Forest Fires Raging

SCOBCHES ACEE). 8t. Louis, Nov. 22.- This city U muck exercised over Ihe forest fires. News from Arkansas, Texas, and as far west as Fort Worth, a dint.mce oí nearly 800 railes, indícate no abatemcnt of the lires. In sectiona remóte from telegraph a id railway stations it is ieared that terrible loss of human and animal Ufe has occurred. Southwest Missouri timber regions are all ablaze. No fog was ever denser than the smoke in St. Louis yesterday and last niglit It was impossible to distinguish objects a block away. This indioates rapid spread ot the dames in the back-country woods. Many people here are sick from the effects of the smoká, and every body cotnplalns of eyes becoming sore. The loss to property In the Southwest, as heard from so far. Is estimated at $500,000. Memphis, Tenn., Not. 22.- The forest lires continue in this section, and the damage sustained is very serious. Beveral ginhouses in Crittenden County, Ark., have been burned ; also in the counties of MissisBippi which border the river. Steamers can not run, owing to the dense smoke which prevalía from Vieksburg, Misa, to a joint 150 miles above Memphis, a total distance of 050 mllea Fires are burning' everywhere withln this territory, and there isno iinmediite prospeot of rain. Travel by rail is also obstructed from these causea Several trestles on the Kansas City road have been destroyed, and communication with St Louis is now made via Forest City, Ark. Never before in the history of the country has there been suoh a widespread confiagration, and the loss to farmers will be very heavy. Owing to the secluded country and the lack of telegraphic facilities, it will be several daya befora the true condition of affairs is learned from the counties in Arkansas west of Memphis. Beports come from every quarter of fires and the loss that is being sustained. The only escape that is promised will come from rain, and In nearly all the churches prayers were offered Sunday that showers inlght fall and the destructlon ceaae. New Obleans, Nov. 22 -The city Is fllled wlth smoke and the same conditiong are reported from Yazoo City and from many pointe in the Mississippi, Vazoo and Tallahatohle valleys, and navigaüon on the Mississippi is being impeded. Fires along the Tallahatchie are snpposed to be the canse. Terrible nre3 are raging on Haney Island and Kilby Lake, and ïnuch damage from forest flres t reported in Southern Arkan■H. Ktt Caeson, Col, Nov. 22.- During a high wind Saturday af tornooit a tire started on the line of the Colorado extensión of the Missouri Pacific railroad, and, fanned by the strong breeze, spread rapidly, destroying eTerything in its path. At the latest accounts a stretch of country ten miles wide and twenty miles long, embracing over 125,000 acres was nothing but a blackened waste. Many large haystacks, containing hundreds of tons of wintei feed for cattle and horses, were burned, leaving nothing for the scuttered and now impoverished ranchmen for the winter. No estímate has been made of the losses, which will ba heavy, and be severely feit during the winter. Anna, Hl, Nov. 22.- The forest flres are still spreadimr, having been helped along by the high wind of Saturday and Sunday and by the dryness of every thing. No rain has fallen here since June 1. Valuable foreste in the Mississippi bottoma are burning and are threatened with total destructlon. Houses and barns have been destroyed, and farmers throughout all this región are turninff out to fight fira Dongola, a town in this county, nine miles south of Anna, is surroumi d by fires and ia in preat dunger. Trains on the liiinois Central and Mobile & Ohio railroads are delayed by burned bridges, ties and telegiaph polea