People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1894 — MICHIGAN VILLAGE DESTROYED. [ARTICLE]

MICHIGAN VILLAGE DESTROYED.

An Area a Mile Wide and Five Miles Long Devastated In the Lumber Regions. Marquette, Mich., June 12. — Destructive forest fires are raging in the neighborhood of Nestoria, 50 miles west of here. Two bridges on the West Shore road, near here, were burned late Saturday, stopping traffic to Duluth, and a hard fight was necessary to protect the company’s property at Nestoria. The burning district covers an area 1 mile wide and 5 miles long, and the destruction to timber must be enormous. Similar big fires extend southward at intervals for many miles. Sagola, a lumbering village of 400 inhabitants, was completely wiped out Saturday night and a freight train on the Milwaukee & Northern parsing through there was set on fire and several cars burned. Only the most meager reports can be received, as in many places wires are down and travel suspended entirely.