People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1894 — HEMMED IN. [ARTICLE]

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Forest Fires Baglng on Three Sides of the City of Memphis. Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 18.—There is no relief from the forest fires over in Arkansas, but on the other hand fires have broken out in North Mississippi on an even more extensive scale than those in Arkansas, and now the entire Yazoo delta is threatened with the flames. Memphis is hemmed in on three sides by vast fires, and it is impossible to enter the city by any road without passing through mils after mile of beat r.nd smoke.