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The following summary briefly tells the
a'ory:
The dead Petsr iAfond, q coot, smothefsd
In lumbpv oam MP neet katos. body found
TO- nlehe, eSes unhnown children dead ~
Quinneaee. Mich separated from their
parents while the Wills - vas burning and
psFished.
Scores Of homestsaders aud woodsmen
missing. Many have probably persisted In
the flames.
Territory devastated Marausttr, Me-
NOMINEES. Delta, Alser and Dickinson counties.
Towns totally burned Talbot, Mich,
200 popula tlon. only few houses left standing;
Quinneaec, Mich, Wo, only one house re-
mains, Saunders. Mich. 10. all wiped out
NIAGARA, Wis. 800, all wiped out.
Towns partially destroyed Northland.
Cornell. Antoine. Spring Valley. Kingsley.
Woodlawn. Foster City. Saliva and Metro
politan.
Details Of the Are are gradually coming
from the burned territory. All day long
refugees and trainmen have been coming
In telling tales Of misery and suffering
es we'll as bravery.
The burned district extends from a point
ten miles out Of Escanaba to Talbot on the
south, to Claiming and Quinneseo on the
west, to Sands on the north and back to
Esoanaba. While this territory has not
been swept over entirely. the major portion
OF IL north OF the Northwestern line has
been devastated. South OF the line 1t
burned in spots. The flames we're fercest
along the Escanaba and Lake Superior line.
1t IL in this district that a thousand or
more Of the small fires have been shoulder
ing for weeks. Nothing was thought OF
these fires because they were not dangerous.
but II only needed a wind to fan them into
a mighty sheet Of flames. This wind came
on Friday afternoon. Toward noon the
wind began to blow from the west at the
rate Of thirty miles an hour.
By 8 O'Clock the velocity was forty miles,
and by 4 O'Clock the small fires seemed to
have united into one large one that ex-
tended over a fifty mile stretch and swept
along with q fury that no human fIEnd
could stay.
The flames seemed to centre from a place
called Northland, and from there swept
down toward Escanaba.
Throughout the territory hundreds OF
woodmen we're put to work to stay the
fire., but it could not be fought. 1t marched
on, and it was only by diverting its path
that some of the towns we're saved.
First to be driven out were the woods
men in camp and the homesteaders. Hum
dreds of small and prosperous farms abound
in the territory. and the occupants OF these
hurried to the nearest towns for shelter.
In some instances whole families came in.
Many, however. reported that some OF the
members had been separated and left be-
hind, and it is the fate Of these that con-
Germs most everybody.
MENoM REE, Mich, May ia news
paper man who happened to be in the burned
district came out this afternoon and de-
scribes the situation as appalling.
"We were near a lumber camp he says.
There were nearly 200 persons there. The
first we knew of the danger was black clouds
Of rolling smoke that suddenly came dow
on US. We were miles from a lake or stream,
but there were men there who had been
through similar fires. and under their guild
ance every man was get to work digging
trenches in the soft soil.
@Valuables were buried, and when the
danger appeared greatest the women and
children were covered with earth. Then
the tents and canvas sheets about the
place were saturated with water and spread
over them. The sixty-f1ve horses were
turned loose. Some Of them broke away,
but the greater number remained about
the old stables and this required great work
on the part Of the men to keep them from
trampling on the women and children.
.@The flames came. It zee med but a few
minutes when the great forest beyond was
a mass OF fire, while behind US was nothing
but blackness and smoke. The sod COW
ered caplnb escaped, ana HI Were eoon
safely accounted for.
THE property loss in this vicinity will
DO upward Of o. 900, 900. Not a bridge,
railroad or wagon survived the Are. Three
children were burned TO death at Quinne-
sec, and rescuers report finding the bodies
Of nine others near here. A Northwestern
relief train plunged through q burned bridge
near Narata and not q word has been heard
from the crew since, They were probably
killed or burned to death In the gulch,'
MARQUETTE, Mich, May ls.-Later re-
ports are that at least twenty-five farms
have been wiped out in the immediate
vicinity Of Marquette, a total loss OF up-
ward Of 500, 900. There has been some
loss of human life. The condition Of the
homeless is pitiable In the extreme. Much
live stock has persisted. A million dollars
Is considered a small estimate Of the loss
throughout this part OF the peninsula to
date, but this figure promises to be greatly
increased.
In addition to towns already reported
destroyed or menaoed, advioes received
here indicate that Even, Thomaston, Trout
Creek, Munising junction and Peitoga,
M;ob and Nto oara Eloranoa and Com.