| Show CR M IN NES OTA CAUGHT BY fOREST fiRE I 4 t Four Thousand People Barely Escaping the lir Roaring Tt Flames names T Homeless TT and an Destitute Renshaw h lV Iv Surrounded and Doomed Other Towns in Danger Northern Wisconsin Also Ablaze Duluth Minn Sept 5 Thousands of ot acres of ot agricultural lands and millions of ot feet of ot standing timber Umber were laid waste ono one town was wiped out three more nore towns may have been destroyed I several mining locations were burned and at least persons are home homeless homeless less loss tonight at the result of ot forest fires which swept through many districts In northern Wisconsin and southern Min Minnesota Minnesota Mm this afternoon and tonight Chisholm Minn ninety ty miles mlles north of ot Duluth was completely destroyed The only building standing Is tha th new now I 1 high school The loss there alone la is estimated at I Minn fifty miles north northwest t west of ot Duluth Is surrounded by lames llames a and the outskirts of ot the town are burn burnIng burnIng burnIng J Ing Buhl Buhi Minn twelve miles east eW of ot Chisholm Is cut ore oft by the fires that are arc bearing down on the town twenty miles northwest of ot Duluth faces a wall of ot flames that is sweeping toward the village It ap appears appears appears pears to be doomed S Several everal small maU settlements In Douglas Duglas D Uglas county Wisconsin have been burned iJ nd are sweeping the tha north norther c er Part part county count A fire fre at Bay flay field WIs buildings to the extent of ot One Fatality One fatality Is believed to have oc occurred occurred occurred a woman at Chis Cht Chisholm holm hoim leave leavo the city md nd sha sh Is have perished Chisholm Is a mining town In the th cen ecu central central portion of the Mesaba iron range I the greatest area in the world Until recent years It derived S considerable support from the lumber lumberIng lumberIng lumbering Ing Industry also Chisholm was started ten years ago aso by a company headed by A M Chisholm a wealthy i mining man of or Duluth and has ha been one neot of the most flourishing and pros prosperous prosperous prosperous towns on the ranges Refugees poured Into Hibbing tonight until the population ot the place was almost doubled To relieve the conge congestion tion the railroad started a special train from Hibbing to Duluth crowded with homeless people No organized efforts have been start started started ed ell to succor the refugees but the mayor may mayor or is expected to take the situation In hand band |
