Show 7 A SWATH OF TWENTY rLE I S The Flames Swept Everything Between Bahcoclc and Necedah MILWAUKEE Sept 15The advices of railway officers here are to the effect that flames swept everything between Babcock and Necedah a distance of twenty miles country sparsely settled so the damage was only to the timber The fires are very b ° d around Merrill Pine Ridge Heights Comb Daney Runkles Mills and Rudolph Ru-dolph all small places Fifty Thousand Dollars Loss GREEN BAY Wis Sept 15This afternoon a terrific windstorm set in and the prairie fires northwest of McDonalds lumber mill in Fort Howard increased I un volume and 4n less than twenty 1 minutes the fire rojhed the lumber yard and mill and destroyed them The loss is over JopjOOO There is a heavy gale of wind tonight and it is feared more fires will occur before morning > T Forty Corpses Recovered MADRID Sept 15Tho province of Toledo is being eweptbj violent storms There is great damage to the large tracts and many lives were lost Forty corpses have so far been recovered Twentyfive miles of the Southern railway were submerged sub-merged Relief trains were sent from s various parts Horror Accumrilato J WATJSAKEE Wis Sept 15A terrible wind storm passed over the city this alterocon unroofing buildings and tear = v = > S G Oj C JL a S > JiH MiXc fiiASia Lti felfeii ing down lumber pileSjScatterincrtheluni ber in every direction prostrating shade trees and creating general havoc throughout through-out the city The people rushed for their homes in great horror and for a time it looked as though the town would be swept out of existence either by fire or the fearful storm The forest fires still rage around the city without abatement Fatal Boiler Explosion GALIOPOLIS 0 Sept 15The boiler of a threshing machine at Loyma acre on tho Ohio river exploded today killing the engineer and three men Went Into the YFolls MERRILL Wis Sept 15Pine Rivera River-a settlement near here has been wiped out A score of buildings were burned The people saved themselves by descending descend-ing into wells and covering themselves with wet blatikots Liberty in Ashes KANSAS CITY Mo Sept 15A telephone tele-phone message reports Liberty Mo burning up The chief business portion is already in ashes The loss is heavy S Two Children Burned to Death MILWAUKEE Sept 15Near Merrill today two children of Fred Wegge were burned to death in the forest fires Closing the Public Schools MAEINETTE Wis Sept 15The smoke is so dense today from the forest closed fires that the public scnools had to be Blanvllle Destroyed SPENCER Wis Sept 15 Mannville a village of 200 inhabitants was destroyed by fire No loss of life was reported |