Mud Run, Pennsylvania Fire
May
14-22, 1875
The Great Fire of 1875*On the 14th
day of May, in 1875, a fire broke out near Mud
Run, and burned slowly until the 22d, when a
strong wind commenced to blow from the west, and
in less than two hours the fire swept from
Francis Youndt's mill directly up Mud Run, a
distance of ten miles, destroying mills, houses,
logs, timber, and standing trees. The estimated
losses were: John Eckert, mills, house, lumber,
and logs, $7000; Josiah Kunkle, mill and house,
$4000; Getz & Serfass, mills, $10,000;
David
Snyder, $12,000;
Francis Wernert, $12,000.
Long
& Boileaus mills were saved; loss as on 500,000
feet of logs, $4000. J. S. Hawks mills were
saved,20,000 feet of sawed lumber and 150,000
feet of logs were burned; loss. $2500. Much
other valuable property was destroyed.
*Many fires have swept over part of the township
and caused great destruction, but none as greet
as the one here mentioned.
History of the counties of Lehigh and
Carbon, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia: Everts & Richards, 1884, pages
730-731
Mauch Chunk, PA., May 22.-- Very
severe mountain fires have been raging in Carbon
county for the past few days. Immense amounts of
lumber, sawed logs and dwelling houses have been
burned in Hickory Run and Mud Run regions.
Only a rain fall can extinguish them. The
inhabitants of Mud Run have suffered terribly
from the flames, numerous families escaping with
their lives, all household goods and residences
being lost. Mr. Able Kinsey, of Hickory
Run, lost his saw-mills, house, barn and five
tenements, with all their contents. Five
saw-mills and eighteen houses have been
destroyed on Mud Run.
Stephen Gould lost
about three million feet of lumber.
Lumbermen, with their wives and children, turned
out to fight the flames.
Steubenville Daily Herald and News,
Steubenville, OH 24 May 1875
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