AMONG THE RUINS, CHISHOLM, MINN. 



either side by blazing forests, was 

 thrown from the rails, and with no 

 means of escape possible, the fugitives, 

 penned in the cars, were slowly roasted 

 to death. Press dispatches gave the 

 number burned in this wreck and fire 

 as forty-five to fifty men, women and 

 children. It is certain that very few es- 

 caped from the doomed train. 



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Other Features of Loss 



THE above are the salient, glaring 

 points in the story of this year's 

 forest fires. There are other points, 

 however, that cannot be ignored — other 



items of loss that figured in the grand 

 total of the Nation's bill for forest con- 

 flagrations. The loss to new forest 

 growth alone, conservatively estimated, 

 amounts annually to $90,000,000. If it 

 were not for these forest fires, we might 

 expect an additional growth of twenty 

 cubic feet per acre per year. This, for 

 a forest area of 500,000,000 acres, 

 would amount annually to 10,000,000 

 cubic feet. Ten billion cubic feet is 

 equal to 45 000,000,000 feet board meas- 

 ure, or more than the present annual 

 consumption of saw timber in the 

 United States ; and figured at $2 per 

 thousand this amounts to $90,000,000. 



ANOTHER VIEW IN CHISHOLM, AFTER THE FIRE 



