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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 as a Kesult of the Terrible Conflagration, Confla-gration, and Much Suffering Suffer-ing Will Result. Duluth, Minn. After destroying tho town of Chlshtilm, on tho Mcsaba rnngo, and burning ovor thousands ot acres In St. Ixuls, Carloton nnd Itaca counties In Minnesota, and tho northern north-ern portion of Douglas county, Wisconsin, Wis-consin, tho mnny forest Arcs which hnvo been raging In theso districts wcro checked on Sunday, nnd It is not likely thnt further datnaga will be great. Tho subsiding lire enabled tho Inhabitants In-habitants of Buhl and Noshwauk to tnvo thoso' towns. Soveral buildings nt tho odgo of Nashwauk were turned, and by valiant, all-nlglit work, tho 1.000 minors nnd citizens prevented tho flames from sweeping cvor tha village. Tim town was on. tlrely surrounded by n wall of Are, opd Its eicapo from obliteration was icmnrkablc. There Is llttlo timber ad-ji'ccnt ad-ji'ccnt .to Buhl, and although forest Pros completely surrounded tho vll 1..ro, tho GOO Inhabitants had only to extinguish tho Incipient blazes started start-ed by falling brands to protect the village. Nashwauk Is twcnty-flV6 uillos southwest of Chlsholm, and rUihf Is soven mllos to tho cast. CMsholm presents a sccno ot ruin and desolation. Blackened nnd smoking piles of chnrrcd wood, little heaps of gray iisIicb Btlrred by the breezo, scorched, gaunt skeletons ol Lrlrk and mortar, nil canopied with a denso pall of smoko, comprise what wns ono of tho famous flourishing towns on tho Mcsaba Iron range. The only remaining buildings nro the new- $125,000 high school, tho grade school, tho Catholic church, tho Hal Ian church and n dozen dwellings In tho southernmost part of tiro town which wero saved by a fow heroic Are fighters, who stuck to tholr posts tn tho fnco ot tho cyclonic onslaught of tho Aanics and smoko. Tho dnmago to property la estimated estimat-ed at $1,000,000, and tho personal property at three-quarters of n mil lion' dollars, Including tho stocks ol tho merchants. II. K Hlbblng, lnsur anco man, whoj had many policies oc proporty In tho destroyed town, ostl mates tho Insurance carried by Chis holm merchants nt $500,000. Thoro nro many destitute persons Many mon who were rated as well-to-do nro without funds Ho buy n meal. In most Instances thqso mis fortunes nro only temporary, as manj will soon recolvo their Insurance money. Howovor, somo merchnnti lost everything that they had except tho clothes on their backs and there will bo much suffering and llnnncla) embarrassment. |