Janesville Gazette (Newspaper) - October 14, 1871, Janesville, Wisconsin TKE GAZETTE Published every by GAZETTE PRINTING COMPANY JB IK S One lit city by Currier if In advance Otic year by mall In Parts of year nc rate ami description of Commercial am In tho beat manner at Gazette Job Republican Nominations for C C of Croase For HI it of i for of of Sauk THE JANESVILLE GAZETTE VOLUME 15 JANESVILLE WISCONSIN SATURDAY OCTOBER 14 1871 NUMBER 188 For Staff of Milwaukee for CiKO If of for of C JOHNSON or Rock School Superintendents Flnt K A of Second C1 fl TREAT of Clinton From the North Accounts from the Northern part of Wisconsin FROM ST LOUIS Nominations V of town Dairi B CJ or K K of Fifth District of IT IS MORE BLESSED TO GIVE THAN TO RECEIVE The great heart of tho popple U open nnd generous princely benevolence rich Jy with human sympathy fl wing like streams along every line of in the country toward scenes of the disasters by fire classes from the of railroad com- panies who arc transporting supplies tis to thu day laborer are contributing Clod has blessed them with the grace charity to the relief of the distressed More than two million dollars in contributed for tho relief of the Chi sufferers during the first four days af tcr tlie lire besides an immense supply provisions so great indeed as to tax tothi tho relief in that city to receive aud take care of cars loaded with supplies as they arrived In our state after in iking a liberal re- sponse to tho call to supply the wants of Chicago all efforts have turned to relief to the afflicted people in the northern part of th The people of every village anu town iu stale aro organized into committees aud arc established In many towas tho ladies and bring their sewing machines to manu fuct urc articles of necessary clothing while gentlemen solicit ol money aud the material Bales j Cotton batting of calico and fire speedily transformed into articles necessity boxed aud forwarded by ever train to Green Throughout rural districts the people arc aud men with teams arc canvassing from house to house for of mono or clothing au expression of humai sympathy has not known since tlr Let the glorious work go ou foi tUc devastation is so extensive that at bust tho relief can be little more than temporary Tens of thousands of our lowmen are hopelessly ruined by great calamities and if by timely help and sympathy on ray of can be caal upon their future pathway great will be tho reward of th t onerous people The of the country and the number ol by i he fires in this may be from the following state incut us by Honorable J J E Pease ol this city Many persons suppose the country ir tho region of devastated by ro cent fires to have boon very sparsely set tied The census of show thai county then contained ple Door county Kewaunee coun ty every township in the three last counties contained of engaged in farming and many village clustered about the mills The people in Oconto county were gen in villages occupied at season of the year in the saw mills or establishments The villages of and Pen KIU Ice c had in the aggregate over in- habitants Besides the counties named large portions of the following coun ties have been partially swept by the fires having people All the Green Bay region has increased in the numbers of its people at least Oar citizens must bear in mind that win tcr Is just about to begin in the Green Bay country Thu storms there uow will be accompanied by snow and sleet the are cold nnd often at this time of the region is visited by periods of ly cold weather three or four days Unless these suffering people ately supplied with bedding et cet there may be great loss and cold Let our people move at once to their did mcl rel of Three Thousand Man Women and Children Destitute APPALLING LOSS OF LIFE Scores of Men Maimed for Life FROM WINDSOR THK TOWN Of CANADA Detroit Oct The cutter reached Port Huron this morning with seventeen more from the lake shore two of fatally burned Port Austin has escaped tho flames so far About two o'clock au alarm of fire was iu Windsor opposite Detroit and in a few moments the liftmen spread in every direction the principal business portion of the town The Great Western depot wad saved through the exertions of the railway employees There was no or probably not a building would have escaped One man was arrested it is said in the act of firing a building He was lodged in jail The the Illinois legislature lire visiting Chicago to-day The Little Ones are Suffering Provisions and Clothing Needed Dispatch from Governor Fairchild To the People Green Bay Oct accounts of the appalling calamity which has fallen upon the cast and west shore of Green not been exaggerated The district comprises the ties of Oconto Brown Door and parts of Manitowoc and The great of life and property has resulted from tho whirlwind of tire which swept the country making tuj aud avenues of escape with fallen timber and burned bridges The previous long drouth had prepared everything for the flames The of life has been very great The first estimates were entirely quate and even now it is feared that it is much greater than present accounts place it It is known that at least persons have boon either drowned or smothered to death Six hundred or more were at Peshtigo and adjacent places and the others in Door Kewaunee and Brown counties Mea are now penetrating tint almost region for the purpose o f ing relief and I fear that their reports will increase this estimate From the most re- sources of information I learn that not less thaa three thousand men women and children have been rendered entirely Mothers aro left with fatherless children fathers with motherless children i children arc left homo less orphans Dis- anj intense suffering are on every hand where but a few days ago were com- fort and happiness Scores cf men men and children now lie helpless They are burned and in rary hospitals and cared for by their more fortunate neighbors Thess suffe ring ple must be supplied with food clothing feed for their cattle aud the means of providing shelter during the winter The response by the good people of consin has already been prompt and erous It is meeting the immediate want s faithfully and t d through the Relief organizations at Gr eon Bay but provision must be made for many months to come Flour salt and cured meats XOT blankets ding stoves ba led hay building materials light farming tools boots shoes and ing for men women and children are wanted axes with the handles nails glass h rything needed by a farming community Which has lost all To expedite tho trans- fer at Green Bay all boxes should have cards attached to them stating their con- and all supplies should be sent to the Committee Green Bay Money contributions should not be con- verted into supplies but should b2 for- warded to the committee Depots have been established at Green Bay under the management of a ej of public-spirited and energetic men who have tho confidence of all for the re- and dispatching of supplies They have organized a of con- to burned regions and boats and wagons are being out with Let us uphold hands in A TO BEFORE THE BATTLE BEGINS St Louis Oct Republican day has an of much significance It suggests that no democratic candidate be nominated for the Presidency ia 1872 It says there is no national precedent for such a course but the experiment is not nn untried one and cites the campaign in Mis souri last fall It then asks Why should not an experiment that proved so ful in breaking the power of radicalism in Missouri be employed to break the power of radicalism in the Union Why should not tho whole country find deliverance from a party that is essentially proscriptive oppressive unconstitutional and violent in policy and practices in the same way in which a single state found such ance The result of the Missouri election of 1870 was not indeed a democratic tory but it was most a radical defeat and the abolition of merit the subsidence of animosities the restoration of concord and good will among the people and the revival of a ful interest iu public affairs and in local enterprises which followed defeat are consequences which cate the wisdom of the experiment in souri and at least suggest a repetition in a larger field It thinks the this policy would divide the republican party that the liberal clement iu that party nominate a candidate in opposition to Grant whom the democrats could support and the result be a majority of democrats aud liberals iu congress This while dit fering materially from a democratic ry would be in inestimable improvement on the present order of things HOLLAND A Michigan City in Ashes Particulars of the Great Con- flagration in Holland A Number of Lives Lost One Man Burned to Death While Endeavoring to Save Others 600.000 Scenes and Incidents of the Fire The Chicago Tribune is published on a sheet mid says Hurt more were than would all tour of Us the good work and sea that their depots be kept to It is fortunate that wo live in a wealthy and prosperous state witU in bust ness and harvests aud that thus we aro by a wise Providence endowed wah the means to out- less fortunate neighbors I am urged by public spirited citizens of the state to call an immediate extra session of the legislature to provide for this calamity I have piven serious at- tention to and have con- cluded not to do so for the reason that the expense of such a session would be likely to equal the amount which the state would bo asked to contribute Belie fore that the people and the legislature will endorse my action in this emergency I have in conjunction with the state urer decided to advance such a moderate sum of money as seems to be appropriate in that contributed Signed LUCIUS FAIRCHILD LATEK via Green Bay Oct There have been 150 wounded brought here from Peshtigo and there are scores who are lying in the bushes within 12 or 14 miles are alive but cannot be reach ed To-day whole families lot down into wells were burned to death even there and were covered up where they laid No reports have been overdrawn The loss of life is fearful FROM MILWAUKEE Methodist Conference MILWAUKEE October 12 1871 To the Editors of the Yesterday at 3 o'clock p m C E pouter of Slieboygan preached the sermon a good audience The sermon was well adapted to increase the educational interest of the church At its close the speaker was by unanimous vote requested to furnish the manuscript for publication in the city papers In the Phillip Phillips of New York City the world-renowned and author of sacred music gave a concert ia the Summerfield Church for Ilia of the destitute from the fires in the northern part of our state The concert had but a few hour's notice and yet it realized about two hundred The entertainment was oac of ex- interest To hear one of Phillip Phillips music concerts is one of the eras of any man's experience This morning Dr Miller of Ripon opened the conference at ball past tight with religious exercises which the programme of conference business was taken up Rev Dr President of the Iowa University Rev Mr Allison pastor of the Olivet Congregational church of Milwaukee and Rev Mr Stone delegate from the Wisconsin Baptist Association were introduced who made ry and remarks Revs Rowe Brookes Thompson sey Bullock Burtch Porters and were admitted into membership The address of tho Bishop to the class was full of practical instruction and of great interest as well as beauty and timent MILWAUKEE October 13 1371 Yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock Rev O J Cowles preached the missionary sermon In the evening a meeting was held to con- sider the lessons taught by the recent dis- fires Addresses were by C N Stowers G C Haddock and H C ton The speaker discussed the tion of the agency in the tions of human aud its relation to the love ol God Mr Haddock learned the lesson of Man's Weakness and God's power which was powerfully and ly presented Mr was led to con- template the character and majesty of God's Moral Government His appeal in behalf of the sufferers based upon the text not that the eighteen ou whom the tower of Siloam fell were sinners above all men who dwelt iu Jerusalem for verily I say unto you that except ye repent ye shall all likewise was truly elo Prom the Grand Haven News Extra October 13 STATEMENT OP THE JOSSES No one thought the City Hall was in special danger until ten or eleven o'clock Sunday but at that time a strong wind ting in from the woods fire swept over the city witli wonderful rapidity The whole of River street Eighth and n fuct thu main part of the dry was soon n flames Not a building OJ these two streets escaped except one or two near the loug bridge The where the Misses were staying recently by Dr Nichols from Mr Ferris caught fire about three on Monday morning The ladies had packed their trunk and hastily dressing themselves in wrappers just aged to escape In ten minutes after they left the house fell iu and burned to the Luke View House went next and then Hie line City Mills of Workman Geerling Co This mill was one of largest in the State aud was a magnificent sight when enveloped in flames work was soon stripped of thu siding and then the heavy timbers burned more ly but nothing of the mill escaped Thu ladies after leaving the house for a small mound near by soon selves by fire Mr Geo arJ whose efforts were aged to assist them out o their precarious position The portion of the city where Professor Chas Scott resided was completely and the professor not being it was generally feared that he had fallen a victim to the flumes Mr Joslin of the firm of Breyan Jos in who kept tlie variety store a very clever gentleman and another of the best citizens was actively engaged in rescuing persons from the flames He insisted on ling once more to the rescue friends ad- vised him not to venture but he would lot be dissuaded thinking there were still lives to be saved HP did not return and it is believed was and burned to death The livery were emptied of the horses which were taken to the public square as the only place of safety sands of people were collected there Women nnd children were thin running about the streets wailing nnd ble to find their fathers brothers and sisters Many females barely escaped with their night clothes A child ten years old was picked up on the street burned to death It is impossible to tell how many lives are lost Some nine or ten citizens are missing but some may yet be found When the Miss left men were trying to kept the fire from the College the highest and lowest named nnd tin London Liverpool and Globe we placed the figures below the average esti mate of several insurance men The following are additional estimates Springfield of Massachusetts president of this company tele graphs to the St Louis agent that the com will pay all its claims on Liverpool London Security or New York Merchants Connecticut of Irving of Mew York of Now York Sim of of Williams of Empire City of New New Amsterdam of New York Fulton of New York North American York 8 Independent ol Boston of New York North Western of Milwaukee Milwaukee Atlantic ot Brooklyn Manhattan of New York Hume of New York or Putnam Charter Ouk of Hartford 500.000 Andes of Cincinnati company telegraphed its agents elsewhere that it will pay up and go on as usual We Have considerably reduced the amounts reported by several parties as the loss of the Andes The company had re- ported assets July 1st of about Lamar or New 1 of New Peopled of San Francisco Hide und Leather of Boston of New York North American of Hartford of Norwich of Connecticut Teutonia of Cleveland of Cleveland City tiro of Hartford of Pa of Pennsylvania Buffalo Alemannia of Cleveland of Cleveland German ol Cleveland National uf Fund Western of and Marine From the Journal of yesterday 41 burned with nearly all of their contents and in some cases the men had a hard struggle for their lives The contents of the camps would average in value for the three At Conn's mill on the Little Suamico a constant struggle against the fire has been kept up for more than two weeks Mr Coon has displaced the greatest energy throughout and that valuable property is undoubtedly due to the lean made to that end Trenches hare been dug in long lines circling the village and all loose timber and refuse cleared off For a considerable area around the mill the ground lias been ered with a coaling of making it two building but the succeeding train reported that these buildings although of brick were burning also the Union School edi fice and all the churches except the ers or True Reformed Church Oue woman on leaving her house had tied her baby in a bundle but in her ry she took wrong bundle and to her dismay discovered her mistake when it to be too late Of seven children she could only find two fortunately however the bundle containing the live baby was picked up in the street all right aud it was believed that the other children were also found George Howard was very diligent in picking up children and women who were running frantically about it places of irer und removing them in his bugsy to places of safety In this way he saved numerous lives He sometimes bad to capture them by main force to save them from destruction Mr worked so zealously to save bis bouse while burning that lie lost j his eyesight and became stone blind I Jervis m II the Plugger mill and wood turning and furniture planning mill etc were destroyed PAYMENTS The fact now positively stated that the heaviest insurance companies at the will promptly adjust aud pay in full their losses by our great conflagration is the most cheering news we have yet received since the calamity TuU will go far wards helping many of our people out of troubles and setting them on their feet again Of course our Chicago insurance com- panies may be regarded as hopelessly and probably few if any of them will ba able to pay anything ou their This is oue of the most serious facts iu connection with the disaster But if all the Eastern and European companies will be able to pay in full all their Chicago losses it will together with what the banks can do at once for their depositors and customers go far to help us out of the Slough of Despond WHAT THE BANKS WILL DO At a meeting ot the bankers the ing resolutions were adopted That they feel that they can pay all if lelt to a peaceful adjustment ot affairs but that if depositors furce payment it will make the ruin and lation worse That they will open and do business as soon as possible paying an immediate in- stallment of per cent to depositors and other installments as rapidly as they can convert their assets That until they fully renew they will transact business only as trustees for customers THE WISCONSIN FERES From the Green Bay Advocate The southerly wind which prevailed during Sunday afternoon reached the portions of a in the evening and ing that night the destruction to houses barns and other property m the country with some instances of loss of life fearful A belt of country extending from a point cost of this city northward through Brown and Kewaunee and into Door most The towns of Humboldt Green Bay Casco Red River and Brussels were scathed with a whirlwind of flame devouring the woods leaping across Ings and lapping up everything ble in its track Over three miles in length in the south part of the town of Red River is burned The whole town of Brussels in Door county containing some families is burned In the town of Green Bay the fire en- tered at the southeast corner and swept through to the northeast Nothing could be done to arrest Hs forward progress but proof against falling the under running fires The low land's between the two micos which are a part of the alluvial grounds forming the west shore of the Bay and extend back from the water two or three miles to the high lands be utterly soil and all The has underrun the soil uprooting the makina it a black hideous desolation With the first high wind the trees still g must go over and all that region beautiful with und so valuable for posts tics and wood will be a barren waste Many interesting incidents of the fire are related At Camp on he railway extension two men spent the light in A partially excavated well Next ay after they were gone the top of ng tree near by fell and tilled the veil with burning At Oak Orchard between Oconto and a man and his named were so badly in their house that the woman died soon after and the man is since reported as dead They were trying to save some of their household effects when they were caught in the flames At n lumbering shanty about 8 miles above Oconto a man and his wife named only escaped by spending the night in a newly excavated well At the Coullard some five miles above a large number of the CO or were gathered oue day last week seeking refuge from the flames They had been driven out from their homes and clearings In the country adjacent and were panic stricken and tired out fleeing before the smoke and Games to the nearest water The ing opinion of of them was to reach the river and into it for safety All these people lost even saving their Some of the more ignorant and panic stricken imagined that tue end of the world was at Some of the railway hands ou the wav extension dug a pit which they roofed over with tics covered thickly with and in of oven spent the night safely About two miles below Stiles lived a man named Buckley an old resident of Oconto county He was found in the morning dead and partly burned lying across the doorway of his house where he had doubtless been caught trying to save his household effects lie had had assistance the previous day in saving his barn and it was supposed that his place was out of danger It is estimated that the loss of hay on and adjacent to the Oconto River will reach 500 tons OF By Delaluzerne from Union town we learn that the entire at Williamson Brothers mill flve miles from the shore of Sturgeon Bay was ed on Sunday night The proprietor John Williamson with Irs wile and two entire burned to death and about fifty-three oilier persons in the same perished Scarce a soul is left to tell the tale There were twelve families about the mill and fifty-two men iu and about the mill Of all these people but two were saved uninjured and ten injured persons still living were found and were sent on Monday by the tug to Big geon Bay for medical treatment Every other individual in the settlement is dead Mr Gardner sent twenty-five men to chop the woods to this settlement our correspondent being oue of the number They found the of six persons In one house and piled the partly charred remains of fifty-five bodies ot men women aud children Twenty-nine bodies lay on a spot about ten feet with arms and legs burned off and all with clothing gone A few rods off on every side were others and a man aud child were found dead iu a well They found fifty flve dead and think the total number must be from CO to 70 AND John E B was a cic Peshtigo clerk In the same store fore- D McGregor conductor o railroad and sister James man of machine shops two Michael Creamer's and child Daniel Hunt and one or two children One family consisting of lather mother ana three children were found dead er within thirty the Large numbers are as having been burned in the Company's Charles Wo who kept the tigo House estimates the loss of at nearly 400 The loss til the Bush was much worse than in the village They had no means of escape while at tho lage the people saved themselves In tlie river The Sugar Bush a thrifty farming settlement 7 or 8 miles long by 4 or 5 miles wide and contained 300 families It was estimated by cc judges on Tuesday that hs of its inhabitants were dead But abo it eight buildings were left Twenty tct ms went up there on Tuesday to bury the dead and up to 4 p m Tuesday they ha J reported the lowing dead m the Sugar Bush L H mil wife and boy and 42 bodies picked up in front of T Kelly and one child wife and two children saved daughter 12 years old of Fred Bartels four families of Newberry's all gone but one boy j John Church wife and two grown children wife and five children of Charles Lembk John Smith wife and five children John wife and six children Charles Lawrence wife and three children N Hay wife and two children wife of Peter Leech and tyro hired men father mother wife and child of Wm Penry Chapman wife and one child Henry Hays wife and two dren John Pratt wife and four children widow Aymer and two grown un boys Mr Woodward gives us the following addition to the list of dead in lage John Tanner wile and two children oldest daughter of P J Marshall A A Pratt wife and one child wife and flve i of Donald McDonald O J makes the following ment in regard to the calamity at At the close of his address a col- lection of one hundred and twelve dollars was taken up This is to bo added to the proceeds of Mr Phillip's concert to aid the sufferers in the northern part of nur state This morning the opening devotional services were conducted by H C Tilton The sacrament of the Lord's Supper was then administered by Bishop Simpson sisted by the presiding elders At 10 o'clock the conference proceeded to the election of five delegates to the eral Conference to meet in Brooklyn next May G M Steel H Bannister W G Miller and Reverends C D Pillsbury and P 13 were elected delegates S Fallows H C Tilton and W P Stowe were chosen as reserves KEWAUNEE COUNTY The Enterprise brings of additional destruction in the towns of Pierce Casco nnd la the latter town Frank Paulo N Pelnar Matthias Hausen Joseph Melichor F Pelnar John Waglie Warner nett and Taylor Bach lost houses burns wood posts bark etc Charles V Miller and M are the principal losers in Pierce In ee Frank Simpel Joseph Andreas Kartell Frank Harda William Madke and Louis lost houses and barns One of Mr children seven years was burned to and Mrs Madke and two other ren were badly burned in trying to rescue the little unfortunate About one sand cords of tan bark besides large tities of wood ties posts etc were ed ia the above towns INSURANCE AND THE BANKS Estimated Losses ol the Different Com- panies the Chicago Tribune rf ESTIMATED LOSSES Enquiry among underwriters revealed the fact that while a feW arc open and plain-spoken as to the effect of their losses others are or silent Darties interested however have made diligent inquiries and from the best ble sources the following list has been COM- which we believe will very nearly approximate a correct statement of the losses sustained by the several companies interested There is a wide discrepancy however between this statement and ures received by telegraph from thu East There is this to be remembered however that the information in the East is com- scanty while thu knowledge ob- here is more direct and from the circumstances the case more reliable We present the list therefore os the re- sult of diligent effort to ascertain the able losses of Hartford Co of M America of Philadelphia of St Louis of Philadelphia Agency of Now York of Hartford Howard of New York of New York International of New York Phenix of Brooklyn of Providence Mercantile of Ssn Francisco Imperial of London Royal of Liverpool Washington of New York Commerce of Albany Continental of New York Lorillard of New York Home of Columbus Mercantile of New York Commercial Mutual of Cleveland Union of Sna Francisco Fund of San Francisco Astor of If cw York of New York bo ye companies all had assets on the first of January according to official reports more than sufficient to pay tne above mentioned losses If they suffered no worse than the sum named their cies are for one hundred cents on the dollar Concerning the following it may bo said that the agents differ as to the several com- panies The Home of we set as a medium Between the people labored with some effort to pre- vent it from spreading laterally The burning belt widened as it About half the town is burned At the two churches store and tavern and tavern are reported as saved In the town of Brussels Polite two children of Joseph Delvaux and wife and three children of Francois are reported burned Detailed reports trom that region will doubtless reveal loss of life In Humboldt and vicinity from 8 to 12 miles northeast of this city Prosper euse lost house barn and nil outbuildings oxen and cow Mrs a widow whose husband was killed in the late war lost house barn and all her farm products Nicholas lost his house Thomas barn huy and gram M uier barn hay and grain Mr Birrer house Darn and all grain Mr Pisou barn with all hay and grain Mr chul house barn and crops Mr Leroche house Mr Gorde bouse barn and crops Cornelius Wagner barn and blc The Marches lather and son lost their houses and barns A church was burned in Humboldt We learn from C N who came in from Glenmore that on Sunday night between 10 and 11 o'clock the three ing houses of the Bersey brothers were en- tirely burned with their contents The mill and three dwelling houses were saved by great effort Hubbard's mill about forty rods from the Beracy mill was entirely burned at the same time ing saved These mills were nine miles east of The village of New about miles a little north of cast of this city in the town of Green Bay had the general devastation from the forest fires but on last a heavy wiod sprang up driving the fire and dense volumes of smoke from the southeast di- down upon the village The fire struck the place at about 8 p m and at 1 o'clock next morning nothing was left but blackened ruins Mr G W Watson who was present at the fire gives us a list of the buildings he knows to be destroyed William Lamb's mill with teet of logs on the boarding house and furniture store and goods Mr Lamb's residence two large frame barns full of hay and grain three small barns eleven tenant houses occupied by fourteen lies who all lost everything Mr Lamb also lost all his logging sleds The school house near the mill was burned On the line of the Menominee extension of the C N W Railway on the mst three camps numbers 11 and 13 were We get the the burning on Jay night of a considerable portion of the village of at the mouth ot the river part cf ad- joining it op the west and some property on the north side of the river in nce Spalding Houghtelling Johnson's large new mill at Bagley's mill a church school house aud all the buildings in the lower town on the south side except a few shanties on the bay shore are burned The thanes leaped across the river and burned R mill formerly Spatford Gilmore's m One man died from fright and tion after ho had been taken from thu wa- ter who was sick iu a house which was burned died before he could be rescued There are other reports of deaths as yet unconfirmed CHEEK A sad report comes from Birch Creek Settlement on the state roud eight miles north of Here thirteen ple are reported burned This place is only a station for thu changing of horses on the stage line and it seems scarcely sible Hint so many persons should have been here at this time of the year It is doubtless an exaggeration in the main OF was a small village in the town of Brussels on the eastern shore ot the bay It was entirely destroyed day night We get the names of the lowing persons who lost their homes goire Fabryi Jacques Jansons Francois Guillaumo The ter gentleman is our informant Happily no lives were lost The southeasterly gale of Sunday ing reached the proportions of a hurricane there The woods which had been alive with slowly running fires for weeks were suddenly burned with a whirlwind of fire without auy warning great sheets of flames were carried into the village Those who escaped describe the scene as in the extreme No attempt could be made to stay its progress and the tant ran screaming and terror stricken into the river where they plunged head ong and by dashing water over to keep off the fire which filled the Every build ing but unfinished reported burned The great pail of the monuments of en- in this extensive ber mill and door sash and blind factory many expensive dwellings and scores of smaller houses tenements shops barns were swept away Few names can yet be obtained of who are probably lost We get those of the air was filled with smoke which grew dense ward evening and it was noticed that the air which was quite chilly during the day grew quite warm and hot pulls were very frequent in the evening About half past eight at night we could see there was a heavy fire to the southwest of the town and a dull roaring like that of a heavy wind came up from that quarter At nine o'clock the wind was blowing a gale The roar ol the coining tornado grew more rible at 10 When the Cio struck the town it seemed to swallow up and literally vour everything The ire came on swifter than a aud within 20 minutes of the time it struck the outskirts of the town everything was in flames What followed description As the fire the Peshtigo House I ran out at the east door and as L stepped upon tlie platform the wind caught and hurled me some distance on to my head and shoulders and blew me on to my face eral times in going to the river Then a fierce devouring rain of fire and sand so hot as to ignite everything it touched I ran into the water prostrated myself and put my face in the water and threw water over my back and head The heat was so intense that I could keep my head out of water but a few seconds at a time for the space of nearly an hour Logs in the river caught fire and burned I heard men women and children crying for help but was utterly powerless to help one What was ray experience was the experience of others Within three hours of the time the fire struck the town the site of Peshtigo was literally a sand desert dotted over with smoking ruins Not a or even a dry goods box was left Through the the case seems to ba even worse than in the town as the chances for escape were much less than near the river I the loss of life to be at least 300 In the town and Great numbers wore drowned in the river Cattle ana horses were ed in the stalls The Peshtigo company's barn burned with over fifty horses in the stable A great many women and children and were burned in the streets and in places so fur om anything combustible that it would seem to be impossible that they should burn they were burned to a crisp Whole families heads of families children mothers brothers and sisters were burned and of families were ning hither aud thither wildly calling and looking for their relatives after the fire had nearly Inhabitants The village was mainly owned bv the company of which Win B den of Chicago is president and chief owner and Thomas H also of cago General Manager W A Ellis is the Resident Manager at Peshtigo It WM the chief point of the company for its large operations on that river and there were concentrated all the offices stores and general headquarters It is about 7 miles from the harbor ivt the mouth with which it is connected by a railroad It is also on the highway from Green Bay to between Oconto and nee and is to be a station on the northern extension of tlm Chicago ifc Northwestern railway Among main features of ho place was thu extensive pail and tub lory one of largest and most complete in the United States nnd quite new having been less than a year There was also in ivc mill for the manufacture of sash blinds nnd a variety of wood work The company also had a large hotel and house and a great number pt dwelling of which the residence of tlie local ager was as complete as nil the modern improvements could make it were also the company's shops for the building of cars logging sleds and all the ments required by this great lumbering concern We are informed that the number of houses in Rosiere was of which there arc but five leJt In addition to the names of the dead first reported we got the ot The villages of Rosiere and form the of Both arc ed At last accounts 21 persons wore ing Among the dwellings burned at ville are those of Paul Fontaine Pierre Ligot Joseph Tonnard At the burning of of Brussels and settlement nine lives wore lost six and three women We learn the following names John McLemee 1 o- let Legean Jacques Wood and Mary Dis- mill in the of Humboldt was burned on Sunday ANOTHER HAMLET CK LIFE A letter from Door county says that a settlement of families on the west side cT the town of Brussella was burned on Sunday evening But one ily escaped They at oue time gave up for lost All the buildings were and thus far 34 dead bodies have been found aud buried A largo amount of stock was burned The only living thing found a pig burned so badly that ho could neither nor walk The people perished from suffocation before the flames reached them so dense was tho smoke No ono can Im- agine the extent of the fire and it cannot be described Our informant Mr G W Young of
