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FROM THE ARCHIVE1855·New York, New York

ILLINOIS PRAIRIE ON FIRE!

Scanned from Frank Leslie'S Illustrated Newspaper, 1855
ILLINOIS PRAIRIE ON FIRE!
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Nov 21 1868 FRANK LESLIES ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER EZSOME INCIDENTS A CCEDENMTS i c Dw Sete a0 wal AN ILLINOIS PRAIRIE ON FIRESKETCHED FROM NATURE BY OUR ARTIST ON A VISIT TO GENERAL GRANT HOME INCIDENTS An Illinois Prairie on Fire. While our artist was steaming along the iron road on his visit to General Grant at Galena he beheld through the window of the speeding car that spec tacle so grand so fearful a prairie on fire. He sketched the magnificent scene as like a panoramic terror it passed before him and we publish the picture SCENE IN FRONT OF THE OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS ONgTHE NIGHTOF THE ELECTION NOVEMBER 8p 1868 among our Home Incidents as a subject identified with American sceuery and as though often de scribed still splendid enough to be attractive in the repetition. The sight our artist says was awful and sublime.

The fire crept close down to the track and through the still hot cinders the iron horse plunged on its headlong course. In the distance the passengers could see the flames whirling along the waving grain the fences and here and there a farmhouse vanisbing in the path of the.

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