Show sweeping over a portion of dakota of tha work of the devastating element ITOI VARIOUS SOURCES families and villages til lages out II 11 OIE PLUE AT i alie it also bj boriin glicr fire and air create datoc ia april 4 during the pa attAO days boulli dakota and minnesota leave beon swept by a series of hao caused millions of dollars worth of damage to properly and several lives lae been loit loi t alio storm on monday night and swept over a linea rei south ot alie northern pacific in dakota extending into hie L of thin elite the ilamaye had not been caused by lie wind alone but in many places I 1 alres aiuto fury by abo Bt ornis have wid out of existence several small milagos and hundreds of farmhouses rendering hundreds of fai nilma honie le the towns almost volin olivet pukwana Puk wana I mount verbon and three or four kotlier villages are badly damaged lauy licad of cattle and liau alao in many abo crops aro covered by booso baiel and ilist aud will liao to b re l travel is on ciomo roads BO the force of the wind the t torin lias ahi toil but the wind to keep the fires burning fiercely tier cely and further heavy aro almost ertain ei tAin the known damie in is much less than in UA kota aa the force ol 01 tho elorna as pretty well ebent briolo it reached the border tho logaa in south dakota amount to at a low calculation dak april nobody but the mail who haa stood before a prairie fire and tried to stay iti awful and roar ft ten it is fanned by a freidli wind can appreciate iti almost re force tho farea that liao brought RO I 1 asand Bull to m the laija hw days were trait kally irresistible atie flavien hi acine feel of plotted ground aej rushed aaen on their career of destruction all ordinary precautions etere vain iho baring haa been very dry and the top of the ground bas bieu dusty or baked and an es high wind prevailed during the tires under these condit ons wherever tho fire touched alie rasa it burdit out with a nasli alicc t like powder and shot uway across the prane like an arbow its course ever widening to it by water of courso was out 0 alie uneit ion plow in firebreaks was flow work aad the haili ind often drove the odines across choin it was 3 in tha afternoon when the people of alt vernon saw the alje prairie to hie northwest of thein break out into a blaze tho smoke was dashed into and through the town on the wings of ilia wind the blames rushed after with ravage fury Mitchell was telegraph ed to for kielp and firemen with hook and ladder were sent the entire population of alt vernon and men from bell met the furious cuamea on the outskirts of abo town and fought alie llames numerous hoasea were burned and families left homeless loss outside of town it is impossibly yet to say what alie loss Is lonely little farm houses d over the prarie are wiped out by aliu dozena storis of losses of lidd may come later SOME OF THE LOSSE 1 dak april 4 stories of tumble that sabot over the country north of here niM to come in volin vil lugo haa only three buildings bland ilij olivet county was burned Iu kwanna was wiped out in yankton county twenty farmers were burned out in alie vuin twelve north of toa echt loewes from 1000 to each around the loss will foot up one man lost in money which he biad in his coat on a piece of plowed ground SOO thiet from the brads two new wagons were burned feet from the airo sixty niiles of telegraph wiro were blow n dow n between and huron KEEP COMING dak april 4 stories 0 ahn fury 0 tha taru continue con to bo liDi into town by stragglers they nay alio llio atul would gather tinder nud li urling it ia the air carry it ahead u tha tire oa barns and anc the fifty yarda iu ad of alm houra hourc a find lania birned libio tho alre carried buo varda new broken ground the are estimated at in this vicinity alel AND STOCK A firo on alie eveni of lie lt five ruai on alie arm n ahila lie vaa annaina liidi ilpo hia barn caught fire and wa cilc strayed A fiorta ind alre to the praire aliu vork 0 de begaii houses barna and stork attro burned ilie tuesday readied a ter riga bale no ordinary alro break inada any to the bleeding bleeping Ble flamia at 3 p m the alre reached iee 15 miles east 0 alere 13 ia tho town destroyed deg troyed at tuesday another alro which started in lie northern part 0 avila bointy roi nty swept away nix homes burning to death alapa annie sweeney ami a five year old tov liuna mr and sarp tibbs and mr mrs auby are librn ei alie two former fatally the losses nill reach many tholand thou and dollars mil i EB A fal 3 prairie fires laet deatron ed abo it forty huici many birdsa urge number of Ito raea and cattle anil leac rubout forty fact liea destitute in tha southern part of this county A gitle of wind added to the terrors of alie fit ution alie loan is estimated efti mated at t bofto JACKSON mint april 3 the prairie fires prove more gemeril ge alun lit first believed additional loafea am reported from all and inea the nes of a stubborn fight tobaie ii the cres worn raging in every direction and each seemed to a distinct course of its on A fire which have swept this illava from the fice ortho earth idaa been traced to its origin the search culminated this afternoon in the arrest of jaames k when arraigned lia plead guilty and was sentenced to pay 25 and costs or in tie fault CO dag in jail juuli dissatisfaction is expressed about chii bubli opinion ia that justice idaa been too highly teco porel with mercy A lidd lot jimmei CITY april 4 the leader of a gank of lira baig who havo bocen lias been arrested in city the method of the kag atas ta rent a store ail in a small k and obtain a heavy when alie preparations ero made for an icren diary blaze lamps bould be broken near it were placed blagden filled with benzine around the bladders a circle of gunpowder a slow fuse wai aed to ianne alio uhichi exploded the bladder aud like a H ili the a 0 o would bu nu track af alie incendiary work the broken lamp to deceive alm in people tho of he store mould be ab H docial at the one of alm kotlier conspirators ti rove an VHS located and between tho ere found twenty ittu alie ani and hilou to a chicago band hone Sl talin april aon receipt 0 from bupt JI of the police to SI cKinney and alie veil known and aro them at police to admit tho arrival of chicago tto arrest waa a iu beina eliat the prisoners are in illinoia for racing biord from kenim ly the hortien arnved here esterday ett erday abul were in of Al cKinney ami heu aliey arrested ilia luomala are yorlli and no thousand the prisoners getuso to talk the daily tann arol 1 neuil of two freight trains d aliis illumine on the la division of lie louisville road nult n gottli of tins city al jeby abid 0 green a biera lust antly killed frock a fireman was in the back but bill probably roomer engineer of alie coith tram and train loth j lieford the en adyn struck and any real injury both conductors martin and wera in their respective bloomia clo oMia and neither WAS hurt tha and train arro mm april 4 alio returns the nt adula ll insel to be elected alie republicans 21 democrita 37 12 to be clec II 11 I 1 april 4 alio complita botn of alib ladd ll 11 2 bavia ardson and luvia of th cl pUlon but 11 AS a plurality of as for attorney yn beneral has a majority of nai lrudd 4 no been called tins week either of HIM northern executive e but af tha nf chiala of tho northern la are still Bt rulin wilh knolly in tho central proposition chairman of the IA oi lie directory left for boiston to confer with the pacific in regard to alio oregon navi matter A alcan NEW YOKE april 4 tha report of the ahk igo st danl minneapolis A hotd for the year ending da waa it chous the grosa tj 10 of TOT 11 ll at compared ih alio preceding pre coding year an of net a de creasy of yrtl A lotzof kev charam sidney lately of lias upturn un sunday of baat lev bt alford pecuniary shirli lie latter promised littral anca april 3 the llono of liy a vote 0 is lay the aarl of murley lihr ral chairman or tj link alie lard 0 Hur leiti the april 1 new yorla 43 aa st lul 30 K 34 ew calel THE waa finoro fi eiith A call liesl from clr jaeb A toioi i ot aden tt ho is on lin to as a awa U rail liim in the alil elnua diya lie billi aliu diony aej daiil walkout walk iut alio llio to alie talfo lulls anil libarty anil afi evidently the aa loral li begun ahme cara ago UCB ccaplan so 1 alie dellot ko 1 will iw becj april bib at 7 10 p m J it iliyn 1 1 |