| Show destruction BY FIRE DET may 9 A fire is raging in the ibe upper central count counties lee of the lower peninsula sular today the like of which has bae never been known the line of the flames reaches almost 11 h 0 u t a break from mason maso n county cou nty on lake michigan to losco IOBCO county on lake huron with the forests of lake osceola Oa ceola clare gladwin ogemaw and alcona all ta blaze another fire of scarcely arcely Bc less magnitude exists in the upper peninsula the south shore atlantic railroad through marquette baraga and ontonagon Onto counties is ie in the path of the flames two railroad bridges are already gone and the telegraph lines ire are in bad shape fl fears ars are entertained that the fire alre will reach some towns last night the flames swept into oscoda escoda and 1 arned out worth of prop property eity great apprehension is felt at A usable ausable 1 an appeal for help has been sent to alpena it is felted the city will be swept away if the wind shifts 1 dit ional reports tiow coming in sho a widespread district is devastated devanta ted GRAND RAPIDS mien mich may 9 deer lake near reed city a hundred miles north of this city has called for aid and a steamer has gone gene the forests are ablaze and Oater Oi bout foxa fox a immense lumber yards with worth of lumber are surrounded by flames DETROIT may 9 rep reix ris from V marquette Mar quetie mich say forest fires are burning all over the copper country at chassell several farm houses and barns went up u pin I 1 a smoke awoke and a bridge was consumed on sturgeon river the thomas neston estate and the diamond match lose heavily lake superior from marquette to keweenaw Keween aw points is fairly black with smoke and all fog whistles are kept blowing constantly the low loss will be very heavy at kawaa on the east shore for two days past the air has been thick with smoke from the immense forest fires raging in the woods back of town and which extend clear to the county line ishpeming is surrounded by fire but no danger to town telegraph poles and railroad ties dee are being destroyed and communication is likely to be cut oftay afi at any time nothing but a drenching rain min of two days duration can prevent tremendous damage MILWAUKEE may 9 reports from northern wisconsin are that heavy rains last night have checked the forest fires in many districts the principal damage done has been to standing timber the wisconsin central and omaha roads have been caused considerable trouble by burning bridges the Th smoke esmoke from the forests bung u ng like a dense fog over the towns and adds to the apprehensions of the inhabitants fierce fires are burning in shawnee county COUDER coudersport SPORT pa may II 11 tonight the little towns of austin cos coo all galeton caleton and moores moorea run in potter conaty are on the verge of a panic two especially being threatened with annihilation from fires dres that seem to form an an impenetrable wall on either side for several days past the skies have been lighted up with fires in every direction and the flames crept steadily iy toward the helpless towns until it was seen men that the people must fight at moores moored run bun on the maho ning road a train load of seventy five willing men sent out from arbtin OU on sunday night have been fighting fighting the fire by every conceivable means mean they hey made trenches piled up earth and lighted back fires but were finally obliged to retreat the men hastily boarded the train and started to make the run to another point when it was found that they were hemmed in by forest fires on one side aide and a huge skidway of burning logs logo on the other it was finally decided to dash past the burning skidway and the engineers and fireman foremans fi remans Is faces were covered with damp cloths claths and their arms and bands covered with wool they dashed through the wall of fire the seventy five exhausted men gathered in groups on the flats for pro lection or lay jay on their faces on the floors As THE BLAZING A ING FURNACE of lop logs was the heat be came unbearable and the amke was aa blinding and stifling that the men wire obliged to cover their mouths with clothe just opposite the millions of feet 0 burning I 1 logs where the heat and IT smoke and flames mes were the greatest a terrible thing occurred the irhe e engineer ngi neer had forgotten that such great heat beat would surely warp the rails raila suddenly there was a lurch an ominous heaving and a shriek of despair as the train toppled over into the hell bell of fire beneath A scene endured endued never to be forgotten by tholie thoe who escaped though every man will bear to the grave the mark of that awful moment THE CARS CABS CAUGHT FIRE like so teany playthings and the men within half blinded and scarcely realizing anything except that they were being slowly roasted to death I 1 struggled fearfully to regain the track where haffty jay for the time at least those uninjured from the fall and only smarting from the pain of the intense heat beat bravely tu tuned ned their burned and blackened hands bands to io aid the more unfortunate fellows at this amit is impossible to secure details though it is known that superintendent badger of the valley railroad who was in charge of the train went down under some of the wreckage and was undoubtedly undoubted ly BURNED TO DEATH six others also miserably perished at onoe or died soon afterward and thirty others of the party were badly burned many probably fat illy having inhaled the flames seven others or of the party are missing and their fate unknown though they are likely in the charred wood of the logs logo or train the remainder of the party saved themselves by lying down in the creek relief belief parties started as soon as the fearful news spread but will hardly be able to reach the place of the wreck unless the fires have burned themselves out owing to the great devastation done to everything in the way of the fire communication is badly interrupted and it is impossible to learn the names of the men burned or missing 1 n As A e gio to the damage it is known that hemlock logo jogs and cords of valuable bark have already beeta beeb destroyed and the fires are raging without any appreciable diminution the people e are praying fur for rain RS as it seems nothing ing but a drenching ching will quench the flames millions Million of beacon lights seem to be burning from every moun tain and hillside and the air is so oppressive that many workers faint from exhaust exhaustion iou and am are dragged away from the flame that casdone has done nothing as yet but steadily advance twelve solid miles of timber in one district has already been burned and the end Is not yet |
