Bisbee daily review., 1906-05-20
Northern Michigan Taking Ac- count of Its Losses, Which Run nlto Millions of Dollars in Property Destroyed.
100 SQUARE MILES
 IS SWEPT CLEAN.
Hundreds May Have Pedshed,
 Though List of Fatalities Is Given at But Four of Whom Three Are Unknown Children

MILWAUKEE, Wis., May 19.-A dis patch to the Sentinel from Escanada, Mich, by a staff correspondent, says:
 Four known dead, score or more persons missing. hundreds homeless, several millions of dollars worth of property burned, four towns wiped out entirely and dozens more partially de stroyed, five counties devastated and 100 square miles of territory ire swept.
 This is the dreadful picture that the Northern Michigan peninsula pre- sents today after the worst forest fire since the Peshtigo disaster in 1871, has spent itself.
 General Superintendent ". E. Wells of the Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad, along whose right of way the greatest loss occurred, returned tonight from trip of inspection over ssthe fire-stricken area, and says that Fzhe flames have gone down and for |fhe time being the danger is over, un- 1sss a new gale arises to again fan the embers into flames.
 The following summary. briefly tells the story:
 Dead: Peter Lapond, a cook, smoth- cred in a lumber camp near Katos. body found tonight: three unknown children dead at Quinnisec, Mich, separated from their parents while the village was burning and perished; {; scores of homesteaders and woods men are missing and many have prob ably perished in the flames.
 Territory devastated, five counties, being Marquette, Menominee, Delta, Alger and Dickinson; territory fire swept is 100 miles square.
 The towns totally burned are: Tal sbot, Mich, hundred population, only sa few houses left standing; Quinni- sec, Mich, 400 population, only one house remains; Saunders, 150 popula, ton, all wiped out; Niagara, Wis, 300 population, all wiped out. Towns par, tially destroyed are: Northland, Cor nell, Antoine, Springvalley, Kingsley Woodlawn, Foster City, Sala and Metropolitan.
 Details of the fire are gradually coming in, telling tales of misery and suffering, as well as heroism and brave deeds that were enacted while the fire was at it's height.
 The reports all show that the fire was fully as serious as at first report ed The burned-over district extends from a point ten miles out of Escanabs to Talbot, on south to Charming and Quinnibec. on north and back to Els canaba The flames were fiercest along the Escanaba and Lake Superior line.
 It is in this district that thousand or more of small fires have been smold ering for weeks Nothing was thought of these fires, because they were moi dangerous, but it only needed wind to fan them into mighty sheet ot flame. This wind came on Friday aft erDoon.
 Toward noon the wind began tC blow from the west ar the rate oi thirty miles an hour By o'clock ths velocity was forty miles an hour. ant by o'clock the small fires seemed t< have united into one large Ere tha' extended oyer . fifty-HAie stretch art swept along with . fury thaS no hu man hand could stay.
 The flames seemed to center from place called Horthland, and from ther' swept down toward Escanaba.
 Througour this territory hundreds o woodsmen were put to work to sta, the fire. but 1t could not be fought. l marched on and it was only by divert ing it's path that some of the town were saved. The first to be driver out were the woodsmen in camps ant the homesteaders. Hundreds of sD.al and prosperous farmers live in thi territory. and the occupants of thes' A A. for shelter. Cattle, stock. houses barns and their contents were lef for the flames.
 Wagons were hurriedly loaded witt personal effects and the race agains the flames began. Tn some instance whole families came in. Many, how ever. reported that some of the men bers had become separated and lei behind
 Some of the towns were hemmed i