Show HI ME or law 1 W URI am aoa FU wb rt ATM UL a T FIRE aft its sr T B 0 fla p o lr ej lk 6 11 1 a B t 6 great tracts tr a eft ot of to Forest r e at land Lands S vs fi A J tf B 1 11 B B are re now burning ani ng in inthe e it a af cireo take edom v y i t T the fie terrible work of the k 1 1 5 flames which b ich have burned over and nd destroyed troyed es pd hundreds of thousands U band of acres of tim firoben ber mid and property to i OA the va value lu ib of 0 ns in the lake at states a iea re calls to fo memory other great groat forest pr ires which chave attained tia ined historic importance r of alie xe eaffy earceal rHeaL ea e aubut iese I 1 I 1 was as the graut graat miram i ichi fire of af it t 1820 18 25 it began it its greatest des truc tion i n about 6 one in 1 tw the i of oa october 7 of thid i hat y year barj at a place about 60 miles above bbb d thi the e id town n of xe ew cisine i 46 5 the aj river ib k e fa LOW V wa es W V castle in hours r cad destroyed a abelt belt 0 o of T forest 80 anu 25 ini miles 41 es wi wide ade t adir two dana and ones one i sj almost every bv ry living v i g t thing fai f 1 g W was q a killed even it i lie 10 fish bifi W were ere afterwards afterward found dead in heaps on tho the rever hanks anks pi civo ve b hundred un d rad and finety buildings wore were burned nud a number buinger of towns including i in 9 N ewed tle chatham find and do douglastown Douglas town were destroyed one hundred humford and sixty portions persons perished and nea nearly efly h thousand head eid or of stock th the 0 loss from froin the ficq ure is estimated L n not ot including the aul xul value ue of the tir timber aber I 1 I 1 in ii the majority of such forests rhes fires a thia the die destruction of the tl alyle timber yle r is a more se serious loss by far own ihu that of the entile cattle and buildings forit for it with it the impoverishment of a wl whole ole region for tens or even hundreds of years afterwards the loss hiss of the stumpage vidue value of the limber at the time of the fire is but a dinall part of the damage to the iho neighborhood the wick wages that would havo been e bained in lumbering added to the value of the produce that would have been purchased to apply tle helu lumber cam camps 9 and thi the e taxes that would have been anen d devoted e V 0 ie d 10 0 roads road and other oilier pub lie I 1 fuents durni furnish h a much truer measure roea auro oi of how much adone adoner r orlaver or later k it bos costs i ts a ta wt 1 r r 1 l r re region g ia chenita wh enita forest sare hest destroyed byi first u we fe A t I 1 igo fi fire re of bf october ar f 1871 1 was sm 4 11 impre ns revere r e t thana h aall jr f the M miramichi Mira lr a michi pi chi it covered ant ani area of mode more than 2000 square are miles in wisconsin asin and involved a aass leisla ftc timber and 0 o othera he T Prope property ryo ot of amany millions of doll dollers drs between Betwee fi 1200 and 1 lt S t ia k i 5 i 4 persons parish pe nearly q ij y haH the po population tiou 0 ii of at tut that time a tow town 4 t of 2 aa f inhabitants 1 1 ifcher 0 dier n fires oak r 4 44 alii 1 tl 41 ii most rue I 1 k i a aubut V 0 u ta 40 0 n miles if es w wide id e ii and n d aa i 1180 miles ile long extending andi ng AP across the central part vf of the state ate from lake milb michigan igan to L lake huron i vias was devastated the t I 1 estimated t efross loss timber in im w was about 4 feet board measure a aud anif ji n money oyer over 10 lOO OOOO aver several a i hundred ed persona persons perished J in i ie e early a 1 part of depte september tad 7 er 1881 1884 gr great eat fires ares lovend cover fid more than 1 1800 square iare miles in in various parts pf af M michigan ic h I 1 t i n 0 the lo 10 loss sj in in property in addition to many hundred thousand acres abree of valuable timber was more inore than oyer over persons were made destitute and the number of lives lost is variously estin estimated dated at from to the most destructive fi fire of more recent years was thet f t u 11 which started near hinckley hin Hinc q 10 kiey y minnesota sepu 1894 while the area burned over was less ss I 1 than in some other gre great a t fires US t tho loss 1088 of lite life and prope properly r ty was very heavy hinckley Hi and six other towns were destroyed about lives were lost more inore than 2000 persons yore y ore left destitute destaute and the estimated loss in property of v various a hinds U ids was except for foci fliehe hehe conduct of loco moti em g ne nees ets and other railroad men the lie loss of life wound have been much greater 1 1 bl bil tire fire was al all I 1 the more de bior ble becaas q it ars vh 0 lly unnecessary FO for many dayt daff before the high ig wind cume aljo drove jt it into uncontrollable fury it waa yo burning slowly clos e to the town of hinckley at and d c could U ld have baa e been put out |