Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1859 — FIRES ON THE PRAIRIE. [ARTICLE]

FIRES ON THE PRAIRIE.

j, s Several destructive fires occurred on the prairies in this region last week. Two fires f wept through several farms on Beaver Prairie last Thursday, consuming fences in their path, and, in some instances, hay in the stack. George W. Spitler, we understand; lost sonie six or eight thousand rails, -aad most of his neighbors have lost more or 10-as. tOu the same day a fire passed through the farm of Mr. Reese, (our former Representative,) near Fijancesville, destroying nearly all his fences and a large amount of hay. Childs, a neighbor of Mr. Reese’s, is 4lso a heavy loser by the same fire. ; 'We-saw the whole prairie on fire last "Thursday night, between Bradford and Reynolds, • Q.E dii@ aide the railroad. When we f»me up on the cars the next afternoon, large piles of wood corded along the road yrere burning, as well as many hundreds of hew railroad ties just ready to be put down, in fact, for about a quarter of a mile, the lies already in use were charred and smoking, and some were still burning.