Bennett County, SD News.....TOWNS ARE RAZED March 27, 1925
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DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, (Salem, Oregon), March 27, 1925, P. 4 March 27, 1925
"Tuthill, South Dakota, where four persons are believed to have lost their 
lives was reported to have been destroyed by the onslaught of the blazes. 
Vetel and St. Francis also were said to have been razed, with Gregory South 
Dakota, and Cody, Nenzel and Valentine, Neb., were saved from the flames 
only after heroic efforts of citizens who fought the advancing inferno with 
backfires and sand rows. Women and children at Cody and Nenzel were routed 
out of bed when those towns were threatened, while all male citizens engaged 
in a successful effort to avert destruction of the villages. Less than an 
hour of organized effort saved Valentine. Those reported burned to death at 
Tuthill were an Indian woman, her two small children and another child. No 
other reports of loss of life had been received here, although it is feared 
that additional casualties might be revealed in a check up of the outlying 
ranches, many of which were razed of all buildings."

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