FIRES IN CALIFORNIA
TOWNSHIPS DESTROYED. ’FRISCO’S HEAT WAVE ') (“Sydney Sun’’ Service.) NEW YORK, Sept. 19. 0 The mining town of Eldorado wa: h almost completely destroyed by tire At Berkeley, lire destroyed a thous ii- and houses; the loss there and in othe y parts of the State is estimated at foui - million dollars. A heavy pall oi 1 smoke hangs over the country. Forest fires continue to sweep the y district just north of San Franciscc 3 which is suffering from a protracted 1 heat wave. 3 Two hundred houses were burned t at Ptealuma, and the flames are now . spreading to the Napa district.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 September 1923, Page 5
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