Show ONE MILLION AT LEAST I Doubtful I That Amount Will Cover the Loss 1 Ashland Wis Sept 2As a result of the forest fires Saturday and Sunday 1000000 can be added to the amount of loss occasioned this season I is doubtful doubt-ful If 1000000 will cover the entire loss entre when the loss to standing timber and logs is estimated Washbnrn had a narrow escape from total destruction and is still in danger A spark from a forest fire south of the town alighted in one of the piles of lumber lum-ber on the dock and soon all was a mass I of flames BIgelow Co have four docks The flames leaped from one dock to the other oth-er with the rapidity of a race horse Firemen immediately directed their attention at-tention to saving Bigelow Cos mammoth mam-moth mill This was done by tearing down the tramways connected with the mill The firemen fought almost like demons and risked themselves In every position in order to save property In spite of their good work however the losses will be very heavy A dispatch from Brule out on the Northern Pacific says that the scene there is dark and smoky Saw mills have been shut down and men remain on duty all night fighting fire High Bridge and Marengo are reported to be In great danger Late tonight word comes that the town of Glidden is burning I is loca ted on the Wisconsin Central about four miles south of here and has 500 inhabitants The fire has worked up into the heart of the town and the greatest consternation prevails 2 a m Beloit a sawmill town twelve miles from Ashland on the Omaha road is partly destroyed by ire The flames have burned everything every-thing but the saw mill and the 3000000 feet of lumber in the yards Everybody Every-body labored to save this portion of the town and succeeded in doing i leaving I the remainder of the buildings to burn The men have worked incessantly for many hours and are almost exhausted Only One Honse Stand Spooner Wis Sept 2The most disastrous dis-astrous forest fire In the history of the county is now raging In Barronette only one house stands the remains of a prosperous lumbering village of 1000 inhabitants in-habitants with a total loss of 250000 Only one life Is lost At Shed Lake fiftytwo dwellings were burned rendering 300 people homeless home-less Many escaped wit inly the clothes on their back and the insurance is practically prac-tically nothing Many farmers report r total loss of everything Railroad bridges are burned and telegraph wires are down Really to Move Out < Marquette J flh Sept 2the western west-ern division of the Duluth South Shore Atlantic road Is crippled by the loss of bridges in forest fires Several other roads have suffered serious losses Reports Re-ports from all the lumber i between Nestorla and the Wise state 1ne are that all are safe J > c but many i are fighting fire dangcu near At Ewen many people have loaded their effects on a train which the South Shore officials are keeping ready to move out if necessary A Passenger Train In Danger Marquette Mich Sept 2Much apprehension I prehension exists here regarding the whereabouts of a passenger train which left Duluth yesterday afternoon und was due here at 415 a m today Two hundred miles of Its run lies through the fireswept district and it is feared bridges have been burned on both sides of the train thus cutting off escape A City of Refuse Duluth Minn Sept 2This city is a refuge tonight for hundreds of survivors surviv-ors of the great forest fire who were brought here by relief trains The refugees ref-ugees presented a most pitiable sight 1ew of them have hats or coats and the women are no more fully clad Women with babes in their arms were accompanied by from two to four other oth-er tots homeless and friendless Many such were without husbands and in the grimy sootcovered crowd were many children without parents |