CHILEAN PRAIRIE FIRE
FRONT OF FORTY MILES. MANY NATIVES’ OVERWHELMED. (Received 10 a.m.) CASABLANCA, July 10. A motor plough caught fire on the sun-baked plain at Petit Jean and started a huge prairie fire blazing on a 40-mile front, affecting 75,000 acres. The natives were overwhelmed, and 30 bodies have alreadv been recovered.
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Northern Advocate, 20 July 1933, Page 5
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53CHILEAN PRAIRIE FIRE Northern Advocate, 20 July 1933, Page 5
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