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Aurora (Illinois) Daily Express
Saturday, July 13, 1895

        FOREST FIRE FIEND
        
        Petoskey, Mich., Reports His Ravages Checked
        
        HEAVY LOSS OF CROPS AND TIMBER
        
        Finally Stopped by Rain - Men, Women and Children Fight the Destroyer 
        
        PETOSKEY, Mich., July 13 - Forest fires have burned up to the village
      of Brutus, on the Grand Rapids and Indiana railroad north of here, but 
      the village was saved.  The fires burned into the Petoskey Roman Catholic
      cemetery, but the fire department prevented their spreading.  There has
      been heavy loss to crops and standing timber, but rains have now checked
      the fires.  The Western Union has completed its connections.  The summer
      resort - Oden - and the village of Conway, on Crooked lake, and the ham-
      lets of Carpenter and Bay Shore, a few miles west of Petoskey, were in
      great danger.  At Carpenter several buildings caught fire from sparks,
      but by the most strenuous efforts of men, women and children the mill,
      lumber yards and town were saved.
      
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