IN MICHIGAN

Large quantities of property have been destroyed along the bay shore. Twenty-five persons perished at Birch Creek, T. Cole & Co.’s mill at Little River is destroyed, a large number of camps have been burned up river, and several of the men in charge are known to have perished.

LITTLE STURGEON

In Door Co., Wis., was destroyed on Monday night and 55 persons perished. [Later Correction: "Little Sturgeon, that was reported here to have been burned, turns out to be safe. Williamsonville, a little hamlet five or six miles from Little Sturgeon was burned, and over fifty lives out of a population of about seventy-five were lost."]

Thus has death and destruction reigned all around us and we, by the mercy of God, are yet spared.

Chicago is in ruins, our supply of paper is cut off and we shall be obliged to issue a small sheet this week without our advertisements. Our readers will pardon us, and our patrons generally will favor us, under the circumstances.

To-day men and teams, loaded with supplies from various sources, have been pouring into town. The Dunlap House is turned into a hospital; some 30 or 40 are there under medical treatment.

Drs. Graham and Standbury, Prof. Foy and others came from Appleton with supplies. Drs. Gordon, Blodgett, Goe and Russell are here from Oshkosh.

LATER

Mr. Amos Holgate has just returned from the Lower Bush and reports having counted in a short distance eighty-one dead bodies. Full seven-eights of the inhabitants of this fated settlement have perished. Where was a dense forest, not a tree or shrub is left standing. Frederick Westfall, one of the victims from the Peshtigo disaster, died at the Dunlap House to-day.

An infant child of Mrs. A. Kroesle died at the Dunlap yesterday. It was only 4 or 5 days old; its face was burned badly.

From accounts now in our possession the dead will number nearly 500.

The Davis family of 6 persons were found dead in a well at Peshtigo this evening.