Show I j WIT fO t 1 fl tS tSA A Stretch of Territory Over 0 Miles Mies Long and Many Wide In Michigan MANY TOWNS ARE WIPED OUT OUTa a Halls Atc Arc rc rI Prom Intense Heat let Mich May lay ID I A stretch of t territory over o miles mies In lii length reaching from tr m Newbery on 01 the cast to tl n Mich on 01 the west Itt and nd north and nd south Routh between the shore line Ile of oC the Lake Inke Superior and the tho southern boundary of ot tho tIm upper peninsula Is I dotted doted with wih forest tires fires Iros Settlements and anil nd farm hanoi houses hou cl have been heel willell u hued out timber lands destroyed Ilc Ii hundreds of o rendered homeless U It I Is II Impossible to estimate the tho loss less but figured l on the basin basl of ot local conditions It I Is hI probable that of oC thousands thousand of tt dollars dolar worth of or property hISS hM been bee I destroyed d ed edThe The loss In the Immediate vicinity of or Marquette Is II over Involving only the destruction of ot personal property properly and not flot Including devastations of DC tim timber tm ber tier lands hantla or damage to tn railroad prop property Property erty The town of oC C c and several hamlets In III Iron range Iange are arO reported wiped out Northwest of at o Mar queUe quette Ie the town of ot Birch where the thc th Northern Lumber company U 1 pa I has fully tul worth ot oh property was WIM threat threatened cried ened with wih destruction anti and men wore stint sent lent from hero by b train Iraln to 10 tight light the thus Ham ll f fBI Because BI cluse of ot Ihn tho th destruction of ot ide graph Poles wires are down In jim JI nil all ni dl di diroe roe U ens ii iii a t by b that lout t means IH is I Impossible Imo Inless 8 ruin rain falls soon mi more havoc be ho wrought an all iK the woods wools lre very yr dry dr H I n IN 1 HV IlY Milwaukee Wl Wis is May 19 I An I evening Wisconsin ln special ii says lukee count Is hemmed h In II by hr forest lies thres uro creeping up tsp In to 10 the Ih city oil ell on thi north and Ild a south tiu lInn l ii I of or felt fed of lumber are ur burned Tho Tue loss Ions Is estl est muted mated matel at I t At u a I teal lon tour four mulch miles ml south of oC this city cl cit forest foiest tireS lire have do many Still a cuts of lumber I ii mid a big hi kilns kilna tilled filled 1101 with wih ceder A fierce felce wind la Is blowing sparks spark and Ind burning embers for miles ml All Al trains arc nrc Ire being held hell here hore as 1 the rails rl are twisted from the thue Intense i heat helt The Ird K I Wel Lumber company has hll suffered an till enormous loss los Several of their tire ure ur totally ilo troyed d The Th n losses losHe of o 11 II I H II I lust Mone loNa loNai Wallow it I low anil nut main a V other 0 I h er logging loggi a g com COl ar II tn growing Three 1 ninth of Ir thin his S place lilac nn an another othor other fire lra M is II raging This The Ti s nr 1101 tire through mid Ild Forest Tim The In iii II UI Plater lure arf III ii 31 10 feet fel high The dry 11 conditions are ae l We ide for tOI Cr the great lo loss los and Ild hue tho lire everything clean THOUSANDS IO ml H Wil Vl May II IS I An AI Eve l lo Mich says pays rl forest Cutest fires In hut II northern norl I horn Michigan have a blank hut mik an a ut a t a of 0 C miles mus I lee Six Si x thousand I people HIO Ile a ic hums loss less leH It 1 Ii s estimated Il I 1 I el Up Ui to II the tho present HIP ut situation may maybe ia be ho epitomized epi as its 11 follows olow ci ot of fC 10 people almost wiped vJ lidil out null Alfred I lOu I Wn O eve el my muse house I aunt and Ild huge bulge II of or logs JOO boMi nn an l hUM hugo Pile of ot logs burned destroyed nil ni ics hoi le s I Cornell Ciu All hut but one nile store burned COO O people homeless Northland Mill Mv lv burn hurn hur burnett ti ett ninny y of or o tIme the population Ion hoine hOlO has and without neil food i HI town tOWI hou c anti and andone one lumber In mill 11 ill I II burned no eu boarding boa rd lag lions destroyed dp und 1111 out all til 11 hut a 1 few ot or orO O hIlf H Felth Iii railway 11 WiY nil ll bridges burned und pod sore scores of I home hOle slender In II that covering 10 II mile RIO are Ile homeless It I Is oared 1000 nn los luas ot ur life hero here her Neil branch hran h Esia ha anul Lake Superior railway O feet C et of o rut cut I burned bridges sloan down and HID 11 i tied up lP perhaps for or or weeks of Three people arrived In i hivo hI of o others are arc lre believed h lev d to 1 b Pu 1 suffering from fro want of oC food feed clothing 1111 other foci Arrangements for Cor aid and offers orel to II Li give are lII this oily city I from ruin low or Michigan innS and whirls which liver a It largo large share chare of o lire firo r IU 8 t directly lust or Indirectly tho the result resul of ot tin thu th forest ortt tIres lire |