Show MILES OF FLAMES FLAME st I 1 middle states enveloped in fire bit big marsh fires threaten the farmers of ot wisconsin while forest fires sweep over michigan and manito oa terrible drought tn in I 1 illinois and other states mascoutah Masco utah III oct 7 in the experience peri ence of the oldest settlers in st clair and counties the me present drouth atou th is without parllee parl lel for two to months there has been practically no LO rainfall in this section and the temperature has above 90 degrees in the shade almost daily during all that time the damage done by the drouth in southern illinois cannot ha be accurately estimated but it has bas been great the heaviest loss lose to the farmers is on the corn crop which has been cat cut down 50 to 65 per cent by the dry weather it has also done great damage to all lae is I 1 e vegetation and to the fruit crop generally FAILURE OF WATER SU PLY hundreds of wells cisterns and creeke creeks have entirely failed wiled and a water famine is threatened over a large area of country cou many farmers residing easta Maeco Matco utah are hauling water a distance of six miles the water in the kaskaskia river has reached the thee lowest aage age in in years in addition to the severe ve re loss on croas crop s of various kinds tho farmers will have to provide an unusual ty f large quantity qu antty of feed for their stock owin owing t to the par parched clied condition of all ti e pastures the stock feeding season begins fully two months earlier tb abai unal as a result of the continua conti nud Ld routh I v kenosha Kea osha wie wis oct 7 old settlers of kenosha say this has been the driest season for years in this part cf of the coun try vegetation is parched and crops blasted wells vella and springe springs have dried up and ae as a result of scarcity of water stock has suffered greatly I 1 PRAIRIE 11 AND MARSH PIKES FIRES i prairie fires in sommers and bristol caused C by sparks from passing engines destroyed considerable property belonging to the farmers all kinds of means have been adopted to stay jhb advance ot of the flame in somo cased cases where the I 1 tire was apparently it continued to burn bebow below the surface sur fice nilee niles AI mich ich oct 7 east and north of this city the terrible marsh fires beill continue farmers have fought ough the flames night and day for a week and are utterly exhausted they hae moved their the 1 ar household gods gode to places of safety and have sacrificed their homes game which inhabited the marshes has been diven d iven to the city neier springs on what is 18 known as the big meadow the fire baa has swept over like a prairie fire d and n d hundreds of acres oi of potatoes pot agoes have har been abeen roasted roas in the hills a the fire is the wont worst that has occurred in this vicinity since 1871 valparaiso ind oct 7 the kankakee mareb marsh fires are rapidly spreading in this county although the farmers have given up all other work and are fighting it all hours of the day several houses were destroyed last the big marsh near Tae caught fire again last night and the flames siept over acres of land destroying everything iu in their path th the residents ot of hebron koutz and kinman are badly frightened j as it is feared the fire may sweep across the kineavy neavy ditches which have been dug duz near 1 place places FURIOUS FOREST FIRES winnipeg man oct 7 the forest i fires that bava been raging in manitoba close to the boundary line for the past ten days have b 17 roker out more furiously than ever ten or twelve persona persons are reported to have been burned to death and the fire ie is rapidly opral ep reiding ing 20 and 1 i crossing over the boundary in into a north DAL dhoti settlers have been fighting the flandes night and day for over a week trying to keep them from gettins into the more thickly populated districts dietric te hundreds of thousands of dollars worth north of timber bae has been destroyed and considerable grain ae as well as tome farm buildings up to this time the fire has I 1 been confined to the canadian elde side of the boundary but the S warth line bs be a teen the united states and monitoba has been oblie obliterated rated and great feas are aro entertained that the fires will ret get beyond the control of the bottlers settlers DRIVEN BEFORE THE FLAMES the flarrie are driving iriving hundreds Cund hundreds reds ot of elves olves abd aid coyotes out into llie open country and large flicks or oie geee ge ee and ducks hive have been seen flying over the burning foi forests foie ests ets near 11 L laundry a trapper was burned to death A ger aan woman living in a small house near where the fire wag was the most furious yee yes kelday is reported to have burned to death and her children are Lis missing sing A dial atch from whitehouse says the rire ie Is spreading eprea rapidly several st tiers had close calls for their lives A heavy wind drove a it macs mass of smoke which blinded and a lone long deep line ot of flames which consumed everything in their path east of White whitemouth mouth tho the situation ie is very critical the section foreman of darwin and hie his wife and men were picked up by a freight train and brought into white mouth horner on a handcar attempted to run from darwin with his men but nearly succumbed through suffocation and lind was compelled to take refuge in a passing freight all vb the e telegraph polee poles for several miles east of the town are down and trains are tied up COUNTRY rry IS OS 09 FIRE A Broken head man dispatch saye says the county 1 in on fire here on both sides of the Broken head river much i damage is being done the smoke is so thick that it is i impossible to eee see twenty yards in any direction though there is no fire nearer than a mile mr and mrs bits young who lives out about eight miles lost everything and only saved their lived by standing in the river for tv twelve elve hours bouts when they were able to come onto on to the burnt ground after the fire had bad passed nearly everyone in ibe path mathot of the flames los thine thing at beausejour man seven bare have been burned to death mrs 0 W thomas her young son and a daug daughter abter had a race with the names flames tor for several miles they had a team of horses which they kept on the run sparks from the burning timber were blown into thy the dry ground of a prairie which they were compelled I 1 to I 1 0 cross and soon they were surrounded by the flames the frantic horses stalled to ahead into the burnier timbers bers before they had bad gone far thecae ariage overturned and they were thrown down an embankment into a small email creek this probably caved their lives they were badly burned A report from mottle man says a prairie fire has his been raging there and that one family ol 01 five persons is known to have perished decatur ind oct 7 forest fires are raging over the entire northwest part of this country entire fields of shocked i corn orn have been swept away by the flames A SLIGHT RAIN lagrange la grange ind oct 7 the drouth which is without precedent in northern noi thern indiana baa has been partially broken by a light rain the fire in the tamarack has increased but the farmers are now so organized that they anticipate no great damage unless the ud deoly dealy changes gortat fires are burn burning irr in tho the marshes near rochester Irid indiana ians j B BIRNS arns AND GRAIN DESTROYED fort wayne ind ost ott 7 forest fires are raging in the eastern eastern part parl of this county and farmers hare haye organized to fight the flames fla aies last evening the little towns of 0 EJ edgerton gerton and baldwin were threatened with fire and were caved saved only after hard work many 11 any barns and much grain have been destroyed st ottawa ont oc 7 there have been no further fatalities reported from the scene of it the forest foreit fires along the canadian atlantic railroad I 1 the deaths number five as follows mrs frank laville and her two children ellen aged 6 and francie franci need aged 1 year miss croter the charred remains were all found i in the vicinity victa ity south of indian subscriptions script ions for the relief of the sufferers I 1 iare are twice being received and the destitute are I 1 being cared for or five townships were I 1 burned over including an area of 17 by i 22 miles around |