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Show Terrllliu 1'rnlrle. Sioux Cily, Iowa, 31. The Journal has slarlfing reports of the ravages ol prairie fires up Ihe Big Sioux valley and turoughoutBOUlhern Dakota. The fires on fc'aturduy were of unusual force aud destructive beyond pro cedent. The poles on the telegraph fine on the Sioux Cily and Pt mbiua railroad were burned, eo the line has been down aud reports from that quarter are not full. A merchant ol Eden in Sioux City, to day, tells harrowing tales of losses in that quarter. quar-ter. On Saturday, from bis Blore door, the town occupying an elevated position, he counted thirteen farm houses in flames, and bo says that more than forty farmers in that vicinity lost everything on account ac-count of the unrivaled rapidity of tne fire. The blow ia terrible- aiid has dnzed the stricken people. Tho Norwegian Nor-wegian church naar EJen la burned. A child waa burned to death and its father terribly scorched in trying to save it. Some minor castuliied are reported, three of which resulted in death by flames, iu tho vicinity oi Portlandville it is said not less than twenty farmers lost their bay, grain, etc Altogether immense damage has been done and tho hardship to settlers ia particularly severe. The grass grew very rank last your and too protracted dry spell haa made it a powerful food for flames. |