The Recent Forest Fires in America.
The recent forest fires in America were inconceivably terrible. All reports agree (says a correspondent of the Daily News) that the flames rushed along with the speed and fury of a cyclone. Nothing seemed able to resist the fire, which threw out great tributaries of flame hundreds of feet long. Monster treei were licked up, so to speak, as though they -were mere twigs, and houses were burnt up as quickly as dry grass. The flames leaped and passed over huge gaps which ordinarily might have been relied upon to stay their course. The roar of the flames was heard for miles, and in the case of the Minnesota fire they covered an area twenty-six miles long by from one to fifteen miles broad during Saturday night and Sunday.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 101, 23 October 1894, Page 3
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