The Red Cloud chief., 1875-03-31

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children . the Oldest Of whom vas .
girl fourteen or fifteen years o. age
They succeeded ia Carrying the stove
GU, Of the burning house, bat could
save nothing ehe-
L. W. Fuller, living somewhere neal
Elm Creek, lost everything. house,
stables. team, nothing about the place
being saved.
Peter Donolly, in the same neigh
torhood, had hi. house burned, and
lost his team 10 Mr.. Pecks stable
which vas also burned, Mrs. Donaliy
vas 10 the ACT Of putting the chliiren,
two little girls, into their bed, when
the fire struck the house, and taking
the chi dren she ded to a ''dug-out'
Just iu time to save her OWE aud thei,
lives. Everything 10 the house Vas
destroyed. even TO the family clothing
Mrs D. vas some~h hat injured b. the
fanes while trying u save her chsld
rem.
The stable Of {. d. Peck was burn
ed, and contents. With two hogs, aud
the team belonging 70 M, Dooclly,
mentioned above.
David Kaiston lost stable, hay and
.et Of harness.
On the farm belonging to Chas'
Potter. and occupied by Dir. Grisgs,
two miles vest Of town, the stable was
burned with four calves, tn &c OF
which belonged 10 Mr.. G.iggS, aud
one to ar. Mnier.
l.. b. Pierce, three o, four mile,
north Of town. lost Que mrls, and an
other 50 badly injured as 10 be worth
less, one COW and caf, set of double
harness. new sad lie, ald other articles
10 a stable which was burnei.
La the west part OF the county on
Farmers Greek, the losses were many
and severe. The following list con-
prises all that we have heard Of in that
section:
Allen T Ayers. stable AMI hay. anl
Chas. Thompson a horse. that Was in
the stable.
Nh. Wilson, had considerable hay
burned
MIR. Riddle hal his house and stable
destroyed, with all the contents oil
both, aud a valuable yoke of oxeu
badly injured.
Chas. Hunter lost eight head Of cat
tie, burned on the prairie.
Wa. Carter, lost stable, one morse.
three tons of hay, aud many sniah AZ
ticles about the stable.
The family living on the farm for
merly occupied by Z. Harris lost the
stable, hay, grain, span Of horses,
double harness, plows, and five hogs.
MI. kincaid lost stable, hay, har-
hess. one hog, and other things.
f. II. Jones, lost two COWS and two
j. Mitchell sufc red some damages,
the nature of which We have not
learned.
VIM. Baker. three or four miles
northeai Of Red Cloud los, stable aud
hay.
This is all 80 far As We have learned.
but We fear that other. may have suf.
fered more or less damage, iu other
parts of the county. 1t is reported
that grea, damage was done Id Frank
lin county bat We have not learned the
particulars,
II is almost impossible 10 estima:a
the aggregate damage, but We thins
that 3aOOO would be below the 6g-
ure, and it is probable that it BE-
double that amount. While each in
divdual loss was comparatively small,
it falls severely upon the sufferers,
following as it does, upon the misfor.
tunes Of the las, season, and j. will,
undoubtedly, be impossible for those
losing teams to replace them 10 time
to put in the spring reps.
l., is reported th,t the fire on Far
mer's Greek started from the remain.
of a stable belonging to Mr.. Rose,
which had been burned a few day.
previous. The ire that caused the
destruction on Indian Greek, and the
coustry north OF Red Cloud started n
a drax three or four III, es south Of
Hummel on E'u Greek, by the Grim
NAL csrlessness Of some seamsters,
from Smith county, Kansas. 10 fac.,
there are reasons for believing the,
purposely allowed the FIRE to &c, out
in order to ( the prairie burn. Thes.
teausters b.. canaped, aai we're cook
ing dinner. and had a small fire tina
eou:d er>ily have been pu, out. Mr.
Warren and Mr.. Shuts both Of Re,
Cloud, passed while these parties yer,
eamped, aud warned them against tn.
danger Of letting the ere spread. bu
to no purpose. There being Lu, lit !,
wind during the day the Gre did no
spread very rapidly. but when the hur
rscaue came up in the evening, i
Travelled With such rar,idi,y that every
thing in its c. arse Vas buruei, with
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