Show J 4 i HIS SEAR SEAB THE 41 it V hsrold 1 road road of devastation I 1 wp T by forest fires I 1 I 1 14 PLANTERS PRAYING FOR RAIN i I 1 el jh th twenty rive miles long ions and I 1 five one days march i jy tennessee arkansas and eippie suffer cotton find and corn 1 burned with owners houses 1 t vessel and crow crew lost st I 1 01 1 Z 1 I ilika tenn nov 10 the forest re es in arkansas north of 0 memphis re ire spreading with unabated tury fury and a continuance of 0 the drouth that h prevailed in this locality for the 11 C ast st nine weeks there Is no reason to pact a cessation of the ires fires until in n one ne Es damage shall have been so 0 o tar far the fire has covered all the antry from marion to Jonea Jones r a distance of twenty five ralles miles which it traveled in tour four days tile the tried territory Is about five miles wide fortunately the tory is vainly settled and cultivated only in pots the payne and green planta I 1 at titans lons have been denuded of all fencing and out standing corn ind cotton have been swept away and fields left open to the stock in shelby shely y and tipton counties in tennessee there are other tires which threaten threaten destruction to hamlets that stand bland in their way and bridges of chesapeake ohio and southwestern railway way are also in danger in arkansas also the little rock blem his road Is 4 threatened PRAYING FOR RAIN BAIN 1 S A special from ripley tenn to the commercial appeal says the people today prayed for rain to check the fu fia alous ous fires that are raging in that sect uon lion the country tight eight miles wes west of ripley to Is a mass of lames flames the cotton fields and corn fields are being destroyed st with but little chances of checking Chec kIns ing the fire nearly every creek and rivulet la Is dry and water cannot babad to 0 assist fighting the lire fire in lauderdale county aa A dispatch from greenville miss bliss says ya a trainload of cotton on the deer iv fireck eek branch of the georgia pacific railroad broad caught fire from the blazing orest at today to day and was wa consumed no ives 3 lost LA report comes from nut bush benn ri late tonight to night that fire has brokl out ut in that section and Is sweeping thing before it the first was ted by a negro neero woman who sought burn uror a rattlesnake to death by pil cards boards and weeds on the reptile J striking a match to it IL the flames bast at reports had swept over several aton n fields heads staved saved by the engineer wrye zo T nov 10 the ahm bravery ban on phillips engineer on the north ind d santa fe passenger train avertt averta terrible catastrophe last night bridge and trestle over black tt r was enveloped in flames when iraln came in sight though it toed ed almost impossible to stop in ie and while many of the aral trainmen n m e 1 ped aped for their lives retied reined r e at hla his post by his efforts the aln n was stopped within a few feet fe e t of bridge and the train saved f from ro an raging into the fifty foot gulch beg I 1 I 1 CREW AND VESSEL LOST I 1 deck and cabins washed ashore on lake huron east ast tawas mich nov 10 20 the aln in deck and the cabin of a largo large earner artier reported as having been shed ashore three miles south of ish point yesterday were been by a tt hennan today to day the reports indicate pia tame steamer has gone down with elhana ll hana on lake huron during the ast t lew few days ath 9 movements of vessels have been go interrupted I 1 by the continual gales bit it have prevailed from all points point a of h compass this week that it Is yet cas sible to determine what craft Is ding if there had been any tur sur boors rs from the waster they would v a undoubtedly reached a telegraph alce 0 before this |