Show Ml SWEPT BY FlUE I Region in the Neighborhood of the Great Lakes Enveloped In Smoke I CHICAGOS INTENSELY HOT WEATHER 1 IlIon 101pedd on 1k 1Ihln oec xhoot1 I Ighthrog Vessel nI 10 Chicago Oct isExtremely hot weather for the month of October is I row prevailing In this action the pat twentyCour hourks During flit thermometer In this city went up It to h degrees and nccordlng to the Ignul s 1 I Is 1 < > ords this Is tile hIgh been registered for at point that has tit i month of October In twentyseven t i are Dcnec smoke aggravated the condl t ms On account of the drought the last two months everything Is I as dry n Under and forest and prairie fires a numerous NAVIGATION IMPEDED Little MIchiga has hen made at 1 mo1 > onnvlghle on account of tile nt nd gale Captllns nC vegaels h g-ale relOrlu a mo1 alarm Ing tote oC alalr Many had not Ielt for fortylght hou on count o tho a Idituli hat I necessary thColn I Uoal i plckliiK their u toy through tho 1 I nts of Mackinaw were severe y lOIhl jhumpeied 1 Lndmark a mere uterly c light rendered Indistinct blI tcrate and the lh rndered distinct at t I distance oC the length of ullnt 10 mer Tit make Is I attributed 10 e xslve 1 foat fires floating nrl larI In their can pill 4 life thought 10 have tted the broad connagiatiana I Marine unurrltcrB are Ipprehn site 1 of unnoioms mtrandings on so eount of the smoke and bulletins from Ih i lower end of the lakes are watched for with great frock ty Chicago southern wnlds and suburbs are surrounded by prairie fires and dnae nmjke overhang a largo p it of the territory lying south of I 10 Beet lunueu of acres of prairie hale been burned over nnd thouunu oC feet nf loealk and fencing have been coUsu med Firemen In this division nC the city ne com 1lelIY exhausted fighting prairie fires hY dy und night Mo t of the flies ate started fly spirks from locomotives and nol In unly by mlchl ous boys III I the gralkin on Ore for the xlmnt DIHABTllOUtf FIRE IN INDIANA i A ilhpatih from Ilrenien Ind MY S th < most disastrous prairie fire know n Eln the history of Marshall county Is I E not raging Hundreds of acres of land In the northern part of the county I omprlslng what Is I Icolly I known ns Iflli lllg Maish Is I one vnstsmolder lluBWiste At times when fanned by I a breeze the heat bursts Into a blaze BUM darting across clover fleldscorn Jllrds or meadows laysvaste evciy I tnhw In Ila path only Hopping when i ended 1 off by ploughed fields or high 18 synFIORTING I FIGHTING riAMrs DAY AND NIGHT NIIT Many Instance arc reported where In oHr th lractrou rte round h v eb rEofken through Into the I burning peat and perished Farmers I ate kept busy day and night righting I the names and preventing destruction i of their homes without the lack of 11 k I ar makes the battle almost hope Just wet t of Wnlkerlon more loan I one thousand acres line hn wpt of very estige of regclallo many thound uf tolls of hay Ind mlc oC fnl a hv been onumcd The I large I barn of Joseph Kit My was In I the Iath of the Oam Ind toge ill er with its conlnto composed oC hy greln slid farm malhlnery was burned With fire on every fide great I anxiety Is I lie Ing Celt for tile safety oC town without fire protection Nothing hot of 1 drenching rain rn Possibly check the progress of the flames |