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Show HARROWINC TALES FROM FORESTS Death, Deslruction, Horrible Suffering Suffer-ing Caused by Fires Which Hare Swept Over Michigan. Schoolhouie In Path of Flames is Swept from Earth, the Children Having Narrow Etcape. Horrors Hor-rors Simply Deyond Deicrlptlon. Alpena, Mich. Out of tho burned district nro now coming Rome ot tho stories ot suffering nnd dangers endured en-dured by those who survived tho ifiames. Miss Casslo Uowland had twenty-six little children In her school nenr Mlllcrsburg Friday afternoon. after-noon. At tho afternoon recess tho air was smoky. Half an hour later the woods about tiro llttlo school-louso school-louso wero blazing fiercely. Tho children chil-dren stnrtcd for their homes, but wero compelled to go to a neighboring neighbor-ing houso for shelter. Miss Howland fays sho could hardly face tho wind during tiro wnlk of n quarter of n nillo to her own homo. After sho reached It, tho heat grow so Intense tha tho women wero compelled to seek Bhcltcr In tho collar, whllo tho men fought to s.ivo tho ihouse. "Then," snys Miss Howland, "refugees "ref-ugees who hnd escaped with their lives by lying In tho plowed field with their faces hurled In tho sand began to arrlvo. They kept coming all through the night, nil moro or less burned In their flight through tho woods. A boy named Dust, ono of tho family of children which on Saturday j was reported burned, brought In the charred remains of his little sinter In his pocket handkerchief. His father nnd mother had already arrived nt our houso. Their grlof was terrible. Then another of their children, n llttlo girl, nrrlved carrying a baby. The child's dress was completely burned off and her llttlo body was a mass of blisters. Dut ono fresh rcpqrt or loss of llfo enmo Into Alpena on Sunday, Henry lllncs, his wlfo nnd two children nro bollovcd to havo been cremated on tholr farm near Cnlhro. Between Mctz nnd Itogers City seven moro bodies hnvo been found, making n total to-tal ot twenty-six lives that aro known to havo been lost In Presquo Isle and Alpena counties slnco Thursday night |