Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-05-25
CITIES ESCAPE THE FIRES.
PROPERTY LOSS IN VILLAGES, SET
ELEMENTS AND CAMPS MAY
REACH MILLIONS.
FOUR COUNTIESSUFFER.
Whether or Not Any Humans Lost Lives,
According to Rumors, Is Hard
to Confirm.


igan have almost swept blank an area
of 100 square miles. Great suffering is
resulting, but the large towns are no
longer in danger.
Whether or not any human lives were
lost it is impossible to say; nor is it
possible to tell this afternoon how much
damage to property, industry and means
of communication there has resulted.
DARK STORY TO BE TOLD.
When communication by railway, tele-
graph and telephone is established
which will probably be within thirty-six
hOurs-a forest fire story can be told
which. it is believed, will rival any SIM
liar piece of news that has ever come
out of this section of the United States
An Evening Wisconsin correspondent
spent all night and several hours this
morning in an effort to get a general re-
view of the fire situation for his news
paper, and finds that the loss will be
several millions of dollars. He has been
unable to find any loss of life, but 400
people are homeless, it is estimated.
CONFIRMED NEWS OF LOSSES.
The damage, known positively to have
been done, epitomized as we'll as possible
under the circumstances, follows:
RALPH-Town Of 100 people almost
ALFRED - Population, 200; every
house and huge piles of logs burned.
SALVOIE-Pcpulati ton, 400; boarding
house, railway station, big stores of logs
and ties destroyed.
QUlNNESEC-Popu 100; de-
strOyed; all residents homeless.
CORNELL-All but one store burned
300 people homeless.
NORTHLAND-NIill and six houses
burned; many of 600 population home
less and without food.
ANTO1NE-Mining town; houses and
one lumber mill burned; boarding house
destroyed and all but few of 700
people homeless.
FELCH BRANCH, NORTHWEST
ERN RAILWAY-All bridges burned
and scores OF homesteaders in that sec
ton. covering ten square miles, are
homeless. It is feared there was loss
of life here.
NORTHLAND BRANCH, EsCA-
NABA & LAKE SUPERIOR RAIL
WAY-Five million feet of cut logs
burned. bridges down, and line tied up
completely perhaps for weeks.
FOUR COUNTIES SUFFER.
Menominee, Delta, Dickinson, School
craft, and Marquette counties bear the
brunt of the loss. The Isaac Stephenson
Lumber company, the Pittsburg and
Lake Superior Iron company, the Esca-
naba Wooden Ware company and other
concerns suffer the greatest loss. Some
of the towns partly or wholly destroyed
belong entirely to these corporations.
Three rrainloads of homeless people
have already arrived in Escanaba. Thou
sands of others are believed homeless and
suffering from want of food, clothing and
other necessities.
SUFFERING IS FEARED.
There will be intense suffering, of that
there is no question. Arrangements for
mid and offers to give assistance are
reaching this city from lower Michigan
and Wisconsin, which must bear large
share of firelOsses, directly or indirectly
the result of the forest fires.
Reports reaching here give Wisconsin
losses in brief as follows:
Stanley, population POO people, loss $780,
600; Cedarville and Wausaukee 5000 people,
loss 100000: Marathon City, population 600,
loss 100000; Auburndale, population 400,
loss $4,000; Oconto, COCO population, loss
$4,000
BIG TOWNS ARE SAFE.
Indications this morning are that the
fire is being swept northward, and that
it is dying out in many places. The
wind has changed so that such towns as
Escanaba, Marquette and the larger
places in the district, are out of danger.
But there is still an immense amount of
hardwood timber, of the best in the
country. in the path Of the flames.
The fires went as far as Goose Lake
on the North Western railway, north of
Escanaba, as far south as Peshtigo, in
Wisconsin, and west to Stambough,
Mich, while on the east the border line
is in Alger coInty.
MANY RUMORS AFLOAT.
One report says that three children are
missing in Quinnisec. but this cannot be
confirmed. Foster, Mich, has had a mar
row escape, but only one house was
burned. At Woodawn, Mich, several
cars of ties burned up. Other reports
say that Spring Valley, Mich, near
Stambough, is surrounded by flames and
people are fighting hard to save it. 1t
is also said that the hig hardwood fac
tory at Hermansville, Mich, has been
destroyed.
Perronville. in Menominee county, was
surrounded by flames last night, but
saved. At Loomis. Wis, q schoolhouse
was wiped out and the teacher and pu-
pills had q narrow escape.
MANY REPORTED DEAD.
The only rumor of large loss of life
comes indirectly from Saunders. in Iron
county, which is said to have been
burned. 1t is absolutely impossible to
get definite information.
MARQUETTE VIEW OF FIRE.
MARQUETTE, Mich, May 19.-[Spe
Cial IA stretch of territory over go
miles in length, reaching from Newberry
on the east to Bessemer, Mich, on the
west. and north and south between the
short line of the Lake Superior and the
southern boundary of the Upper PENN
sula, is dotted with forest fires.
Settlements and farm houses have
been wiped out, timber lands destroyed
and hundreds of persons rendered home
less.
1t is impossible to estimate the finan-
-, IncS h,1+ on bn ha SiS of local
conditions it is probable that hundreds
of thousands of dollars worth of property
have been destroyed.
The loss in the immediate vicinity of
Marquette is over $4,000. involving only
the destruction of personal property and
not including devastation of timber lands
or damage to railroad property.
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