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Show DESTRUCTIVE PRAIRIE FReT" Hi Three Lives Lost and One Thousand III Persons Homeless. If A dlspntch from Lawton, O. ?., 8n3. HK&U So far only three deaths from th 1 "W pralrlo fires that swept tho Kiowa and M Comancho country havo boon verified V thoso of Dr. Hnrmon, W. H. Meyer 9 near Walter, ovorcomo whllo fighting U fire, nnd nn unknown boy, near hero B although rumors or deaths ln numer' fl ous Isolated points have been rcpoited fl Twclvo porsons wero burned, tbreo H perhaps fatally. Those most seriously H burned nro John Harmon, brother of H Dr. Harmon; Mrs. John Henderson, s H widow living near Lawton, nnd I, c I Strickland, sexton or tho I nwton com- H etcry. It Is estimated thnt 1,000 per. H sons havo been mado homeless nnd H nro penniless. Sufferlne nrronc tha H dcstltuto Is Intense, and tho citizens ot H this nnd adjoining towns nro doing all H in their power to bring relief. Tho ag- I grogato property loss Is estimated at H $200,000. |