Show flail IN farmer famer is burned to death many homes and hundreds of head of livestock destroyed blames swept siept across country at terrific speed efforts of the people to save their homes by plowing fire guards proving futile in many cases paxton nebraska for two days a prairie lire fire has raged in the sand hills of this section two days of terror for the cie farmers whose bomea were in the path of tile the flames As a result of tile the work of the flames one life Is known to have been lost james kane isane a farmer who was burned to death many homes have been destroyed st hundreds of head of livestock lost and thousands thou sands ands of acres of prairie amrid burned over and left charred and blackened the fire started tuesday morning and lasted hested all day wednesday arid and since las has broken out anew in several places A fifty mlle mile ari an hour wind blew and the blaze swept across tho prairie with tremendous speed blazing embers were carried miles in advance of the flames in places the sky was so black with that ranchman ranchmen ranch ran climen men were unable to locate the fire until the blaze was upon them As rapidly as possible ranchers plowed safety furrows around their buildings but in many cases the flames reached them before th tha plowing wa was s completed this happened in the case of james K kane a ranchman north of paxton and kane together with his house and all his livestock were burned |