Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2017 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Rachel Fuller for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== The Day New London, CT Monday, May 23, 1887 FIRE'S FIERCE PACE THOUSANDS OF ACRES OF WOODLAND BURNED OVER Michigan has Suffered Very Heavy Losses - Men and Women Fight the Flames till Rain Comes and Wins the Struggle for them - Some Record of the Damages. Milwaukee, Wis., May 23. - A special telegram received from Ironwood, Mich., a new mining town just across the Wisconsin line, in the Gogebic iron region, indicates a serious condition of af- fairs there. Heavy fires have been working their way towards the town, which has over 5000 inhabi- tants, although little over two years old. The last dispatch received from the place, at 5 o'clock p.m. Sunday, said that the fires had come within a half-mile of the town and were being rapidly driven on by a strong breeze. Business houses had closed their doors and men, women and children had turned out by the hundreds to fight the flames, with but little hope of saving the town. During the day a powder magazine in which was stored a quantity of powder was burned, causing a terrific explosion. Another magazine containing 30,000 pounds of giant powder was surrounded by the flames, and an explosion was momentarily ex- pected. As forest fires are raging for miles along the only telegraph line reaching the Gogebic region great difficulty is experienced in getting informa- tion. ==========================================================================