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Show Swept by Prarie Fires. I Mt. Vernon. S. D., May 1. This part j of South Dakota is covered with prairie I fires. Saturday was a terrible dav here, the wind blowing a gale from the ! south till noon. Heavy fires south of town destroyed a number of homes, j At noon the wind changed to the north-! north-! west, and brought another fire this way. A family of four living on the Dodge ranch were frightfully burned, one fatally. A great many horses were burned on the ranch. On an adjoining ranch 1,000 head of sheep were killed |