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Show I Old-Time Forest Fires. October 8, 1825, a conflagration broke out In central Malno which overran over-ran more than a million acres pf land and swept all before It. About the same time a Are arose near Quebec on the St, Lawrence river, which killed moro than 5,000 persons, Including nearly every member of tho Mame-Ions Mame-Ions tribe of Indians, and which poured pour-ed a tide of scorching ilames across the provlnco of Quobec, licked up the northern end of New Brunswick and did' not stop until the margin of St. Lawrence bay was reached and Mlrl-machi Mlrl-machi turned to cinders and dust In a day. |