The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-10-27
WILLHAVE TO MOVE
NEBRASKA FIRES LEAVE BUT THE
BLACK, BARE EARTH
Strip Forty by One Hundred Miles
Denudcd OF Range aud Rancho
Ahke-ThoasardI OF Cattle Perish
in the Flames-What Are len
Must be Taken Elsewhere.

GORDON. Neb Oc.. ri The prairie fires
now sN-v plug over he sand hiiis ia this
cinity are dcias immrnSe siams e. Tue
namss are travelling wis, simo lightning
rspi'.iy aud IRE consuming every -ai"g 10
their track l. 50 CT the hEr was uriv
By The wind through she central porf ! ,H II
hvrfdSn and cherry counties. Ia TIE
track OF the e mes w-Fe tue 0ss. O. 5osns
aud Spade ranches add nusnter OF
smaller CUES. This morning. not a vcs,iSJ
OF theee ranches remains except the bars
aud searched ground A. uaau zoe fce -
reported 10 have resches Pullraan aul thu
whole country IL that uvighborao, "a /, a
ragin furnace II is Dot known wh~ihsr
any llvss We're lost tod,y hnt thou >.ads OF
cattle have per shed. p OPT in the tsaeS
OF tie fire are freiug ;og their lives. lrsv-
iug all tneIr properly 10 the mercy Of the
flames.
The fire broke out last Monday In the
south sani hills about iifly miivs soul %
this place aud has burned over already a
strip OF country 100 miles in l~ngth by
forty miles wide. The fire IS burning %
an esst-tly direction.
LEFT NOTHING But BARE EARTH
The Il ines burned al the r,ugs slick
ant clean ga the Spasle ranch bei,,ullng o
Rchsris & Cairurs. aad about 3.00J t.sn.
| OF hay. leaving about l o0J toas THIS
ranch has 5.,G0 heat f cstile aud Us
I hrsd of hors-s. aud u will ueCes-tts;e Tho
moving OF the b ri snl outht up TO
the " hire river Ia Sputh Dtkutl The
next rsncb To burn that IT
SJanbires Bro h-r~. who lost sill OF their
hay, about $50 toa-. ard all IL
hi range: this ranch nd 100 hcE
Q ~ IL y Il ~
h. ranch WIS burnt aud a hi hsy sh,as
400 tons. asd his BAN Hrd on buili,ugN
/ This ranch was ferdinS D had of c,tsl-.
: O>oorue will h " TO, move hts c stt~ at
once a. he has no hay or range aud nc pro-
t~ctioi NJ al Thr use uext sw.pi VI ner',
rauch, burning all ht- hay, ~ out JOO ,oas,
aud burning about no he al al oatt4~. TOT
/ nr- was swept on by a heavy w~sl crn wiad
notwithstanding there were Thirty msa
Orkiug ike bcHser~ 10 pat 10 out.
WILL HAVE To MOVE THEIR STOCK
TIE next rapcC To 20 w,~ Noodrutf's
All his lay ws~ barn, about 400 tou- aad
all hi range. Tue range supported about
COZ head OF cattle. Woodruff also ios hrs
barns. sheds aud cprrals .Mr Btugt ws-
next ia llue md be lost ak BIS hay. 5s
tons. all his rang. aud ab,u' 400 bead 4
cate. The next wa, NJ t-ou'~ Wnich was
hu ut out. with sbJnt I.O0J tons % bay.
He also wHs postmaster AMI Il a store
carrying a stock OF g,ois OF 81 OJ0 with
wy little or no iu-uranoe lie bad
40 head Of cattle The next
was Davis, ~ Lost nil II his hay. I'D
tom, bu' none If his buildings. H- hss
sbou' DO be "a of cat r.. 1hi> j. ~ far as
the fir- uas gone q u,o1. There arr quite
- numb.s OF suiali Punches burned down
on the Buriin-tpu aud Missouri X YER
John Eu ow, S-mnei Chestnut. Mor-y n
Hewitt. J. II. OvertoI and DsubiIi src
tn oniy men tast are uof burned. I -
loss from this lire ~ present viii ran gp
juto tue millions. besides tne rXpcu-s II
moving Hu ue stock, for 10y - -carcer
tHis fall than il ha, be-u Tor years.