Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1895 — The Burning Kankakee Marsh Now Under Control. [ARTICLE]

The Burning Kankakee Marsh Now Under Control.

Valparaiso Vidette. ' —The Kankakee marsh fire is about under control and will do no farther damage. It ia now burning in a tenacrejpieceof wood land two miles from Baum’s bridge. Sixty of Nelson Morns’s men cornered the blaze there Saturday. W hen it entered the woods each man began plowing, and they succeeded,in turning over 300 feet of earth on every side of the burning timber. = The damage dmir lsst week will amount to several thousand dollars, as follows;. Bryant, Berdine <fc Sweeney, 150 tons of hay, loss $1,500; Jerry Sherwood, pf-hay, loss SSOO ;H. Kithcart, 50 tons of hay, barn and corn cribs, loss $1,00;. F. W. Aylea, 125 tons of hay, loss $1,200; Nelson Morns, 1,500 tons of hay, loss $15,000. Mr. Spence, foreman of the Nelson Morris ranch, was surrounded by. the house, barn, etc., were burned, and the family of six escaped to an islands ; The ground in the swamp has burned, down to a depth of several feet, and , will probobly burn until heavy snow falls, 'lhe surface for miles is nothing but ashes. What was once worth thousands of dollars now lies in ashes on the burned territory.