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A Hundred Thousand Dollars Damage Done by Prairie Fires
North Platte, Neb., April 10 – A disastrous prairie fire broke out south of Sutherland in this county.
The loss will probably reach $100,000. It is claimed the fire was started by a passing engine. Never has such a disastrous prairie fire devastated the Platte valley. Everything for a distance of 25 miles is in ruins, and the width reaches from three to four miles.
The fire started south of Sutherland shortly before noon and swept everything before it, traveling at from 30 to 50 miles and hour. Shortly after 12 o’clock it struck the City of North Platte, where only by almost superhuman efforts the town was saved. The fire companies responded to the alarm as soon as it was known the fire was raging west of the city, and when they reached the outskirts of the city a fire was upon them and they fought them back writhing the water limits.
Almost everything beyond the water limits was licked up in a few minutes by the flames. The farmers and ranchers in this neighborhood will lose everything. Aberdeen Daily News – April 10, 1893
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