Show FLAMES BEATEN BACK Town of Birch Mich No Longer Menaced by Forest Fires Mich July 20 After G After an niGht al-niGht all light participated 1 in iii by y several soy sev eral hundred men moon including the time Mar Mar- queUe fire department which was wa warU rushed to the scene by special train rU time the forest fires Ires which threatened the destruction of or Birch n a lumbering town sixteen miles mies northwest of here ero beaten heaten back anti and nOI the danger is Birch Is Ig concerned con coil no now considered so far as corned to be he past laSt Fanned by hy a heavy hea wind the tue llames Hames are ale still burnIng burn burn- In lug Ing briskly however and antl constant vigilance Is still sti necessary I blanco valued at Twelve ve million milon logs hogs lo 50 I Ii together with the time plant i of time the Northern Lumber company and amid other buildings were In the path of o a roaring wall wal of oC fire thirty feet high which swept up UI through the woods from room rom the tIme southwest south t and amid was wa turned turnell aside from rein them only after desperate work worl A score of times limes the time logs were ablaze while sparks falling thickly for hours jeopardized the time mill mi plant tim th whole town as wellin welIn well wel in irm the distance tonight the llames Hames can caum be seen racing through th time woods woods time the path being over ovel a mile mie wide wille The Tue country countr is sparsely and except for the dama damage e to lo standing limber the loss will wi not be great There Is much fear however 10 1 that hunting and anel camping partes have boon been cut off or and amid anc anxious relatives have left here for Birch in iii an aim to roach reach them |