Prairie Fire In Kansas

Wichita, Kan., March 24. - A prairie fire started near here about noon Sunday. The wind was blowing almost a gale from the southeast and it was impossible to stay the ñames. The stock on the farms was driven before the fire, some of it outrunning the flames, while others feil from exhaustion and the heat and were eonsumed. The flames were driven by the wind in a northwesterly direotion as far as the Santa Fe railway, where, having no fuel to feed upon, it died out Four farm-houses, with their barns and sheds, were destroyed, but no human Uves were lost. The loss to propert}', including live stock, is estimated at from $75,000 to 8100,000. Ten quarter sections wero burned over and every thing combustible was consumed.