Show TWENTYFIVE HUNDRED WANDERERS I Awful Results of the Recent Forest Fires in Michigan t LOSS MAY REACH TWO MILLIONS I ITCWN OF OXTOXAGOX ATOM XEVER BE REBUILT p filie Piiic Forests Which Gave It J 1 x Prominence for Years Having J > ihnjii > enrec There Is 3 > o More t Timber to He Cnt naul Xo More Matches Cut Be 31a < le Suffering People Lodged in Box Cars r r MABQUETTE Mich Aug 26 Farther Far-ther details of the great fire at Onto nagon were received here at an early hour this morntng The loses of the Diamond Match company at Ontonagon so far as reported re-ported are Vast iiles of lumber and logs two caw mills dry kiln box factory planing mill machine and blacksmith shops barns and sheds brick store building and contents The loss on buildings is 300000 and Joss on stock as much more The store lad the argest floor space of any store In the state of Michigan Ontonagon itself is in ruins The tovn it no longer entitled to a place on the map The fine residences of the local officers of the match company are gone and all that represented the business F t busi-ness industries of the place t AMONG THE HEAVY LOSERS I lore Sarnent Gennings and Gilkey of 1 Oconto lumber loss 100000 Louis Reid b eager of Marquette lumber on dock 25OOO Jumps Nonton of Ewing lumber lum-ber on dock 10000 D J Norton of f Ewing lumber on dock 10000 William Wil-liam McFarlan of Bruce Crossing lumber lum-ber on dock 510000 i Lowe house fourstory hotel 10000 i Centennial hotel 15000 Paul House i 5000 John Hawleys big store total i f Joss 20OQO Bank of Octonagon 5000 Chicago Milwaukee St Paul depot p postofilce court house jail and schoolhouse i I school-house 50000 James Mercers large L warehouse dock and coal shedF 50 f 000 Onitonagon Miner newspaper 2 GOO Ootonagon Herald newspaper 2 A s 90 waterworks plant and government t breakwaters seriously damaed FIVE HUNDRED RESIDENCES 1 Number of residences reported de Ktroyed 500 The property loss in On I jtnnagon itself independent of the de etractio1 of the Diamond Match com TKiny plait is 500000 Women and children chil-dren practically without clothes men burned and singed by the flames that VLiiey bravely but uselessly fought are I being ake nto the smaller villages near T for shelter and food At least 2500 people if f peo-ple ar0 left not only homeless but des ji tltute and penniless I KL For a week past the forest and swamp TJ tires so common in this region of pine v and stumpage have been smouldering and filling the atmosphere with a dense s pmoke that hung over the lake shores like a pall The residents of Ontonagon Trout Creek Greenland Rockland and other threatened poirts however felt 330 aJarm Early in the morning a heavy south wind sprang up It was a gale of possibly between twentyfive J and thirty niiles an hour Trout Creek t 2i7vd Ontonagon were in its path and Jjotih of hcm had about them fires that t risedec nly a whirlwind to make them i destructive to life and property The r Diamond Match companys fire brigade L MADE A HEROIC FIGHT f against fearful odds They were joined f 2 > y every ablebodied man of the town luu their efforts to check the progress Of the fire were unavailing The flames 1 burned their way to the lake leaving rl only ruin behind them The nost serious feature of the fire aeid3 fron the probable loss of life is that the destruction of Ontonogon is In all probability permanent The thriv r ins place the oldest town on the upper peninsula will never be rebuilt I The pine forests which gave it prominence prom-inence for years and led the Diamond j I Match Co to make it tne headquarters t S of their manufacturing interests hove I disappeared There is no more timber I to be cut That the mills will be re buIlt no one believes There is not a business1 block nor a house of any value standing The homeless are being sheltered shel-tered in box cars so far as possible All rihat made the town a place of business Importance has gone with the flames and 2500 people are left wanderers on the face of the earth The less will aggregate between 1 00000 and 2000000 |