Chapter 53
-- Compiled by the Cumberland Women's Club
and Published by the Cumberland Advocate
1874-1974
(used by permission of the Cumberland Advocate)
Donated by Linda Mott
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Early Disasters
BARRONETT, GRANITE LAKE AND COMSTOCK COMPLETELY WIPED OUT OF EXISTENCE BY FIRE.
September
6, 1894--Last Saturday and Sunday go on record as the blackest day on the
pages of
northern
Wisconsin's history. Barronett, a town of 500 inhabitants, eight miles
north of here,
Granite
Lake, a small hamlet four miles north of here and Comstock, another town
five miles
south
are all in ashes, only three small houses out of 60 remain in Barronett
and none at the
other
places.
A cyclone
of whirling fire swept down upon the northern cities from the south. The
fire swept
as far
north as Shell Lake.
Total
loss estimated at $400,000.
to 1898
Fire
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