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Terrible Marsh Fires in Indiana

Crown Point, Ind., October 28. [1895] -- It is reported tonight that the marsh fires are approaching the town of Hebron, nine miles east of here. Word reached here this evening that a family was burned to death a few miles west of Kouts. The village of Lowell is in the direct path of the advancing flames and the inhabitants have turned out en masse in an endeavor to check the fire. Various estimates of damage done range from $65,000 to $200,000 and unless rain faills it will be still greater by tomorrow. [29 Oct 1895; The Knoxville Journal - submitted by K. Torp]

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