Show SWEPT BY FUMES twelve thousand people homeless as result of forest fires which have raged for days many well to do residents are left W phout the price of a meal as a result of the terr ble coffia gration and much suffering will result dill ith alim after destroying the town 0 chisholm on the masaba mesaba lange and burning over thousands of acres in st louis carleton and iraca counties in minnesota and the north portion of douglas county wis coasin the many forest alres which have been raging in these districts were checked on sunday and it is bof likely that further damage will be geat g eat tre subsiding fire enabled the in habitants of buhl and nashwauk Nash wauk to ale those tones several buildings at the edge of nashwauk Nash wauk were luned and by valiant all night ork abo 1000 mine mines s and citizens I 1 rev anted the flames from sweeping cier the village the town was en t belv su ro bv a wall of fire and its fro obliteration waa le there Is little timber ad cent to buhl and although forest arcs completely cample tely surrounded the all 1 the COO inhabitants had only to extinguish the ent blazes start cd by fal ing brands to protect the tillage nashwauk Nash wauk is twenty bivs miles southwest of chislolm Chis bolm anu is seven miles to the east C hisholm presents a scene of ruin and desolation blackened and bracking piles of charred wood little heaps of gray ashes stirred by the breeze scorched gaunt sl 0 anck and mortar all ganop ed with a dense pall of smoke comprise what t as one of the famous flourishing towns on the masaba mesaba iron range the only remaining buildings are the new high school the grade school the catholic church the ital lan church and a dozen dwellings in the southernmost part of the town which were saved by a few heroic fire fighters who stuck to their posts in the face of the cyclonic onslaught of t flakes and smoke the damage to property Is ed at 1000 and the personal property at three quarters of a mil lion dollars including abe stocks ol 01 the merchants H A hibbing ansur ance man who had many policies or property in the destroyed town esti n ates the insurance carried by chis I 1 olm merchants at there are many destitute persons many men who were rated as well to do are without funds to buy a meal in most instances these mis fortunes are only temporary as man will soon receive their insurance money however some merchants lost everything that they had except the clothes on their backs and there will be much suffering and financial embarrassment |