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Show h RUIN II THE IKE OF FOREST FIRES Hungry Flames Are Causing Untold Damage to Property in Michigan Michi-gan and Wisconsin. Small Town Entirely Destroyed, the Residents Fleeing for Their I.Ives People Are Praying for Rain I to Check Dames. . I Oshkosh. Wla. North Forks, n I small town on tho Boo railway, has I been completely destroyed by forost fires. The people had to fleo for their lives, after unsuccessfully, battling with tho llnmos lu nn endeavor to ;ae their Ironies. Ashland, Wis., rcporln tho smoko to dense from forest fires that tho sun wns hidden all day on Monday, ind that Lnko Superior was practically practi-cally surrounded by fl'ro for many ; miles. Vessels wero compelled con-1 ptnntly to sound their fog signals Most Rov. Sobnstlan O. Messmor, ' nrchblshop of Milwaukee, bus sunt u letter to thu clergy ot his dloceso ordering or-dering prayers for inln. Foster City, Mich., has not been destroyed by lire; Is still untouched by tho llnmes, hut the peoplo aro not yet satisfied that all dangor has passed. Calumet, Mich., reports fires assuming assum-ing threatening aspects all over corthern Michigan nnd sovcral towns In danger or destruction, I.nllollc, north ot Calumet, Is in very grave .lunger or being surrounded, except Dti tho water side, by flames. Forest Ores, though checked by light rains Friday, broko out nnow Monday night, and four villages north of Ioannlia, Mich., hnvo been Mirroundcd by llnmes Niagara, Quln-, nescec, Forest City nnd Hermans-vllle. Hermans-vllle. Tho people were catrled out of ! tho flnnie-stilcken district by rellel I trnlns. ' At Iron Mountain tho families of I twelve farmers wero driven from j Iholr homes. I At Qiiinnossoc mnny people ho-vo been tnken from Ukj city on relief trains. |