| Show drouth and fire mascol MASCOUTAH ami ill oct 7 in the experience peri ence of tho the oldest settlers in st clair and adjoining counties tho the present drouth is without parallel for two months there has been practically no rainfall in this section and tho the tempera ture has ranged above 90 degrees in the shade almost daily during all that time I 1 the damage done by the drouth in southern illinois cannot be accurately estimated but it has been great the heaviest loss to the farmers is on the corn crop which has been cut down 50 to 65 per cent by the dry weather it has also done great damage to all late vegetation and to the fruit crop gen brally hundreds of wells cisterns and creeks have entirely failed and a water famine is threatened over a largo large area of country many farmers residing east of f mascoutah Masco utah are hauling water a distance of BIS six miles the water in the kaskaskia river has reached the lowest stage in years in addition to the severe loss on crops of various kinds the farmers will have to provide an unusually large quantity of feed for their stock owing to the parched condition of all the pastures the stock feeding season begins fully two months earlier than usual as a result of the continued drouth KENOSHA wis oct 7 old settlers of kenosha say this has been the driest season for years in this part of the country vegetation is parched and crops blasted wells and springs have dried up and as a result of scara city of water stock has suffered greatly WINNIPEG man oct 7 the forest fires that have been raging in manitoba close to the boundary line for the past ten days clays have broken out more furiously th than anever ever ten or twelve persons dersons are reported to have been burned to death and the fire is rapidly spreading and crossing over the boundary into north dakota ind oct 7 forest fires are raging racing over the entire northwestern part of this country entire fields of shocked corn have been swept away by the flames FORT WAYNE ind oct 7 forest fires are raging in the eastern part of this county and farmers have organized to fight the flames last evening the little town of edgerton and alwin baldwin were threatened with fire and were saved only after hard work many barns and much grain have been destroyed |
