Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 7 September 1894 — Page 7

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It is reported that Harry Freeman, of Mace, will teach our school.' Mrs. W. C. Miller, who has been quite sick with hay fever, is improving.

John Martz is erecting an imposing1 two story house on the old building site.

Mrs. Henry Hanlcins, of Mace, is visiting her parents, A. J. Henderson and wife.

But very little breaking is being done for wheat. That which is put in will be drilled in the corn.

Mrs. Ed Voris and children and Mrs. Newt. Martin, of Crawfordsville, spent last week at Mrs. Geo. Jewell's.

Master Adrian Aikman returned to his home at Indianapolis Monday after having spent two weeks with friends here.

J. A. Mount, as usual, has a large amount of fruit and they continue to remember their friends with liberal donations.

Jim Hopper, who has tried farming for the past year, has moved back to Shannondale to engage in the insurance business.

Misses Lyda and Jennie Mount entertained a few of their friends last Saturday evening, Messrs. Kendall, MeBain and Iladley, of Tliorntown, being of the number.

Frank Mullen moved last week from Boone county to Guerney Woody'.s farm. Mr. Woody moved to Thorntown and will engage in the ministry, having three appointments.

A. (!. Tribbett has purchased the Betts farm of 100 acres, consideration •TftiOO. Mr. Tribbett does not get possession for more than a year, but the neighbors look forward with pleasure to their moving in.

JIAl'LK filiOVK,

A party at Mr. Robbins' Wednesday night. Charles Kesler will return to his home in Missouri this week.

Rev. T. T. Myers, of Philadelphia, calied in our vicinity Thursday. Miss Stella Robbins is spending a few weeks with Mrs. Bert Robbins, of Ladogo.

Laura and Dove Rettinger. of Whitesvillc, visited at Dr. Mahorney's Sunday.

Hon. E. V. Brookshire, of Washington, D. C., was at J. M. Harshbarger's Monday.

Maple Grove was well represented at the colored meeting near Ladoga Sunday and all report a pleasant time.

Some young people from this vicinity attended the party given at D. H. Davidson's, near Whitesville, Saturday night.

John llimes Manson. Lou and liertha Graybill and Eflie Otterman saw Sells" circus at Crawfordsville last week.

Miss Martha Burger. who has been staying with the family of G. W. Harshbarger for several months, returned to her home at Clay City Sundav night.

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Will Terry and Martha Burger attended the marriage of Wilford llarslibarger and Ellie Wade at Ronkville Saturday afternoon. The contracting parties are well and favorable known in this vicinity and we join their many friends in wishing them a long and happy married life.

After the elegant reception given us by Tin-. JnriiXAi. COMPANY, should we not try in some way to show our gratitude'.' Why not each of us try to secure one or more new subscribers and thus, in a measure, show our appreciation of the kind treatment we have received at its hands? We sincerely hope Tin-: .TOIK.NAI, may prosper and grow in circulation, and may choicest blessings ever rest upon the entire JouiiXAi. COMPANY.

WAYN'KTOWN.

La wson Parker has rented the Odd Fellows' new room. Charley Munns attended a wedding at Hillsboro Wednesday.

Our school will begin the 17th with Prof. Welty at the head. Dan Harper has bought the Billy •Wilson farm, west of here.

Grace Firestone, of Fowler, is visiting her many friends here. Dr. Stow S. Detchon and wife, of New Richmond, were here Sunday.

Cal Berry takes his wife to California this week in search of health. Evan Parker is making his arrangements to spend a few weeks at French Lick Springs.

James Brant and son have rented •the east room in the Masonic building for a grocery store.

Vern Livengood is keeping books for the bank this week while Howard Edwards recuperates.

Mrs. Stella Stockbarger, of Walkerton. is the guest of relatives and friends here since Monday.

Rumor has it that W. F. Thompson will partnership with Lawson Parker when he gets into the new room.

Ben T. R. Gray has received the appointment 'to till out the unexpired term of M. E. Scott as justice of the peace.

The Good Templars lodge here is rapidly filling up. We are told they have sixty full Hedged members and many new applicants.

Noah Shurr contributed to the school fund and .officials of this city ^1.80 last Tuesday for the privilege of jumping on moving trains attlie depot.

Irv Dwiggins, Clay Hall, Fred Harlow, Mike Foley, Fredollurt and David Groves will be Wayne township's representatives at Wabash College this year.

Henry Newland, formerly of this place, but now a music dealer in Cincinnati, together with his wife and three boys are guests of the American House.

The Wavnetown Difpatch man says we scribes made a serious mistake at our social last week in not electing the Wingate correspondent treasurer instead of secretary.

The ice cream supper given by the Christian Endeavor Society last Saturday evening proved to be a success in every particular. They cleared SIS over and above all expenses.

P. M. Brown has rented the corner j-oom where M. Herzog lately did busj-

ness and has ^filled it so full of dry goods, boots and shoes, ,hats and caps, groceries, etc., that you can't hardly turn around when you get in there.

Waynetown is still booming. Hornell it Henry last evening bought a 40 foot front on Main street and will begin the erection of a brick business room 40x100 feet just as soon as the material can be placed on the groud.

On last Friday Mrs. P. J. Lough and Mrs. Lucas, after providing a number of hammocks, a foot ball and lots of lunch, gathered their Sunday school classes together and repaired to the grove, just south of town, ..where they spent the afternoon with the little ones picnicking. We will say that in our judgment other teachers over the county would do well to imitate their example.

NEW MAKKET.

J. M. Glover has returned from St. Joseph, Mich. Morris Stonebraker and sister Sundcyed in Darlington.

Sam Dam has been over at Greencastle doing some painting. The little folks had an enjoyable time at J. 11. Brush's last Saturday night.

Mrs. W. M. Everman died Thursday. Aug. 31, and was buried the day following at Russellville. *,

Allen & Lawrence shipped in a car of :t07 stock hogs from Cedar Rapids. Neb., ond day last week.

Armentrout & Childers are doing a good business in the way of shipping baled hay from this point to Chicago.

Crist & Swindler have dissolved partnership, Mr. Crist having bought Mr. Swindler's interest. The community at large will be glad to know that 11. G. can still be found at the old stand. Ho is a thorough business man and always has a pleasant word for those he chances tc rcome in contact with. MS.

TIGEIC VALil-iKY.

A wedding soon. Threshing clover seed is at hand. Sowing wheat is the order of the day.

Henry Morris was on the Air Line Sunday. Hard times are all over with, plenty of work.

Mort Linn is now the operator at Linnsburg. Lon Jackson has returned home from White county.

Loekeridge it Abbott have received their wind mills. Bill Peck has moved into the property of R. Finch.

The schools in this township will begin September 17. Everybody in our neighborhood attended the circus.

Bill Vanscoyoe, of White county, is visiting friends here. Several from here went to the fair grounds last Sunday.

Ivy Carr and Leo Schweitzer Sundayed at A be Caster's. The J. B. Linn liuller is giving good satisfaction this«year.

John Perry reports a good time at the Win. Steele reunion. Vesta Coleman and Edgar Hunt will start for Missouri soon.

Rev. Stephens preached his farewell sermon at Mace Sunday. 11. Trout and sou delivered a fine lot •if hogs at Mace Tuesday.

There is being an immense tfmount of clover seed sown here. John M. Walkup talks of attending the State fair this season.

Vin Stout and llarry it-in ley were -een on our streets Sunday. The farmers here will cut up an immense lot of corn this fall.

Four of our young folks visited near Wesley Saturday and Sunday. Louis Lee and family have moved back from Omaha, Nebraska.

Miss Rosie Dunn, of Chicago, is visiting friends here this week. Several from here are making preparations to go to the State fair."

Charles Martin is hauling his winter's wood from here this week. Ode Woliever buried his infant child at the Mace cemetery last week.

Clover seed is making an average of and 3 bushels per acre here. II. C. Finch made a Hying trip to Lafayette on his wheel last week.

Asbury Bowers, of New Ross, will teach our winter term of school. John Pogue delivered a fine lot of grapes at Crawfordsville Monday.

S. Finch delivered a load of hay to his brother in Darlington Monday." Frank Foster and wife returned to their home in Indianapolis Monday.

H. C. Finch is doing some metal work for George W. Linn this week. The price of hogs here high, wheat low and corn just the same. 50 cents.

Farmers, subscribe for THE JomxAT.. It is the best county paper published. The Pogue brothers and Wilson brothers are repairing the roads this week.

Mr. Neeiey. off Linnsburg. has sold his farm to Newton Everson, of Ladoga.

It is getting to be a very common thing for the farmers to keep a fighting dog.

Seeberry Hunt and his father, of Darlington, were here looking after cattle Friday.

Dorsey Rhoades will leave the Chadwick farm and goto Missouri. We wish him success.

Quite a number of the Mace boys went to the fair ground on their bicycles last Sunday.

The S. of V. met at the Iv. P. hall Wednesdoy evening. The lodge is still growing and ready for "new members any time.

John Perry while at Mace last week purchased a half dollar's worth of beans and lost them through the cracks in his wagon on the way home.

If you had seen Joseph Francis and Mox'ton Stewart the day of the circus .you would have taken them to be New York drummers.

The farmers are hauling out their land taxes and we think our roads will be in a fair condition for the coming winter. If our prophet be true it will be very rough indeed.

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There has been a great amount of chickens stolen in the past few weeks. If the farmers don't keep their hen houses locked there will be no chickens in this neighborhood. One of our men had 50 of his best chickens stolen last week and has not heard of them since.

The Bratton Bros, finished up their last job of threshing for this year at John W. Perry's last Friday, he having 412 bushels of rye. They have threshed during the season 21,480 bushels, the largest run made. Everybody is well pleased with their work and promised them their work next year. Their maching is wTell taken care of, with Frank Armstrong as engineer. 1 for one can say that TIIK JOUKXAJ. reunion was grand. I was well pleased to meet so many of my fellow correspondents and I hope that we correspondents may keep in our minds the reunion and time that we may meet one another often and get better acquainted, and trust that the next reunion we have will be a greater one than ever before. THE JOURNAL company has my sincere thanks.

BOOTS SCHOOL HOUSE.

MiltStuckey is building anew house. ("till Rakestraw has made a new mash.

Bert Ermentrout sports a new buggy. Mrs. W. M. Cook visited home folks Friday.

Ask Henry Ronk if he understands fire Hies. Ask Flint Hopkins if he ever wrote any letters.

John Hodge is doing some work for Milt Stuckev. Fred Thompson is talking of going to Ho Springs.

Great was the fall when John Peterson's mustache fell. Who was the boy that went to see his girl and got lost.

Several from here attended the show at Crawfordsville last week. School will begin at this place on the 17th, John Harryman as teacher.

The harvest meeting at White church last Sunday was a grand success.

There is one of our old bachelors on the right track. We hope that we can get him married before he spoils. Do you know him?

J1ATTLESXAKE.

Health good on the creek. Wheat sowing is in order now. The rain has stopped clover seed hulling at present.

Elder Zook filled his appointment at the U. B. church last Sunday. Braxton Cash attended the Masonic lodge at Crawfordsville last Monday night.

Mrs. George Davis and daughter. Pauline, have gone to Washington City on a visit.

One of our old bachelors is on the go every day. We don't know what calls him away from home so much.

Harvey Gray has quite a large variety of vegetables on exhibition at the fair this week. He has some very fine garden produce.

The present corn crop is better than was expected, considering the very dry weather. It will make forty or fifty bushels to the acre.

Samuel Galey is building him a barn on his farm. He has a nice little farm and takes good care of it. Sam is no slouch when it comes to keeping his farm in good order. "We think the Possum Ridge correspondent's mind has been unbalanced every since the reunion of TIIK JOUHXAI. correspondents. In plncc of him going hone. that night he strayed away up near Darlington. Now. brother Possum Ridge, tell us where you were or you might get your credentials taken from you.

Many thanks to THE JOURNAL COMPANY for the royal manner in which she entertained her many correspondents on the day of their reunion. We cannot speak too highly of TIIK JOURNAL, the best paper in the county, sound Republican clear through aill over from head to foot. We would say to our brother and sister correspondents that we must strive in future to help make it still better and to increase its circulation to double what it is now. It ought to be in every family in the county, whether Republican or Democrat.

l'.iWNKK.

I. N. Gott went to Chicago Tuesday. Geo. H. Johnson was at Westfield Monday on business.

Pawnee was well represented at the "Best on Earth" this week. Several from here attended the camp meeting at Ladoga last Sunday.

Arlie Thompson attended the Baptist Association at Rockville last week. Miss Mary Johnson attended the teachers institute at Lebanon last week.

Rev. P. II. Faulk preached an excellent sermon at Center School. House last Sunday. lie will preach there again in two weeks.

Relief in

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HUNDREDS PERISH.

Great Loss of Life in the Forests of Minnesota.

JIA5Y TOWNS DESTROYED BY FIRE.

Over 400 Person* Now Reported Dead— Hiuekley Wiped Out of Existence— Forests, Fields and Highways Strewn with the Dead.

HAVOC OF THE FLAMES.

CHICAGO, Sept. 8.—Reports from the portions of Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin in which the forest fires are now raging show that the condition of affairs there is more than terrible. The loss of property, at a low estimate, has already reached $12,000,000, not including the standing timber that has been destroyed. But even worse is the loss of life which, it is feared, will reach as high as 1,000. Nearly 400 cases of persons having perished have alreadybeen received, while the reports as they continue to come in are increasing the list. The best information is that about twenty towns have already been destroyed, driving thousands of families from their homes in the face of ti flames.

Worst Suffering Is at Hinckley.

The worst suffering is reported from Hinckley, Minn., and vicinity. The estimate of the loss of life there and in the surrounding towns is being increased by every report. It is said that strewn along on one street of llincklev the bodies of twentynine victims were found, while in another spot the charred and unrecognizable remains of 103 persons were counted. A low estimated of the fatalities in that town alone are now placed at 300 persons. Scores of others were discovered severely injured, while the list of missing was in the hundreds. It is believed that at least 100 victims are on the farms and clearings throughout the burnt district. The loss of life in and about Hinckley, Sandstone, Pokegama, Skunk Lake and Mission Creek will not be known for weeks, if ever. The survivors have been taken to Pine City, where physicians cared for the injured, while relief trains from Duluth, Minneapolis and St. Paul carried in tents, clothing, food and everything neceasaiy to cover the wants of the suffering survivors. Very few persons are left in Hinckley.

Towns in Danger.

Good news came Sunday night that the town of Washburn, Wis., across the bay from Ashland, had Anally been saved. But other reports are that the flames elsewhere are increasing their fury, and are now advancing into the vast forests east of Ashland and towards the cities in the iron belt, leading to Marquette. Many other towns were reported in danger late Sunday night. Cadott, near Chippewa Falls, Wis., was among them. The town is surrounded by flames, and the people of Chippewa Falls had gone to the rescue with steamers.

Supplies for Sufferers.

The extent of the suffering can hardly be described, but already the hand of charity is at work, and the cities of the three states are sending aid to the sufferers. But railroads have been injured by the fires, and in many cases trailic has been entirely suspended, thus preventing the starting out of relief expeditions. There seems no hop .' for a cessation of the progress of the flames save an end of le „ivat drought. No such hope is

Id out. for while much-needed rain is promised for other points "dry and fair is the prediction for the burning districts by the weather bureau.

The Loss ol' I.ife.

Up to last reports the estimates of the lives lost in the fires at different points ill the two states are as given in the following list, and it is feared the list is far below the actual destruction of human life: Hinckley. Minn Sandstone. Minn 4(3 Sandstone .1 unction g•, Poketfamu. Minn vj Skunk Lake. Minn ]... Shell Lake. Minn Miscellaneous points 40

Total 4,70 The publication of a list of the dead is deferred until fuller reports are received. Besides those who perished there are scores who were severely burned or otherwise badly injured while trying to escape.

I^ist of Towns Oustroyod,

The following towns are reported either wholly or partially destroyed: Hasliaw. liurnett county. Wis. Harronctt Barron county, Wis. Honoit, Wis. EvenMich: Filli. Id. Pine county. Wis. Granite Lake. Hamm county. Wis.: Gruntsliurg, lluriiett county, Wis. Gliddcn, Ashland countv. Wis. Hinckley. Pine county. Minn.: Mission reek. Pine county, Minn.: Marengo, Ashland cc.unty. Wis. Milaca. Pine comity, Minn.: Musead", Grant county. Wis.: Shell Lake Washburn county, Wis. South Kan^e, Dout'Ii: county, is.: Sidnaw, Houghton county, Mi' Sandstone. Minn. Trout (,'ruek. Mich.

The Losses.

The losses at Hinckley and Barronett were each over SI,000,000, while the losses at the other towns reported destroyed range from §100,000 to $500,000, according to latest advices. The loss in Washburn was estimated at 8300,000.

Destruction of llinekley.

PINK CITY. Minn., Sept. 3.—-The town of Hinckley has been wiped out by lire anil not less than 200 people perished in the flames. The walls of the schoolhouse. the iron fence about the town hall property, the bank vault and one absolutely uninjured outhouse are all that is left to mark the site where

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day stood a score of st re buildings a.id a dozen times as many dwellinghouses. The story of the catastrophe is a short one. The town was built of wood. The school house erected last year at a cost of 810,000 and one-half the Duluth roundhouse were the only brick structures in the city.

Fire Leaps Into the Town.

About 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon the tire literally jumped into the town. Its approach was not gradual. It did not eat its way along, devouring everything in its path, but came in hugh

leaps, as if to overtake every tiling nee* ing before it, and then burned back at Its leisure. It is described by those who witnessed its onward progress as if it were forced along by cyclones of its own generation.

The fire first struck Hinckley on the east aide of the Duluth track and the brave flre-flghters for the first time gave up the unequal battle and, already too late in many instances, turned their attention to their personal safety. The Eastern Minnesota train from the Bouth had just come in amd the people of the panicstricken city flocked to it for safety. A number of box cars were coupled on and filled and covered with men, women and children. Some were bareheaded, some were coatless, some few clutched a pitiful bundle of the more precious of their portable possessions. Families were separated. Children joined the throng and left parents. In all there was a motley crowd of about 450 or more people. The train pulled out just ahead of the fire and succeeded in ultimately reaching Duluth.

Through a Sea of Flame.

About the same time the accommodation on the Hinckley & St. Cloud branch left for the latter place with about twenty-five passengers. Its path lay directly across the path of the fire and their situation speedily became desperate. The ties were burning, the rails were warping, and the trestles were sagging under the train. The smoke had increased so that the engineer was helpless. He could not see the train behind him. Burning trees lav across the track and were being tossed aside by the engine. Suddenly the track gave way and the traui toppled otf to one side. No one was injured, and they pressed to Pokegama station, a few rods ahead. They succeeded in reaching the clearing about the station and escaped with a few burns and bruises. There were burned alnnir the track, however, four or live people, including Dr. Iveleey, of !New Brighton, who had come up to look al'ler his brother.

Fate of Those Left liehind.

The people who were left in the city were in what seemed to be an almost hopeless cdndition. Egress by the only means of transportation that could hope to distance the swiftly advancing flames was out of the question. Horses were harnessed to buggies and wagons. Women and children were hurriedly loaded in some cases attempts were made to carry out some household goods, but in most instances the people had no thought for augnt but their lives. Probably 300 of them left town on foot or in vehicles, plunging into the woods to the north, across the Grindstone river, whioh skirts the town on the north. They were literally flying before the pursuing demon of fire. Over the hill that rises beyond the Grindstone is a swamp, and to this most of the people with teams headed, but it proved no protection. The fire gave them no opportunity to go farther. Some abandoned their teams and ran into the lower portions of the morass, but the fire sought them out. Not one was left to tell the tale, and there, in a space of little more than four or five acres, were counted over 130 corpses. There were many families of live, six and seven, and there they lay, the men generally a little in advance, the mother surrounded by her little ones, cut off by the most horrible of deaths.

JNIiiss of Churred Kcinuiiis.

Nearly all the bodies were nude, the fire having burned every vestige of thoir clothing and blackened and charred many of the corpses beyond recognition, and whole families were wiped out as they were and some of the bodies completely incinerated. Identification is absolutely out of the question. Those who fled to the north on foot followed the Duluth track, and so rapid was the progress of the flames that many of them were actually burned as thev fled, falling on the right of way for a distance of 3 miles or more. Neariv thirty bodies were, recovered along here. ..

Sonic* \V« n» Drowiu'il.

Just east of the city limits of Hinckley is an immense gravel pit, covering at least ten acres. In its center was a pool of stagnant water :i l'eet in depth. Into this rushed many citizens. There were probably a hundred of them, ami in addition to the human beings quite a number of domestic animals, horses, cows, oxen, pifs chickens, etc., sought safety here, "it was really the safest place about Hinckley. The people went in here as the eastern train pulled out a few minutes after 4 o'clock and here they remained uutil .after o«, while the sm ke and flames from the burning city rolled over their heads. They dashed water over each other and covered their heads with cloths to prevent suffocation. One unknown man succumbed to the smoke or the terrible strain and fell in the water and was drowned.

Others of the citizens sought refuge in the Grindstone river, under the abuttments of the two railway bridges and the foot bridge. Tin. exact number cannot be known, as they were scattered along a considerable stretch of the little stream. That many escaped and some were drowned is well known. Mrs. Martin Martinson and her four fiaxenliaiicd little babes were taken from the water's edge Saturday morning, as pitiful a sight as man's eye ever witnessed. They were not touched by flames, but suffered the more merciful death by water.

IllnekUry

In the meantime Hinckley was burning. The flames leaped from building to building with almost the rapidity of an electric spark. Everything was tinder dry. There was not even one brick wall to stay for a moment the work of destruction, and all went up in smoke. About two hundred and fifty dwellings with all their household treasures, twenty stores and all their stocks of goods, including the immense general establishment of the Brennan Lumber company, two hotels, the Central and Morrison the railway

depots, and the new brick school, the town hall, the Duluth roundhouse, the three bridges and at last the plant of the Brennan Lumber company, sawmill, planing mill stables, lumber yard and all. This institution was the pride of Hinckley, and the backbone of its prosperity.

Collecting the Ieal.

As night closed in the people began tocoi.. eout from their hiding places and made their way over the hot embers of their city. Thay were absolutely dazed by the catastrophe and the night was spent in an endeavor to find relatives or ascertain their whereabouts. When the morning broke a few energetic spirits began to organize the work for the recovery of the bodies. The searchers were divided into parties. Between the river and Skunk lake forty-one were found. Citizen volunteers harnessed up the available vehicles saved in the gravel pit and went out to the swamp across the Grindstone. They brought in ninety six bodies, which were carried out to the desolate burying ground 1 mile east of town. There was neither time nor opportunity to observe the sacred formalities usually surrounding death. The excitement of the occasion, the horrible expend.ve through which the living had passed, and the more horrible form in which death had oome to the lost had temporarily blunted the finer sensibilities and the dead were heaped high on i.he wagons ami laid in piles in the cemetery. The ninety-six bodies brought into this point were examined by many of the surviving residents of Hinckley, and but four could be identified. Those who brought, in the bodies from the swamp reported that there were at learst thirty-five other bodies out. there.

Whole Kit in11u-s Perished.

Out oh the government road to the east was found the liest family of six persons—father, mother and four children. Best was a prosperous farmer living just out of town. Here, also, were recovered the bodies of the three unfortunate creatures who lived at the stookade.

Near Skunk lake was found a family consisting of father, mother and seven children. Of another family of which there were five children only the father escaped. There was a settlement of about thirty people near this lake and but two are known to be alive.

In the woods north of town was found a team of magnificent gray horses harnesed to the remains of a burned wagon. Under the wagon were the bodies of a woman and three children, but the horses were not harmed in the least and were brought back into town.

The total loss of life will never be definitely known. There were scattered through the woods settlers, clearings and lumber camps, with their watchmen, and many people were undoubtedly burned whose bodies were completely destroyed and will never be found.

IAISS of Life ut SanJntono.

From Sandstone, comes appalling reports. The town has been almost completely destroyed, and tifty or sixty persons have been burned to death. Forty-seven charred bodies have been found. The survivors are suffering greatly for food and shelter. The town of Partridge, across the river, was also burned.

I'OSM'S

In addition to forty-srvun bodies ut Sandstone there are twenty at Kettle Kiver Junction. One family is living in a root house and the fatlior is missing. Al! the wtllers in the are probably burned to death. O'Neiil IJrus. had twelve camps in the woods near Sandstone and all these are burned. Most of the inmates, however. arc believed t- have escaped with their lives.

There are about eleven homeless families at Mission Creek, but they have provisions for about twenty-four hours. Brook Park, 2 utiles west of Hinckley, is burned, ami there are about l:'.» people there, many of whom are in need of immediate relief.

In Wisconsin uni iclii^iui.

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raging in northern Wisconsin. Whole towns have been wiped out and all telegraphic communication with Ashland. Bayfield and that region is cut off. Terrible forest fires are ragin»- in the vicinity of Rice Lake a.nd the town of Bashaw, 15 miles north of here, is entirely destroyed. No loss of life is reported. iiarronett. S miles north of Cumberland, and Granite Lake, a small town 4 miles north of Cumberland, were both completely wiped out of existence. The people barely escaped with their lives and have been brought to umberland. Four families are still missing and it is thought they may have perished in the flames.

Fire completely destroyed the town of .Marengo. Ashland county. 'JOO families being left homeless. ~A loss of about Sjio.ooo was sustained by (ire at Muscoda.

Isni'KMiNfj, Mich.. Sept. 3.— Forest fires arc raging at various places in the upper pen insula. At Ewen six buildings burned Sunday. The town is threatened and high winds prevail. Two hundred men are fighting the flanu large amount of timber and farm crops have been consumed. Ntst)ri-v is also threatened. Bridges on the South Shore line near .Marengo arc all burned and trains abandoned.

New Depot at St. Louis.

Si- Loins, Sept. 3.—-Fully 50,000 people attended the dedication Saturday evening of the St. Louis Terminal Railway association's palatial new union station, which is without doubt the finest and largest in the country, if not in the world. The station, with its immense steel train shed and power house, represents an outlay of over S2.000.000, and with the cost of the ground on which the building stands the total value of the property is over gfl, 000,000.

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WASIIINOTOX, Sept. :S.—According to the treasury statement the public debt decreased §1,713,054 daring August.