News: Greenwood – Day of
disasters (1 Sep 1894)
Transcriber:
stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org
Surnames: Anderson, Stange, Dutcher, Coleman, Cirkle, Nye
----Source: Greenwood Gleaner (Greenwood, Clark Co., Wis.) 09 Sep
Saturday and Sunday, September 1, 1894, was a day of disasters for the near
vicinity of Greenwood. The following losses were recorded from the forest fires:
Citizens worked until midnight to save the buildings of Morris Anderson, across
the river, and the planning mill; change of wind was all that save Greenwood
from destruction. Widow Stange, town of Beaver lost residence, barn, grain and
hay; barn and crops on the Dutcher farm were totally destroyed; buildings on the
Coleman farm, west of Longwood, and all crops burned; at Thorp three sits of dry
kilns and office belonging to J. W. Cirkle & Son were destroyed. Loss, $8,000;
as was also the residence of Melvin Nye.
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