Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1901 — Fires in Michigan and Wisconsin. [ARTICLE]

Fires in Michigan and Wisconsin.

Threatening forest fires are burning at a number of peninsular points near Houghton, Mich, though the damage as yet done is slight. The past two seasons have been phenomenally wet and marked by practically no fire losses, but precipitation for April was only a quarter of an inch and the woods are very dry. Unless drenching rains fall speedily forest fires must do great damage, and perhaps endanger a number of hamlets and villages. Forest fires encroached so closely on Saxon, east of Ashland, Wis., on the Northwestern railroad, Saturday night, that two freight cars were burned.