Show MINNESOTA TOWN SWEPT by 1 F LAMES twelve thousand people homeless as result of forest fires which have raged for days aaby well todo to do residents are left without the price of a meal as a result of the terrible confra oration gration and much suffer ing will result duluth minn after destroying the town of chisholm on the mesaba masaba lange and burning over thousands thousand of acres in st louis carleton and iraca counties in minnesota and the north ern portion of douglas county wis coasin the many forest fires which have been raging in these districts were vere checked on sunday and it is not vot likely that further damage will be great the ng fire enabled the in babi habitants tants of buhl and nashwauk Nash wauk to save those towns several buildings ft pt the elge of nashwauk Nash wauk were turned and by val ant all night i ork the 1000 1 miners and citizens ireNen 1 relented ted the flames flom sweeping cier the village the town was en bv a wall of fire and its escape from obi te oration ration wag was le ie there is little timber ad cent to buhl and alt although hoagh forest anres res completely surrounded the vil vii I 1 ge the inhabitants had only to extinguish the incipient blazes start ed by falling brand to protect the village nashwauk Nash wauk is anent file me miles southwest of chisholm ana and ruhl is seven miles to the east chisholm presents a scene of ruin and desolation blackened and smoking piles of charted wood little heaps of gray ashes stirred by the breeze scorched gaunt skeletons ol 01 0 lrich and mortar all canopied with a dense pall of smoke comprise what was one of ohp famous flourishing towns on the mesaba masaba iron range the only remaining buildings are a tho new high school the grade school the catholic church the ital fan an church and a dozen dwellings in the southernmost part of the town which were saved by a few heroic fire fighters who stud to their posts in the face of the cyclonic onslaught of t flames and smoke the damage to property Is estimate cd ed at 1000 and the persona personal property at three quarters of a mil rail lion dollars including the stocks ol 01 0 the merchants H A hibbing ansur ance once man had many policies on i Iro property perty in the destroyed town esti r ates the insurance carried by chis 1 olm merchants at there are many destitute persons many men who were rated as well to do are without funds to ito buy a meal in most instances these mis fortunes are only temporary as ganv will soon receive their insurance money Ho however Never some merchants lost everything that they had except the clothes on their backs and there will be much suffering and financial t |