The New York Herald Newspaper, October 16, 1871, Page 8

yom + Blackened, 4 ~~ -- THE WESTERN FIRES. TERRIBLE LOSS OF LITE. Seott resided was oommagns. destroyed, ond the und, 1t was generally feared |; bold goods, provisions, &e., mm the middie of their Professor, not being that he bad ‘allea a victim to the flames. Mr. Josiin, ofthe firm of Breynan & Joslin, another of the best was imminem. The people had got all their house- largest beanie oc We hear that tn some towns the people have dug cinzens, Was engaged in rescuing persons from the | holes in the ground and buried their grain and pro- fames. He msisted on going once more to the res- eve; friends advised him hot to venture, but he Would not be dissuaded, thinking there were still lives to besaved. He Neved to have been suffocated and burned to death, Sy inbeeaacea anes Tne livery siailes were eruptied of tuo 3 horses. wiich, were pubilc square, as only place ‘gmmence Destruction of natety. Thousands of pecpie were collected there. Property. Cities, Villages aud Towns En- tirely Swept Aw: Full Details of the Disasters at Green Bay. Great Suffering Among the Survivors. THE THE FIRES STILL RAGING. Villeges Destroyed—Two Hundred and Fifty Persons Burned te Doath and Seventy Fatale ly Injered. Ma ce Acorrespondent of the Toledo Jferatd writes as tallowe:— MENOSMA, Wis, Oct, 11, 1871. I bave just returned from wiat was once Peshtigo, ‘Wiihher t went yesterday, that I might be able to give to the readers of the Herald a correct account ei we desiraction Of that place. ‘The village was Situated on Peshtigo river, seven miies from Green Hay. Jt was a nice inte town of about two thou- Band mbvbitants, quite rezularly laid ont, had fine Botels, stores, churches, schools, &c., besides tne Jarge factory owned by Whe Peshtigo Manulactaring Company, a sash, door and biind factory and foun- @ry aiso Owned by thesame company, Who owned meariy every building in tne town, Tie factory was @evoied to the manufacture of patis, tubs, broom Bandies, &c., and gave employment to avout seven Bundred hands in the ditferen! branches, ‘Phe town ts nearly surrounded by fine forests, the @uaburban portions belag built “among tie pines. The inhabitants have for the pasi teu days been fig ht ang Gre m the woods, trying to save the town, and Rad seitied down Into # feeling of comparative se- eurity sive the Wouds on atl sides bad been more or Bess burned over, On Sanday night they were awakened from this feeling of security by a notse lke distant tuunder, ‘Which mereased im Volume until the sh of faring 4rces and wie rearof the wind aud fire could be Plainly heard. Suon after a tornado burst upon the town, uur Ze RUMEr Of Lutidings, and quickly solowed by a soltd sheet of Name, extending the whoie jengih of the village and tar beyond each Way, Ju an instant ihe whole exposed side of was in flames, Men, women and rushed into , and, sor- re Oh all sides, were soon either vurned to death. In the less exposed portions the people fed to the river, and, jumping Mu, Jaany Were drowned. Some saved their lives by kceping ander water aud oace ina while pasting their heals under as the beat became insuflerabie, rs Wok rejuge yw aua cisterns and were Quite a large pore of the inhabitants ran to the lecward of the fire, and by iyi on yound were saved, although some ol these arued. ‘There ts but ope house left ated and jately pnilt of as can at present be ascertained, 259 { been lost, Mostly Women and children, { many men have perished’ there 10 are baaly bi the streets cannot be traced, wand which Was swept In gr mado. Jn some instances bodies have been found coupleiely covered by #and. could ii! columns with heartrending tneidents Ol tuis conflagration, bat wil only giv alive oL [ue rest, Inne instance 2 diy and fled to the bridge spanning . Ige was soon on fire, and the poor uuforin- ily were nearly roas‘ed alive, and then yemper inte the river and wore drowned. A woman @h seeing the fire approaching put her Uttle girl, a cbiid ) weil Which was nearly dry, aud © © the river herself fur secarity. ‘The womat Was saved, aid, as 8008 a she could, fouud out Lue jocali:y, and her joy was #0 great finding the dite one alive and well that she sw ed, and on vovering clasped ber cad im wus aud rap erylng for joy. Tous lew, alas, were so fortunate, In mat Whole jamliies have perished. In other c Maye lost their famiiles, they bemg, atthe time of ane dire, Working to save the fac r instances meu perished in thei en‘teavor to save tucir families. In one case to which my attention led, a litde boy of seven years is the oaly ng Meulyer Of a numerous fauiuly. As hoon as the fire had suficireatiy subsided ail were able went to the relief of the suderers, charred corpses were lying in every a@irection, With thelr clowing, as & general thing, rly O€ quile burged Of, Many dead bodies were cig the rand many more have sinee beca recovered, A Lumber have dicd irom their braises, While other are crippted or fearfully distigured. ‘The must unagiuaiive mind cangot begun to realize this (eariul calamity, much less my poor pen to da- worive It, “The sbricks and groans of the Gying and ol ihose Whe had jost wear and dear friends; the hastily aspect of the blackened corpses; tue shock- Ing appearance of many wo, dadly burned and wimost destitute of clothing, Were ranning Hey Khew not where: oilers, in the lastagonies of deatii, mae a picture tov horrid for coptempiauion, The #ullerers lave wll been taken to Greep Bay and e@luer tows, Where they wii be kindly cared for, as Aospitallty ts ove of the marked traits of the West. The Joss 10 the Peshtigo Company, Wo owned the faciores anu most of Lac town, bi large pine Jaids, 18 estan at $3,000,000, b 8 the loss of their extensive warehe y Meunekaunce ibaditants, is etght hundred vase Vor. tnd factories eighboring towns are stopped by horiite: Lac and other order of the a The Dend at Veshtice. ounts from Peshtigo add to the hor- The propel P81, Joseph arrived “hiv of the survivors, many of Dacefouied and bareheaded, und Tibly burped. W , Who kept the Peshtizo er particoiers, He estimates » we learn far the joss of if rly four baudred, The Joss tn the war Bn Was much worse than in the Village. Phey had no means of esenpe, while at the Vvulage the p Aved themselves in the river. ‘The Suga’ bush Was a Lirtity farming setilement. Seven or eight Indes jong by four or five mites wide, and contained about three handred families. lt was estimated by compeint judges on Tuesday Wat crgist-ievthes Of its inbabitanis were dead, But aboot elght iniidings were lef. Twenty teams wont up There on Tuesday to bury the aead, and up ww four P, M. Tuesday they had reported ule tolow- img deed tn tie Sugar Bosh L. H. Siul, wife ant boy, and forty-two bodies Picket up in front of their House, ‘ry, Kelly aud one chit (wife and two children Baved). Dau Fou ooy. dopn Chorch, wife and two grown ehilcren, Wife and five clitiren of Charies Lembk. Jobn Simith, wite and five children, domn Alsweiger, wife and six chitdren Charles Lawrence, wife and three ch KN. May, wile aud two chuluren. Wile of Peer Leech and two hired men, Father, mother, wite and child of Wiliam Penry. Charles Chapman, wife and one child. Henry wife and two sonp PI wi'e and sour ¢ w woaymer and twogrown up boys. sr. Woodward gives Ute following addition lo the of dena tn 5 hter, tweles of Fred Bartels, ay * al gone, bul ars old, one ren. i net A. A. Pra Wie and i Barving of Holland City. {from the Grand Haven Heraid, Oct. 11.) Duriig Munday the eity of Grand Haven was fal 9} tertile rnmors as to the fire in Holland City, but noting definite or relable could be Joarned antil the arrival at two o'clock of a train from the north mde of Black Lake, corvainipg several assengors, sinong whom Were Miss Jennie and Miss Clarié Peunoser, two young ladies who have been en: *owed 1m leaching in the doomed city, The stat ment of these Young ladies is nearly as follows heive broke in upon the city trom the woods vut three 1, M. Sunday, but no buildings of any iit dark 10 -tue evening, I danger a.stron; ry eousequence burned uni XN» ohe Uiought the city was ur atiy 8 anil ten or eleven o'clock, but at that time wind setiing in from the woods, the fire arer over ihe cliy with wonderful | rapidity. wad part of the city was soon In fam The fhouse were the Misses Fennoyers were staying caught fre about three o'clock Monday morning. The lwites had packed their trunks, and, hastily dressing themselves in wrappers, just mi a to ercape, The Lake View House went next, then tbe One City Muis of Waker , Gerlings & Co. The daddies, after leaving the hous @ear by, abd soon found themselves surrounded bv Py » George Howard, whose efforts were in- gable, Managed to assat them out of thew aTieus position. THe poriuen Of the gity where Professor Charies ran toa small mound AWFUL STORY OF PESHTIGO, on Wednesday morning with about | streets, wailing und crying, unable to find their busbands and fathers, brotl and sisters, Temates barely escaped with their it clothes, did not retura, and is he- | Saiuraa visions, Porter Jones, fishing on the bay shore at Lay Set- Ulement, twelve miles from here, informed us on the beach of the bay the evergreen leaves, fir, pine, &c., parily burned, were piled up trom one to two feet high, washed up by the waves, On the line of the Menominee extension of ly all their contents, and in some cases the men had @ bard struggle tor their lives... The contents of the nigh child, ten years of age, was picked Up on the street | camps would average in valuo $700 each, or $2,100 burned to death, It is impossible to tell how many lives are lost, Some nine or ten citizens are miss- | was avout $15, ing, but some may yet be found, m1 the Misses Pennover left men were trying to. keep the fire trom-the College build but the sue- ceeding ot brick, were ning; aiso the Union School bmriding anil the churches, except the “Seced- ers’’ or the ‘True Reformed Church.” One woman m leaving her house tied her baby in a bundle, but in her hurry she took the wrong bundle, and to her in rented that these buildings, although | of the men escaped for the three, The total value of the goods saved orth oi Little Suamico, and had been burned once previously. No. 11 wasa haifa mile farther nortn, and No, 13 two miles still further. At No. 11 some with diiicaity, Mr. 8, Messeu- ger fainted with the heat and smoke, and was car- ned out by Andrew Thompson, At-Conn’s mill, ou the Littie Suamico, a constant struggle against the fire bas been ke; t up for more than two weeks, Mr. Conn has displayed the dismay discovered her mistake when too late. Of | greatest cuergy throughout, and the saving of that seven chiliren she could find only two. Fortue | valuable property is undoubtedly due tothe hercu- nately, however, the bundle contatmng the live | lean efforts made to that cnd. ‘Trenches have heen baby was picked up in the street, and it was believed | dug in long lines oe the village, and all loose ‘that the other oitidren were also found. timber and refase cle: off. Fora considerable Mr. M. D. Howard, when he saw the fire rapidly | area around the mili the has been covered Sprtnachiog his visited every room in | with a coating of sand, m it proof against fall- the honse for the last time, The house was cle- ing geigs and the underranning fires; When we gantly furnished, and the fine piano, with th ‘Thursday of last week Mr. Conn and every articla of furniture, was destroy: ing | his force of men were much exhausted by long was saved but a little personal clothing, The jamily | work, put undismayed and husbanding ther took refuge on @ cog and were taken toward tue | stren for future work. ‘The property was sti in mouth of Black Lake to a place of safety. George | dai if southerly winda spring up, whieh Moward- was very diligent in picking ‘up children | has since been the case; and we are fearfni that, and women who Were ranuing frantically about in | before this goes to presa, we may hear of some places of ai and removing them to@ place of | disasters t! Balety. In this way he gay He ‘dhe lowlands between the two Suamicos, which times had to capture ema by haute fo sometime: rave them from destruction, aay ‘the City Hotel at first was considerea by Mr. Myers oui of danger, but his most valuable articles.) be utterly ruined—timber, he fortunately buried tn the ground, and these were | underrun tne soll, u | all that were saved of the best hotel'in the cry. The \ house was in flames when the family and boarders Mr. George Howard, at the very commencement of the fire, took fourteen spades ind handed then each to Hollanders, who were standing around, and Tequesied them to use Lhem in throwing sand onthe Hire, 80 a8 to prevent it from spreading to the de- struction of the city. They actually refused to work, giving as a reason that it was Stinday, and tt woult be wrong to ao any work on tnat day. they gone to work like men this terrivie conflagra- tion Ry suffering might possibly have been pre- vented, ‘The woods along the line of the Michizan Lake Shore kaitroad, between Holland and Pigeon River, were in flames, The miles of marsh were ono shect oO: fame, and it was with great difficulty the train came tarough. The heat inside the cars was in- tense. A message from Mr. A. D, Howard was recetved by the train, stating that the people were in danger of starving, as all the stores were destroyed, and asking Wiata supply be immediately shipped. Mr. DP. Cutler immediately calied on the stores and ordered & supply of crackera, and alk the cooked provisions that could be collected sent to the depot. ‘The train did not got off thi Tuesday morning, wnen ram ee and subdned the’ flames along the line of the road, Other Accounts, j¥rom tbe Green bay Advocate, Oct, 12.) | We undertake this week the description of the | devastaiion by fires in Ua region which have oc- curred since our last issue with the utmost care, ‘The city being threatened itseif has not only been excited and fall of apprenousion on its own ac count, bat the wildest rumors have constantly been rite in regard to the Gres progressing on every side of us Night aiter night the hori- zon all around has been iighted up by the conflagrationa, and by day the strecis have been filed with smoke, shating in everything from sight. From the country, too, it has been extremely dii- cult to gather connected accounts of whatis going on. The seitlers in every airection are closely oc- cupied at homo fighting the fre around their homesteads, gud only th come in who are on hurried errands for help. it, considering the gen- trai tumalt, we think We have collected snch brief accounts a8 are reliable, The wain fault will be fouad hereaiter to be in their brevity and total in- adequateness tu the real facts, Tho area of the fire extends over ail of Kewaunee county, part of Door, nearly tae wile of Brown, that part of Oconto lying | souin of the Menomouee and patt of the Shawano and Outagamie. Of the termbie destruction of Peshtigo and parts of counts will be found elsewhcre, Tne southerly wind which prevailed during Sun- day afternoon reacted the proportions of a gale in the evening, and during that night the destruction to houses, barns and other property in the country, with some instances of loss of life, was fearful. “A beit of county extending irom a potut east of this clty nortuward through Brown and Kewaunee and huto Poor, sudercd most. The towns of Hombolut, | Green Bay, Casco, Red River and Brusseis were scathed with a whirlwind of fame, devouring the woods, leaping across clearings. and lapping ap ! evcrything tflaminable in its track, Over three mules in lengti in the south part of the town of Red Raver 1s burned. ‘The whole town of Bras. sels, in Door county, containing some two handred families, is burned, — Ln tits town the wite and three children of Francots Wenadrcks were bared, Rosture Moses Veivaux and Hypolite Ligot were burned. Allo: Rosiere, Inctading upwards of one hnndred houses, is burned, It is said that only four bulidings are saved. Kosiere Is about five miles north of Rovinsonville, Peicr Miier’s place, about two miles east of Rob. insonville, containing store, fouring mill and many j dwelling houses anc barns, is burned, mScoflcid & Co.'s mill, near Red River, is reported burned. Also a new mill which wey were build- ing in the town of Brussels, which was neariy ready torail. They had alarge boarding house, & store and biacksimith shop, &c., Which are burned, {n the town of Green Bay the fire entered at the southeast corber and swept through to the north. j cast, Notning could be done to arrest its forward progress, but people labored with some erfort fo prevent it spreading laterally, The burning belt In } widened a8 it advanced. About half tne town ts burned, At Robdinagonville the two urches, Duqaeme's store and tavern } and Ruben’s ‘tavern are reported as saved. The names of Gome of the farmers who have suffered tn tus viciuity are:—Gragoire Desticne, Louls Deicorfe, Joseph Liogots, Johu Benoit Darte, Jean Lacount, Atphouse Paque, Juha Colin, Romaine Moreanx, Gregoire Daguerre, Francois Ne! Peter Mueller (aul, store aud other property), F. Hannon, Fer- dinand Haevers, F. Vandenohonten, Felix Vanden- lonten, Felix Bogean, Join Benoit Hermann, Charles Last, Jacques Namur, Joseph Guisenbergh, ¥. Rousseau, Henry Chappelle, Remy Jacque, Alex- | ander Jacquart and August Moreaux. In the town of Brussels, Poitte Fete, two children of Joseph Deivaux and the wife aud three children | of Fraucota Gato are reported burned, Detailed re- | Ports from that region wil doubtiess reveal much greater loss of thie, Hombeldt and vicinity, from eight to twelve mi northeast of this city, Prosper Gineuse lost house, bata and all ontuuidings, oxen and cow. | Mrs. Tasen, @ Wilow, whose husband was killed In the late War, lost house, barn and ail ber farm | Products. Nicholas Lurguen lost his nouse; Thomas ‘ogelmans, barn, tay aud grain; M. Cunnier, ay and gram; Mr. Bicrer, house, barn aud all gr: Mr. Vison, barn, with all hay and grain; ir, Mu house, barn and crops; Mr. Lerocue; house; Mr. Gode, honse, barn and ail crops; Mrs, Mishott, Huuapoidt, house and stable; the Marches, father aud son, lost their houses and barns; Corue- lius Wagner, barn and stable, A church was burned tn Hamboldt, A small hamiet in the town of Red River named Thiry Deames ts reported all burned, We are indebted to Paul Lefavre, of this city, whose father’s family suffered greatly; John Bb. Eugene and Theodore Rubens, for many particuiara, On the Big Suamico, T. A, Saichieder lost two Ue camps on Sunday, the Ist inst. John Cook saved his hotel fast Sunday night by hard work, The flames drove clear over the roof. The goods were removed to Poitras’ tavern, No buildings reported tost on the Big Suamico. Much anxiety is telt for the safety of Conn’s milt at Littie Saamico, it was in danger trom southerly winds, and must have had a hard trtai in the soutti« erly gaie of Sunday night. Hart & Snover’s mili, between Oconto and Pesh- tig, was barved on Sunday night. Tnere were some fifteen or twenty mea there, and everything was done to save It, without success, All put oac buitding was burned, and the men had a narrow escape for their lives, Mr. Shover 1s reported con- siderably burucd. _ Near the * Lost Section,” on the east side of the river, John Vandenbrech lost nouse and barn Suns day mght. Another Hollanaer lust everything. From the southern towns of this county we hear of little damage except of cord wood, The fight against the fire was a long and severe one, and had lt not been for the rain of Monday nigit they could not have held Out mach longer. ay houses or barns are ae | burned, and no lives lost. We learn from 0. N. Naion, who came in from Glenmore, that on Sunday night, between 10 ana 11 o'clock, the three ere houses of the bersey Bro- thers were entirely burned with their contents. The nuit and three smail dwelling houses were saved py great effort. Hubbard’s mili, about forty rods from the Bersey mill, was entirely burned at the same time. Nothing saved. ‘These mills were nme miles east ol Depere. Fortunately no ives were lost at these Ores. ‘The village of New Franken, about twelve miles a little north of east of this city, in the town of Green Bay, bad heretofore eacaped the general de- vastation from the forest fires, but on Sunday last a heavy wind sprang ap, driving the fire and dense voiumes of smoke [rom the southeast directly down ‘upon the village. From the first tt was evident that the doom of the entire settiement was sealed and no earthly power was of any avail. About ail that ould be done by the aificted community was to save their own iives, and the remorseless fames swallowed up mill, loge, Ni barns, crops, furni- ture, clothing—everything bat bodies of the citt- zens. The fire struck the place at about eight o'clock in the eveniug and at one the next, poratae nothing was leit but blackened rains, Mr. G. W. Watson, who was present at the fire, gives us a list of the buildings he knows to be destroyed:— Willard Lamb's mill, with 800,000 feet of logs, on the railways, boarding house and farnitare, store and goods, Mr. Lamb's residence, two iarge frame barns, full of hay and grain; three emali varns, eleven tenant houses, occumed by lourteen famu)ies, who ail lost everyiliug, logaing sleds, burned, } bara, du We iowa of Humboldt, oy Sunday, the danger } aud about Mily-tuvee OMEN persong in ihe The other hotels alt shared the same fate. | region, lately so beautiful ' Mavigette, bienekannee aud Menomonee detailed ac- | | i 1 1 } | ! { ‘ are reported burned. are @ part of the aliuvial grounds forming the west snore of the bay, and extending back from the ‘water two or threé mites to the high lands, seem to » Soll and all, The fire bas prootiog the trees, making it a black, hideous desolation. With the first high wind the trees still standing must go over, and all that with evergreea verdure and so valuable for poais, Ues @nd wood, will be @ barren waste, Many interesting incidents of the fire are related. AtCauip 1034 on the railway extension.two men spent the night in @ parually excavated well. Next day, after they were gone, the top of a burning tree near by fell and filled the well with its burning branches, At Oak Orchard, between Oconto and Shawano, a man and hls wile, Norwegians, named Giynn, were 60 badly burped in their nouse that the woman died soon afier, and the man has since been reported as dead, They were trying to save some of their household effects, when they were caught in the flames. The appearance of the poor woman run- niog from the fire with ver clothes aud body burn- Ly ted described as horrible. ta lumbering: shanty abont elght miles above Oconto & man and wife pamed Bertctiotte only es- caped by spending the night in a newly excavated well, They protected themselves against the falling cinders by bed clothing kept wet with the water be- low them and held over their heada, They nad a pair of oxen which were saved by lying on tie fresh ground thrown out of the well. At the Couliard briage, some five miles above Oconto, @ large number of the setilers—some sixty or seventy—were gathered one day last week, seek- ing refuge from the flames, They had becn driven out from their houses aud clearings in the country adjacent, and were pane stricken and tired ont, | Neving before the smoke and Hames to the nearest ‘water, | reach the river-and plunge into i for autety. Here Tho prevailing idea of many of them was to one woman, exhausted by terror and travel, gave premature birth to a child. All these peopie bad lost everytning—not even saving thelr hedaing, The roaring of the buraing forests, the heavy pa'l | of smoke which enveloped everything and shut out te sun, crash ‘of trees and the terror which mspired all, are described as akin to pandemonium. Some of the more ignorant and panic sirl ken magined that the end of the worid was at hand. Some of the railway hands on the railway exten. sion dug a pit, which they roofed over with ties, covered thickly with carth, and in this sort of oven spent the night safely. About two miles below Stiles lived a man named Buekley, an old resident of Oconto county. He was Jound m the morning dead and partly burned, lying across the doorway of his bouse, where he bad douptless ween canght white trving to save his household effects, He had had assistance the pre- vious day, in saving his barn, and it was supposed that his place was ont of danger, George Hart, ot Oconto, ie reported as having had Anarrow escape for is life. Te wason the road southward from that place, with a pair of horses and vuggy, and, iading it impossible to go forward, turned back. In the meantime a buramg tree had Fallen across the road, and into this, in the smoke and darkness, he Risized at full speed, His horses tore loose from the buggy, but holding fast to the reins he was dragged throagh, considerably burned. ‘He found his way to the house of Uharles Windross, at Oak Orchard, where he was cared for. Mr. Cole, of Oconto, gives us Ue following est!- Mate of hay and other farming property burned oa that river. Thomas Johnson, twenty miles up the river, thirty tons of hay—the whole crop of his farm; Joun Volk, eightcen miles up, twenty-nve tons of hay, and all tus oats and wheat; Anson Fildred, Stiles, lost adarze barn, contaiuinir seventy tons of hay; John Lucia, on tie voad from Holmes? to Little River, Affeen tons of tay; Peter Kosecraus, barn, with twenty-five tons of hay. 300 bushels oats and other grain; Charles Ratrer, barn and twenty tons of hay, with oats and other grain; Jolin Tra- verse, barn, fivty tons of Nay, with oats and wheat; Charles McDonald, hous®, barp and all, iis wheat and oats; two Delano families lost. nouses, barns, hay and all their grain; William Brungnest (before renorted) lost. upward Of 120 tons ef hay; Josepa Thomas, Witlam Klass, Jos, blanpatn, Paul Mcbon- ald aud others on the bay shore north of Oconto lost large lots of hay. Itis estimated that the loss ofhay on and adjacent to the Oconto river will reach upwards of 500 tons, The Oconto Lumberman of the 27th gives.a long account of the losses m that region. All the bulld- ings an’ other property on the Pensaukee road be- tween Rediond’s and Loimes’ milis are swept away. Oconto 13 not vet injured, though outside property has suifered to some extent, Barns, iences, and, in Bome instances, dwelling houses, in all directions, The sluice dam at Leth was on fire, but was saved. Upwards of twenty men were centred In the neighborhood of the mill, and saved those premises. " F. b, Gardner’s mill and property, at Pensaukee, ‘was reported as burned on Saturday, At the present time of writing we have no coulirmation of this rumor, which we think ts {ncorrect, If true it in- volves the loss of an extensive and valuable mill, hotel and dwelling house property—second to none, in completeness, on the bay. In Door county the Stargeon Bay Advocate savs that the damage fn the connty is immense; a large quantity of the most valuable standing timber tn the county has been burned down, large numbers of logs cut last winter and not hauled out entirely destroyed or spotied, tan park, cedar posts and otner products swent away; miles upon miles of fencing murned up, and in many cases the cleared land and meadows burned over and spoiled, Among the losses specified Bradner, Charnley & Co, lost a large lot of logs; Mr. Cocagne lost a barn and lots of fur- niture placed in it for safety; MW. J, Olson lost thirty- eight cords of bark, aud others lost tong lines of fences, corawood, &c¢. Tne Advocate says that without rain to prevent the farther spread of tne Haines the losses Will copunuaily swell ia amount, The Kewannee fnterprise of the ith says that seventy-eight butldings had been dostreyed up to that time, and the fires were avain spreading, Large fires were in progress near Burke's oud Simon's, in the town of Pierce; in the western part of Ahuapee, on both sides of the river: in the eastern part of oln, aud on the Mishicott road, west of Taylor & ‘i's, in Garitop, ‘Tho loss and damage tnMicted uthe county upto that date was estimated at 290,000, of which not more than $10,000 was covered by insurance. ‘The bulk of the loss is unin- suravle property, such as posts, tles, lay, corl- wood, &c., besides the standing timber. Five bridges are burned between Lincoin and Ahnepeos, All the people of the county are wora oat with con- stant watching and working, and are anxiously praying for rain, Withont whieh th is lnttle pros. on that the fire can be extinguisned or prevented rom spreading. Since that issue of the Huterprisc we get the re- port here that the village of Casco, with its hand some hotel, store building, mille aud dweling honses, Was burned on Sanday iast. +e greatly. fear that it 1s correct, as a northerly gale was biowe Ing on that day and the forests on that side were close to the village, This place was mainiy owned by Mr, Edward Decker, tt ts located on the Green Bay anda Kewaunee road, about twelve miles west of the latter place, and liad a good notel and store build- ing, a sawmill, With steam mactiuery, a furniture factory, brewery, Many dwelling houses, school houses, &c. The loss may range anywhere from $20,009 to $50,000. ‘The Shawano Journal of the Sth gives no particu. lars ot the fires, except that considerable damage has occurred to fences, hay, pine timber, &c, The village and surrounding country were enveloped in © smoke 80 dense as to be greatly oppressive, Ke- ee, rife of fires tu the east, west, north and bouth, The Wolf River pineries and the valuable cran- aes in that region are damaged to a vast Southward, in the region of Fond du Lac, terrible fires are raging in a.i cirections. The Eldorado marsh, about fifty square miles im extent, has oeen burn ing for days and it is reported twat 1,000 tons of hay are lost. Horicon marsh, much larger, 18 burping. In the towu of Friendsiip extensive fires are raging iu the woods, and several buildings have been burned, The air is filed with snioke and the sup Noi visible, LATEST PROM ROSIER! We are informed that the exact nainber of houses {n Rostere was 139, of which there are bnt five left, An addidon to the names of the dead first reported we fet the mame of Gabriclle Manfort. The villages of Resiere and Messtere form tno town of Lin 1D. Both are burned, uns twenty-one persons were Tasings pale gt LATEST PROM DYCKESVILLE. Among the dwelimgs barned at Dyckeaville are {hose of Paul Fontaine, Pierre Lizot and Joseph Tomnard. Bursing of Willlamsonvitie=From Fifty to Sixty Lives Lost, By Guillaume Delalaverne, from Union Town, we learn that the entire setilement at Williamson Brothers’ mill, ive miles from the shore of Little x. Lamb aiso jost ali his | Sturgeon Bay, was barned on Sunday night. The ‘The school house near the mijl was | proprietor, Youn Wh Yr as , iiamson, and bis wife and two chiidren—nis enure family—are burned to deain, y that so jar that shore had escaped, On Chicago Women and children were then running about the | and Northwestern Railway, on the 4tn tnst,, three camps—Noa,1059, 11 aud 13—were buried with near- Camp 104 was @ milo and a half Hement perished. Scarce @ oul is left to tei the le, Charles Kusterman, of Little Sturgeon, writes us further particulars, “snere were twelve families about the null aud fifty-two men in aud about the mill, Of ali these people but two were saved uuln- jJured, and ten injured persons suil living were found, aad were sent on mer by the tug Ozankee to Big Stargeon Bay for medical treatment, Every other individval m the setélemenut ts dead, Mr. Gardner sent twenty-five men to chop through the Woods to this sertlement, out correspondent: being one of the number, They found tae rematos or six persons in.one house, and plied tie paitly charred remains of fifty-live bodies of men, Women and chil- dren in one pile. ‘Tires or our persons attempted Lo save themselves in @ well contalmiag three feet of water. Oneof them had his head badly Durued aud the others were burned to death | One of the party sent out by F, B. tiardner called upon us on Werneaday. @ party went from tile Sturgeon to the ead of Littie Sturgeon Bay by the tug Ozaukee, and thence choppea their wav ire fe tr le se miles. ‘Lhe re cha imber, r found three of tho timber. in fhe) aor. Gua we ite Kents ur ilies (rom Sturgeon, eg Neate Reaching the site of Williamsonville they found pS ere pon an Cra mere human as with args a logs ed of, tail with sthing Snd@man aud chud wers fond dead im a weil ey, id aes feed. podem ane. t ek tie t humber niasy be from sixty to #e SC wot Menthawnce and Part of Marinette Buried— Loss of Life at Biroh Creek. ‘We et the news of the barming on Sund: of @ considerable Of the village kat ‘at the mouth of the Menomonee aes, part of Inette, adjoin! 1% on the west, and 80: property on the north of the river, in Meno- monee. Spaiding, be & Johnson's large new mill at Menekaunee, Barley’s planing mill, a church, schoolhouse! ond all the buildings in the Jower town, in tne south side, except » few shanticg on the bay shore, are burned. ‘The flames leaned across the river and burned R. Stephenson's mall (formerly spattoru & Gilmore's) lenomoace, uerany of the peonle fled to the bay ‘shore tor safety and remained ja the water all night. ‘The steamer Union, lyingin the river, took some three hundred women and children from Marinette to @ place of sately inthe harbor. ‘Tue women and children of Menomonee were placed on board the stermers Fa- vorite and Duolap and several vessels lying at. an- chor tn the roadstead, The maie portion of the population of the village spent. the whole night in fighting fire. Mone man died from fright and exhaustion alter he had been taken from the water. Apovher, who was sick In @ house witten was burned, died before he could be rescued. There are other reports of deaths, but as yet unconiirmed. A sad report comes fro Birch Creek Settlement, on the State road, jt mules north of Menomouee, Here tuirieen people are reported burned, This Place is only a station for the chauging of hérees on ‘the stage line, and it seems scarcely possibie that 30 many persons should be here at this time of year, 11s, doubtless, an exaggeration in the main, MICHIGAN, Miles of Flame an the Lake Shoroz--Resene of Villagers. [From the Detroit Free Press, Oct. 19.) A score or more of men, Women and children are rived in this city yesterday by boat and rail froia the up-count’y counties, and the statemenis made by them in regard to the woods fires are appalling. All of them have suffered the toss of every dolar of prop- erty, and some of them show scars aud blisters to prove how closely they were pursued by tie flames, Joan Kent and wile were living about ten miles above Forestville an@ avout five from the lake, He states, as do all the others, that flres have been running in the woods for months, but have travelled more rapidly and have created yreater destruction within the last ten days than In all the time before. For weeks the smoke m Sanilac and Huron counties has been so dease that wouen and chil- dren have been made sick, and every banan being has been half biud. Fowls were smothered as ion, as three Weeks ago, and the elect on caitie and horses was to render them unit for work, Although Kent had reason to apprehend danger to himseif, wife and two children, he did as uearly every one else did, 81000 by nis litue property m the hope to reserve it, Ue had ® cousiderable clearing around is honse, and imagined that the flames would not reach tum, He had pieaty of water near isis house, and niled barrels, tubs, cracks and everyting witch, wonld hold water, ana placed them where they would be of service in extinguistiag sparks and cinders. Friday last be conld hear the roaring of the flames and the falling of trees trom mis house, At night the heaveus were rendered so figut that he needed no lamp tn the house. 1s dog leit him carly Friday morning, aud the house cat disap- peared two days before, the animals seeming io NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY. OCTOBER 16, 1871,-TRIPLE SHWET, have a better knowilelge of the danger than the nun. Toward noon the flames appeared on the outskirts of Kent's farm. His children, two little girls, the youngest not a year old, were left in the house, and husband and wife repaired to the fire to trv to beatic back, With anything which wontd strike or smother they fought the advancing Names, and for a distance of twenty roas kept them In check, But, while busy here, we jlawes crept over the dry ground irom other direciuens, un- heeded and negiected., Fighting with ail ther strength, fatner and motuer gave no heed to anything bat the firo before them, unui they were at Inst startied by @ scream irem the house, In- stinctively they feit that the flames had seized it, and they started to tue rescue of the children, But the smoke had se:ucd down so thick that they ran in all divections withont iiding the house, and knew not its localivy nutil the fall aud crash ef the root told them that tee thie ones Lad met au awiul fate, “Pte you, mister,” said Keut to our reporter yes- y. ‘The fire was ali aroun> cept to the west, house gone, barn burning; hay and everything destroyed, There was ouly one thing to do—I got hold of Mary and plunged tureugh the fire and smoke until we got ont into the lake road, and then we had hard work to keep ahead of the fire before reaching the water. It was awtul, str, to hear that screaming from those barning chul- dren, and it was dreadful to go away and leave them roasting there”? Mauy of the otvers uad almost as bad experi- ences. While some of the farmers left tue woods ten or twe!ve days ago, seeing that nothing contd prevent the progress of the Names, otuers, like Kent, hoped for a rain and trusted that the fire would not Gavance over the cleared lands. ‘There was a family named Cross, a man living about a mile back Of Keats, and as he did not see them come out, and knew thoi to be at homie at the mme his house burned, he is certain that every onc, five in ail, were roasted in Lhe Names, A Detroiter named 4, P, Parker returned to the city yesterday afier an absence of tea days in the counties ou tre. He states that no one can form an idea of the desolate scene unlesshe was a spectator, For several days Parker Was right on the borders ot the fire, being driven back six or seven nutes some days, aud imeeling With scores of people who were driven out of their burning houses. Ue states that one day, while he was making a great effort to get through the woods to see abous the fate of a Rawmill, ke encountered an Indian and hiss: the latter huving a pappoose strapped to her Parker tried to haitthem for am it to make inquires, but they passed him on the orn, tae Inaian yelling out, “No inore wig wa: ‘The only avenue of escano Was the li Many of the settlers along the shore packed their goods’ on rafts and anchored them out in the lake, some being thus afloat for many houis ber being taken of by steamers. Others who Were feetg tor their lives, and had noitime to build rafts or hunt for boalg, had no other rezource vut to phainge mto the water and wait for the fire to pura tse!f out. All the telegrams and Jetcers received trom. the lake shore region confirm the statements of these people. There is reason to apprehend that very Little property lying anywhere near tie greaé fire belt whl escape, and that the five will coustantly increase and travel in new directions, There is already uo piteons appeal for help, and the cry will continue for weeks to come. Every eifort of our citizens and of the peop'e throughout the State must now bo die rected towards raising money, food and cloutingfor our unsort nate sufferers, Detrow has already raised & considerable suin, and more ts being raised every hour, while Jarge collections of clothing are being made in various quarters of the city. Ti any citizen bas a shililag in money. @ pair of hoois, case of clotlung, a blanket, or anytnlug e@ise that will cover and comfort the poor victim, 1018 hoped that he will call at the City Clerk's office and leave u. {Prom the Detroit Post, Oct, 13.] The steamer Marine City arrived in Detroit abont seven last evening, and irom Captain Robertson we ohiain some further particulars about the fires on the shore, In the counties of Atpena, Alcona and Josco the people had, up to tie time the Marine City passed, succceded In keeping the tire out of the vil- Jages, though in some cases We Blruggle Was jor @ Jong time a doubtiai eae. In Alcona on Monday me furniture amd other mnovables were taken Out of some houses, in the fear that the eforts to keep out the fre would nut be successful, but the houses were finaly saved. In Harrisonville the fire approached uncomfort- ably near to the dwellings, but the peeple had thus fur succeeded in keeping it of, Between Au Sable and Tawas there was a great deal of fire in the woors, but the villages had not eu suffered, . ‘At Alpena there was a report thyt there wae fire above Devil River, and that It was working tts Way Uoward the village. Ip ali of tho Villages mentioned the Inhabitants fell, reasonatuy secure in case there should be no high wind, batin the eveut of @ gale, without rain, they considered the danger very great that they would safer the same fate as other viliiges farther a yy had o slight raiu on Tuesday, but not enoug’ td afford much security agalost the spread of fire. All along this coast there was such a dense smoke that it was impossiple to see more than a few feet, ana the eyes suffered severely irom its effects, At Alpena it was necessary to lightthe lamps in the Cavin, as the smoke caused a darkness as great as that of early evening. Al Porrester, where the Marine City stopped, one of the suderers from the invrok came on board in bind 2 asfar aa Lexington snd procure pro- visions for bis friends in tho country, fe had waiked down to Forrester from # piace six miles back of Kichinondviile, where (ere were twenty- five families in one house, with oniy two days’ pro- visions on land, aud be was the only man in the whole numer Who leit aie to get as far as For- rester, The rest of the men were suitering from fire bundness, burns or exn@ustion. ‘She house to anil about which they had gathered was the only one bang acl s saved iv tat Vicingly. ald Whe Wy <lays’ yaiiong which they then had were all that they had beon able to save from the fre. An effort will be made io bring them aner az soon a6 le bie, but the meena trans! bine down to the shore are very Meath abnendia ‘ 7 iin nc ad Ren ns uta bathe one in there have heen mige Vii urned oj viz t—New Yiver, Huron city, Port Hope, Sand Beach, center Harvor, Rock Hat's, White Rock, Bim Creek and Forrestville, while nothing is kuown of many of the villages back from the coast, The only dock left between Richmoadville aad Pomt Aux Barques 1g that at White Rock. In Huron City there is ong pnbiic honse, that of R. Taner toltom, standing, While the rewalnder of the vi araed, Port Hope 13: a burned, except the fine residence of Mr. Stafford, his etore, aud the Masonic Lodge. Mr. Guoning, lying back of Cato, 18 burned out, and it ds feared that the same fate has hefalleu the Lud- ingen settlement back of Sand Beach. to be londay Port Austin was ail right and supposed secure, We get by the way of Saginaw a ru- mor that it has since been-purned, but the rumor comes In such suape as to lead to the beliof that tt 1s The tug Frank Moffat arrived at Port Huron Wed- Nesday night forty passengers from Sand React, five of whom were aly injured. She reports that Verona was enurely, and Now River partiy Gestroyed.. Jt was reporte’ that many lives were lost, and atso that there was a large destruction of itr Si ont at sia cl i 0 * 3 OL zum orted stock, shot the wei event R stock, ls down to em front burniaz, The steamer Huron, which ieft Port Huron night, returned to that place ta evening With perme 1934 of rescued wilagers, le second that she had brought down, She starts paste pith petit again this morning ‘to connnne the work of mercy which she hes carried forward 80 rmruia w anette saree It re 19 Sy a) of ‘ner services, ' ri . Two-thirds of the City of Manisteo Village of Glen Haven Burned. ~ {Prom the Milwaukee Wisvonsin, Oct. 12.] ..,’Be propeller Messenger, which arrived here at nine o’elock Jast eveaing, brouant iniciligence of a terrible conflagration in Manistee on Sunday even. fog Which laid Taiy two-thirds of the city in ashes. An extra from the Times ostice gives full particulars of the fixe, with a large, but. we are informed, in- correct list of the losses, from which we extract liverally. 1s saye:— Tne wiad blew a heavy. le on Sunday frour the south; and the dire that had been burning in the woods for reverai days spread ‘with great rapidity, ‘The fire company was ont att ‘day With the engine, near Gitord & Ruddock’s mi! and succeeded in checking the Games, In the eve; Asten— rn ing a tire broke out, near Canfleid’s mill, and the | fire company promptly repaired to the scene of aetion, but the wiud blew the smoke and sand at such a iecarful rate tliat they were almost blinded,.and could not check tho headway of the flames, About ten o'clock the eugine gave out, and during tue balance of the scene Was powericss to assist. Ina snort time the mill and avout tweaty sarall dwellings, Uie boarding house, lighihousa, piers, Lunt piles and Mr, Hor- ton’s house wore jn flaines, Tyson & Ropinson'’s three barges and tho tug Bismarck were in the stream between the fires, but escaped by almost a miracie, A scow loaded Wii 6140s aad a pile driver were cut loose aad floated down the river. The pile driver Wagon fire, but fortunately it did no harm. ‘the barge Frankfurt and several other ves- sela were near tue mii, but weat ap ihe river toa place of satety. While this was calling the atten- tion of the cit zens, a light was seen reflecting on the sky, in the rear of Mie city, boar Maple street. In an edingly short space of time a number of buitdmgs were in flames, Kvervihing was swept clean, not a vestige Of Consumable matter being left. ‘the diatriets burned over were, first, about twenty. acres west of and incl. ding vantield’s mit, Second, a strip commencing on Maple sireet irom J. Ramsdeil’s residence, aud wisenlug as it advanced, and when it reacied the river 14 extended trom Uak street, (Luckley’s store) to Tyson & Robinson's Ittie mai, a distance of a half mile, and throngh the principal busuiess part of the tuwa, thence avrosa the river, burning tuo bridge and the schooner Seneca Chief, and des every building on the north side (nigeteen in pb the Kourit ward schoolhouse, George Thorp's house and the catholic. chu. Tired, Black Bird Islagd was hiterally burns 5 i From the captain of the propoiler City of Toledo, which also arrived beve last eveutug, we learn (hat the village of Glen Hayen, in Grand Traverse Bay, was entirely uestroyed by fire om Sunday evening, together with between four and tive thousand cords of wood belonging to the Northvra Trausporiation Company. About fofty families are lett boneless an! destitute by the calamity. TRE PRAWLIE Fire Vivid Mesertotions of the Cunfagration, {Prem the La Crosse Repu’ From a party lately arrive] in this Kota, who travelled some days throaxh aud along the burping district of Dakoww and Northwestera Min- nesota, we giean the foltowing, We use the lan- guage of our miformant:— For some days previous to leaving Cheyenne River, in Dakela, at @ point seveniy-iive miles weet of the crossing ot the Northern Paciiic Railroad at Nel River, 2 dense smoky atmosphere prevailed, Which gach day grew more dense, Waruing us that dnmense “prairie tres” were approaching our quar- ters rapldily, a:d our patty demeed tt pru- dent to move eastward as fa-t as possibia, We made imunediats preparations, but foaad that we were in U1e saddle none to soon, The intense heat and weignt ‘of smoke affected us very much, and soon after starting we were forced vo ride as Tapkily ag is was possible for oor beasts to carry us. All through that long day we toiled slong, our eyes nearly vilnded; with parched throat and cracked lips and intense thirst we rode on and on, tl at nightfall we came in sight of Red River, having ridden seventy-five miles without rest or hylt, but once, Glad wero the hearts of onr party, and mu re oicing was there at our escape from great dans df not trom Joss of fife, + pomMts along the roure the wall of Sames would be quite near us. Its roar could }e heard many miles, and its rapid motion was surprising, The line of fire seemed to be a sold wall of flame of atont iwenty to uurty feet in height, and moved as rapidly as a feet horse could ran, Occasionally a portion of the line Would break away ln. bodies of forty or more feet square, aud be carried with almost electric rapidity @ distance of fifty or @ hundred rods ahead, and then strike the high, ary grass, which would immediately ignite and add tts deswoying turce tw the already gigantic confagration. fier resting at Red River our party, reduced to three persons, moved on eastward and southward, passmg over a district but lately burned. We could hot distinguish an onject filty yards away, great, heavy clouds of smoke hannng like a pall througn all the distaace of 209 mues we travelled before reiching the Mississippi River, and even ftiere the smoke was very = oji- pressive, We deviated somewhat from a usval ronte traveller, an’? found at different points tt charred remains of Unree human beings, nothing left but the bodies, and those burned to ‘a crisp. The sight was horrible in ail particniars, and nova Ung could be found that woul In any way idenutly the burned corpses, We heard of one case that showed great presence of mind and much calmness A man who lad veen with Sherman in nis “march to the sea,’? was canght in the midst of @ fire which was approaching him from all sides, Having no matches to create what is called “setting a back fire,” aad death starii lum i the face, las wit suggested a “gopher hole.’} Senting at work with the will thata man woud use who was working for life, he attacked the sod with a large hunting ife, culling @ lane pleco away; he ruiled pack and at once commenced throwing the seit, dry earth up- ward and outward, and soon hid a hole dug of sufficient size to admit bis body. Caretully drawing the sod toward him he succeeded in drawing it over his body, and then filled wp ihe * chinks” wit'r dirt from within, He lay there uniil the fire passed over Lim aud wes speeding farlousty on ite way miles distant, then slowly he crawled out of his liv- Ing grave, beated fearfully, but Injured in no way whatever. His soldier experience had saved his lie, No one who has not witnessed tls hesom of de- struction oa the plains,” can form any adequate Hea of its magnitude, its voloctty, its flendish-like cruelty, its thundertag roar, and ite vast des! ton, ‘The latest inJormation we had was that the fire had reached the * Big Woods,’ about two hundred mules northwest of La Crosse, and was raging furi- ously, desteoying everything it came in contact with; horses, barns, cattle, everyining 18 lost to settier and sarmer who are in the track of the destroying ciement. In ihe peat country the fire will linger much Jonger (lan on the prairies, and do much more damage a8 it destroys the earth, [From the Stoax City Journal.) ‘The praine tires im the section ef country above and | agi Yankton, Dakota, on Wednesday were terrible. Jo the afternoon of that day the Names swept into the village of Bon Lomme with resistiess fury, and ule terror-stricken and helpless populace saw a mil and three or four dwellings disappear in the fiery Diast. Among the latter was a house occapied by a Witow Wonan as & boarding house, and while she was expressing to our imformaut her fear that the fire would reach the town a wave of flame came whirling ou like @ (rightened steed, and before an efort could be made to save anysuing in or about the premises the house was wrapped ia flames and everytning Wad lost, Tee down coach found the country preuy well burned over to within @ mile or two of Yankton, and ibe fire is atili burning i varions direction ‘The ruins of our smouldering houses were seen, grain anil hay stacks were blazing on atl sides, wand burning fences swept across the country in ail directions, At one pot a litle girl, some ten years of age, appeared at the roadside and piteousiy petitioned the people in the coaca for heip, saying hat her tather and mother were away from homo, and buat she had two Aisters and a lite brother, aii younger than herself, im the house, and the presse, Were In Immediate danger of destrac: tom Leaving one of the passengers fo watch the horses, the rest ran to the house, and by starting ® contrary fire succeedea in saving the place. Auother ierble firo r: the same day tiis vide of Yankton, and within @ few iniles of that city. ‘The Names swept toward Yankton, and in their course devoured several houses, besities numerous barns, sieds and stacks of graiv. The ovach due in Yankton on Wednesday evening had an exctting Ume of it. It was discovered thatthe fire wag cou. ing, and & race was institute, The driver plied lis whip, and away the horses went on @ gaiiop. Nearer and nearer came the fire. ‘The glare fied the sky; the forked tonwue shot ont: the tere ribie hissings of the demon were ip the ears of the afrighted passengers, ‘The driver gathered his Iles, drew the Jeaders from tie road, bae lorses caslored., Jumped, @ rau sepoe Was bencan the lowsi— Wheels of the “coach, the coach lougne? ground, aud the fire went ® cataract, © particulars of a miraculous ® prairie fire were related to us by who arrived here last renee, couaty, Wisconsin, Messrs. J. L. Fin! ney. ‘They came tne eutire distance team and wagon across the country. Thetr tri without any incident of note antl they pos upon the prairie abont ms mites east ere they were surroun a ou Wernesal A oie inst, Taey eee Neen & bottom preparing their when the dre made its appearance, fire was discoveret ne, toward Kinney ran froin it star’ AS A Sg bh wagon, o Ligh wind | Kinney was unaucce: enor, “The fire ‘was now ‘ast spproachiag e and the! ,, ey Struck out oa foot, and "nis companion u ick Out Oo} : upon the mules and attem| to hia 4 with them, but finding tnis impossivie team around toward the fire, and, afver re} tempts, succeeded in running them turough ne to bimself and but a on by with a ‘uningt . . ) lo two dogs with them, one of which borne to death, and the other one took wera be * deep sink hole or well, near where they had 4 their dinner, and he was saved, A ‘rhe following collections for the relief of the’ r Michigan sufferers from the late fires were fora warded by Adams Express on Saturday to Govers | nor H. P, Balawin for distribution: — nrgee & Co, John D, McKenzie & J. O'Donohue’s Soni Ives, Beecher & Co OW 6.35 <0600% Huntington & Doren: Anchor Life Insurance Compan; Total collected FINANOLIL AND COMMERCIAL. WALL STREET, } SUNDAY, Oct. 15, 1871, The Uhicago fire hag had a direct influence upon” the various markets, and few branches of business have not felt it in greater or less degree. From the peculiar relations of the chy to the wheat trade i6 | was at first supposed the price of thas, staple would largely advance, and consider- able speculation for a rise was induced among the operators on ‘Change, bus the result was em-; Urely contrary to expectation, for wheat has fallen. | Who will explain these curious inconsistencies? 18 wilt be remembered that the speculators, in the ane Ucipated effecis of tne European war last year,! were all heavy losers by an entire reversal of the course of the markets from what was looked for. TUE WEEK IN WALL STREET. i Mm financial circles the Chicago calamity prov) duced the ntmost excitement, a sharp advance my the rates for money and @ heavy decline tn. stocks. | ‘the Stock Exchange was demoralized and values, fuctuated so suddenly as to imduce ao series of panies, The last two days of the week witnessed a better feeling and some fe- tara of confidence, although the bank state- ment was discouraging. There is no doubt that a large street mrerest had been formed at the, lowest stage of prices, and there was, therefore,.a) vasts furnished for a considerabvle reaction, espe- cially as alter the bank statement and ite showing. of au improved reserve, the idea got abroad that. now that these institutions have crossed the Rubi-, ‘con and have violated the law they can subject them= selves to no greater penalties by using their resé ye’ as freely as if they wero under no restraint, We give this theory for whut it is worth, but while de- nounced as improbable, it was ireely accepted by’ many a9 an eXplanation of the. strange reaction In prices late Saturday afternoon, when, after the depression produced by the bank _ state~ ment, there was @ remarkable recovery and advauce in prices, The rise was mgt » marked in Western Union, which sold at as high as 60 (against 52 a few days before); but in this instance: the reason assigned was more specific—viz., that the company had succeeded in negotiating a first mort gage in Europe, and intended tocancel four millions of the capital stock, one militon of the loan having been already cashed by the Messrs. Belmont & Co, ‘The foitowing table shows the extreme fluctuation of the week in the principal stoc! id Western Union,... Consolidation Coal Pacific Mail.... see . New York Central, consolidated. . New York Central, 3c Milwaukee and st. Wabash.... Fort Wayne. . Gio and Misstasippi Union Pactfic.......... Hannibal aud St. Joseph eeces Hannjbal and St, Josept preferred. 78 Columbus, Chicago and Ind. Ceniral. 18 Money was Worth at one time % per cent commix sion in addition to seven per cent, with at times # difference of two per cent between “cash” and ‘“vyeguiar” sales of the high priced stocks, 7 Governmenis showed the general depression, bat eventually revovered about one per ceat, taking the average of prices at the close of tne weck as com: pared with those on Tuursday, when the lowesi prices were made, ‘The extreine Nuctuations daily in the price of gol’ during the week were us follows:— THB BANK STATEMENT, ‘The weekly statement of the associated banks extremely unfavorable, more so than was fall) realized by the street, where the way had beer Paved for it by the banking movement of the pas month, The vanks nave not only used up all they had of surpius reserve, but have actually croached upon thetr reserve itself, and are Dov, below the limit prescrived by the Twenty-five Pe Cent law—the first time they have done and bee so in the history of the national bank systent Until we have the oflicial figares of the Clearin House next weck and the detailed statemen of cach bank we are constrained to believe that th national banks have not dared to infringe this @al tary law, and that the deficit in the maintenance a fuil reserve lies with the State banks, which ar not amenable to the law. Boubtless the failure a the Stuyvesant Bank was Gue to its being made | “scapegoat” by the national banks for the purpos of keeping up their reserve while tempting that in tution to au undue expansion. The loss in spect for the week is about a million dollars and in lege tenders about three and three-quarter millions, Th decrease 1 lvans ts abuut only four and a half mij lions and in deposits about seven and & half mtthon{ ‘The statement compares with its predecessor as fol 00 222, 583,100 54,696,100 50, 941,90 Tho differences from the previous statement at as follows:—- Decrease in foans. Decrease in specie Increase in circulation. Decrease in deposiis. Decrease in legal tender As the banks lave lost im actual reserve $4,7 against @ decrease of only $7,927,100 in II ae hour reservo is impaired $2,990,620, As lage weg