RAVAGED BY FIRE
VAST AREAS SWEPT LOSS OVER A MILLION VANCOUVER, Oct. 5 Damage estimated at more than £1,000,000 has already been dono by a forest fire in Washington and Oregon States, on the Pacific coast-. A tract of country hundreds of miles square is being 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. They just managed to escape before all their possessions were destroyed. In Washington fifteen farmhouses have been obliterated, while one area of 35.000 acres has been swept clean of every -vestige of life.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21314, 15 October 1932, Page 11
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