Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1893 — FOREST FIRE FATALITY. [ARTICLE]

FOREST FIRE FATALITY .

A Michigan Lumber Camp Destroyed and Ten Lives Lost. A forest, fire destroyed Lous Sand's lumber camp near Lake City, Michigan, Saturday afternoon. Out of a total crew of sixty men forty-nine escaped uninjured. One, Edward Sullivan, wAs seriously burned, and ten are dead. Of {those eight took refuge in a well and were cremated there by the timbers and curbing fulling in upon them and burning. Two tried to run the gauntlet and were, burned to a crisp.