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Show By W. V. Telegraph Lino. TUB TEUR.IBI-.Ii3 WISCONSIN Milwaukee, 1 '.. Later accounts I'rom northern Wisconsin confirm all previous reports and rumors. Tho loss of life in the neighborhood of I'cshtego will reacb over twelve hundred; hun-dred; fifteen per cent, of those injured cannot recover. The Ore tornado was heard at a distance liko the roaring of the sea. Balls of fire wore soon observed ob-served to fall liko meteors in different parts of the town, igniting whatever they touched. People rushed with their children in their arms for a place of safety, but tho slorm of fire was upon up-on them and enveloped them in flames, smoke, burning sand and cinders, and those that were not able to reach the river were suffocated and roasted alive. This terrible scene- happened on Sunday Sun-day night, the 8th of October, already made famous by tho Chicago horror. A member of the relief committee, sent from Milwaukee with supplies, says the only survivors Tverc those who were fortunate enough to reach water, niuiy timnTriup, tLvuwvl i iuW n pond and clinging to floating logs. A number of these woro drowned by bciog thrown from the logs by maddened mad-dened horses and cattle that rushed into the water. Tho fiery cyclone swept over a tract of country eight or ten miles wide. Every building, fence and all the timber were destroyed. The town of Peshtcgo numbered two thousand thou-sand people, one-third of whom perished per-ished on that fearful night. Keports from the east shore of the Green Bay place the loss of life full as high as at Pcshlego. Tho same account states that the immediate wants of tho people aro supplied nnd large amount of provisions pro-visions and clothing will be required for the coming winter. Mayor Lud-ington, Lud-ington, of Milwaukee, publishes tho following appeal for aid : "Milwaukee, 14. The calamities that have befallen our State and somo of our neighboring Statc9 aro truly appaling. Over l,lju0 men, women and children have been burned to death in Wisconsin alone. Their business houses; and farms to a largo extent are entirely destroyed; the very soil having been burned and destroyed all the autumn and root crops. They arc utterly destitute and will require full support, at least till another season. Soven counties in our own State arc thus in gTeat part desolated, and whole regions of country in western Michigan aro in tho same condition, and these fires are still raging and destroying. Milwaukee is doing all she can do. By her close neighborhood to Chicago she was enabled to send large quantities of supplies into the devastated city during the progress of tho fire, feeding her firemen and exhausted ex-hausted citizens. Vast numbers ol Chicago sufferers arc now hlfing our houses and buildings, and we arc administering ad-ministering lo their necessities. We have supplied hundreds of Ions of provisions and clo thing-stores aud other needful articles to Chicago, to northern Wisconsin aud Michigan; but the amount of suffering in our Slate is j still beyond our power to assuage. Wo appeal to the public for aid, and will : bo the dispensers of supplies to the ; sufferers in Wisconsin and west Michi-' Michi-' gan, having made every neccsary arrangement to accomplish these purposes pur-poses with economy and effect. All contributions in clothing, bedding and other necessary supplies may be directed direc-ted to Harrison Ludington, mayor." |