PRAIRIE ABLAZE
FRONT OF FORTY MILES. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) Casablanca (Morocco). July 19. A motor plough caught fire on a sun-baked plain at Betit Jean and started a huge prairie fire, which is blazing on a’ 40-mile front, affecting 75,000 acres and overwhelming the natives. Thirty bodies have already been recovered.
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Southland Times, Issue 22073, 21 July 1933, Page 8
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52PRAIRIE ABLAZE Southland Times, Issue 22073, 21 July 1933, Page 8
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