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Show FOREST HUES H 'SUIT WINDS DESTRUCTIVE FLAMES AIDED BY WEST WINDS, SWEEP BIG AREA Sixty Square Mile are Burned Over; Scores of Farms Destroyed; Lumber Lo Very Heavy " Duluth, Minn., With one dead, five towns threatened by fire, navlga-SftJO navlga-SftJO on the Great Lakes and bus line Igcvice alike hampered by a pall of L'eavy smoke, several settlers' cabins burned out, and thousands of dollars in property loss, forest fires raging In the northern part of three states start, ed their second day of major destruction destruc-tion Wednesday. Hundreds of fires which nave been burning for sometime fanned all Tuesday by a west wind, reached proportions, uniting and sweeping onward on-ward with renewed vigor. Mildred Koivu, 3 years old, who wandered into the woods near Mohawk, Mo-hawk, Mich., and was nurned to death, was the first person reported killed by the flames. Late Tuesday night Governor Blaine of Wisconsin ordered out the Superior units of the Wisconsin national na-tional guard to fight the fire raging through the state park at Manltou Falls. Hundreds of men are bncfc-firlng through heavy brush to try to save the villages of Blueberry, a small Douglas county community, and Lake Nebagamon. Hawthorne also la in jeopardy. Three farms north of Brule have been burned out and all cattle destroyed. ( |