New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-10-18
DEAD MAY NUMBER 100
MICHIGAN SWEPT By FIRE.
Property Loss Runs Into Millions
Flames CoUer 100 Square Miles.

0s+roi+ oct t7-Dispatches from Alpena indi-
cate tonight that the number of deaths IN the
forest fires of Presque Isle and Alpena counues
will surely exceed fifty and may run to one hun
dred The flames cover least hundred
square miles, and the property loss Will ne hliii
ions.
In the vicinity of Metz. Bolton and Posen the
fires have burned sufficiently to leave seVeral nun
dred women and children camping with compare
tive safety in the open fields, but near Alpena TO
night the fires were so threatening that Mayor
Mcknight called out volunteer force OF seVerSI
hundred men with shovels to construct trehche'
to stem the progress of the flames
The latest report of additional fatalities comes
in the news of the death of an old couple Nance
Pachnski whose charred bodies were found In
The ruins of their home near Posen to-day. The
badly burned body of unknown man was
found IN the railroad tracks between Posen ana
Metz.
II Is now estimated that twenty-three persons
lost their lives In the destruction of the III iateu
Metz relief train Thursday evening. It Is ooupl-
ful however If the names of the additional eight
will ever be known.
A dispatch from Rogers City this afternoon told
of the burning to death Of four members OF the
family of John Sezersk their farm near tiSl'
place Sezerski and his two hired men esCapsu
and have arrived there From Cheboygah com
a report of the finding of the bodies OF SIX CLll-
dren in a road near Metz. Alpena reports MISS
siebert burned to death in her fathers luihOei
camp at Wolf Crock.
Logging camps by the dozen have been destroyer
with their entire seasons output Near 1urnei' -
Arenac County a flock of nearly one huliui eu
sheep was burned alive.
Measures of relief for the stricken peopie II
Pressure Isle and Cheboygan counties are alleaoy
under vav Hundreds homeless ana many
have not sufficient clothing. drop IN 'ehPe
trre will cause great suffering. A theatIe at AZ
nens has been thrown open to receive coii,i iO1
tions for the refugees, and already presents u
clothing are beginning to come
The fires in the neghborhood Of Sault STE MAJ re-
- the MINER peninsula, growing worse 1ii0
Io,ds of smoke there are dense that the sun Is
ho,,red All of the country between the SCUM
Shore Railway and Lake Superior IN Cli'Ple"@
County is ablaze. ,,o, -bare
rIarrovine scenes are reported from PoseI' VIC
many of the homeless, burned and suiIef1HS
Gees from Metz and Bolton have sought shel'ei
Anguish over the death of relatives anu l.leI1Os -
an MANY cases more keen than the physical suneI
ing Several carloads of provisions nave poen 0A
to them. - .ho+
A special dispatch from Grand Marals says 'n"'
the steamer Scottish came in there to-day and re
Thursday night while attempt was BENG mace
70 rescua the ightkeepers who were blowing ur-
gent distress signals. The shore about the polht
WIS all afre When the men did not come out
from the lighthouse yawl was lowered and the
mate and four men started in. The wind was 100
strong and they could not make the shore INC
steamer came to the yawls relief but Wheh the
mate was half way up a rope ladder on her side ne
fell back exhausted and was lost The dlstesS
signals were st1n being sounded when the ScotIsh
the harbor.