Show MINNESOTA TOW SWEPT BY FLAMES Twelve Thousand People Homeless 1 as Result of Forest Fires Which Have Raged for Days Many Welt to do Residents Are Left Without the Price of a Meal as a Result of the Terrible Conflagration Confla-gration and Much Suffering Suffer-ing Will Result Duluth MinnAfter destroying tho town of Chlsholm on the Mesaba range and burning over thousands of acres In St Louis Carleton and Itnca counties In Minnesota nnd the northern north-ern portion of Douglas county Wisconsin Wis-consin the many forest fires which havo been raging In these districts were checked on Sunday and It Is not likely that further damago will be great Tho subsiding fire enabled tho Inhabitants In-habitants of Buhl and Nashwaulc to cave those towns Several buildings at tho edge of Nashwauk woro Lurned and by valiant nllnlght work the 1000 miners nnd citizens Prevented the flames from sweeping ever the village The town was en tlrely surrounded by a wall of fire and Its escape from obliteration was I icmarknblo There Is little timber adjacent ad-jacent to Buhl and although forest fires completely surrounded the vll Kige the COO Inhabitants had only to extinguish the incipient blazes started start-ed by falling brands to plo ect tho village Nashwnuk Is twentyfive miles southwest of Chlsholm ana Huh Is seven miles to tile cast Chisholm presents a pcono of ruin and desolation Blackened and Brooking piles of charred wood little heaps of gray ashes stirred by tho breeze scorched gaunt skeletons of Lrlck and mortar all canopied with a dense pall of smoke comprise what Was one bf the famous fldurJahlnjr towns on the Mesaba iron range The only remaining buildings aro the new 125000 high J schotfl the grade school the Catholic church tho Italian Ital-ian church and a dozen dwellings In tie southernmost part of the town which were saved by a few horolc firefighters fire-fighters who stuck to their posts In the face of the cyclonic onslaught of tho flames and smoke Tho damage to property Is estimated ed at 1000000 and tho personal property at threequarters of n million mil-lion dollars Including the stocks of the merchants H Al Hlbblng insurance I insur-ance man whql had many policies on property In the destroyed town estimates esti-mates the Insurance carried by ChIs holm merchants at 500000 There are many destitute persons Many men who were rated as well todo arc without funds > to buy a meal In most Instances these misfortunes mis-fortunes aro only temporary as many will soon receive their Insurance money However some merchants lost everything that they had except the clothes an their backs and there will be much suffering and financial embarrassment |