Show WRNING 11 UP rouln and Fire Aro Wing Fearful lIaroo GREAT SCARCITY OF WATER Crop1 are Blasted Vegetation Parched and Much Country Burned Over FLAMES PilE UP RUIN AND DEATH UILo It Ieoth All I Ion C11 Ith end it 10 IrlltI 111o Ith Maicoutali Ills Oct 7In the ox j rlence uf the oldest settlers In ht Clair trail Adjoining counties the pres itt drouth Is I without parallel Tor to I months there has been practically no rainfall In this section and the temperature tem-perature has ranged above 90 degrees In I ill ohld almost dally during all that linn Thi damage done by the drsuth In southern Illinois cannot be a urattly citlmuttd but It tills fleet Met Tho ha lest loss I to the tar um Is I on the corn crop which has I Ien cut down 50 to C5 per cent by the dry weather It has 1 alsu don I I gnat t d Imog to all late vcgtlntlon I and to thr fault crop generally FAIIUIt OP WATOU SUPPLY lIundred ot uells cisterns unit I cretlvi have entirely failed nUT n n-UT famine Is I threatened over n tote area of countr Many farmers r Idlng east of Macoutnh ne haulIng haul-Ing niter a distance ot six mill Th eater In the Kaskuskla river ban i reached the lowest stake In years In addition to the severe Ions on crops of various kinds the farmers will have f to irovlde an unusually large loan I tltf of feed for their stock owing to I the parched condition of all the pastures pas-tures I The Block feeding season be I flu fully two month earlier than altill one a reult of the continued drmh kcitha WIs Oct 70101 settlers Kfimha say tills Iran been the drl far t I len for Years In tills part of then the-n atry Vegetation Is I Parched and I aol I bloated Wells and springs I I ut dried up and as a result of scar I any if at uater stuck has suffered grent PRAIRIE AND MAIISH rillES rralrle fires in Summers and Bristol I ttsd by HparKs from pausing en I p Is destrotHl considerable propelty I I rtlng to the farmers All kinds oft of-t rGn halo been idopled to stay the Lance 01 the flintes In ore cases I her the fir was apparently exlln rube U ronllnued to burn below the 12fact 1U llm Mich Oct 7nast and noal I ollbl f city the terrible mirah Iliej II continue Farmers have lot03t I It games night anti dIY for n vtek II are i UHirly exhaunlcd They h wvp 1 d ttutr household goods to places Iy and have EttcnlluJ their 1 5 1L Are Ahleh Inhabited the irshea Ia b n drt n nhhli o vltv I Near i 11 1 rfln Springs on what Is known us It big Meadow Ot the lire his swept IT like a prairie fire And hundred eol I icrei of potatoes have been roustt J lothe hill I the nrc is I the worst that Inn ie nd In I thl vicinity line i 11 I U Inaralu in I Oct 7 I lie Kin l mars nrta are raldy spread I in this tnunly nlhou i tile farm be GIn up all ItILr week will fchll it I all hour of tile il 11 i t I htyu ts were trVr Itt 1 L 2a 1 1 h big fire again marsh I last ntr nUht Tnovining un1 111 Ian 1 n it ver uer s o lan1 a IIITIng evrjthing In ills r pith I i xT renlJuits Uf Hebrii hut ui J 1 n non ar badly f191itAlta lid II 11 ftl t l the fir may fi rt tumv The r ditch winch have bn dui it the t PI TTI1101 oriEST vna Man Oct 7The forest o1that ha been i raging lit Muni I chip i t he boundary line forth Past tell days have loroken I I ru out U I furku ly than ever i O r or hl t Pre uta are esported i t have humid to death out tire lire to blvt oJ t laetllng an rearoln Ili b live r I I lundart TIll Ito Nrth DIkota I I e I tho iq iin i r Igh keel 111111 hen lay from r o gettIngIn dlU k I is tur thikly populutod dig I d 11 Ili 01 thouands ot dollarn It timber he 11 e o n d lot destroyed m L t Imoldera I grain I It Well as farm b rOI t he fir IT 1 buI 11 Mars U 11 to tills tilic t n ctinflued to it I Id I u tile Ca 8 Till Ihn f tile boundary but the y ALI 31 iol I 10tvelln I the United Stuto e ahlto34 bull been Obliterated catr baro rert t t I1 Iniiiii fr ntertaln d that I 1411 I l Itt 1 get byund that control ul Ili 1111Ev r it IJLI OIIE TUB rMs W 1 ale driving hundrcdi of an I r1nlI e or C otr lit Intj Bit utopia I and ot I le it la orgo ilotks if geese Asia X nat T < 11 ell 1111119uver the I nUh It Ih Laundry r ahuth IJ a 1 A was burned tu I death A i I olotelall livIng Ind anuri It small p of l jxar vhere the fire wos tire ned to yesterday I a relmirted I ton I 11 deth I anti her A 4111tat h nno chlldron I t Ire in 1 Sir from Whltehouse l Flays are he tl Iding Several t I I to h br If hat I 11 it rme Calla I a to for their If k SirKZssf I it long Tee IT If 111oh11 1 con I fjrilh cusnuarell everthing Inv It If The crltl Whit Mouth tile situation I a ire An lien r orculan 01 Darwin nM en At t Ir 1 i were gI Ick o fvf J attOpt rrul I r oil Pe3i i I lhUli r front Dar Men bit I near Alto g IO was btl v reugO In n lI8lng till I telegraph polo for several mile east of the town are down and stains nro tied ui > COUNT 113 is ON nnu A Drokenhead Alan dispatch sa > 0 The country Is I on fro here On both Bides of the Ilrokenhend river much damage Is I lielnK dOM The smoke la I 00 thick that I li possible to ate twenty > nrds In any direction thou gh there is I no fire nearer than I mile who lives out Mr rind Airs Young 11 nhat ght miles lost everything and only sand their lives by standing In I the river for twelve hour when they voere table to come ell to the bottle ground nfter the fire hid passed Nearly everyone In the path of the flarnes lost ev thing At laujour Alan even Ieron have been burned to death Mrs O < W ThnmM her young son and a laughter Tied a rae with tile lamo for several miles They had I team 01 horeo which they kept on tho run kealt thre Sparks from the burning timber were blown I Into the dry glound of n Prairie which they were compelled to cross and Ron they were surrounded hy tin lame The frantic Worries started tu run Area Ight Ahead Into the burning timber Before they had gone far tile carriage overturned and the > were thromn down an emhankmont embanknicitil Into n Fine 11 creel This Irohahl ly burned Hav ied their lives They were badly A port from Morris Man says I prairie I fire han been raging there and that one fnlly of live I Ieon 9 Is I kuown to hnv perished Decntur Ind Oct 7rorest flre nre raging over the entire northwestern part of this country Cntlre fields of shocked corn have been swept uway by the flames A SMOIIT I1AIN LaOrance Ind Oct 7The drouth which li I without precedent In northern 1 IKIt nn has been partially broken toy l a light rain The file In the tam rack tins Increased hut the farmers UT now No organized that they nntlclputt no great damaBC unless tho wind suddenly sudden-ly changes On at llria me burning In the nnrshea near nochesler Indian IIMINS AND ailAIN UrSTKOVnD Tort Wayne In1 Oct 7Poret fr art mglng n the oatr part ot this counts and formers have organized organ-ized to fight the limes Ijirt even Ing tho little towns of Edgerlon and Baldwin weie threatened with tire and viere saved only niter hard work Iany burns Arid much grain have been destroyed Ottawa Ont Oct 7Thre have hen no further totalities reportea from the fcenc of the forest fires along the Canadian Atlantic rnllrond The deaths number DM no follows Mrs Frank Ialllc and her two Cliff drear nilen aged 6 and Francis aged I pear Miss Sillies Mrs 1 a Croix Their chnrrrd remains wr nil found In the vicinity south of Indian Sub ncrIptionso for the relief of Hia suffirers are being I I rcrrUed and the destitute or being cared for five townships I were burned 01 er Including oil ana of 1 by 22 miles around |