GREAT AMERICAN FIRES
HAVOC IN CALIFORNIA. VANCOUVER, September 18. Miss Helen Wills, tho seventeen* year-old tennis champion, had a narrow escape from death when her father’s house was destroyed in a great lire at Berkeley (California). Sho was treated at a hospital for injuries to an eyo and feet. A thousand houses were burned at Berkeley. The loss there and in other parts of the State is estimated at £BOO,OOO. The lire was the worst disaster in California since the Sim Francisco earthquake.
A big factor in the damage was tha destruction of pictures and valuables in tho fine houses near the university. A groat pall of smoke still hangs over tho country. , Eldorado, a mining town famous sine© the days of Mark Twain and Bret Hnrte, was burned out. Forest fires continue to sweep the districts just north of San Francisco, which is suffering under a protracted heat wave.
Two hundred houses were burned today at Petaluma, the world’s greatest egg-producing centre. The latest outbreak has occurred at Napa.
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Evening Star, Issue 18393, 29 September 1923, Page 1
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