Deseret Evening News | 1908-10-17 | Page 1 | Whole Villages Blotted off Map

BLOTTED OFF MAP Forest Fires Are Raging Uncontrolled trolled Through Several Coun Counties Counties ties of Michigan 27 PEOPLE HAVE PERISHED t t Days May Elapse Before Number Of Deaths Will Be hi Known c 7 at tile the Son Sen Be Because cause of Peno Sm Keeper of iii Station Flees for fop Ills His Jute t I Alpena Mich Oct 17 With 27 plo lilt known to havo perished yesterday In ill Isle comity and ancl with brett hires still uncontrolled through the counties ot of Isle Isi Aipena and Icolia aa as well as In other scattered districts through North Northern ern Michigan diligent search was be lie being log ing made today to determine the full of If tho tue holocaust It may many days to discover nil all tho Iho that hint havo occurred the last few days j among time this farmers Time The list rosy may not be bi fully known for a week But flut It needs no 01 elaborated details to In that the property hiss wilt will run Iun into the millions Whole village have boon been blotted tiff off the map malt and log logging ging gilig camp by 13 thin tho dozen have hoye destroyed with them their entire seasons output Near Turner In tn county si ml 9 flock of nearly JOO sheep were alive In the Immediate vicinity oC of In iii Ishi county i I tile tho losses aro titO estimated at half hail halfa haila a million dollars t tOld Old districts where bad forest are reported are arc In tile the neighborhood of Elmira Gaylord and Johannesburg In iii Otsego county Cadillac In county In Iii Crawford where trees planted by time tho Mate Mata forestry commission iles Grawn in grand Traverse commit comi comity ty hr and and had Bad Axe Ao ill in II county in the Hum district j In tile the upper tipper peninsula threatening ate are reported around Ste Marie Manic and Calumet and At Koss Kos near M lS homei are reported de dc destroyed ti with tnt JIH mummy many more threatened Navigation his been practically sus i at the Hoo oo owing to time the dense smoke and the Island fog aLa sta station tion signal on take Cake Huron humon was aban abandoned yesterday by Patrick H Garrity who was obliged totlee for his life Aipena Iong Rapids Jand Rogers Cit la iatt t At i cornmon council it in special i j Masot to isu let for the lire lime it clothing will Ihl be t mil tib I time tho scone scene of time iso to tIme the needy Alpena citizens will hold amass meet meeting lug ing Sunday noon to adopt ures of relief ci