Show THE PATH OF THE FLAME Hundreds Scattered Dwellings V Already Burned TWO GELLDEEN ABE LOST Vcry Many Narrow Escapes from Airfoil Air-foil Deaths People Lower Themselves Into Wells and Apply Yet Blankets While the Fire Fiend Envois and Then Xolls On MABSHFIELD Wis Sept 15Neve since the fire of 1S71 have such terrible forest for-est fires burned in this state a have raged 1 through northern Wisconsin the past few dnys i The extent of the damage cannot be estimated es-timated owing to the fact that the fire cut off telegraphic communication with I mostof the smaller towns On timber losses they are of course the heaviest and Frank McMillan of McMillan in an interview tonight said the loss to the Wisconsin forests from recent fires would probably amount to between 5000000 and 6000000 This represents a vast amount of pine a well as hard wood timber covering o land nrea which even those most familiar with the forests of Wisconsin cannot estimate It is scarcely an exaggeration to say that all northern Wisconsin is one smoulder ing furnace so complete is the fine of fires which are raging in the forest between it be-tween hero and Lake Superior Where < J they willlend no one can say but unless there i rain in northern Wisconsin xvithin the next fortyeight hours even greater disasters than those already oc itirred may be expected from the fires Marshfiold itself i entirely surrounded sur-rounded by fires It is not now in any immediate danger Reports are hourly brought to the city by residents along the different railways of the terrible fires raging and which have already made many families homeless and destitute As yet no one has been found to comfirm the reports of losses of tfe from the flames That some settlers cut off the flames and killed is are of by theflmes kied very probable Many persons escaped death only after adventures of the most thrill log character On every side are evidences of yesterdays yester-days battle with the flames in which the citizens of Marshfield had a hard fight t save tho town Several buildings were destroyed on the outskirts There are reports of terrible fires at Spencer and Comb tonight Just how many families are left homeless by the fires cannot be learned but there are surely fifty Nearly all the residents between be-tween this city and McMillan yesterday packed up their goods and moved to this city and settlers from other parts of the country are fast following in their footsteps foot-steps Reinforcements have crone to McMillan from this city and Stevens Point but it is doubtful i they can save the mills which with the lumber around them are worth S 5250000 Southwest of the city on the 2 Omaha road there is another fierce fire r burning and a large party of men have gone from here to head it off |