HUGE FOREST FIRE
U.S. PACIFIC STATES RAVAGED. : ” VANCOUVER., October 7. Damage estimated at more than £1,000,000 has already been done by a forest fine in Washington and Oregon States, on the Pacific Coast. A tract of country, hundreds of miles square, is beihg ravaged. Though hundreds of lives have been in danger, only one person has been killed.! > ' ' Two ..'’hundred inhabitants of the village of Cochran, in Oregon, were nearly .trapped in their homes by the advancing flames, and just managed to escape before all their possessions were destroyed. In Washington fifteen farm-houses have been, obliterated, while on area of 35,000 acres has been swept clean of every vestige of life-
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1932, Page 8
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111HUGE FOREST FIRE Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1932, Page 8
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