Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1891 — DEATH IN FLAMES. [ARTICLE]

DEATH IN FLAMES.

Father and Son Perish in a Prairie Fire. George W. John on and his son, who lived near Beaver Creek, N. D., were burned to death by the great Emmons County prairie fires. They had gohe to put a head fire out, when tho huge flames, leaping high as the house tops, swept over tli m, leaving burned and disfigured corpses. Mr Tabor, an elderly gentleman living near Williamsport, is seriously turned and will probably die No further nows can be learned from the Holland settlement, thirty-five miles south of Williamsport. Three men are known to have perished in that vicinity. The amount of damage done in tho Ho land sottienu nt cannot be learned, but it ;s safe to say it will not be far from $50,C0 '. (no man at Winona, twenty miles from Williamsport, a Mr. 1 ratt, lost forty live steers, which were, ocertaken by the lire and burned to death Another fire ranged on South I'rairie and burned out Messrs. Fosburg, Maboncy, lleslioly, Houstain, and I’aiker.