well as possible under the circum-
stances, follows:
Ralph-Town of 100 people, almost
wiped out.
Alfred-Poulation 200, every house
and huge hills of logs burned.
Aalvoie-Population 400, boarding
house railway station big stores of
logs and ties destroyed.
Quinnisec- Population 100, de-
stroyed; all residents homeless.
Cornell-All but one store burned,
900 people homeless. ..s
| Northland-Mill and six houses
burned, many of the 600 population
homeless and without food.
Antoine-Mining town; houses and
one lumber mill burned, boarding
house destroyed and all but few
of 700 people homeless.
| Helth-Branch Northwestern rail
Way-All bridges burned and scores
OF homesteaders in that section, cover
ing ten square miles, are homeless.
1t Is feared there was loss of life
here.
Ncrthland branch, Escanaba and
Lake Superior railway-Five million
feet of cut logs burned, bridges down
and line tied up completely, perhaps
four weeks
| Menominee, Delta, Dickinson.
Sschoolcraft and Marquette counties
bear the brunt of the loss. The Isaac
Stephenson Lumber company, the
Pittsburg & Lake Superior Iron com
pany, the Escanaba Woodenware com
pany and other concerns suffer the
greatest loss. Some of the towns
partly or wholly destroyed belong en-
tirely to these corporations.
Thousands Believed Homeless.
Three trainloads TO homeless peo-
pie have already arrived in Escanaba.
Thousands of others are believed to
be homeless and suffering from want
OF food, clothing and other necessities
There will be intense suffering, of
that there is no question. Arrange
ments for aid and offers to give as
sistance are reaching this city from
lower Michigan and Wisconsin, which
must bear large share of the fire
losses, directly or Indirectly the result
of the forest fires.
The latest reports indicate that the
fire is being swept northward, and
that it is dying out in many places
towns as Escanaba, Marquette and the
larger places in the district, are out
of danger. But there is still an i'm.
mense amount of hardwood timber, OF
the best in the country, in the path
of the flames.
Foster, Mich, has had narrow
escape, but only one house was
burned. At Woodlawn, Mich, several
cars of ties burned. Other reports
say that Spring Valley, Mich, neal
|Stambaugh is surrounded by flames
and people are fighting hard to save
it. It is also said that the big hard
wood factory at Homansville, Mich.
has been destroyed. Perronville, ir
Menominee county, was surrounded
, by flames Friday night but was saved
At LOOMS, Wis, schoolhouse was
wiped out and the teacher and pupil:
had narrow escape. The only ru
NOR of large loss of life comes indi
rectly from Saunders, in Iron county
which is said to have been burned. 1
is absolutely impossible to get definite
information.
City Hern1ned In.
Wausaukee, Wis, May 21.-Wausau
kee, Marinette county, is hemmed il
by forest fires which are slowly creep
ing up to the city on the north AM
south. Millions Of feet of lumber ar,
burned. The loss now is estimated a
100000. At Cedarville, town fou,
miles south of this city, forest fire:
have destroyed many cars loaded Will
lumber on the tracks and big kiln:
filed with cedar are burned A fierc,
wind is blowing sparks and burning
embers for miles. All trains are be
ing held here as the rails are twisted
from the intense heat Hundreds o
cords Of hard wood, piled near tn,
tracks are burning