Young Oaks from Acorns 



Sept. 1, 1894, when the loss of life and property was heavy. 

 Hinckley and six other towns were destroyed, and except for 

 the heroic conduct of locomotive engineers and other railroad 

 men the loss of life would have been much greater. 



In 1908 the forest fires made 12,000 persons homeless in 

 Minnesota and Wisconsin, destroyed four towns, and caused 

 a loss of $3,750,000. After the monster had gone its way the 

 town of Chisholm, Minn., particularly, presented a scene of 

 ruin and desolation. Blackened and smoking piles of charred 

 wood, little heaps of gray ashes, scorched gaunt skeletons of 

 brick and mortar, all canopied with a dense pall of smoke, 

 comprised what was one of the most nourishing towns on 

 the great Mesaba range. 



