Deseret Evening News | 1908-10-17 | Page 2 | Whole Villages Blotted off Map

Forest Fires Are Raging Uncontrolled trolled Through Several Coun Counties ties of Michigan 27 PEOPLE HAVE PERISHED Days May Elapse Before Number Of Deaths Will Be Known at Son Be Bec c iii e of Smoke of KS Station Flees for His late Alpena Mich Oct 17 peo people known to yesterday In Islo county and with fires raging uncontrolled counties ot Alpena and Alcona as well as In other scattered districts through North Northern ern Michigan diligent search was bo boIng Ing made today to determine the full of tho holocaust It may tuko many days to discover all the tragedies have occurred the last few daj aiming the The Jiw may not be fully known for a week But it needs no elaborated details to determine that the property run Into the millions Whole villas W have boon blotted off the ging camps by tho dozen been with their entire output Near Tumor In Arenac county t Uncle of nearly sheep worn burned 9 alive In the Immediate vicinity o jav In Isle county alone the losses arc estimated at half V Vu u million dollars Old districts whore bad forest files 1 are reported are In the neighborhood 3 of and Johannesburg it itIn In Otego county Cadillac In county in Crawford county where trees planted by this state forestry commission were des destroyed troyed Grawn fn grand ty and and Had in county In the Hum district In the upper peninsula threatening forest are reported around Ste Marie and Calumet and At Koss near IS homes arc reported de destroyed with as many threatened Navigation been practically sus suspended at thy S o owing to the dense and the Island fog sta station tion signal on Huron was aban abandoned yesterday by H Y ho was obliged to his life iscaH M fAi i nu nuj what j bat for the fire clothing Will bo sent iii the scene of Motz to the needy victims In Alpena county Alpena citizens will hold a mass Ing Sunday noon to adopt further meas measures ures of relief