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Show MINNESOTA TOWN SWEPT BY FLIES twelve Thousand People Homeless as Result of Forest Fires Which Have Raged for Days. Many Well-to-do Residents' Are Left Without the Price of a Meal aa a Result of the Terrible Conflagration, Confla-gration, and Much Suffering Suffer-ing Will Result. Duluth, Minn. After destroying the town of Chlsholm, on tho Mesaba range, and burning over thousands or acres In St. LouIb, Carlctou nnd Itnca counties In Minnesota, nnd the northern north-ern portion of Douglas county, Wisconsin, Wis-consin, tho majiy forest fires which have been raging In these districts were cheeked on Sunday, and It Is not likely that further damage will be jrreat. Tho subsiding fire enabled the In-I'libltants In-I'libltants of Iluhl nnd Nnshwauk to tnve those towns. Several buildings at tho edge of Nnshwauk woro burned, nnd by valiant, all-night woik, the 1.000 miners nnd citizens I j evented the Humes from sweeping ever the village. Tho town wns en. tlrely surrounded by n wnll of fire, nnd IIh ccupo from obliteration wna temnrknhle. There Is llttlo timber adjacent ad-jacent to Until, nnd although forest ."res completely surrounded tho vll l.',go, the Ii00 Inhabitants had only to extinguish the Incipient .bln::cs started start-ed by falling brands to protect tho village. Nashwauk Is twenty-flvn miles southwest of ChlBhulm, and Iiulit Is seven miles to tho east. Chlsholm presents a seeno of ruin and desolation. Blackened and smoking piles of charred wood, little heaps of gray iisIicb stirred by tho breeze, scorched, gnunt skelotons o l.rlck nnd mortur, nil canopied with n dense pall of Binoke, comprise what wns one of tho famous nourishing towns on th-e Mesaba Iron range. Tho only remaining buildings nro tho new $125,000 high school, tho grnilo sehool, the Cntlinlle rliurrh. the Itnl-fan Itnl-fan church and u dozen dwellings In the southernmost part of tho town, which wero saved by n fow heroic llro lighters, who stuck to tholr posts In the fnco of the cyclonic onslnught of tho lliifes nnd smoke. Tho damage to property Is estlmat-ed estlmat-ed at $1,000,000, and tho norsonal property nt three-quarters of n mil lion dollars, including tiro stocks o tho merchants. H. A'. Hlbblng, Insurance Insur-ance mnn. who had many policies on property In the destroyed town, estimates esti-mates tho Insurance carried by Chlsholm Chls-holm merchants nt $500,000. There nro ninny destitute persons. Many men who wero rated ns well-to-do nro without funds ito buy' a meal. In most Instances these misfortunes mis-fortunes aro only temporary, as many will soon receive tholr Insurance money. However, somo merchants lost everything that thoy hnd excent the clothes on their backs nnd thero will be much suffering and llnnuclnl embarrassment. |