GREAT FIRES IN RUSSIA

Evening Star, Issue 14225, 26 November 1909, Page 8

GREAT FIRES IN RUSSIA

600 LIVES LOST. There is little or no abatement, in the abnormal number of devastating steppe fires. Every day brings its calamitous story from one Government or another of wholesale conflagration and ruin to the peasants. At Sadoma, in the Government of.Saratoff, fifty-six peasant holdings, with grain stocks and implements, have been burnt out. At Riadt, in the Government of Tver, ninety-seven dwellings and farmsteads have been laid in ashes, and a woman and, a girl perished in the flames. At Vovna, in the Government of Tchernigofr, fifty-nine peasant cottages, with grain stocks, etc., have been destroyed and a girl burnt to death, whilst at Ivanofka-Ginlusha, in the same Government, seventeen, farmsteads, with all appurtenances and grain stores, have been burnt out. The number of sufferers and the amount of their losses by fire this year are appalling, it being estimated that some 500 persons altogether have perished in the huge conflagrations. In one day alone 230 peasant families, aggregating 1,200 souls, were rendered homeless and destitute.—Central Newa, fcptamber 18.