People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1893 — FOREST FIRES STILL RAGING. [ARTICLE]

FOREST FIRES STILL RAGING.

Ashland Overhung by a Cloud of Smoke— Valuable Timber Burned. Ashland, Wis., Sept 19.—The city is overhung by a heavy pall of smoke, and a bad forest fire is burning south of the city along the line of the Wisconsin Central road, within a mile of town. Fires are also raging in the direction of Bayfield. On the Odana reservation andiin the White river district, according to the reports of land hunters, who- have explored the skirts of the burned district, several settlers have been burned out, although all efforts to obtain the names- of the persons whose homes have been destroyed have proved fruitless. The destruction of the pine on the reservation, however, has been enormous, and Capt. Day, one of the pineland hunters who has viewed the burning forest, estimates that no less than 75,000,000,feet of pine on the reserva- . tion were burned, causing a loss to the government of at least $630,000.