FIRE NEWS
Damage to the amount of $20,000. fully insured, was done in Harlem, this city, by a "three-alarm” fire that broke out at 1.30 o'clock P. M., in the lumber yard of Rapp & Johnson, which occupies both sides of First avenue from One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street to One Hundred and Twenty-seventh street. The fire leaping from pile to pile of the lumber caused a heat so intense as to endanger not only all that was in the yard, but also the neighboring property. Fifteen horses in a stable in the yard were rescued with difficulty. The firemen worked with such vigor that they succeeded in half an hour in checking the spread of the flames and in confining them to a Hpace about 100 feet square at the corner of One Hundred and Twenty-sixth street and First avenue. The lumber in the yard was valued at $500,000. Miss Etta Beaman who lives on the south side of One Hundred and Twentyfifth street, near First avenue, proved herself a heroine. Her brother has a plumbing shop on the north side of the street, and has a stable in the alley in the rear of the lumyard. When she saw the danger, she rushed into the alley, opened her brother’s stable, threw a feedbag over the horse’s head and led him in the street. Then she returned, facing the intense heatof the fire, and carried out the harness and blankets. The owners of the lumber yard believe the fire to have been the work of an incendiary. This is the fifth fire that, has occurred on the premises in the past two months, and all the previous fires are also believe to have been of incendiary origin.
Loss of life has been caused by the quickly running Haines of the recent prairie fires in Manitoba and three or four lives in those in Minnesota. The winds fanned these smouldering fires into fresh blaze and fury, particularly in the Red River Valley and Manitoba. The farmers have sustained terrible losses, huge areas having been fireswept. Southwestern Minnesota and South Dakota have likewise suffered. Locomotive sparks set three fires on the trip from Red Lake Falls to the crossing of the Fosston line at Tilden. Just east of this crossing the worst fire occurred. It swept north,and great loss resulted. Another bad fire started in Kertsonville, eight miles east of Crookston. Nearly all the country between Crookston and Maple lake, north of the Fosston line, has been burned. It Is estimated that a quarter of a million bushels of grain and nearly a million tons of hay have been destroyed, and houses, stables, live stock, grain stacks,and hay have been consumed in all directions in the Province, and half a dozen people all told have lost their lives and a score or more have been seriously burned and permanently maimed. Wisconsin has been similarly visited and many farmers have lost their houses, stables, sheds, wagons, stock, and well-filled lmrns. The drought has greatly favored the progress of the Haines. From October 17 to 21, similar fires swept over part* of four counties in Western Kansas and a large scope of country in Eastern Colorado. The first started in the western part of Finney county, and spread to Greeley county, burning over a strip of country four miles in width, over 200,000 acres in all. In Wichita county another fire started near the town of Halcyon, and covered a territory three miles wide and seven miles long. Four houses were destroyed and many hay stacks ami grain ricks ruined.
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