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Show THE IIAGIXG PRAIRIE 1IRES. A Woman Burned to Death in Her Home ?ear Wichita, Kan. Kansas Citv, Oct. 31. The Jo'irnaVs j Wichita, Kan., special says: A spark from ! a passing engine on the Santa Fe yesterday afternoon set fire to the prairie just west of the farm of Charles Tw ining, in Summer county. The tire spread rapidly over Twin- ; ing's farm and destroyed everything. Mrs. Twininif was caught and burned to death. Wichita. Kan., Oct. 31. William Boone lias just, arrived from the western part of tne state and reports terrific prairie tires in Gray and Ford counties. For miles the Santa Fc train on which he was a. passenger traveled through a sea of flame: with, every window nnd ventilator battened down. From the train, he asserts, could be seen burning farm buildings and stacks of hay and grain, and people and stock fleeing before the flames. Boone fears that there must have been a number c f human lives aud many head of stock lost in the vicinity of Beau-monts, Beau-monts, Butler county. A thousand acres of grazing land were burned over last night, fences destroyed and stock burned or scattered scat-tered in all directions. , m . |