Show tE F fOREST FIRES TOWNS IN IN THE T lAKE ST A TES K H. H t household roods goods or personal I Ma May FUher proprietor of a u. disorder disorder- u u L I leading out nut reigned of nf the ell city but was as as- without the road roa the I ja ci 10 aJa aA- aA O Foret Fo Forest lires sept uluth M Minim lIun a are ure re rn ra g lu imig In YI I COI ln and A. A dc tro etl one ono lia e anti and homeless rendered people town to at and amI t a lucil The Tho entire city of Minn 11 is co in cle lestro lest tro cil e U. U danger dancer r ami rini c cry 3 lullS nuin b ls In great preal Ial in tho ho cit city hu lias been lI lighting tile llio for hours hour and ami ullon Minn are I Ial lire Lone and 1111 ra fears arc ure III In lie Hie o al c expressed pr cd that they thc also i iii be hc tic dc- cd B Besides ld thc these c lown to hc eril r 11 s lia e been Tho Ilio Thoires tires ires Immure have been eel rd raging ln for rm three days sudden of or U caused canted tI them but holm Chil and amid field on Oil to creep Creel up 1111 lIf t tod ti an fl al abo I o las hUi been heen threatened It Is I i rc- rc c. c by ii hr forest t ill c fire lucre here hn has been by that have Juo been rn raging ln there lucre for bc cial So Chisholm Hibbing five miles from surrounded by forest lines fires to tonight tonight to- to was un until until un- un night and the city elt was In danger til tu the wind shifted entire northern portion of Douglas Dou The Tho las county coun Wis Is is on fire firo and several small settlements have been 4 destroyed Renshaw a u village 25 5 4 miles west cst of or Duluth was surrounded early carly tonight and there la is lano l by tires for the town Hundreds oC of I no hope their from farmers have been driven cn homes b by Use tho and as ts passage the thc roadway Is difficult owing to along alon dense smoke and the heat o of tho ho time the forests It I ib is believed that some burning lives U.-eg may ma have havo be been n lost al although at- at been becis reported though none nono have ha A lire fire at Wie Wis 1 B. B starting starlin Ina in ina Ina lumber lumbar yard damaged two docks a and tho the lumber company's B property to tho the extent of Destroys o s Town ron of destructive of or tho the many Tho fires most inott was that hint which embraced forest In it its Ita fiery Hery grip rip and con cort- Chisholm three days destroyed It It For woods have been on firo lire west vest the tho dry north of the town and small bush and reported to the tho eastward were fires these those closed in upon the tho J Gradually felt was doomed town but no danger the citizens as us tho time town was protected protected pro pro- by tecte on Uio fib east by b Long Lonu Lon Ear lake JaK body 1013 of or water and ana there thero V iu arc aro a j. j small I I many mining ii i locutions locations i tn to the west vest I where it was believed ed the advancing names lames could bo be stopped At noon today three walls wails of or fires Ores joined making a semicircle of flames lIam s swept toward the little mining town to I with a rush and a roar At the first advent of or flaming laming courses the thc citizens of oC Chisholm went forth to tight light the lire The tiro firo department de do- was not able to cover a largo large territory and although Intermit Intermit- Intermittent tent blazes started by h the tho falling tailing fire Ore firebrands firebrands brands were quickly extinguished thin tho ho wall of or firo Uro rolled roiled onward toward tho the town and tho the citizens soon realized that its destruction Is Inevitable So did the lire firo communicate communicate- to tho outlying buildings that tho time citizens citi citi- zens did not have havo time to save savo any 5 effects t The Tho PC people plo had had liml ample timo to escape with their lives and arid soon the roads leading from rom the town thronged with the fleeing people In wu wagons ons on hors horses s and aud on foot There Thero aro are two roads from to Chic Chic- I holm helm and the tho most direct was in the tho path of r the lire fire necessitating travel by way of or tho ho longer lonser road Stopped Extortion Conveyances were at a premium A t foreigner with a small wagon and ono one horse bOIse offered to take tako a u woman and small children to fibbing for 25 25 5 A man overheard the tho conversation conversa converst- tion lion and anti drawing revolver arc a ho pointed point point- ed etl it at the foreigners foreigner's head and climbing Into the rig compelled him to drive the party out of ot tho the fire zone I ly 13 resort Is said to have been under the lie Influence of ot liquor hen the citi citi- citizens semis zens began besan to leave the tho burning town to and aud she refused to go with her companions corn com to flee lec for tor They The were forced their lives lI and sho she was left behind It Is 15 not no known Imo n whether she ho perished per per- as It it Is impossible to enter tho the town and tho the woman has not been seen S since sluice I Oscar LaFrance editor of the theIs Oils Oils- Is and holm Tribune was in his office above the root roof was in thumbs flames before ho was appraised o of his danger dangar He lIe was ivas compelled to to break breah H Ii window window win win- dow tiow to to eSC escape IC Business men I ran homo home to get gel their thelt- families and many man separations ns fiS they the in turn district Con Con- fled tow toward rd the business dl u. u 4 u lire fire zone ono and the lie pall pail of smoke dl LI LInot tiel the tho burnIng buning burn bun as heavily us over not hang recognition nilion was easier au an and Ing town families soon were reunited The Great Northern the only roa twenty running into Chisholm took cars cam crowded with homeless ss potPie people peo pot box to this evening where th thi the pie their homes home citizens aro o throwing ln open I being supplied to car and tents arc nrc for the refugees rl who are entering the city b by the lie hundreds Sheet of C Covers Go l Town lU The sheet of flame fiame from the tho and crackling Ung forests toyed with th tim the thew w western stern outskirts of Chisholm for tor several sew sev eral minutes late Inte in the afternoon am an anthen and west vest wind win then driven by br tho ho strong swept across the tho city the building falling and disappearing before it Ilk JI e tender plants before tho tim hot blast o c othe oC the tho The Tho ball park was quickly desho ed business buildings athe a athe at atthe and 1 the frame the west end cud of Main street were soon coo ablaze Within VI thin a tow few ow minutes ever o ery both sides of th the ii structure upon street burning and tho thu resident district was being ignited By thi this time most of oC tho citizens had left lefi tin the burning town und and they thoy stood on tin thu to tho southwest an and small rises s 's watched their their homes homes burn awo Inspiring in th the Tho The scene was late lato northern twilight tho ho flame flames seeming to h leap ap up to the tho sky city which with a a. red glow as i Ithe Ir was ivas overcast the the- enduring colors from a gigantic that had been swept across the thu heavens with deft brush The residence residence resi rest dence district caught fire soon after tho the business portion was wa ablaze Alone Alono on a a. hill In the lie southern portion porIon portion por por- tion Ion of or the town stands tho the new l High h school recently ere erected ted at a cost o or O. O Tonight It Is the tho sentinel of ot the ruin and spread before it The rhe loss on buildings s at Chisholm Ig Is estimated nt at t about Las Last was expended ou eta new nev car year business structures and all these the e Ira Im- pr as well as ns the other othel portion portion portion por por- tion of the he city are In ruins Chisholm Is a u mining aiming town in thu tHe central portion of ot the time Mesaba lieu Iron iron range the greatest area In Its the world I I f |