New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-05-23

The flames in some places are 80 feet
high. The dry conditions are respon-.
sible for the great. loss. and the fire
sweeps everything clean.
Five Counties Swept.
Milwaukee, May 21.-A special from
Marinette, Wis, says: Forest fires,
famed by a gale, swept over five coun-
ties of the Upper Peninsula Delta,
Dickinson, Menominee, Marquette and
Alger-and one or two counties III
northwestern Wisconsin, including
Marinette, destroying thousands of doll
lars worth Of property and wiping out
several small towns. It is hard to es-
innate the loss, but it will undoubtedly
reach 100000, as not only property,
but logs and standing timber were
eaten up by the flames.
Loss May Exceed Million.
Detroit, Mich, May pa special to
the Journal from Marquette, Mich ),
says it is. impossible as yet to give a
reliable or accurate estimate of the
total loss resulting from the fores1
fires which are raging through several
hundred miles of the upper peninsula.
From reports already in, however, it is
thought that the loss will be consid-
erab1y more than a million dollars.
Wires are down ir many directions.
poles having been burned The South
! Shore railroad was compelled to can
eel its Duluth trains Friday night. as
fires are reported along the line Of the
road for ESQ miles east and west OF
this city. Reports received thus far
Saturday indicate that the towns of
Quinnesec and Schaefer, in Dickinson
county; Cornell, Goodlawn and Ralph,
in Delta county, AMI Saunders, in Iron
county, have teen destroyed. The fol-
lowing places are reported to be in
peril Of destruction by the fires raging
around them: Sidnaw, Dagget, North
land, Powers, Birch and Pentoga,
Mich, and Florence, Commonwealth
and Niagara, in Wisconsin.
Three Lives Reported Lost.
Menominee, Mich, May PA care
full canvass Of the territory devastated
by forest fires shows that the situation
is the worst that has been reported
since the Peshtigo fire. It is estimated
| that a dozen towns have been wiped
out, probably a hundred more isolated
| farms have been ire-swept Three
| lives so far are known to be lost, and
timber lands estimated to be worth
! several millions of dollars have prob
! ably been destroyed. The territory
which has been fire-swept covered a
| stretch of over 100 miles, and includes
five counties in upper Michigan, as fol-
lows: Menominee, Delta, Dickinson.
Iron and Marquette. The fires Sat
urday seem to be fiercest in Delta
county, near Escanaba. Escanaba re-
! ports that Quinnesec has been entirely
| burned, and that three children have
lost their lives. Saunders, Antoine,
Cornell, Savoye, Woodlawn, Northland
and Talbot also are entirely burned.
Blaze Caused by Bonfire.
Menominee, Mich, May 21-The de-
struction of the town of Quinnesec,
Mich, resulted from a bonfire which
was started on the edge of the town.
I The sparks from the fire were blown
into. the residence district and soon
was beyond control. With the excep-
ton Of three buildings and the Wis
consin & Michigan depot the whole
town was wiped out. Three children
lost their lives during the fire. Burn
ing embers from the Quinnesec con-
flagration started fire in the little
town of Niagara, Mich, across the
river, and destroyed several buildings
| The paper mills were saved.