SERIOUS BUSH FIRES.
TOWNS ALMOST WIPED OUT. | j ~' (Heaters leleijram.J t (Received Last Night, 9.10 o'clock.) VANCOUVER, August i. Six tbwns, Cochrane, Aiatheson, Kelso, Monteith, Nuslika and Iroquois in northern Ontaria, have been largely wiped out by bush tires. Two hundred people were (incinerated and a hundred seriously \injiired. ; In one family, the father, # mother j and ten children perished. ' A million dollars worth of timber was destroyed. i
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11752, 2 August 1916, Page 5
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69SERIOUS BUSH FIRES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11752, 2 August 1916, Page 5
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