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Show Tho I'ruiric Fires. Ciiciigo, 21, Iowa, Nebraska and j Kansas advices inai-ule,lhat prairie fjrea are tt.ll ruging in each ol those elates, dfatroying grain, bridges, bam, fences and other propel ty. The llamra were the most destructive twenty miles southeast of Sioux city, in Iowa, along the North Platte, Nebraska, and the South Platte rivers iu wtsteTu Nebraska, aud in Rush, Ni?, E'lis, Trego, Gove, Wallace, Rc.ilur, Gnham and Rooks couuties i.i Kansas, Many po:sus perished in the U nines ftnd an uncontirmed rs-pi rs-pi it pn vH.U'J in Linn-ln, Nebrark, ytssierdny tl' Alhinn, Brim coumy, a town oi 30 inhabitants, had been utterly dt-ttoytd. Fires in some easts ftre supposed to have been lighted by Cbeyeuuea. |