Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-13
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ed after burning for IL hours and seri-
ously threatening the village. AT Mill
ersburg, the Gardner Peterman mill
and 81 houses were destroyed
Al onaway the section of the village
known as Frenehtown was RACED
AT Tower the Detroit and Mackinac
freight house. 20 houses and 80 freight
cars were burned -55t.s4
La Rogue and Posen are also re-
ported TO have sustained severe losses.
Quarterrnaster Gen. w. @. Rogers OF
the state militia has made prepare
tons at Lansing to forward supply
of tents to Oscoda to shelter the
homeless people there Many of the
4u Stables and Osceda refugees. how
ever, were taken TO a relief train and
TO Pert Huron steamer
Two hundred and eghty-flve victims
from Oscoda. principally women and
children, arrived in Port Huron today
on the steam barge Nike. They left
Oseoda last night some just mana ging
to get on board the vessel when il cut
loose both bow and stern being on
fire Many slept on the decks People
of Port Huron are caring for the ref
ugees. as few have money.
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Cadillac, Mich, July l2.-Forest and
grass fires threatened Cadillac last
night, but were checked by complete
change in the wind.
Reports this morning from Otsego
and Antrim counties where the fire
did much damage yesterday are to the
off hot baf fiaf, arA upAar
control
Bay City, Mich, July 12.-The twin
towns of Oscoda and Ausable, opposite
each other at the mouth of the Ausa-
BILE river and having combined pop
ulation of 1900 people, are in ashes,
while such of its inhabitants as have
not escaped on board the steamer
Kongo or the Detroit and Mackinac
relief trains are shelterless in the
swamps and fields about the still
burning towns. At midnight last night
a carload of food. hastily collected by
Mayor Woodruff and a volunteer COM
mittee. was dispatched to the two
cities, as about 1900 people had had
nothing to eat since yesterday noon.
No loss of life has been reported, al
though the fire. under the influence of
a 50-mile wind, spread with such ra-
pidity that men and women were
forced to leave their houses, dropping |
such bundles of valuables and clothing
as they had started to pack. Many
people living on the shore side of the
town started for safety along the
beach but within 10 minutes the heat
was so intense that they were driven
ia nd their
way wading along the shore. The heav-
lest loser is II. NJ, Loud Sons Co, of
which Rep George A. Loud of the 10th
Michigan Congressional District is the
head The eompany's loss is nearly |
three quarters of million dollars. Its
property consisted of two saw mills, |
planning mill, single mill, bolt mill, |
lumber yard, cedar yard, pumphouses. |
stores and residences. The total losses |
are probably in excess of $1,500.000
The fire originated in slab yard in |
oscoda and in ha lfan hour the entire |
town was in flames. The fire quickly |
jumped the Ausable river and soon
Ausahle also was in the grip of |
blaze that reached the town limits onsI
every side.
A passenger train on the Detroit and
Mackinac Railway got around the
towns by running on an old lumber
spur and arrived here at midnight
Flames were then running hundred
feet in the air, declared the passengers
and the intense heat scorched the
sides of the train and cracked the
windows.
special train carrying fire apparatus
from Bay City to Alpena in response TO |
cali from that city jumped the track in |
frying 10 paes around the two towns and
was held until nearly midnight before the |
track was repaired. The high wind was
general throughout northern Michigan and
from all over the district came reports of
heavy hres.
Tine town CT Lewiston has fire its
barders Alger and Turner also in
danger.
Reports were received in Alpena that
Bolton and Metz, which were few years
ago wiped out, are again threatened asI
aiao is Millersburg a town OF about 1900.
Not O telegraph, telephone or railroad wrc
Is working north of Oseoda and Sheboy-
gan also is cut off from communication.
AT Sheboygan. a big pile of sawdust the
accumulation of 80 years saving, has been
2 burning Tor week and Monday the rising
wind famed IL into stiff blaze.
Yesterday at Shebcygan circus was
forced TO stop its performance owing TO
the smoke that covers the city. and steam
ers could not make their way TO the docks
In the district around the sawdust mound
residents have been forced to leave their
homes because of the smoke At Rich
mond forty Michigan Central cars and a
bridge were destroyed and at lakewood, a
bridge was burned, In Beaver township.
Crawford county. several farm houses and
the Town hall have been burned The
Boyne City Lumber Co., Camp No. g. near
Boyne city, is reported surrounded. In
Montm9reney county extensive forest fires
gre damaging standing timber and sever
al camps reported in extreme danger,
owing TO the high wind
There is much anxiety in Bay City re-