The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-05-20
IA AND PANIC
|I FOREST FIRES
IN Peninsula of Michi-
pIs Swept by Demon
Of Flame.
Loss OF LIFE;
MILLIONS IN PROPERTY
|'bpts of Lumber Towns
sle BrayeIy bat Yainly
for Homes.

s,rdreis OF families homeless,
.'mIons OF dollars OF property
~ towns wiped out entirely
!, moro partially; Ave counties
A and loO square miles Of ter
= swept.
Worst In Many Years.
INA dreadful picture that the
1;rhIcah peninsula presents to-
~ worst forest fires. since the
5ssster, In B7l. has spent II
Danger Seems Over.
s.perintendent w. +. Wells of
'r4bs & Lake Superior road,
~ right OF way tho greatest
md returned tonight from a
'rsozcflon over the lire-stricken
s9ys that tho flames have gone
4 for the time being the danger
enless new gale arises TO
i he embers into flames.
|oNing summary briefly tells the
Dead.
, I.AFOND, a cook. smothered
Lei camp near Katos; body
; JNKNoWN CHILDREN, at
4 Mich: separated from their
1bile tho village was burning
nd
Eany More Missing
q homesteaders and woodmen
Eg anG many have probably
b ths flames.
N dsyastatcd-Flve counties
Il Nenomlnee. Delta, Alger and
'rItmy Are swept is 100 miles
.Izt Of Towns Burned.
o!nlly burned: Talbot. Mich.
opulation; only n few houses
4 Nich., 400 population; only
h refaainE.
l51 population: all wiped out.
Wis; 30 population: all wiped
.artlauy destroyed: Northland,
latoIne, Spring Valley, Kings
agn, Foster City, Sala, Metro
}ell Tales Of Misery.
u the 1ire are gradually com
The burned territory. All day
sets and trainmen hayo been
telling tales of misery and
As well az heroism and brave
We're enacted while the fire
height. The reports all show
lIe vas fully as serious as first
1t5-over district extends from
miles out OF Escanaba 10 Tai
south 10 Charming and Quin-
tre vest Sands on the north
70 Escanaoa. The flames were
ony the Escanaba and Lake
ID Caused Destruction.
MS district that a thousand
p the small fires have beer
Tor weeks: Nothing was
laese fires because they were
cs but II only needed a vino
= INTO q, mighty sheet OF flame
1me on Friday afternoon.
tvn the Wind began TO blow
st al the rate OF thirty mile.
~ Z O'clock the velocity wa.
snd by 4 o'clock the small
10 have united into on,
90 extended over a fifty-mil,
4 tssept along with a fury tina
nana could stay. The flame
sassr irom a place called
ssa nom there swept dowI
ent Beyond Control.
rae territory hundreds O
Ve put 20 work TO STAY IN
souia not be fought /
IN a aug u was only by divert
" at come OF the towns Wer
l 70 90 driven out were III
> - eanip and the homestead a
oil email and prosperoiI
N ~ me territory, and tn
Nrns 4sse iarms hurried to tn
1 Property to Fire.
,. coaI, csosk and houses and barn
% contents were left To- oat ~ !,
as We're hurriedly loade
bsSseee and the race agaIns
ances whole fan,,,,..
vi nh.scyer. reported thai sonn
~ so1naaa maa oeen separated an
on ri, ~ tno towns wer
are s'des. Talbot an
bo,h 'ne most notable es
= tAs ena hard light was on
s"a the places had 10 II +
cattle With Flames,
tie Ne ,met m human effort con,
1ea n water was gear,
ccnho was plentiful II Wa :
sendIatuns tho iiamee "Ig I,,
r56 the s1 s'li- fought in .spo,
" hack I'm I"elet. Step by ste
Tie H. ~ Esng at each stnr
~ with nrN Clearances we
Then ,iiis i,rs that could NOT !
o. fo,md" hcn the Aar,es raacbt
a ,.s sns. NV nothing more 10 IliS an,
Of the many OF the tow,
eonliagratlon We,
ssaes Of Panic.
"a n I, horror ,SI and despair W.
. kas slsone cne hre-strIcken FER,
y niles r. q panic In ney-i,bo
q 'eees Nm Nm The FIRE line No No
\ b IN ,scposed that tt PACK toda
q .hey react ot thcm found not
~ had stool stIa The spot whe
n f,Sea fn,aa 9nd the Tnn SlSp,G.n ana Il,
Il ain y but but the eg ilres are 9eg, :
- isd ;gpSresdiSa,sa p esdiS,a's' L SIl; and s55thoat
pB( ' them again In
ss~,s Train Burned.
lt failed ihIs5d to ward off +
IHl Sd 'ssssSs,lns ssS, trainS iSo5s %ers OF haG.a hog,
e sSls q was 05S SalSsssSI gssIne e to I. !.
~ u the wind itself because
Fsssst 'Stlll ~ ,Is Isolated from +,
town cached. Trainm